The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-11-23
State Engineer Hirst Makes
Interesting Address to
County Board Members.
MAY OUTLINE ROAD SYSTEM
Burlington and Wilmot Road With
Spurs Into Two Towns Favored as
First System to Be Improved.
Many Candidates for New Job.
1From Tuesdays Daily

From Tuesdays Daily
The Kenosha County Board had the
most interesting session of the year
this morning when A. R. Hirst, one
OF the engineers of the state highway
commission, spent the day in kenosha
and cleaned up all the misunderstood
|ings among the supervisors in regard
to the operation Of the law. The engi-
neer not only explained the law, but
he gave the members of the board a
most interesting discourse 1on the
building of roads and bridges and urg
ed that Kenosha county be a leader
In the great state wide movement TO
give Wisconsin the best roads to be
found in the nation. Mr.. Hirst de-
clared that with a minimum expendi-
ture of money a great Improvement
could be made in the roads of the
county. lie explained that the road
systems demanded by the state
while they must be made up of road
radiating from the county seat that
the work of improving the system
might be started either at the county
seat or at the extreme limits Of the
county. He said that in his opinion
Kenosha county would be a. gamer by
the purchase of a complete set of road
making machinery. He stated that the
cost of such machinery would be in
the neighborhood of $4,000, but that
the machinery would be a permanent
asset to the county and that it could
be used for many years He told of the
relative value of gravel and stone
roads and the cost of building and
recommended the building of gravel
roads in this county.
The board has as yet taken no form
al action on the system of roads, but
the members seem to be pretty well
agreed that the system will include
two roads with number of branch
roads. The system will probably in
clude the Burlington road running
west from the city to the county line
and passing through the towns Of
Somers, Paris and Brighton and the
Geneva and Wilmot road running yut
of the city and passing through the
the lows of Bristol, Pleasant Prairie
and Salem. In order to have the
towns of Randall and Wheatland in
cluded in the system it is proposed
to improve branch roads running from
the Wilmot road into the towns Of
Randall and Wheatland.
The members of he board have shown
a willingness to overlook the demands
Of the Individual towns with view of
getting start on a road system which
will be OF greatest value to the entire
county. 1t is possible that the system
OF highways for Improvement will be
adopted before the board adjourns to-
day, but the plan for carrying out the
work will be carried on until later in
the session. Today was the last day
for the filing Of applications for the
position of highway commissioner and
the board will have a large number of
candidates to pick from. G. D. Holt
and John Williams are the two can
didates from the city, Bristol offers
Charles L., Marsh and Charles M. Bis
hop, and Randall offers Fred Sherman
and George McKesson. It is probable
that the board will have a hard time
making a selection as sectional lines
are being pretty well drawn. The di-
vision of the board may be such that
it will elect to have the work done dur
ing the first year under the direction
OF the state commission with the I'M
derstanding that the commission will
furnish competent engineer to di-
rect the expenditure of the fund of
$4,000 available!
One thing is certain and that is that
the offer of Senator Stephenson will
not be accepted by the board as no
system of roads proposed includes the
spending of all of the money on any
single road.
Outside of the road discussions there
was little of interest to come before
the board