The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-08-26
USE MlCADAh FOR SHOULDERS
Road Will Have Width of 10 Feet
With Nine Feet as Concrete Roadway.
Auto Club Furnishes Part of Money
for the Extension of Paving.

The worst piece of road in Kenosha
county is to be improved This morn
ing County Highway Commissioner
John Herzog announced that contracts
would be let before the end of the
month for the concreting of all of the
Geneva road from the end of the pres
ent concrete highway to the Bristol
town line. The road is to be improved
to a width Of fifteen feet. There will
be concrete roadway nine feet in
width with macadam shoulders three
feet in width on each side. The cost
OF the improved road will be from
$4,000 to $4,000. A formal notice
for bids for the concreting Of the road
was issued today and bids will be open
ed on August 28th and the contract
will have provision that the road be
completed at the earliest possible
minute. There will be about mile
and half of the concrete road to build
and it is thought that the work can be
completed by the fifteenth of October.
The decision Of the highway com
missioner and the town officials of the
town of Pleasant Prairie to improve
this road and improve it at once, will
bring real joy to the drivers of auto
mobiles who have been accustomed to
use the Geneva road to the lakes. The
road between the present end of the
concrete and the town line of Bristol
has been called the "worst road in the
county, There are ruts three feet deep
in the road and the condition Of it
has been such as to make it almost i'm
passable. Many automobile have been
stuck in the ruts in the road and sew
eral people have been injured in acct
dents resulting from the condition of
the road.
The cost of the road will in part be
paid by the Kenosha Automobile Club.
Some time ago the members of the
club deposited with the town board of
Pleasant Prairie the sum of twenty
four hundred dollars to be used for the
improvement of this road. This money
bers in Kenosha and by property own
ers interested In the Improvement of
the road. The town Of Pleasant Prairie
voted to borrow to provide for the i'm
provement of this road, but the work
had been held up on account of doubts
as to what would be done by the state
legislature in regard to state aid for
the coming year. The state highway
commission has given It's full sanction
to the Improvement of the Geneva
road during the present season.
81, 800 is now available for the com
pletion of the concrete pavement on
the road and if necessary it is prob
able that the county can make arrange
ments for slight additions to this fund
to make possible the extensions of the
road up to a point where the Bristol
gravel roads begin.
1t is not expected that there will be
any objection on the part of the prop
erty owners to the nine foot road as
the specifications provide for maca-
dam and not gravel shoulder on this
road. Road experts hold that the
macadem shoulder will be just as ac-
ceptable to the people using the road
as the full fifteen feet of concrete and
the cost Of the road will be consider
ably reduced under the plan adopted.
The plan Of building the nine foot road
way with the macadam shoulder has
been adopted in many of the counties
in Wisconsin and it is declared that
these roads have been most satisfactory
to the travelling public.
The repair of the road will not make
much difference in the routes taken by
automobiles to the lake districts as for
some time the drivers of cars have re-
fused to use the Geneva road west of
the tavern and the Wilmot road has
had nearly all of the traffic. The heavy
traffic on this road has brought neces-
sity of another oiling of the road if it
is to be kept in first class condition
1t is declared that the traffic on the
Geneva and Wilmot road is now as
heavy as can be found on any roads
in this section of the state.