The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-05-02
MANY COUNTIES ARE IN LINE
State Engineers Declare Kenosha Coun-
ty Is One Of the First il che State
to See Advantages of New Legisla-
tion for Road Work.

BY the figures Of Logan Waller
Page of the Office Of public roads, de-
partment Of agriculture, the expendi-
lures upon the roads Of the United
States in 1911 amounted to $142,000,-
900, or $64.63 per mile, $1.55 per each
iinhabitant. During the year, il, 600
miles of new road were constructed
at cost of $40,ooo,O0o, while the re-
naming $1O2,ooo,o0o was expended in
repairs and maintenance.
OF the vast total, $S,530,O00 was ex-
pended in the state Of Wisconsin, ac-
cording to the figures furnished by A.
R. Hirst, state highway engineer, al
though he says the figures are only
approximate because Of the difficulty
in obtaining information from the
1900 towns in the state. The expendi-
ture, as he figures it, was divided as
follows: road construction, 100000;
repairs and maintenance, 100000;
culverts and bridges, 100000.
The new construction, as reported
late in November to Good Roads by
the state engineer, was divided as fol
lows:
Kind of road. Lineal #. Cost.
| Gravel 5000, 100000 100000
Sand clay 80. 100000 100000
Earth ... ....1, 100000 100000
Water bound ma
cadam w. 100000 $4,000
Macadam W h
bituminous !.
i binder ..... :. $4,000 10000
| Bonds were authorized or issued
and sold by counties in the state for
road work during 1911 as follows:
Florence county, $4,000, $27, 900 is
sued; Rusk, for bridges, $4,000; Rock,
issued $4,000; st. Croix, $4,000;
Trempealeau, $1,000; Villas, issued
100000.
Ashland has started off for 1912 by
voting $4,000 in bonds, and its high
way commissioner, George E. Foster,
has purchased a locomotive and a doz-
en- cars, with several miles of railroad
track which he will lay on the road
to the southern boundary of the
county to handle broken rock from the
mines near Bessemer for use as a first
course in the matchmaking. It is to
be topped with crushed granite from
Mellen, where the county stone erusher
lis erected. He will start two hundred
men at work, from Ashland south, at
once and will have other crews at work
along the route building bridges and
culverts and getting the road in readi-
ness for the rock. 1t will take the
whole summer to complete the work.
! Kenosha county has already started
its road worh for the year,. Lacrosse
county towns have voted $4,000 for
road work as compared with $4,000
for this year, which will give, with
the state aid and county funds,
$51 900 for road work next year; Lin
coin county has embarked on a fine
program of road building, Langlade
will improve the roads in three town
ships; Oneida is to build twelve miles
between Rhinelander and places to the
west and southwest. Richland is ma
cadamizing the bad sand road north
from Lone Rock; Waushara has
bought twelve ton steam road roller,
self dumping wagon and road sprink-
Ter and will make good use Of them
during the season, and Winnebaga
county is getting inS line, having rails
ed $1,000 for the construction Of a
new road in the Fox river valley from
Menssha to Appleton, and SO it goes
all over the state.
The interest taken in road IMPROVE
ment in the upper peninsula of
Michigan, north Of and adjoining Wis
consin, is shown by the fact that Of
the ten Michigan counties which vot-
ed bonds for road improvements in the
last twelve months seven are located
in the upper peninsula and other
counties there are preparing to vote
bonds this year.
Houghton county, second in wealth
in the state because of its wonderful
copper mines, is preparing to try an
experiment which will be watched
hereabouts with the greatest interest.
AS the result of acrlnn taken at a
Injecting of the county, a"ard last week
the county is preparing to work the