The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-01-19
BROWN COUNTY ROADS.
Total Amount Spent During Last
Year Was $45, 387.85.

| county spent $45,387.85 on a total
mileage OF 118 miles Of state roads
in the county during the past year,
/ according to a report read by State
Highway Engineer C. N. Robertson
before the county commissioners.
The report was comprehensive and
/ detailed in every particular. 1t COW
cred period OF eight years, COM
mencing with 1915 and ending with
state road from Ii 10 l and the ex-
penditures each year. of the eight,
as we'll as the total during this per-
iod, was given.
! The total moneys expended on
the fourteen state roads in Brown
county during the eight years is
nearly half million dollars, to be
exact. S490,619.69. The total for each
road is as follows: No. l Trunk
Highway No, 7, passing through the
county west via Sleepy Eye and
Springfield. $120,44S.55; No. 2,
Trunk Highway No. Is from New
Ulm south through Searles and Lin
den township, $4S.784.67; No. 3,
from New Ulm to Hanska, and on
south, S38,617.S3; No. 4, Trunk
north through Home township into
Nicollet and Renville counties, $19,-
179. 81; No 5, from Sleepy Eye
south through Stark and Albin
townships, $34,922.14; No. 6, which
leads from Sleepy Eye north through
PrairieVille and Eden townships in
to Renville county, $42 ,403.41; No. 7,
from Trunk Highway No. z between
Sleepy Eye and Golden north to
Evan, $15,770.57; No. s, from Spring
field to Comfrey, $37.977.62; No. 8,
from Springfield south to county
line, six miles west of Comfrey,
S34,S422.35; No. 10, along south
/ boundary of county from west end
to five miles east of Comfrey where
1t joins mo. IL, $28,6SS.03; No: II.
runs east from where it joins No. 5
through Albin and Lake Hanska
No. IL, passes through Mulligan and
Eeavenworth townships from the
south, and joins Trunk Highway No.
Z, betw cen Golden and Sleepy Eye,
| S43,126.94; No. Is, leaves Trunk
Highway No. three miles west OF
Springfield and runs north through
North Star to county line into Red
wood county, $659.26; No. IA, joins
Nos. IL and 5, is six miles long and
! is a mile north of the county line
on the south, S2,S22.1S.
! The total expenditures during the
: past year for the different roads
are as follows: No. l. $56s.68: No.
2, nothing; No. 3, $2190.74; No. 4,
nothing; No, s; $ s. ~ No. No g.
s2,5s5.s5; No. 9. $4s2l2SS; No. 19'
SSS24.S3: No. 10, $659.26; No. IA,
s2,S22.1S. The total for the past year
is. s45,3S7 8. No Improvements were
made on roads 10 and Ia until the
, past year. The total for the other
years, beginning with 1915. is as
! follows: 1915, s49.749.91; 1915, $62,-
Oh; 1917, $3S.5s4.25; 1913, $55'-
S72.26; 1919, $s9,22702; 1920, $685.
9S6.17 and 1921, $40.0S7.40.
I tt ere is total Of 779.7 miles of
township roads in the county, ex-
elusive of 81 miles of Trunk High
ways and 1882 miles of state roads.
! OF the trunk highways 49.5 miles
are graded and grayeled and lip
miles are graded but not graVeied.
Seventy seven and six tenths miles
of the state roads are graded and
travelled: 27.5 miles graded, but not
graveled and 13 miles unimproved.
al the total of ITO? miles of town
roads, 1875 miles are graded and
graveled; 243.5 mics graded but not
Travelled and 1861 miles, unim-
proved. .oo oco =,
During the past year $2S,S69.7l
has been expended on the township
roads in graveling operations and
s63 .467.41 in grading, together with
| s7,937.13 in dragging, a total or
siO0, 274.25. This added to $45,SS7 30
expended by the county on state
roads during thep asst year makes
/ total of $145,662.10 expended IN
! Brown county on state and to"n-
ship roads.
roads for the past five years was
ISL l63. 80. The grading cost for the
same period was $147,711.34. A TO-
tai of s36,376.S3 was expended Tor
! dragging town roads during the
same period. .oo, =.
county aid to the several townships
during the past year to assist In
road operations. -
Highway Engineer Robertson has
mo details as to the expenditures
made by the state of Minnesota on
the Trunk Highways during the
past year. .,
The funds to pay for the expendi.
tires on township roads are raised
by the several townships through
direct taxation with the addition OF
county assistance. Moneys expeno
ed on state roads in the country are
also raised by direct taxation.
PENHEITER WAS FREED