New Ulm Businessmen and Citizens Will Raise Substantial Fund, Approximating

$2,500, for Project

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FOUR TEAMS TO COLLECT

QUOTA IMMEDIATELY

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New Ulm-Fort Ridgely State

Aid Road to Be Important

Link in Travel Route.

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Four thousand dollars are now pledged by three towns in Nicollet county for the construction of the New Ulm-Fort Ridgely state aid road and New Ulm will do its share toward the construction of this all-year travel and historic highway. The towns of Lafayette and West Newton have each pledged $1,500, and Ridgely will contribute $1,000. It is proposed to collect $2,500 from the businessmen and citizens of New Ulm, which will swell the fund to $6,500. This project was launched in May, 1925, and many conferences attended by the supervisors and others as well as the New Ulm Good Roads committee e and the county board of Nicollet county. The latter proposed that the towns and New Ulm continue to manifest an interest in the project and that at an opportune time in the future they would consider the proposition as regards an application to Commissioner C. M. Babcock for the designation of a state aid road, running from the intersection of Trunk Highways Nos. 7 and 15, opposite New Ulm in Nicollet county, along the so-called bottom road to Fort Ridgely.

The New Ulm Good Roads committee has been composed of Philip Liesch, chairman, F. H. Krook, E. A. Stoll, Ad. G. Meile, J. P. Graff, Otto Oswald, Chas. A. Stolz and J. A. Ochs. The amount to be paid by firms and individuals has been ascertained by a sub-committee and at a meeting held yesterday morning it was decided to select four teams of three members each, who will immediately proceed to collect the quota assigned to New Ulm. Each team will be assigned a certain district.

The project is one in which our city is intensely interested and the benefits are far-reaching. It is an avenue of travel, which will be open at all times during the year and links travel in every direction. The teams expect a ready response and desire to finish their work without delay.

Brown County Journal

March 26, 1926

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