The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1922-06-22
RAPID PROCESS
IN CONSTRUCTION
)f Highways is Shown by Bulletin
Issued This Week by State
Highway Department.
IRONING OUT THE ROADS

lRONlNO OOl LIE NOADO
Extensive improvements Being Made
Throughout State Under the
Heavy Tourist Travel.
Trunk highway operation to ade-1
ouatcly maintain Minnesota's 1000
mile primary road system under the
grind of record traffic and to extend
permanent betterments as fast as cur
tailed funds will permit are summar-
lied in bulletin this week from the
state highway department. 1t covers
the entire state, shows that highway
dollars are being stretched to take adj
vantage of unusually favorable costs
and other advantages, and indicates
that every section is sharing in bene-
fits.
The bulletin follows general reports,
that tourist travel now is the heaviest
in state annals-that Minnesota al
ready is beginning to get.~1ndlrect
profits from good roads in greatly In
creased measure. Car owners are be-
ginning to profit through savings on
car upkeep, gasoline and tires in ex-
cess of taxes paid. Every rural locali-
ty is beginning to benefit and to see
the earlier advent of all season high
ways, md every city and town is en-
ioying increasing prosperity from
tourist travel which is filling camps
and resorts.
Highway Commissioner Babcock
comments briefly on the results sup
porting good road claims. "Other
states, like Minnesota" he says, "are
realizing more and more that a good
road pays for itself, and, if this state
is to maintain it's advanced position,
GOOD roads advocates must give en-
thusiastic support to continuation OF
the program along broader lines. 1t
is only good business to speed plans to
get the biggest measure of profits"
How the highway forces are work
ing to keep the routes smooth under
the test of unprecedented traffic and
to build maximum new improvements
in spite of curtailed funds is shown in
reports from 16 maintenance districts.
Items for this section include the fol-
lowing:
District Seven.
New pavement on trunk highway
No. 81 in this district is being fl
nanced by counties, and state funds
are being used for many other high
way betterments. A brief sumup:
! Trunk Highway No. 3-The Big
Lake-St. Cloud pavement has received
} needed care. First-season expansion
openings following severe winter
have been filled with tar. Washouts
on shoulders Of fine material, easily
affected by storm water, have been re-
; paired and the shoulders seeded to get
heavy sod to prevent recurrence OF
the trouble. On the St. Cloud-Sauk
Center section highway bridges are
being repaired by contract and re,
painted and, during progress of the
: work, detour must be maintained or
the west side of the Sank river for 6
short time.
Trunk Highway No. NORTH Of
: Greenwald the bridge will be repaired
5 under recently awarded contract.
Trunk Highway No. 18-From Ell
River to Garrison this route now i:
almost entirely gravel-surfaced ant
patrolmen working since early spring
have made it rural boulevard, hare
and smooth, except the piece south O.
Zimmerman, which is newly surfaced
The gravel on the latter section, be
: coming wavy as it packed, is being
: smoothed with tractor and plane. Z
t large crew is soon to be put on t.
: gravel the remaining two miles. Eff
0 forts to drain Cartwheel marsh are be
:. ing continued.
e Trunk Highway No. 23-Betwee7
I st. Cloud and Foley progress is bein'
g made on big grading operations. Eas
q Of Milaca the bridge is being repaire'
and a short detour carries traffi
e around.
Trunk Highway No. 27-On the ST
Z Cloud-Little Falls section the big paw
ing project is rapidly going forward
One contractor brought the state
. longest continuous pavement into Eas
> St. Cloud last week and another sew
eral days earlier finished the section
= extending on to Sank Rapids. Ais
sections near Rice are built and on
. mixing plant has been moved to Roy
|alton. Local expectations are that
pavement from Royalton to St. Pau
will carry state fair visitors this yeal
:. The St. Cloud-Little Falls detou
e on the west side of the river is bein
provided with special maintenance an
more permanently marked.
Trunk Highway No. 28-Betwee
It Swanville and Grey Eagle the rout
g is being gravel surfaced by contrac
Ie On the Little Falls-Swanville sectio
J. a tractor crew is scarifying an
h smoothing the road and improving til