River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-12-18

struction Of said bridge is performed
and accepted. that the said town re-
amount of money equal to the cost of
such construction in excess of Two
Hundred $4,000 Dollars:
w. J. FOLEY,
A. T.. FISHER
JAS. BRANAGAN,
Supervisors of the Town of Salem.
Attested by
Sup. Ed. Murphy is hereby appointed
to act as county commissioner on the
within petition.
Dated April 18th, 1913.
f. A. SEVERANCE
Chairman of County Board.
PETITION FOR BRIDGE AID-TOWN
OF SALEM.
To the County Clerk of Pierce County,
Wisconsin:
The petition of the Town Board of
the Town of Salem, in said Pierce
county, respectfully represents and
shows:
That it is necessary to construct i'm
mediately and without delay a certain
bridge lying wholly within said town,
tO-Wit:
The Peterson bridge on the highway
between sections thirty-fve and thirty
six in said town, said bridge being To-
Gated about eighty 900 rods south of
the northeast corner of said section
thirty-five in said town, for the reason
and wholly insufficient to accommodate
the public travel on said highway, and
for the further reason that failure to
Immediately construct said bridge is
likely to result in an accident, and con-
sequent heavy damage and expense to
said town.
That said bridge shall be constructed
of either stone or concrete, or of COM
bination of these materials.
That at it's annual town meeting held
on the LIST day of April, 1913, the said
IFJrNl Iln 1nV1f nf
proportion of the cost of construction
of said bridge as is required by section
1919 of the Revised Statutes of Wis
consin for the year 1911.
That the estimated cost of construct
ing said bridge, exclusive of all APP
proaches to it, is the sum of Six Hun
dred Dollars.
That the assessed valuation of said
town as edualized by the last county
board is the sum of Seven Hundred
Fifty-six Thousand Three Hundred
Forty-seven ($756.34) Dollars.
That for the purpose of constructing
said bridge said town did at it's last
annual meeting provide for the levying
of a tax in the sum of Three Hundred
$4,000 Dollars on all of the property of
said town.
Wherefore, your petitioners pray
That the Chairman of the county
board appoint two of it's members to
act as it's commissioners and to CO.
operate with the town board, to act in
the letting inspecting and acceptance
bridge; and that when the construction
of said bridge is performed and accent
ed. that the said town board receive
from Pierce county county aid to an
amount of money equal to one-half the
cost of such construction of said
bridge
w J. FOLEY.
A. L. FISHER,
JAS. BRANAGAN
Supervisors of the Town of Salem
Attested by
w T TOT Fey
Sup Ed. Murphy is hereby appointed
to act as county commissioner on the
within petition.
Dated April 18th, 1913.
F. A. SEVERANCE,
Chairman of County Board
PETITION FOR BRIDGE AID-TOWN
OF TRENTON.
To the Honorable County Board of
Pierce County, Wisconsin:
The petition of the town of Trenton,
in said county, by it's Town Board, re-
spectfully shows:
That two certain bridges lying wholly
within said town and crossing dry runs,
one bridge located on section lines be-
tween Sec. IA and Sec. %, Town. rs,
Range 49, and one bridge located on
NV quarter of Sc quarter, Section IL,
Town %, Range Is. is by reason of
floods and other causes, so badly DAM
aged as to be utterly unsafe for public
travel, that there is no safe fording
place near said bridges that it is not
that by reason of the premises it is
necessary to construct new bridges
without delay, across said creek to re-
place old bridges.
That said town has voted to con-
Struct new bridges to replace said old
bridges, such new bridges to be erected
at the places aforesaid.
That the estimated cost of the con-
Struction of such new bridges, exclusive
of the cost of constructing the APP
proaches at the ends thereof, is $4,000.
That said town has a total valuation
of S737,4SS.00 according to the last as
sessment as equalized by the county
board.
That said town has provided for the
payment of such proportion of the cost
of such construction of said new
bridges as is required by section 1919
of the statutes of this state, such pro-
portion being $4,000
Wherefore, your petitioners pray:
ID That the chairman of your hon
orable body, in pursuance of Sub-Sec-
ton 4 of section 1919 of the statutes
of this state, appoint two of the MEM
berS of said county board or a chair
man of an adjoining town as its COM
board of said town in the letting. in
speeding and acceptance of the work,
as provided by subsection of said
section 1919.
(2) That upon the construction and
acceptance of said bridge, as provided
by said subsection 6, your honorable
body appropriate such sum as is re-
quired by said section 1919 to be paid
by the county as aid to said town in
defraying the expenses of erecting said
bridge.
Dated and signed at the town of
Trenton, in said county. this 18th day of
April, 1918.
Respectfully submitted.
VICTOR SWANSON,
o. Z. WESTFIELD,
THORWALD ANDERSON,
Town BOARD of Town of Trenton