The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-01-11
Sixty-five Counties in State
Seek Aid in Building
Highways.
DANE LEADS IN MILEAGE
Milwaukee County Leads with Expen-
diture of $226,o48 and Dane Is in
Second Place in Expenditure
ern Counties Fail to Seek Aid.

Of the seventy-one counties in the
state all except six-Bunett, Calumet,
Iron, Ozaukee, Pepin and Vilas--have
petitioned for state aid under the new
state highway law, chapter 337, laws
Of 1911.
-Four Of these counties are in the
northern and less settled portion of the
state, but it is significant that the
others, Calumet and Ozaukee, are
among the oldest and most conserva-
tive counties in the state and among
those counties which returned a ma
jOrity against the constitutional amend
ment permitting the state to aid in
highway construction.
In distributing the state highway
fund of $350,000 available for con-
struction in 1912, each county was
credited with the amount it paid into
the fund in state taxes. Then the
amount petitioned for was granted as
the first allotment if not in excess of
the amount it had paid into the fund.
The amounts not petitioned for were
then divided proportionately among
counties of the state asking for
amounts in excess of their first allot-
ment, such counties being found en-
titled this year to 37.2 per cent Of the
excess asked for.
The amount paid into the fund by
the counties Of the state was $350,000.
while the amount petitioned for by
counties was $453,417 and the aggre-
gate of the amounts not petitioned for
by twenty light counties which failed
to ask for their full quota, $61,25l.
This last amount was divided as a
second allotment among forty-two
counties which has asked for sum in
excess Of their proportion of the
$35O,000. Douglas county has asked
for its exact proportion, and the six
counties which did not avail them
selves of the terms of the act, of
course, received nothing.
Milwaukee county heads the list,
with $6S96O paid into the fund. It
asked $77,S00, and under the distribu-
ton receives $72,24S. Dane county,
second on the list with $16,21t paid in,
asked for $29,912 and receives $21, 309,
and Rock county, third On the list with
$10,173 paid in, asked for $14,8 800 and
receives $11 1874
Sauk county, which paid in $5,3SS,
asked for the largest excess of any
county in the state, $19,959, and will
receive $12,S07 for its share of the
fund in 1912. Florence one of the
newest counties in the state and one
of the least developed, showed its APP
preciation Of the terms of the act by
asking for $4,000, having paid in only
$4S6, and this county receives $5,513.
lt had bonded itself under the old law
for more than $4,000 for road i'm
provement, and is building a fine sys-
tom of roads which viii largely in
crease land values.
The greatest mileage of roads to be
improved in 1912 under the act is to
be found In Dane county, where
twenty-nine miles are to be improved
all except five miles being stone maca'
dam. Sank, one of the pioneers in road
& improvement, comes next with twenty
two miles, of which eighteen miles are
TO be stone macadam.
Clark is next with twenty one miles
of which fifteen, however, are to be
dirt roads, while Ashland, Columbia
and Rock will improve twenty miles
' each, of which less than half win be
stone macadam. Florence comes well
mp in the list with total of eighteen
miles to be improved, third of il
to be stone macadam.
Milwaukee county heads the list ii
the total amount to be exl, ended
S226,o4S; then comes Dane with $40,
49,, and Sank, third, with $5o,330
Other counties which win spend large
amounts are Rock, $685. Columbia
$4,000; Grant, $33,5Ss, and Florence
$33 ,5ts.
Of the 632 miles to be improved
during 1912 in SOL towns, 246 miles
are to be dirt road, 21S miles stone
macadam, 152 miles gravel and q
miles shale. The work will be divided
into $50 different pieces, and the Crane
total OF state, county and town funds
to be devotedlto the work is $1,097, $40