Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-08-18
COUNTY ROAD WORK
STILL PROGRESSING
Work Going on In Many Towns
Under Highway Commits
siOner's Supervision.
Grading. Macadamizing and CulVerts
Being Put -PlatteVille-Du-
buque Road Gets Fine Start.


buque Road Gets Fine Start.
Grant county is making tremendous
road improvements this summer and
all over the county gangs of men are
busy lettering conditions. Montfort
IS putting in macadam; jamestown,
macadam, grading and culverts;
Paris, bridges, macadam, grading and
culveTts; Waterloo, macadam; Har-
risOn, grading; Cassville, grading,
and Lancaster city, macadam. In
Jamestown the DubuquePlatteville
road leading up to the Eagle Point
high bridge will probably be complet-
ed to the extent of about two miles
this summer and the other extension
Of the road through Paris will see
four and one-half miles of nice high
way in the near future. This ROAD
might properly be called the John
Longbotham" road, as Mr.. Longboth-
am. of Dickeyville, has been one OF the
most active workers in seeing that
the road went through.
The county is doing all its own
work this summer, hiring the labor
and teams and getting out the rock
under its own supervision. There is
only one contract job is in progress at
the present time, and that is a small
one. At Hazel Green, one OF the coun-
II gangs is employed in working over
the tailings from the mines and
crushing It up for macadam. The
county is able to get rock free of
charge and il doesn't have to be quar-
ried. 1t is said to be of superior quail
itv for road work too. This fail ought
TO see a great amount of prime road
work done in the county, and il ar
rangements are made to properly
care for the roads once they are i'm
proved, the taxpayers will have good
investment. On some of the roads
completed this summer, the costs
nave been figured out. They are:
Town of Jamestown; Sinsinnawa
Mound road, 2O16 feet, grading, Gull
verts. Cost cubic yard to move dirt,
SIC. Total cost, $1145.69..
PIatteville city, Chestnut St, 1865
feet, macadam. Cost So. yard, Acc,
per cubic yard, S1.40. Total cost,
SI422.99.
South Lancaster; 2032 feet, graded,
one culvert built, road macadamized.
Cost S1SS cubic yard; SIC so. yard
Total cost, $17O6.S3.
Town of Fennimore, 644 feet, grad
ing and resurfacing. Cost S2.77 cubic
yd; 45c 50. yard.
The Platteville-Dubuque highway is
we'll under way and the dirt is flying
at great speed. In the town OF Paris
the road leaves the present highway
below the John LongbOtham farm
and strikes boldly down ravine for
a distance of $500 feet before 1t
meets the present road again. The
grade varies from ga to per cent,
while the grade of the old road for
mart of the distance is about 20 per
center. Peter Miller is the foreman in
charge of the county work here and
has II men working for him. He is
doing the rock and culvert work and
nice work it is, too. Further down Leo
Nevsemburg is building a bridge that
when completed should stand Tor
ages. 1t is of solid concrete and the es-
innate calls for an expenditure OIL
about $500.
The county will quarry here, get
out their own rock and then crush II.
When completed this section will have
thirteen cuIverts, and 20-foot bridge.
The total cost will be about $1,000.
The amount of dirt to be removed
was estimated at 1850 cubic yards,
and the contract was let to Welsh &
UdeIhoven, of Potosi, for &c cubic
ward. Mr.. Welsh is in charge OF the
work and when he gets through with
the grading and the shaping up, this
road is going to be peach.
Another road job that is worthy OF
mention is that section of the Platte
ville-DUbuQue highway, from the
Eagle Point high bridge to Sandy
Hook This section is $500 feet IN
length and crosses the bottoms
Of 10000 yards last spring, on per-
feet highway up through the gulch,
IN Sandy Hook. The section in the
guIch is 1900 feet long and before the
work started the place looked like
a bit of the Grand Canyon. Fred
Skemp. of LOuisburg, is the man that
IL doing the grading here, and Frank
Lenstra is putting UP the guard rails
and doing the rock and culvert work.
The bows thought it was pretty
large order to put through road OF
from SO to Z per cent grade, Dulld
10 500 wards of guard fence and move
$4,000 Yards of dirt this summer, but
nothing daunted, they went at IL, ana
they are succeeding beautifully. Inc
old road was more of snake tFall
than ANYTHING else and wound up
dry run of the valley with hills on
each side. The new road literally
fOrgets that there is a valley for the
boys have burrowed out the hillside
putting in a 20-fOOJ road and now are
getting ready to cross a chaSm that
is about 70 feet wide and 40 feet deep.
They will take it on grade too. Mr..
Skemp is working II teams with
drivers. and u men, and Mr.. Lenstra
is working q men. He Will put up all
the guard rail and place eight cul-
verts. The only section of the road
where there is any delay is a piece
three rods wide and about 300 feet
long through the farm of Mr.. Ed
MuntZ. Mr.. MuntZ lives at the lower
end OF the valley, and so far the
county has been unable to make deal
with him for the part of the road
through his land. The matter will
probably be adjusted in the near fu-
80 when the guard rails are all