The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-08-09
Not Likely any Work will sbe Done
son Washburn End of Road
Agreement Amoug COmmitteemen
Does Not Seem to Cut
Much Figure


done upon it this season, other
than the slight patching that
was done during the past two
weeks when some of the ruts
were filled.
This road runs through a fer
tile farming section, is thickly
populated, and the amount of
travel over this road is equal to
that of any other road on the
Bayfield, County system of high
ways.
For several years the people
of this section have been clamor-
ing for work to start on this i'm
portant piece of highway and it
was the belief of many that a
good start would be made for
the committee had agreed that
when the crawling of the roads
started this would be one of the
first jobs undertaken.
The rock crusher has been
purchased, the gravel pit has
been opened up, camps for crews
have been erected, trucks have
been purchased with which to
haul the material, but the road
on which the work was to start
is as far from being ready to re-
receive the coating of gravel as
it was five years ago. When
gravel is hauled Fl ON the gravel
pit at Drummond the gravel will
have to be taken to some other
point on the county system of
highways other than the road
leading from this city to Bay
field.
Mertz of this city and Robillard
of Bayfield,, members of the
County Highway Committee,
had the promise from the rest of
the committee that inasmuch as
they had agreed to work going
on in other parts of Baytie. d
county that this would be one of
the first jobs undertaken when
the work of crawling was
started.
Road Commissioner John Sun
dell says it would be foolish to
start this work this season on
account Of the shortage of labor.
He declares it would be a waste
of public moneys to begin
crawling this road without first
regarding the road, and we be-
lieve he is right in this conten-
ton. We believe that the road
should first be gotten in shape
before surfacing is commenced.
But men have been found to
do work on roads in other parts
of Bayfield, county and we can
see no reason why men cannot
be found to do the work on this
section of the county roads.
Why, in the city of Washburn,
the street foreman found time
to gravel one mile of road and
the work was done within a
weeks time. This was done be-
cause the city believed that the
county would continue the work.
We do not necessarily blame
the County Highway Com
missioner because this work was
not started for he has had his
hands full looking after other
work, and right here we want
to say that the County Com
missioner is not getting an over
ly large sum of money for the
amount of work which he has
to do.
But we do blame the COM
mittee and the commissioner for
not getting together and making
plans for this work when it had
been agreed that this was the
first work to be undertaken.
If this is the first road on
which gravel is to be hauled, and
this road cannot be gotten in
shape before next year for re-
ceiving the gravel, We can see
no reason why there was such a
hurry in purchasing all of this
machinery.
But the people of this section
can bet their last dollar that the
machinery is not to be allowed
to remain idle, and that gravel