Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-07-19
HIGHWAY NEWS OF
THE NINTH DIVISION
(Thos. Kelley, Dist. Engineer.)

(Thos. Kelley, Dist. Engineer.)
We have at the present time eleven
Federal aid jobs under construction
in Division 8, which comprise, Craw-
ford, Grant Iowa, Lafayette, and
RichIand counties, and we are prepar-
ing plans at the present time for the
Richland -Viroqua road, the
Argyle-Lamont road and the Mineral
Point-Darlington road.
1t is our intention to have COM
pleted road between Dubuque and
Madison via Hazel Green, Shullsburg,
Darlington, Mineral Point and Dodge
Vile by the end Of the year.
OF the jobs mentioned in the first
paragraph, six of these are on this
route commencing at the Two Mile
House in Grant county. Jake Udel-
hofen is nearing completion on the
grading of three miles and when this
grading is completed, Grant county
intends to surface this road with mine
tailings from Hazel Green. This has
become possible by the help of bust
ness men in Dubuque, who have do
mated freely to get this road COM
pleted.
We are at present completing the
plans for the portion OF State Trunk
Highway No. G. in Iowa county, south
of Mineral Point and when plans are
completed the contract will be let for
the three miles Immediately south Of
Mineral Point, and this job will then
be graded and surfaced. Iowa cOun-
ty intends to grade and surface about
q mile and a half north of the Iowa
Lafayette county line on State Trunk
Highway No g. This will complete
No 81 in Iowa county.
Immediately north of Mineral Point
on the State Trunk Highway No. 28,
Jones and Hughes of Dodgeyille are
busy completing the grading and the
contract has been let for the surfac-
ing of this project with crushed rock
to the Iowa County Construction COM
pany of Mifin. Iowa county has COM
pIeted the grading from a point four
miles north of Mineral Point to
Dodgeville and have the greater por-
ton of this covered with crushed
rock. Between Dodgeville and Blue
Mounds the contract has been let for
the surfacing and the first course OF
tailings has already been placed be-
tween RidgeWay and Blue Mounds
and within the near future the tail
ings will be placed between Dodge
Vile and Ridgeway.
Lafayette county have commenced
grading on State Trunk Highway No.
81, beginning two miles north OF OAR
lington and will grade toward Mineral
Point to the Lafayette county line.
Bids were opened last week for the
surfacing OF this portion with either
mine tailings or crushed rock, but
Cnly one bid was received and this
was considered too high. Bids Will
again be taken on this portion around
the first OF August. The Lafayette
County, State and Bridge Committee
have succeeded in getting the sigma
ture of majority Of the Lafayette
County Board. which allows us to let
the contract for the two miles immed-
lately north OF Darlington to MI. Viii
lam McGavock, and work viii COM
mence on this, both grading and sur
facing, in the very near future.
The grading OF State Trunk High
vay No. 81 south OF Darlington, is all
completed except for three miles on
the south end and when this is COM
pleted we will advertise for bids for
five miles OF surfacing either with
creek gravel, mine tailings or crushed
rock. This will complete the surface
road between Dubuque and Madison.
1t would have been possible to have
completed q surfaced road this year
bv way of Hazel Green, Plattevllle,
Livingston, Montfort and DOdgeVllle,
but there is six miles Of unsurtaced
road between Arthur and PlatteVllle
for which no funds are available and
as funds were available for the other
route we hope to have the route
through Darlington and Mineral Point
completed by late fall.