Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-01-09

LOUIS HmunOSOn, HClNlS EQUITY
fiig hway Commissioner, read his re-
port and the same was accepted and
referred to the committee on State Aid
f1ig always.
First Annual Report of State Aid
Roads In Wood County.
To the honorable Board of Supervisors
of Wood County, Wisconsin.
Gentlemen:-In submitting my first
| annual report am pleased to acknowl-
edge the honor of having had super
vision of the first macadamizing road
| work with State Aid in Wood County.
Also to acknowledge the kindly CO.
operation of the county and town
officials.
think the first thing that ought to
be reported is that no one got injured
or disabled and that we had no acct
dents worth mentioning.
| I don t feel that | ought to say any
thing about the quality of the work
done, but anyone who wishes to know
what the State Inspectors think of our
work can easily find out from letters
received by me or by calling up the
State Commission, want to assure you
however that [ made it the best l knew
|
town of Rudolph and as Chairman Mr..
Hass sent word to the State Com
mission last winter to have the rock
hauled on sleighs consequently | was
sent to get about 115 cords of rock but
as / bought this stone at so many loads
to the cord and as [ was right there to
help load | found that when [ had it all
in the road bed l really had about 1875
cords.
| Well our S1200.00 was too small for
this rock pile because we also had con-
siderable earthwork and two concrete
culverts to build so | asked the town
, board to advance $4,000 in order that
all the rock might be crushed and laid
in the road The town board complied
with my request and are entitled to a
credit to the amount of the deficit on
next year work 3132linear feet of Maca-
dam road was built commencing at the
city limit line between Grand Rapids
and the town of Rudolph running in a
northeasterly direction The center of
the road was dug out and 9 inches OF
crushed rock rolled in with clay as a
binder, about ID barrels of water being
, used for every 100 linear feet of road.
The crushed rock was used in three
sizes 81 inches of No. l, inches of No.
,, SIN NO. g. ABOUT q CuD1c TarUS OF
| clay being used for every 100 lin feet
. Nv next work was in the town OF
Seneca. the same rules were used and
the Macadam was built in the same
way except there was a trench dug
about feet deep in one place and 49,
feet long. and filled with rock and an
! outlet to the road ditch was then made
1t was claimed by some OF the farmers
that this place was very apt to heaye
! under the action of frost in the spring
and it is a conceded fact that dry eartl
i, will not heave, and if our road bosses IL
Z Wood County would study the founda
ton and how to drain our roads thu
lsurface would not give them and TIL
Ipublic travel so much trouble.
r The long haul of stone and excessive
rain fall made this work rather cost.
: but as there was no culverts to bullt
j and earth work very light we wer
able to build 2, 6S5 linear feet of maca
dam little over mile for less thai
r $1,000 90.
d My next job of macadam was in tn
town of Hanson which was also built i
the same way as in the town of Rudolph
III 2166 linear feet were macadamized bu
IN account of the very sprlngy natur
>r Of the soil and poor drainage, about so