The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20
NINE FEDERAL
ROADS in STATE
Wisconsin to Have Nine In
terstate Federal Roads
Marked in State.
STATE HIGHWAY 81 ONE

Madison Wisconsin will
have nine interstate federal roads
marked by the United States govern
ment with a standard design. The
routes were outlined in a report by
w. C. Hotchkiss of the Wisconsin
highway commission, made public by
F. A. Cannon, executive secretary Of
the Good Roads Association of Wis
consin.
The routes include three north and
south, extending to the Gulf of Mex
leo; four east and west crossing the
state; one northeast and southwest,
and one northwest and southeast.
They were described as follows:
Route Is from northern Michi-
gan through Marinette, Green Bay,
Appleton, Oshkosh and Fond du Lac to
Milwaukee, thence over Route 81 to
the Illinois line and on through Padu-
cab, KY, and Columbus and Meridian,
Miss, to New Orleans. Another
north-south route goes from Milwau-
kee on Route IT through Sheboygan
and Manitowoc to Green Bay.
2-Route 10 from Hurley through
Merrill, Wausau, Stevens Point, Port
age, Madison, GAINESVILLE, Beloit and
on through Bloomington and Cairo,
ILL.,, Memphis, Tenn, and Jackson,
Miss, to New Orleans.
S-Route IL from Superior through
Eau Claire, La Crosse, Viroqua,
thence on Route 81 to Prairie du
CHEN, then on Routes 10 and II
through Lancaster to Dubuque and
down the west side of the Mississippi
river through St. Louis to Natchez,
crossing there and going on to New
Orleans.
4-Beginning at Sault St. Marie,
going through Iron Mountain, Mich,
Florence, Wis, Crystal Falls, Mich,
Hurley and then over Route 10 to
Ashland and Superior, thence west in
to Montana.
5-Route 18 from Manitowoc thru
Appleton, Waupaca, Stevens Point,
Marshfield and Neillsville to join
Route IL near Fairchild. A short cut
off connects Oshkosh with this at
Fremont over Wisconsin route 95.
6--Route 20 from Milwaukee thru
WATERFOWL, Portage, Kilbourn, Maus-
ton, New Libson, Tomah, Sparta, La
Crosse and on to Great Falls, Mon
tana
i7-Route 80 from Milwaukee to
Madison and then on Route 10 thru
Dodgeville to Prairie du Chen and
on west across Iowa.
8-Route IL beginning at Chicago
and going through Lake Geneva, Elk
horn, Whitewater, Fort Atkinson,
Madison, Baraboo, Kilbourn, Maus-
ton, New Lisbon, Tomah, Black River
Falls, Fairchild, Eau Claire, Me-
nominee and HUDSON to st. Paul, and
on to Yellowstone Park and the Paci-
fic coast at Seattle.
9--Route 23 from Dubuque through
Platteville and Mineral Point to
Dodgeville, thence over Route 10 to
Madison and over Route 81 through
Columbus, Beaver Dam, and Waupun
to Fond du Lac.
Wisconsin will have approximately
1000 miles of the interstate federal
marked roads, Mr.. Cannon announced.
They will be marked with the stand
ard design shield which will carry
the name of the state, the letters
"U. s." and the nun Der of the road.
'Tt must be remembered" said Can
non, "that this plan of numbering
United States routes has nothing to
do with federal aid in building the
roads. In Wisconsin all the routes
selected are on the federal aid system,
but of the $500 miles of federal aid
roads only about 1000 miles are in
cluded in those to be numbered as
United States routes. 1t is left to the
option of each state as to whether
they will continue to carry the pres
ent state marking on these United
States highways"