The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-08-07
Roads Which Lead Into
Morgan Are Being GraUeled
Four State Roads Will be Grav-
eled While East Road Will Be
s'Patched" Near Town

Patcne0 near 1OWn
Monday morning work was started
on crawling the south state road
which was reconstructed by coun-
ty crew this summer for distance OF
two miles from Morgan. A heavy
coat of gravel is being put on this
piece of road the same as on new
piece of road. The crawling was
commenced at the Hilger farm q
quarter of mile south of the new
construction.
VIM. Schottenbauer, now of Red
wood Falls, has the contract. There
are about ten trucks on the job. The
gravel is being hauled from the Nc
Gowan pit six anda half miles north
of town, on the east side of the road.
The pit has been opened up east of
the old pit, MIR. Schottenbauer has
a large loading outfit and the neces-
sary boarding and sleeping hunks.
The gravel is being spread by Pat
rolman John knudsen as fast as it
is hauled so that traffic is not inter-
ferred with while the crawling is go
ing on, which is in contrast with the
system used years ago, when it was
necessary to detour around road
being graveled.
When the surfacing has been COM
pleted the piece of road to the south
of Morgan will be a first class job.
There is a high grade, well drained,
and fine system of approaches has
been built for the sideroads and far
mers' driveways.
graveled near Morgan while the east
road will get the benefit of some gra-
vel patch work.
Starting about a half mile out of
town the track road will be graveled
for two miles.
Altogether there will be eleven
miles of crawling done in this COM
munity by the county, County Engin-
eer ]. j. Idzorek informed The Mes
senger Monday. He estimates that
it will take about two weeks to finish
the Morgan work. The VIM. Schot-
tenbauer crew will handle all of the
work hereabouts. w. A. Duea of
Redwood Falls is the checker on the
jobs.
While a heavy coat is being put on
the south road maintenance coat"
will be put on the other four roads.
Instead of waiting until the surface
is entirely worn out and then putting
on heavy coat of gravel, Mr.. Idzo-
rex states that it is better custom to
put on lighter coat and gravel more
frequently.
The people of the Morgan commu-
nifty will be pleased to known of the
road improvement underway in this
vicinity.
Speaking of the town line road
west of Morgan-the one between
Sherman and Paxton, Morgan and
Three Lakes and Brookville and Sun
down the county engineer predicts
that it will be designated as coun-
ty aid road under the new road law
if the gas tax money is Forthcoming
to Redwood county as anticipated.
The first payments should come in the
treasury about August tenth. Unless
the matter is help up on Wednesday,
August 21st, the county board and
representative from each of the six
boards of supervisors appointed for
that purpose will go over the entire
road and ascertain the condition of
the road in each township so that
proportion Of cost of putting the road
each township can be charged with it's
in shape. Some portions of the road
have been kept up in fairly good
shape while others have been neg
lected. Under the new law for the
expenditure of gas tax funds the
county pays the lions share of the
cost of constructing and maintaining
a county aid road but the township
must pay a certain share also. 1t is
for the purpose of arriving at some
definite agreement in that regard that
the inspection of the road will be
made August 21st.-Morgan Messen-
ger.