The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-10-07
lists LOCAL WORK.
South State Road Projects
That Are Under Way
EMPLOYS MUCH LABOR
Authority Says Continued Effort
viii Relieve Unemployment
Situation

Charles M. .Babcock, state highway
commissioner now In Washington
serving on President Harding's unem.
ployment conference which had in
doSsed his Proposal for increased fed
eral highway aid to relieve the job.
less and speed needed work this win.
ter, district maintenance 1Superin
tendents throughout the state report
that both construction projects and
maintenance operations are being
pushed on the big seven thousand
mile trunk highway system.
tractors generally are ahead of their
schedules and that hundreds of men
will be laid off late this month and
left jobless unless funds are provided
10 continue operations through. the
winter. lnis situation was lo.seen
the commissioner who is concern.
ing himself with relief measures. Mr.
Babcock was placed with the support
the read employment plan received
dispatches indicate that 1t is being
favorably received in Washington.
Recent rains enabled patrolnlen In
every district to smooth up their sec
lions Of trunk routes and overcome
the effects of continued dry weather
Official markers of trunk routes are
up in nearly all districts and highway
users are praising the brighter vel.
low stars carrying the numbers and
the marking method.
News notes Of highway operations
in tGfs section, furnished through the
district superintendents, follow:
Trunk Highway No. between
Owatonna and Faribault, seven
mile section is being reshaped by a
traitor outfit and soon feet Of trucks
will begin re-graveling 1t. Similar
improvements on the Albert Lea
Owatonna section were started sew
eral months ago.
Trunk Highway No. East of
tract is to be finished late this month.
Trunk Highway No. 9.-West Of
Austin a three mile section is being
resurfaced with gravel w local team
gangs. East of Blue Earth, the TWEEN
ty- one mile gravel surfacing project.
under contract to j. F. Cramer, Is
about one third advanced. A feet
OF twenty two trucks has been opera
ting three and the contractor this
week announced that about Is >addi-
tional trucks would be put on to
Trunk Highway No. 13.-Between
Montgomery and New Prague, a seb-
en- mile gravel surfacfng contract
project is to be finished in about two
weeks.
Near New Prague q tractor outfit
is reshaping the highway and max
ing needed Improvement.
Farihault a four mile job of Grading
and gravel surfacing il nearing com
pletion.
Trunk Highway No. 4O.--South of
Austin the highway is being reshap
ed on a seven mile section, the work
being done by local teams.
Trunk Highway No. 41.--Between
Blooming Prairie and Hayfeld a big
and 0-avel surfacing project
will be finished soon.
Trunk Highway M 60.-Construc-
ton work east Of Madison Lake will
e'ed sooA and the entire
route is rated in good condition.
Trunk Highway No. Sat L.
Sueur, highwater crossing has been
clayed and the gravel surfacing work
started this week. A guard rail is
icing built on this big fill
South OF st. Peter the highway has
oeen scarified toward making 1t
Between Mankato and Vernon Cen.
ter, the Pidgeon Hill section is being
scarified and reshaped
The Le- Sueur- Belle PLANE section
is being gravel surfaced
The kasota bridge has been newly
paved and that between Vernon Cen
ter and Garden City refioored with
oak plank. Other repairs were made
on both structures.
Trunk Highway No. From Man
kato to Madison Lake the big 1921
project is nearly complete.
Trunk Highway No. 9.-Between
Blue Earth and the intersection of
M. T. H. No. thirty nine, gravel sur
facing operations are about one third
advanced.
Trunk Highway No. 15.-From
Faribault north, twelve mile gravel
surfacing job will be started this
week.
Trunk Highway No. 21.-The st.
Peter bridge has been repaved and
otnerwise repaired. the work having
been completed last week.
Trunk Highway No. 39.-From
Mapleton northward, gravel surfacing