Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1913-04-30
URGES CHANGE nj STATE Road.
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Editor. Willmar Tribune: 5Tt #@.s
At the request Of Interested parties;
I will here try and explain where the
State Road between Willmars and Pen
mock now is routed and why q correc-
ton Of said route should be made be-
fore any money Is spent on such a road.
Any road and especially State Road.
should be the shortest distance between
two points: @ O. s. i :5s5 .Sz$:s. JJss.=.
The present STATE Road does notsnow,
follow the main travelled road, crooked
as that now is. but zig gags still more,
viz: about three quarters Of mile
west of the brickyard it goes west, in
stead Of following the main travelled
road for distance of one mile, thence
north to the old road. NJ s=s
= If this route is kept it will necessi-
tate the grading of a road in the south
| west corner of section eight right thru
deep slough, as the present road is
not now on the line, and for interstate
traffic the road as now laid will be
much further, more expensive and hard
err to follow. W..
| AS to the best solution Of the ques-
ton, I propose andSSwill work for the
following route: - w.. .*= 2#5$; A.,
Commencing at the brickyard, thence
westerly along the south side OF the
Great Northern right-of-way, for a dis
| lance Of about three quarters of a mile
to the crossing between sections seven
and eight; thence following along the
now main travelled road to Pennock.
This change in the road will necessi-
tate the buying up of a road for dis
lance of about three-quarters of mile
But this road will shorten the distance
and what is of more Importance, will
make very good road, and be less ex-
pensive than the OTHER route, as the land
with the exception of a few rods is
high and dry. So.
There have been other routes talked
of, but as to cost and practicability
believe the route I have mentioned is
the best one, and earnestly hope thai
something will be done, so as to receive
state aid which we already could have
had, had there been route laid Out
that had been more satisfactory. Roads
| when once laid seem hard to change
and this reminds me Of a poem which
| send herewith how roads or routes are
sometimes made.
THE PATH THE CALF MADE.
BY Sam Walter Ross.
Zone day through the primeval wood,
calf walked home, as good calve:
But made trail all bent askew,
A crooked trail, as all calves do.
Since then two hundred years have fled
And, infer, the calf is dead;
But still he left behind his trail,
And thereby hangs my moral tale.
The trail " as taken up next day
~ a lone Cog. that passed that way;
And then a wise bell-wether sheep
. ] IT,, +loo <,S~S IL l~%>>
And drew the flock behind him, too,
AS good-bellWethers always do.
And from that day DER hill and glade T.
Through those old woods path wa:
And many men wound in and out,
And lodged and turned and bent about
And uttered words of righteous wrath
: But still they followed-do not laugh
The first migrations of that calf,
And through this winding woodwa!
Because he wobbled when he walked.
. This forest became lane, &>N -,
, That bent and turned, and turned again
This crooked lane became road,
:. | Where many poor horse with his loa
Toiled on beneath the burning sun,
And travelled some three miles in one
{ And thus. century and halt, -
The T' years passed on in swiftness feet
The road became village street; /.
: And this, before they were aware, :
| A city S crOWueQ LnOfOuSnIare, ..-+... IL
And soon the central street was this
r Of renowned metropolis, ,t H.
And men two centuries and half
Trod in the footsteps of that calf
Each day hundred thousand rout nzss-
Followed the zigzag calf about;
l And DER his crooked journey went -
The traffic of a continent. :
A hundred thousand men were led
p By one calf near three centuries dead.
, They followed still his crooked way
t And lost one hundred years day;
, For such reverence is lent , :,
To well-established precedent -
A moral lesson this might teach,
Were I ordained and called to preach;
For men are prone-to go it blind
| Along the calf paths of the mind,
And work away from sun to sun
:. | To do what other men have done.
, | They follow in the beaten track;
And in, and out, and forth and back
= | To keep the path that others do.
f | But how the wise old wood-gods laughe
| Who saw the first primeva1 calf!
All! many things this tale might teacl
But I am not ordained to preach" .;
Respectfully, =: !
G. n r, TE0RpTC