The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1922-02-16
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perfected working Organization Ii ittiio will
strive to equal and even excel the in
j .titial, year showing Mr. Mullen referrex
P Comnnissicner Babcocks intimatioi
That only another year Of progress u1
to the schedule will afford the public
a. fair rdbasis for estimating resultst tt
besoderiueds from Minnesota'sl new
highway development plan-s<:;
.stELoead Roads Get Host
The 1921 state trunk highway funt:
of r$$12,556, ,82l. 70: represented $685..
1880 of motor vehicles tax revenue,
$784ojoeo of federal highway aid and
i$45 510e,4o8.19 of proceeds from county
reimbursement bond sales. -: '
The remaining $6,764, Ais. OF used
under, the direction Of the state
highway department was part of tn
year, for local roads-other than
trunk highways. The large sum for
Fcounty town road work was made up
according to the state auditors alb
stract,; of $1o,843,682 of county
$685. $50 of tow wnship and $1,308,79
Of small city and village road an6
bridge funds and of .$2,OS4,287 ot
state aid. With more than twice
as much money provided for local
road purposes as for trunk route bet
terments, Commissioner Babcock is
moving to insure maximum benefits
from expenditures on the secondary
as. we'll as the primary highways.
d., Graphs Divide Dollars.
Graphs showing from where the
average good roads dollars came and
how it was used is another feature
Of review. One graph shows that
the average roads dollar is made up
of So cents of road and bridge taz
funds, used on local roads, and II
| cents of motor vehicle taxes, cents
of federal aid and IL cents of county
reimbursement bond money-th&
three trunk fund sources Of revenue6
Another picture how So cents of the
average trunk dollax~ went for new
I administration expense.
| Trunk system construction figures
compiled by o. L. Kipp, chief con
Istruction engineer, total $l0,342,594
of, expenditures and many accom-
;phshmeht items run into millions
EConstruction outfits during the yea
4 moved 1891 1856. cubic yards of dir
land gravel Dumped in huge con
tainer covering an average city bloc]
/ 300 feet square with perpendicula
4 walls, the yardage would tower near
lily 2,70O feet or more than a half 4,
mile high, Mr.. Kipp added, by Civ
1 ing an idea of the tremendous volume
7 handled. Paving built on trunl
I routes in 1921 would cover 80 city
! Blocks, each. 300 feet square, or sur
! face 66-foot city street more thar
100 blocks. in length. >
E Main Work Permanent
f"''Of the average dollar used for new
construction on trunk routes, Mr.
Kipp's report, discloses, 40 cents
went into permanent grades to make
>lastings foundations for highway sur
facing that, future traffic may de-
smand, II cents into gravel surfacing
I and 2675 cents into paving and the
| remaining 1914 cents for many mis-
cellaneous items. The paving item
carries an explanation that about 1s
per cent Of the trunk highway con-
struction fund was used for paving
and; that; the 1921 paving mileage
was abnormally high due to the paw
ing. added by counties with reimburse
ment bond money 80. n
1"1Average mile costs of grading, and
graveling run higher on state than
ion county work, and this is due, Mr..
Kipp said to the fact that trunk