“Did Door County Get Stung?” from the December 18, 1931 Door County Advocate
DID DOOR COUNTY GET STUNG?
On July Fourth of this year, six months ago, Door county opened for traffic and dedicated its new bridge spanning the waters of Sturgeon Bay, one of the longest bridges in the state.
The cost of this bridge was approximately $450,000 of which $100,000 was assessed against Door county according to law. Door county was anxious to get its new bridge and thought it was getting a bargain by investing but $100,000, and that if the law was ever changed it would require a greater assessment against the county in which the bridge was to be constructed.
However, as Door county just starts to pay its $100,000 bridge bonds, Senator Cashman, who represents Door county in the state senate, succeeds in getting an amendment passed in the senate, to the long bridge act, placing the maximum amount asked of the county in which bridges are to be constructed under this act at $40,000 instead of $100,000. This was done largely for the purpose of helping Wrightstown and DePere in Brown county, where proposed bridges are to be constructed.
But few bridges have been constructed under the act which requires an assessment against the county of $100,000, the Sturgeon Bay bridge being one of them. In all fairness to these few counties it would seem as though some provision should be made whereby a refund of the difference should be made. As one of these counties is within Senator Cashman’s district it would seem as though the taxpayers would have the right to expect him to make some effort along this line, especially as he has succeeded in reducing the assessed amount from $100,000 to $40,000 for a county not within his district.
Courtesy of the Door County Library Newspaper Archive
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