Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-06-04
MASS MEETING VOTES
FOR WEST GRANT ROAD
LARGE BODY FAVORS TRUNK LINE
HIGHWAY THROUGH SCENIC
PART OF COUNTY.

a mass meeting or leading citizens
OF townships in western Grant county
was held at the court house last We'd
nesday afternoon. The meeting was
unanimous in favor of asking the leg
1slat1ve commission for a new trunk
line through the western part of the
county.
The proposed route will begin at
Dickeyville, go through Potosi to the
depot and traverse up the river to the
hills three miles above Cassville. 1t
will pass through North Andover to
Bloomington and connect with the
present system mile north of Patch
Grove.
The length of the proposed route is
AZ to SO miles, The county is entitled
to at least 551a miles by action of the
legislature charging the trunk line
system and may get more. Following
is the resolution adopted:
To the Joint Legislative Highway
Committee and the State Highway
Commission:
WHEREAS the Townships of Patch
Grove, Bloomington, Little Grant,
Glen Haven, Beetown, Cassville, Wat
erloo, PotOsi and Paris, comprising
OF the county of Grant, and being
about one-third of the total area of
said county, and representing the larg-
est area OF territory in said county
which is unserved and untouched by
the State Trunk Highway System,
AND WHEREAS, there are located in
said townships the prosperous vii
lagos of Bloomington, North Andover
Cassville, Burton, Potosi, Tennyson
which said townships and villages
contain total population of about
1926 as taken from the 1910 census
and at this time representing approx
imately a population of about 10000
inhabitants,
AND WHEREAS, the opening up OF
this untouched area would mean the
opening up of one of the most pic
ureSQue and scenic areas of the state
of Wisconsin,
AND WHEREAS, the proposed route
which would be of the greatest SER
vice to this area, and the most prac-
teal would commence at Dickeyville
in the township OF Paris, at the pres
puB so ON GgMqS!Q yuma olgls lue
would thence follow NORTHWESTERN
| direction through the townships OF
Paris and POtosi to the village of Po-
Paris and Potosi to the village of Po-
tosi; thence through the townships o1
Potosi and Waterloo and Cassville, to
the village of Cassville; thence north
to the village of North Andover
thence north to the village of Bloom
ington; thence north-westerly to the
village of Patch Grove, and ending on
the present state trunk highway No
10 one mile north of the village OF
Patch Grove, and which proposed
route would be of the distance OF
about so miles,
NOW THEREFORE BE 1T RESOLV-
ED:
That We, the undersigned commit
tee appointed by representative
meeting of about three hundred cit
| liens of the aforesaid townships and
villages, held at Lancaster, Wiscon-
sin on the 28th day of May, 1919, do
hereby and herewith petition the said
Honorable Joint Legislative Highway
Committee and the said State High
way Commission, to consider fairly
the needs of the aforesaid townships
and villages, and allot to the afore-
said towns and villages the necessary
mileage to cover the route proposed
out of the increased mileage to be dis
tributed by your committee and COM
mission.
Signed: