The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1914-12-31
Complete State Road No. 1 First.

Cove, Minn., Dec. 29.-.With re-
gard to the opposition in the north
end of the county to the cancellation
of the Walton-Cor. road contract on
the state road south from Cove, as
mentioned in last weeks Union, we
believe there would be just as much
opposition from the south end of the
county if the situation was as we'll
understood. This is road running
north and south through the center
of the county making the shortest
possible route to beautiful Mile
Laos lake, where hundreds of people
from central and southern Mile Laos
county go for their vacation trips
each ummer-hundreds of them
making the round trip every Sunday
during the summer-not considering
the continually increasing travel that
would make use of this road when
completed. 1t will also open thou
sands of acres of good farm land to
settlers. The contract was let under
the same conditions that now exist
and we see no reason why it should
be cancelled. and we do not, believe
that the commissioners will cancel
the contract, but what those who
are interested have most to fear is
delay in the completion of the road.
which was to have been completed
this year. If, as Engineer Cooley
says, the road cannot be constructed
across certain swamps before the en-
tire swamps are drained, then the
preliminaries for draining the
swamps in question should be taken
up at once and disposed of so that
actual work on the drainage bitches
could be commenced as soon as the
frost is out in the spring. If this
is done the contractors will have
plenty to do completing work on
their job outside OF the three swamps
in question to keep them busy until
the ditching is completed, for there
is only a short stretch of the road
completed south Of Camp Johnson,
where we come to nearly a mile of
right"of-way where nothing but the
ditching has been done, and then
there is three-quarters of a mile
north of the swalnps in question, in
the town Of South Harbor that work
was Just commenced on.
We understand that it is the in
tention of part of the county board
and also of Engineer Cooley to open
the state road on the town line be-
tween the towns of South Harbor
and Onamia next year-a distance of
two miles-the entire way, with the
exception of few rods through what
Mr.. Cooley states is the worst swamp
on the Walton-Cor. contract. This
proposed branch road would be very
expensive to build and it looks to
one interested as though it would be
better to complete the main road
through the center Of the county be.
fore building very expensive branch
roads. And we believe the majority
of the commissioners will see the
matter in the same light, as the
completion of the road running north
and south through the county is of
vital Importance to the entire
county, while branch roads are only
of secondary Importance and can be
completed later, unless there is
plenty of money available to COM
plete the main road and build the
branch road too next summer, then
of course there could be no objection,
but the completion of state road No.
l from Milaca to Cove should be
assured first.
-. A TAXPAYER.
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