Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1925-08-22
Hurley on Interstate
Federal Highway
Roads Will Be Marked by the United
States Government With
Standard Design.

Observation-Disclosures will have nine
interstate federal roads marked by
the United States government 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 Wisconsin.
The routes include three north and
south, extending to the Gulf of Mexi-
co; four east and west, crossing the
state; one northeast and southwest,
and one northwest and southeast.
They We're described as follows:
Route 10 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
Paducah, Ky, and Columbus and
Meridian, Mass, to New Orleans.
Another north-south route goes from
Milwaukee on Route II through She
boygan and Manitowoc to Green Bay.
Route 10 from Hurley through
Merrill, Wausau, Stevens Point,
Portage, Madison, GAINESVILLE, Beloit,
and on through Bloomington and
Cairo, HIS, Memphis, Tenn, and
Jackson, Miss, to New Orleans.
3-Route II from Superior through
Eau Claire. La Crosse, Viroqua,
thence on Route 81 to Prairie du
Chen, then on Routes 10 and IL
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.
1-Beginning at Sault Ste. Marie,
going through Iron Mountain Mich,
/ Florence, Wis, Crystal Falls, Mich,
Hurley and then over Route 10 to
Ashland and Superior, thence west
into Montana.
5-Route 1S from Manitowoc
through Appleton, Waupaca, Stevens
Point, Marshfield and Neillsville to
join Route II near Fairchild, short
cutoff connects Oshkosh with this
at Fremont over Wisconsin route 90.
G@Route 20 from Milwaukee
through Watertown, Portage, Kill
bourn Mauston, New Lisbon, Tomah.
Sparta, La Crosse, and on to Great
Falls. Montana.
Route 30 from Milwaukee to
Madison and then on Route 10
through Dodgeville to Prairie du
Chen and on west across Iowa
S-Route IL beginning at Chicago
and going through Lake Geneva, Elk
horn, Whitewater. Fort Atkinson,
Madison, Baraboo, Kiibourn, Maus-
ton, New Lisbon, Tomah, Black
River Falls, Fairchild, Eau Claire,
/ Menomonie, and Hudson to st. Paul
and on to Yellowstone Park and the
Pacific coast at Seattle
Route 20 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 viii have approximately
1000 miles Of the interstate federal
marked roads, Mr. Cannon announc-
ed. They will be marked with the
standard design-a shield which will
carry the name Of the state, the
letters u S. and the number of the
road
+ 1t must be remembered said
Mr. Cannon, that this plan of num-
boring United States routes has
nothing to do with federal aid in
building the roads In Wisconsin all
4 the routes selected are on the federal
aid system, but of the $500 miles Of
federal aid roads only about 1000
miles are included in those to be
numbered as United States routes.
It is left to the option of each state
as to whether they will continue to
carry the present state marking on
these United States highways"