The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1922-11-16
IMPROVE MANY
COUNTY ROADS
Wonderful Progress Has Been Made
in Road Construction in North
ern Section of County.
MONEY IS SPENT WISELY
Bridge on Judicial Road East of
Princeton Has Been Repaired
so It is in Good Condition..

publicity that the people of even our
county may lose sight Of the fact that
much work is being done on a network
of other roads.
The two roads in Mile Laos county
included in the trunk highway sys-
TEN are No. 10 and No. %. No. 10
is the Scenic highway and that portion
Of it in Mile Laos county is SIS
miles in length. It runs north to
Onamia and follows the west shore of
Mile Laos lake to Grow Wing county.
No. % runs across the county diagon-
ally, passing through Foreston, Milaca
and the township of Borgholm. It is
1873 miles in length. The state
highway department is entirely re-
sponsible for the maintenance of these
two roads, The money that is spent
in keeping them in good condition
comes from the state trunk highway
fund, not from the county.
There are in this county, sections of
six state roads. The total length of
these sections is IS miles. The coun-
ty, through it's engineer and board of
commissioners, constructs and main
tains these state roads But if the
roads are built according to certain
specifications laid down by the state
highway department, the state re-
funds to the county 70 cents on every
dollar. On four of these six state
roads the county this year spent $780,
07S and $1S,255 was refunded by the
state. Besides this the county re-
ceived from the state during the first
six montl,s Of this year $4,436.41 for
maintenance of the state roads.
Each commissioner is allotted GER
tain amount Of money to spend on the
roads in his district. AS there are
generally more calls for improvements
and construction than can be met with
the funds available, the commission
ers have adopted the practice Of work
ing through the various town boards
in their districts. This method has
proved very satisfactory during the
past year. What good results have
been achieved will be apparent by
considering the work that has been
accomplished in our own district,
No. 1.
Much has been done on state road
No. 4, the Princeton-C Cambridge high
way. That portion of it between the
village and the Holthus corner has
been repaired with clay and gravel.
The half mile extending east from the
Holthus corner to Ernest Byers' house
has been claycd and graveled. From
William Bullford's to Louis Rust's
corner the road has been built and
graded according to the specifications
of the state.
The second largest road project in
this district was the improvement of
the judicial road which lies on the
southern boundary of the county and
east of the village. The quarter of
mile just west of the bridge has
been graded and portion of it has
been graveled. In some places it was
necessary to fill in as much as II feet.
The bridge over the river, which was
for several years unsafe, has been re-
paired and is now in excellent condi-
ton. TWenty-four feet have been
added to it's span, making it 174 feet
long. About $50 feet of retaining
wall have been put in the embankment
on the west side and 80 feet on the
east side. Improving the judicial road
and repairing the bridge has not cost
the county any great amount of mon
ely, only approximately 81 500. The
farmers in Wyanett and the territory
cast of the bridge donated $500 in
their own work and the work of their
teams. The townships of Princeton
and Baldwin each donated $500.
Princeton village gave 1886 and Sher-
burne county contributed $1,000. 1t
was most encouraging to those direct
ing the project to find that all par
ties Interested were willing to con-
tribute SO generously.
On state road No. west of Prince
ton village q stretch of mile and a
half running to the Lyle Buck farm
has been clayed and graveled.
Working on a $3.50 basis Fred New
ton, as representative of the first
commissioner district, and the town
board of Princeton have improved
what are known as the Sadley road
the Lowell road and the road by the
Sellhorn bridge. On the line between
Princeton and Bogus Brook townships
a good road has been built from the
Scenic highway to the river.
On the line between Bogus Brook
and Princeton townships mile and a
half connecting Long Siding with the
Scenic highway has been graded and
gravel-surfaced.
Besides standing half the expense of
improving this road, the following
work has been done in the third com
missioner district State road No. 1
which is connecting link between the
Scenic highway, No. 10, and trunk
highway No. 20 at Book, has been