The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-07-20
AUTO FEES PAY FOR ALL WORK
Practically All of the Improved Gravel
Roads in County Will Get Coating of
Oil After They Have Been Swept
and Graveled-Wil Cost $4,000.

County Highway Commissioner John
Herzog this morning began the work of
| oiling the roads Of Kenosha county and
in the next thirty days more than fifty
thousand gallons Of road oil will be
poured on the roads of the county. The
work was started on the Wilmot road
in Bristol and this road will be closed
up for probably ten days. The second
road to be oiled will be the dusty road
IN Randall running between Twin
Lakes and Bassett Station and as soon
as possible the oil will be placed on
| the Geneva Road and Fox River roads
| IN the town of Wheatland. This will
include practically all of the improved
gravel roads in the county and Com
missioner Herzog hopes to have the
work of oiling completed by the mid
die of August. Tarvia B. will be used
on the Wilmot road and an asphaltum
oil on the other roads. Before the oil
| is placed on the roads they will all
be swept and graveled and placed in
! first class condition. The oil will be
sanded in with a view of getting the
best possible results.
"We are just little late starting
| with the work of oiling," said the com
(, missioner this morning, 'but you must
have hot weather to make this work
successful. The weather is just right
to get results. We are going to have
the roads in condition for the oil when
it is put. on and we expect that this
application will leave these roads in
wonderful shape for the closing months
of the summer and early fall. Last
year the work of oiling was not entirely
! successful on account of the fact that,
the roads were not in condition when
the oil was put on. We hope that
there will be no complaint on the work
this year. What we do want is for the
| automobiles to keep off the roads while
they are being oiled and we are going
to make prompt arrests and demand
prosecution of every person who vio-
lates the rule in regard to road signs. -
The cost of oiling the roads which
will be in the neighborhood of six
thousand dollars, will not come out Of
the country treasury, but will be paid
entirely by fees paid by Kenosha
county people for automobile licenses.
Not only will these fees pay for the
maintenance of the roads this year, but
the money used in the purchase Of the
truck for road work was also taken
out of this same fund.
The road work in the county is now
all well under way. The county work
on the gravel roads is progressing in a
manner entirely satisfactory to the
commissioner and the members of the
county board. The only delay has
been caused by the fact that it has
been hard to secure teams and men to
work at the various road camps in the
county. The farmers are all busy
with the corn and other crops and
city teamsters seem to be slow to ac-
cept jobs on the roads.
The contract for the mile and a
quarter concrete road on the Birch
hOdQ III 0Uul6Io LIDS UGOu I6G w u. LIZ
Merrick Of Burlington and he has a
large force of men on the road with
the understanding that the work is to
be completed by the first of October.
This will be one of the finest pieces of
road in the county. John Darrow is
rushing work in the improvement of
the Sheridan Road in Pleasant Prairie
and he has completed about forty-two
hundred feet of the fftyeight hundred
feet of fifteen foot road contracted for
in this town. His work will be com
pleted early in August. 1t is possible
that later in the month plans will be
made to expend appropriations for
1917, but as yet no steps have been
taken to this end.