Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-11-09
Great System of Federal High
ways Fixed By State High
way Commission
LADYSMITH is ON
TWO TRUNK LINES
North Road i'm Sawyer County Inter
sects East and West Road Half
Way to Bruce.

Maps for the Federal highway for
the state of Wisconsin have been re-
ceived by county officials this week and
there is much satisfaction over the re-
suit so far as Rusk and Sawyer cOun-
ties are concerned. The contention
made by the men who were active in
the meetings held at Superior, Chip
pewa Falls, Ladysmith and Hayward,
was that a road be continued from
Ladysmith north through Sawyer coun-
ty. This led to some antagOniSm OF
the tentative plan which cut Sawyer
off with only one road from Rice Lake
through the edge of the county to Hay
ward. The result is as told in the
Budget last week: A road north
from Rusk cutting through the south
ern part of Sawyer county, to the dis
tinct advantage of both counties. Here
Starts This Side of Bruce.
The north road does not begin at
Bruce 1t intersects the east and west
highway at a point four and half
miles west of Ladysmith at the Manley
farm, thence north miles, west -
mile. north > miles, west across the
the old Chippewa River Valley road to
RadissOn leaving EXeland a mile and
a quarter to the west.
Rice Lake did not get the road for
which it fought. The city is on the
highway, which starting at Chippewa
Falls passes through Eagle Point,
Bloomer, New Auburn, Chetek, Cam
erOn, Rice Lake. NObletOn and inter
sects the road from Stone Lake to
Spooner. The highway from Rusk
county into Sawyer cuts into the road
from Stone Lake to Hayward, 3 miles
east of Stone Lake, giving an outlet
to SpOoner and on into Superior OF
by going on to Hayward to reach Ash
land.
Mileage Near Limit
The mileage as per the report OF
the Highway Commission in the state
is 4,9SS.3S subject to change as new
surveys are made, 5000 miles is the
limit OF this mileage Rusk has 1896
Sawyer, 579S, Barron, 9O03, Chippe
wa, $3.50. The county having the
largest mileage is Dane, with 1545
Ladysmith is also on the great east
and west trunk highway which start
ing on the west side of the state neal
ST CrOiX Falls extends east through
this city to Rhinelander and with two
lines from there one by way of Eagle
River and the other sOutherly by way
of CrantOn to the east boundary of the
state at Florence.
The roads south are equally inviting
The Chicago trip can be made by 3
number of routes after reaching CadOt1
on the main trail to Marshfield
Stevens Point and Oshkosh
Men Who Helped
1t can be said that the meeting a,
Radisson two months ago on a Sun
day when the Sawyer county forces
and the Rusk county boosters headed
| by Mayor Thompson and f. M. Doyle
| united was largely responsible for the
| final arrangement of the map and Sc
curing the road into Sawyer. Fol
lowing that was the Superior meeting
with L. e. McGill, E. M. Worden ant
Geo. Luell in attendance as delegates
appointed under resolution of cOuOnci
by Mayor Thompson. AT Chippews
Falls the delegates were Mayor Thomp
son, e. NJ. Worden, Postmaster Man
ming, H. A. Dimock, l.. E. McGill, L
c. Streater and a reporter for tn,
News-Budget. At Hayward were E
M. WOrden and Geo. Luell.