Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-01-26

us q pretty ldlP SfdVol TOdu clear
to Tony from this place. East of
Tony, in town Of Dewey, [ repaired
road as good as we could, hauling
gravel and putting in culyerts. A
ditch should have been dug along
this road, but owing to the search
ty of labor, it could not be done, as
a matter of fact, labor could hard
ly be gotten at any place in this
county this last season.
True The road in this town seems
to be very hard to keep in shape
as the ground won't stand up-so
spread out fiat and is always more
clay loan soil. We hauled lot
put it five loads in a wagon length
road bed. [ also filled up some
washOuts.
Hawkins: | had some ditching
done, cut high places and made
fill, ditching contract which [ let
finished yet. On the Gates road
south Of Ladysmith, | also let the
contract to gravel a swamp of
| tH1Ily -lWU lOUS, Which ID llOC I'LL
ished yet.
On the Gates road north or south
of Ladysmith very little work was
done, only patching up the holes,
as the Road Committee thought that
the road east and west through the
county should be finished first.
Grading on TRUNK road was done in
True, Dewey, Grow, Big Bend,
and Atlanta. There was about
twenty-six miles of regarding done
in the county during 1916.
In the different Towns where
work was done >under the old sys-
tenn, are the towns of Strickland,
on the Horseman road, cut hills,
made fills and put in culVerts.
Town of Big Bend: Cleared, ditch
ed and graded a piece of road south
of Island Lake. This piece of rOad
is on the Trunk Line system and
One-half Of a mile of it is joint
road between Rusk County and
Chippewa County. This road is not
finished yet, and will require some
where near one thousand dollars
(S1 00000) to fifteen hundred dol
lars ($l,500C0) to put it in good
shape.
Atlanta: Not much done in this
Township. during the summer. Mr..
Forrest Triplett, the chairman of
this Town, advertised to let a con-
tract for some grading and ditch
ing. but on the day of the sale no.
body came around to bid on the
Job, wherefore the chairman did
only very little work on that road.
Town of Wilson: A grading job
of two miles was finished, also
cut of about two hundred feet
long and four feet deep was
made. Here is where this twenty
five dollars (S25.00) comes in that
[ mentioned above.
Mury: Let contract to brush,
widening out, stump, grade and
ditch one mile of road, and finish
ed old contracts. Repaired Birch
wood and Atlanta road, putt in
some culVerts. A Ditching job in
this Town is not finished yet.
Hubbard: Let contract for brush
ing, stumping, widening, dltching,
and grading one mile of road. Al
so repaired WashOut and put in cul-
VertS.
Rusk: \ ditching job done.
StubsS: Some road repaired by
order Of Road Committee, and put
in culyerts.
Grow: Had Gil put in on Main
Creek bridge near COnrath but job
is not finished, nor accepted. Con-
tract was let in 1915 and was to be
finished in 1915.
Marshall: Had fill put in on
bridge across Little Jump; This
bridge had not been accepted last
| rTho pri1rn ho6 n
come back and rebuild the Adult
ments this summer before work
was accepted.
River road and on Valley road, also
on road east through town three
fourths of a mile, but the Town
mile, also finished old road con
tract, replankcd bridge across Main
Creek, and put in Bridge fill, four
miles of new road are not yet fin
ished, neither are the two bridges
, accepted on this road. On jump
River road between the Towns OF
True and Lawrence, had bridge and
fill repaired by Mr.. P. H. Shafer
chairman of Road and Bridge Com
, mittee.
vi Tic IidChtGJ OId DCtNCClI Olle
Towns of True and Hawkins. had
old contract finished, and done some
general repair work. This is q very
, bad piece of road as there are very
few settlers living on it, and &C
! cOmmodations for WOrkmen are
very hard to be had.
| also understand that the ROaC
f and Bridge Committee looked after
several miles Of newly built roads
in the new town Of Big Falls.
only was over part of this road.
When I was appointed County
Highway Commissioner in 1914, al
money for road improvements fol-
) that year had been allowed $4,000
for State Aid, on their $4,000 thai
they had raised Themselves, and il
showed that amount in my books
and also in the Courthouse, but in
stead of that amount there was due
to each of those Towns S201.12.
| Following is the exact amount
t due to those Towns.
Amount Amount
On State
Books Credited
~. Dl 0tOO M Q0OO T.