Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-01-11

The report of the County State
Road and Bridge Committee and
County Highway Commissioner was
presented in printed form by MI.
Mink On suggestion of the chairman
action was deferred to a future ses-
sion. 1t is as follows:
To the Board of Supervisors of
Grant County, Wisconsin:
Gentlemen
We the County State Road and
Bridge Committee of Grant County
hereby submit for your consideration
our Annual Report for the year 1921.
On Nov. II, 1920 the committee and
the County Highway Commissioner,
met with the State Highway Commits
sion representative at the city hall,
City of BoscObel for the purpose OF
letting contract for new floor on
the Boscobel Slough Bridge on State
Trunk Line number 80. We award
ed the contract to VIM. Mcmahon for
putting on the steel joists for the sum
of $3,248.00, he being the lowest and
best bidder. We purchased the lum-
Der and nails from the Ternes Land
Company of Dubuque, Iowa, consist
ing of $4,000 feet of 2x6s and 1000 lbs.
spikes for the sum of SLIGO f. o. b.
Boscobel. We had same put on by
day labor.
On Dec 3, 1920 we met at the Court
House in the City Of Lancaster for
the purpose of organizing and other
business. A E. Rundell was elected
Chairman and M. w. MetcaIf, Vice
Chairman and John Kelley Secretary,
for the ensuing year. We examined
the proposed Patrol Sections and
made a few changes on the State
Trunk Line We then took up the
County Trunk Line and adopted same
IS marked on the map. We viewed
several proposed sites for the ma
chinery shed we proposed to build for
the storage OF Grant County's Road
Machinery We instructed Mr.. Mink
to get prices from the owners of the
different sites and report at our next
meeting.
We also instructed Mr.. Mink to adj
vertise for bids for machinery for Pa
trolmen and to report at our next
meeting to be held Dec. 21st, 1921.
We met at the Office of the Co.
Highway Commissioner on Dec. 81,
1920 for the purpose of taking bids
and purchasing machinery for road
work. A total of 10 bids were re-
ceived.
1t was decided to buy machinery as
follows.
Mortified Iron Co, 6 road
drags, 3 blades @--------$ 1890
w. A. Liljequist, road
drags a ----------------- 15.00
w. E. Clifford, IL slip scrap
ers a ----------------- 11.36
Fischer & Pagenkopf, II, II
in. blows a --- 1900
Baxter & Draper, small tools $500
Russell Grader Co., IL patrol
graders with extra blades
and / Russell Reliance 10
it. blade with an extra
blade for total of -----S2,775.00
A Caterpillar Monarch TTac
tor OF the Monarch Tractor
Co. for ------------------$ $50. 90
We arranged for purchase Of lot
80 it. wide and 120 it. deep at $7.25
per front foot, from the Interstate
Oil Co, wheron to erect the County
Road Machinery building.
On Dec. % contracted with "a pa
trolmen for State Trunk Line Roads
at the rate of $4,000 per month for
new men and $155.00 per month of
old men.
Met Jan. 20 at the County Highway
Commissioners Office for the purpose
of receiving bids on Road Oil and
purchasing the necessary amount for
the year 1921.
We contracted with the Camden
Petroleum Company for One hundred
and twenty-five thousand Gals G25,-
000) of 1880 Asphaltic content at &c
per gallon (Which price was subse-
quently reduced) to TIC. Author
lied Commissioner Mink to purchase
10 feet frontage additional ground for
the Machinery shed, also authorized
the purchase of a bar cutter for the
County.
On March 23rd, 1921 we met at
City of Lancaster, Grant Co., we went
out to view the machine shed site we
had recently purchased, and decided
on the building of a fire proof build
ing. We appointed John Kelley to
get prices on building material and
get plans for a suitable building and
report at our next meeting
We met on April 8, 1921 and con-
tracted with Mr. Cartwright for the
erection of a work shop and ma
chine shed for the sum of six thous-
and dollars ($6,000) according to
plans and specifications. The work
shop we built 30x40 one and a half
stories, and the shed 24X76, one story.
The walls are of Glazed tile, floor
cement and with a composition roof.
Mr.. Louis Vesperman was appoint
ed by the committee to oversee the
work
We spotted about $500 on the John
Hunt hill and the balance of the
joint fund now in the County treas
ury we spotted on the Livingston
Animation Road The above money
was to the credit of the Town of Cliff
ton. We also spotted S34S.72 on the
Cuba City-Dubuque road. We spotted
$927.54 on the Hazel Green-Dubuque
road.
Mr.. Mink was authorized to over
draw the account of Bloomington for
the purpose of carrying on the work
in that town. Business men of the
Village of Bloomington agreed to do
nate $1,600.00 per mile for each mile
Of road completed on the Glen Haven
Bloomington road.