Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-01-04
STATE ROADS
REMEMBERED
Engineers Solve Jig Saw
Puzzle in Consolidating
Trunk Routes.
Pine County Now Has 95
Miles of II, 800 Miles in
Trunk System.

Engineers of the Minnesota high
way department have just pieced to-
gether the states biggest jig-saw
puzzle.
Handed 140 new state trunk routes
covering $500 miles of roads, the
Highway department undertook the
task of co-ordinating and CONSOLIDATE
ing the new mileage with $500 miles
of the original trunk system made up
of II state routes and 16 U. S. routes.
Out of this total of 227 different
routes, the department has laid out
a consolidated state trunk system of
125 routes covering 1890 miles Of
highways. The result is radically
changed state highway map which
will go into effect in the early spring
of 1894 when the new route signs
have been put in place.
Now SnOw.PlOwed.
In the last regular session of the
Minnesota Legislature 95 miles of
Pine county roads were added to the
state trunk road system and thus
removed from local expense in con-
struction and maintenance. Previous
to 1888 there were but two trunk
highways in the cOunty-No. l and
No. 90. Now there are six trunk
highways which are kept open win
ter and summer alike. The fact that
these trunk highways are being snow
plowed is much appreciated by citi-
zens of the county, especially this
winter when they have the first OPP
pOrtunity to use most of the roads.
The trunk highways in Pine county
as remembered will now be known
as Nos. %, As, 50, 81, 70, and 107.
T. H. No. 90 serves Brook Park,
Hinckley, Sandstone, Askov, Bruno,
Kerrick, Duquette, and Nickerson.
The highway starts at Benson in the
western part of the state and is routed
through Paynesville, st. Cloud, Mi
laca, Mora and on through Pine
county to Duluth. From Sandstone
through Askov and the other COM
munities northeast to Duluth it was
known as T. H. No. 1875. Through
the remembering of most of the high
ways out over the state by the Min
nesota Highway department No. 1855
became an extension of No. %. Where
No. % joins the pavement south of
Hinckley it follows that route up
through Sandstone village and then
goes on northeast toward Duluth.
To Wisconsin Line.
T. H. No. As is the route from
Hinckley to the Wisconsin line near
Danbury where it connects with Wis
consin highways Nos. 1872 and So.
This Hinckley-Danbury road, T. H.
As, was known as T. H. 1872.
T. H. No. 50 is the route from Askov
across Kettle river over the new
bridge and on through FinlaysOn vii
lage, through Aitkin county to Isle in
Mile Laos county on the shores of
Mile Laos lake which is often re-
ferred to as an inland sea. T. H. 80
was formerly T. H. 1S6.
T. H. No. 81 which has been known
as T. H. 1, is the pavement which
serves the Pine county communities
of Rock Creek, Pine City, Beroun,
Hinckley, Friesland, Sandstone, Rut-
ledge, Willow River and Sturgeon
Lake. and is routed on to Duluth and
the Canadian border.
T. H. No 20 commences at T. H.
IS near Braham, which was formerly
T. H. 5 and is routed through Royal
ton and Rock Creek townships to the
Grantsburg bridge on the Wisconsin
Minnesota line, connecting with high
way No. 20 in the state of Wisconsin.
The Braham-G rantsburg road, T. H.
20, was formerly T. H. 1913.
T. H. No. 107 is the shortest Pine
county trunk road. 1t leads from
near Grasston on T. H. IS, formerly
T. H. 5, on the county line between
Pine and Kanabec counties. to Hen
riette and on to T. H. %, at or near
Brook Park village. The Grasston-
Henriette-Brook Park road, T. H. 107,
was formerly T. H. 1874.
In announcing completion of the
REMEMBERING plan for the enlarged
trunk system, the Highway depart
ment also announced that the entire
$500 miles of new routes were Of
ficially taken into the state system
I'm the last week of December. Addi-
; tion of the roads to the trunk system
was authorized by the regular session
: of the 1888 legislature, but lack of
:, funds prevented the Highway depart
: ment from taking over the routes
until now, it was explained by N. W..
: Elsberg, highway commissioner.
From now on" said Mr.. Elsberg,
1.-The entire 1890 miles of trunk
routes will be maintained and i'm
r proved by the state from the pro-
ceeds of motor vehicle license fees
q and the state gas tax. No real estate
or personal property taxes are levied
for state roads The increase of an