Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1920-12-29

naming. crushing and placing surfaeing
materials. April 10 70 November /, 1925
co. HIGHWAY COMMISSIONERS ACCT
{ Office help. see3.so Office supplies. safe. files
highway orders and stationery. sI76.O5; tele-
phone rent and tolls. sI29.40; postage
sS7.!e; livery. SIe7.50; expenses. r. r. fare
hotel telephone. postage oil and gas and re-
pairs. $685.; ear expense, includes re-
pairs. chains. battery. and pulling in four
times. $685.; tires and tubes; szso.os
INDEMNITY
DR.. Surenson. services, 81: medicine, 81 25
expense taking Hastings 70 hospital. s7.s5
EMERGENCY
Bills paid out Of emergency fund and refund
ed BY state $T7.12; balance on right Of way,
| project ~, $50; overhaul surfacing, $3.50, a.
COUNTY MAINTENANCE
Patrolmen salaries. $27,3151s: patrol superin-
tendent, Sl,os4.s2: posts and paint. sl92.sO
planks and cement, $549.92; culverts
| s2.7ss.2i machinery and tools (patroImen'sJ
s2;lS6.06. Total sS4 SOIL
Total expenditures ali accounts, S223, 026 49,
| EQUIPMENT
Belonging 70 county, Austin lotion roller,
| Kelly-Springfield lotion roller. 2 stone
erushers z portable bins and screens. 2
Monarch tractor, International tractors
2 Nash quad trucks. F. w. d. truck. i
Automobile. Concrete mixers, Sprinkler
wagons. Dump wagons, Loading machine,
/ portable air compressor, with head, drills
and hose, stationary compressor with head
drills. hose and pipe. large graders q in
poor condition. so small graders. as road
drags, II. P. engine. so foot conveyor.
| 35 piows. rooter plOws, l scarifier IS
| wheel seraPers, 60 drag .scrapers. "a wheel
able camps, sectional camp houses 8
water tanks on trucks. diaphram pumps.
small tools. dishes and stoves. lumber for
RECOMMENDATIONS
That storage tanks be bought for storage of
tar, or asphalt located at Viroqua, Westby
Abuilding to store equipment, cement and other
supplies.
That one gas roller be traded in on steam
roller.
That a committee be appointed to draft or.
| dnances for traffic regulation.
That one or both crushing rigs be traded on
a gyratory crushing outfit.
Respectfully submitted.
| ALEX RISTOW
County Highway Com.
Resolution of Mr.. Broadhead read
and adopted under suspension of the
rules.
Whereas, the present system of pat
rolling the roads is not wholly a sue
cess, Be 1T resolved by the county
board of supervisors of Vernon County,
that the county road and bridge COM
mittee be instructed to secure sufic-
lent power driven road machines to
patrol the State Trunk Lines and the
cost be charged against the state
maintenance and paid out of that fund.
A. J. BROADHEAD
Election of state aid road and bridge
committee was then taken up. On
the third formal ballot Oliver Hayden
was elected to succeed c. w. Moore
on this committee. Mr.. Bailey moved
that the clerk cast the ballot of the
board for VIM. Dolen to succeed him
self and Mr.. Lepke made the same
motion in regard to Mr.. Carter. Both
motions carried and Mr.. Dolen and Mr..
Carter were declared elected.
On motion of Mr.. Eastman the board
adjourned till 2 P. M.
Afternoon Session
Board called to- order at P. M. by
Chairman Dolen. Roll call shows all
members present. Minutes of morn
ing session read and approved.
Petition of Hayden and Broadhead
read and referred to committee on
roads and bridges.
Petition of citizens of the town of
Viroqua read and referred to commit
tee on roads and bridges.
Petition of Mr.. Lepke read and re-
ferred to committee on roads and
bridges.
Petition of citizens of the town of
Webster read and referred to COM
mittee on roads and bridges.
Petition from village of Hillsboro
and other places in regard to keep
ing roads free from snow read and re-
ferred to committee on roads and brid-
ges.
Resolution of Mr.. Joseph read and
adopted under suspension of the rules.
Resolved by the county board of
supervisors for Vernon county, Wis
consin as follows:
Whereas, nature has provided a
most feasible route for a road and
bridge across the Mississippi river
from De Soto to Lansing, Iowa, and
the same has heretofore been survey
ed and the cost thereof determined at
pre-war prices by engineer L. J. Mark
wardt, and
Whereas, such road, as proposed
would be wholly within the county of
Crawford, and from River street, in
the said village of De Soto, would ira
verse high island, nearly four miles
in length, to a point opposite the Main
street of the city of Lansing, Iowa,
thus to connect with the Imperial Trail
which is surfaced for 450 miles due
West of said point, and
Whereas, the main channel of the
Mississippi at this point is about one
thousand feet in width, and the loca-
ton seems ideal for the construction
of the bridge and road at this place
rather than at numerous other sug-
gested places along that part of the
Mississippi river, and
Whereas, it is understood that here
tofore the federal government has of
fered to raise said road bed along the
entire course by pumping sand from
the river bottom and depositing it or
and along said proposed road way
and by constructing dams in the mouth
of sloughs, thereby aiding navigation
and
Whereas, said high island, along the
course of said proposed road, is cover
led by large timber and has only beer
known to overflow twice in thirty years
and
Whereas, the construction of said
road and bridge by the joint action OF
the federal government and the state
| of Wisconsin is highly desirable there
fore,
Resolved: That the Legislature Of
the state of Wisconsin, and the state
Highway Commission be requested tc
forthwith take necessary preliminary
steps looking to the construction OF
said road aad bridge, and that the
road be constructed at once to the
point one thousand feet East of the
font of MAR, rfraaf IF tho eitv nf Ian.