Show sTAYs SAYS COUNTY 1 t ROADS SliGHTED Road Commissioner Holmberg Holm Holm- i berg lakes Makes Plea for Funds f. f to Prosecute Repairs X SA SAYS YS MONEY l DIVERTED r A Administration s Using Funds for O Other ler p Purposes loses While County Roads Neglected Although It has spent so o much money for tor nr various purposes ts that It has not sufficient funds to moot its In In- In now to tho state road commis- commis according ng to I its ta own statement t Hon cion hi present Democratic Progressive the county administration has left leet the tho count roa roads s in an Impassable condi condl- con condition lI l- l declares G G. W V. Holmberg g county count tion I road commissioner in lit a n letter filed yesterday esterday with tho count county commission commis- commis slow sion While the present administration has been Men diverting from road purposes ose funds to tho amount of or a as asIt ast It has admitted bridges washed out outI I t r I have O va been for tor and 8 several erol f carts of oC the tho count county have been isolated declares declare M Mr r. r Ho Ito asks f for 1101 maintenance of oC those roads during P the winter months No action was wn wasi wast L t I i t taken ov ken n by the commission on his letter letI let- let I I ter dated October 20 which is as nR folI fol- fol I 0 os On October 12 13 2 n a letter was mailed to tn each road deputy stating stating- that ow- ow I Into to the financial condition of the tho county the board of county count commissioners commis I had instructed me mo that no nomore nomore 1 more more road work worle could be dorm done f I I wish to En say to your our honorable body bod that there thero Is need of repair In almost every district some roads and some Ome bridges These The e could bo ho done now non at a vcr very small expense and if it allowed to go without repair will wili cost a i gro groat t deal of or mon y later latel to lit them We have some ome bridges es that Are are entirely out and the tho public are forced to ford the tho streams stream and wo we hue have some Borne roads that th arc are so full tull of of bad chucks and holes that people me BC complaining of breaking their vehicles Now XON It seems to me mo and this thin In only a suggestion that It Il would be a n nt t business proposition to maintain these bad places place in the bridges and roads I J appreciate that the tho count county is short of ot funds but It seems to me mc that If I the tho retrenching system was t applied whole county count administration to the I that Is Js to sa say sao that If It tho the offices Inthe Inthe in the building could retrench to some sonic extent we would be able to maintain ln I Ithe the roads at the thc same samo cost COEtt to the count county county coun coun- t ty 1 as at tho the present and In the long Jong longrun longrun run save O a great deal of or money as a dollar doll spent now will do as much a aten as asten ten or fifteen in the spring I 1 think that we could maintain these roads until December at ox- ox The county auditor tells me that there thera Is something like per por month paid out for salaries and It seems Hems to mo me that it would not require much effort to retrench to this extent 50 so that the roads and bridges could be kept In repair e |