Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-05-05
ROAD SCHOOL
WELL ATTENDED
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to be discontinued entirely, so that the
for any more funds. He gave the
costs of the several projects in the
county, when completed, the aggregate
amounting to S229,575, of which the
county pays one-third. Mr.. Mclean
said our present state highway law
does not operate fairly UP in this part
of the state, but does in the southern
part, where the territory is more thick
ly populated He expressed the hope
that the next legislature will give us
law that will relieve us from por-
ton OF the state aid which we now
have to contribute.
Mr.. Summerville interpOsed the state
ment that the county boards hands are
tied on the Bruce-Ladysmith project
and that the board was compelled by
the state law to pay its share under
the unfair provisions of the statutes.
He thought that the men who use the
roads most should pay most, therefore
he is in favor of wheel tax, gaso-
line tax, or some other means to raise
portion of the money needed to build
and maintain roads.
DEPRESSING from the subject of fed
eral aid and federal control, the Su-
perior engineer, in touching on high
way maintenance, said that the six
inch crown is the ideal to be aimed at
in maintenance; the nearly level road
is the best, even if it is a clay road.
The high crown was at one time the
aim of the road maker, because they
thought it was necessary for proper
drainage, but since the drainage ques-
tion is better understood and better
provided for, the more nearly level
road is now recognized as the more
suitable and more easily maintained
in good condition. He said that in his
first experience in road making he
had made the mistake of producing the
high-crowned road, which is hard to
travel and which tends to wear out
quickly in the center and consequent
rapid deterioration, where most of the
travel comes, instead of distributing
the travel to both sides of the highway,
as it should 1.-The nearly fiat road is
no longer a theory" he said; ''it has
proven to be the best; the travel
spreads out over the whole road using
it evenly, and thereby preventing con-
slant wear in one place"
After Highway Commissioner Koch
Ter had spoken on What Will Be Ex-
pected of Patrolmen in 1922" FL. w.
True directed a talk especially to the
patrolmen on their reports and duties,
in such clear and succinct way that
the most inexperienced could grasp
his meaning. Then he went into de-
tail on some of the problems which
come up between patrolmen and land
owners who are improving lands adj
jacent to the roads. He made specific
mention of the matter of the DISPOSE
ton Of the stones found in the road
and cited a case in point which had
occurred the day before. Trouble had
arisen between a farmer and pa
trolman. The farmer claimed the pa
trolman had thrown stones from the
road onto his land, and he retaliated
by throwing them back into the road
ditch, which made extra work for
both. Mr.. True had Strengthened the
matter out by explaining that the pub
lie highway occupies a width of four
rods and that the farmer has no right
to throw stone onto this area neither
has the patrolmen right to toss the
stones over the line onto the farmers
land, but that the stones can be piled
outside the grade ditch, used as foun-
dation in swamp, or used in the road
inself where it is feasible to do so,
such as making the foundation along
the edge of a grade in a naturally wet
spot, in the case of large stones, or in
other places in the road in case of
small stones.
The Public View
l.. G. Streater had been invited to
speak on "The Maintenance of High
ways AS the Public Sees IT, AS Mr..
Streater is a more or less enthusiastic
motOrist and clear and logical speak
er, as well, his talk was both inter-
esting and instructive, and was given
the closest attention, especially by the
patrolmen, and no doubt some sugges-
tons were put forth that will be of
benefit to the men whose business it
is to keep the roads in repair, and al
so to the travelling public. He con-
cluded his address with funny dar-
key story which he had recently
"smuggled'' from the south, to clinch
point leaving his audience in the
best of humOr.
w. M. Sherlock, division main
tenance engineer, Superior, spoke on
the maintenance of state trunk high
ways, and toward the close of the
school both Mr. Sherlock and Mr.. Nc
Lean answered any questions that puz-
zled patrolmen and others concerning
road matters. From the standpoint
of the layman, at least, the sessions
seemed to be instructive and profitable.
Talk ON T.. b. Test
DR. FIiaSOn of tha state veterinary