The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-08-15
AUTO CLUB SENDS LETTER
Plan for Division of Funds of Club is
Announced to Property Owners and
They are Shown What Can be Done
With Proper Contributions.

IDf next year Is now wen uuQ6E way
and letters have been sent out by the
road committee to practically every
property owner along these roads. The
letter explains fully the plan of the
club to secure the cooperation of the
property owners in the building of the
road. 1t follows;
Kenosha, Wis., Aug. s, 1912.
Dear Sir:---Eo doubt you are aware
Of the general road conditions sur
rounding Kenosha in all three direc-
tions. You are perhaps not so famil-
lar with the Wisconsin State Aid road
laws.
10 take advantage of these admir-
,be laws whereby state aid may be
secured, and the greatest good for the
greatest number derived, at the hard
ship of none, the citizens and business
men of Kenosha have subscribed to
fund of $4,000 for the building of per-
manent roads leading into the city;
60 per cent, or $1,000 of this fund win
be given to the road leading into Ke-
nosha whose property owners raise the
largest amount of money for the per-
manent improvement of their own
road, and 40 per cent, or $500 to the
road raising the next largest amount.
Any subscriptions received on any
other than the two winning roads in
this contest will be returned to the
donors, The subscriptions Of the two
winning roads, together with their re-
spoctive shares Of the city fund, must
be deposited with the town treasurer
Of either Pleasant Prairie or Somers
by August 18th, 1912, to insure the
work being done next season, The
time is short.
Now for example, suppose the prop
orty owners Of your road raise 1000,
securing first place in this contest
and winning so per cent of the city
fund or $1,000. This total of $4,000
paid to the secretary Of the Kenosha
Automobile club, and deposited BY
their board of directors with your
town treasurer by August 18th, win
secure for you $4,000 additional from
the township; $4,000 from the county,
and $4,000 more from the state high
way fund, if their appropriation is
sufficient to cover all the demands
made upon it. If not, the county
board is allowed to make up any
amount the state fund may fall short.
You can readily see that for the
$1,000 subscription deposited with
your own town treasurer you can Sc.
cure a total of $4,000 to be spent on
q permanent road leading into the city
of kenosha, starting at the city limits,
or at a point far enough from said
limits to be out Of range of any terri
tory likely to be taken in the city in
the next FIVE or ten years, and extend
ing outward as far as the money will
permit Or, figuring on a basis of
your own subscription alone, viz.
$1,000, you would secure over $500
for every $l.00 you raised and expend.
Cd ON q permanent road, which would
thereafter be kept in good condition
at the county s expense.
In this connection, bear in mind the
fact that the city of Kenosha paws IS
per cent of both the county and state
road tax, or, out of the $4,000 total
fund used as an example; $1,000
would be paid by the property owners;
$1,000 by the citizens Of Kenosha 49,
ESQ by the taxpayers outside the city
and $5,72o by the taxpayers of the
city Of Kenosha. The board of direc-
tors of the Kenosha Automobile club
viii confer with the town boards Of
the respective towns before depositing
the money with them, and learn abopt
what road tax they can afford and
will be governed to a great extent by
their Judgment.
The advantages of good roads and
their value to you and your PROPERTY
are inestimable. This is but be-
ginning, and the citizens and business
men Of the city Of Kenosha will each
year from now on do more than their
share towards helping YOU secure what
YOU most need-good roads. We must
make a start some time and some
place. We are already late but we
want to give our help to the people
who want it most, and foa~tBis reason
we have organized this subscription
contest
mile or two Of high grade road
will save a good share of its cost Of
pp-keep in three or four years, and
sttIi be u perfect condition. Although
you may live a few miles from the
eltF limits, give your earnest help to
ths movement, >and 1t will Be but
lew Years when ynur nronor+ 49,