The Washburn leader., 1916-07-14
Those County
Roads Again
Broy Cooper Criticise Work and
Efforts Made by the County
COMMISSIONER
GRADERS DOING GOOD WORK
Commissioners are Having Work
DONG in a LogtcaI Manner
to- Save EXPENSE =;


DONG in a LogtcaI Manner
to- Save EXPENSE u
A certain article in the Bene-
dict Banner with reference to
our County roads has come to
our attentions and we feel that
with all due Difference and re-
spect to Brother Cooper's ability
as a road expert and as a crit
ic Of the work and efforts of
public servants we cannot refrain
from taking exception to- some
Of his contentious. lit appears
that our bro ther in distress at
THE, other end of the county, who
by the way is also a candidate
for that position Of honor, (O,
edamnation amid discredit com
monty called County Commits.
sioner, traversed unpilpted and
without knowledge OF the high
ways, through the. swamps and
bogs of our fair county and al
1arious times became lodged Sc
curely in, mud and mire and at
other times speed headlong into
lakes and water holes, and his
little Ford not being intended
for a sail boat refused to ramble
right along. Needless to- say
Brother Cooper is muchly dis
satisfied with the roads and
the wo%k of our board of COM
missioners in general u. "a :
We do not mean to infer that
our roads are all good by amy
means, but we wild certain
" stick to- the contention that
they are being improved just as
rapidly as the good Lord and the
State of North Dakota has
grven our Commissioners the
power and the means to do so.
We do not dispute the fact that
Brother Cooper would use every
effort should he be elected coun-
ty commissioner to give his con-
stituents up in his end Of the
county macadamized highways
with all the other things that go
along toward making riling a
pleasure, but we' do doubt very
much that he would be able to
accomplish any more than the
member of the Board now rep
resenting that distrist.
The new grading outfits are
pushing the work to the limit
and we are as anxious to see
the day when they will remedy
the road difficulty in the north
end of the County as is Brother
Cooper. 1t will be but a short
Mme. The commissioners have
ordered the work done in the
most logical manner so that ex-
ira mileage and expense may
be cut down. The work done i'm
the immediate vicinity of Wash
burn was merely done with the;
'0ne outfit when this had just
arried in order to test the ef-
fectiveness of it. Under favor
able weather conditions the road
is finished up at the rate of two
miles a day. Owing to- the; ex-
cesive rains all work had to be
stopped for some time when the
outfits were being used between
Turtle Lake and Mercer. With
favorable weather we hope to see
the biggest portion of the; work
Of connecting up the towns of
the county completed before
winter.
Brother Cooper insists that
there Is an excellent road be-
tween Washburn and Wilton.
We are not in position to go
into details as to the supreme
height of ecstacy in. which one
must be eleated in order to con-
scientiously characterize that
particular highway as good
road but we can imagine that
should Brother Cooper ever
have occasion to sit upon a red
hot stove with his bare feet
7. anchored in q basket of burrs
and thistles he would yet pro-
\ claim that he was reposing upon
"a cake Of ice with hits dear little
toetsies laying lightly on a vel
vet cushion No Brother, we
I regret to take issue with you,
but that is not good road
The citizens of Washburn, Tnr
Tie Lake, Mercer and others have
taken it upon themselves to
get out and pick the rocks from
the road in order to facilitate
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