Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-09-16

1t IL . significant fact that other coun-
kies 10 the state Of Idaho are annually
spending thousands Of dollars in build.
ing new wagon roads and repairing old
ones under the authority Of their boards
of county commissioners while up here
In Idaho county the claim is made that
our board have no authority to appro-
pirate dollar OF county funds for any
such purpose; hence, while our sister
leounties are building wagon roads to
Dpen up new mining camps, and aug
oenting population, and attracting min
Ing investors, who establish many thous-
ands Of dollars worth of taxable proper.
~ in the form of stamp mills. concen.
TRAITORS, smeltere, &C., &C., poor old Ida
no county 10 utterly inca pable, not only
In the matter of building new roads, but
even powerless to keep in proper repair
the one mountain road 10 our limits al
ready built by the state.
This state Of Affairs ought not to be.
Idaho and her sister counties are living
under the same state laws which govern
the action of all alike. No board of
commissioners In other counties have
any powers that are not possessed by
the commissioners of Idaho county.
These remarks are melted by report OF
. special meeting OF the board OF COM
,missiOneTs Of Boise county. held ct Ida
no City, Aug. 22. in which the follow.
ing proceedings were had relating to
road aud bridge matters:
"Ovdered that the following bills be
allowed on the road fund and warrants
ordered drawn for the same:
Charles Clifford, contract for repairing 80
Geo Camp. contract, east half OF Round
valley and Garden valley wagon road 1893 l6
Ordered that warrants 10 drawn on
the special road fund for the following
amounts;
Geo. Camp. contract east half of Round
valley and Garden valley wagon road 206 81
Ordered that the chairman of the
board and f. ]. Smith be empowered to
Examine the bridge across Grimes creek
near Centerville and report, after which
advertisement for tbs construction oil
the same be made and received at an
adjourned meeting to be held on the
first Monday in October. 1892. Bid,
will be received at the came date fol
the construction of certain road COM
mencing where the Jerusalem road |,
completed and following the blazes Il
the Lawyer mine, and then following
the road down the West Fork to con-
meet with the road leading to Quartz
burr, eighty rods OF said road dow u Yves
Fork to be graded where staked. Sait
road to be ten feet wide with all neces
sary' turnouis, bridges and culverts
The board reserves the right to rejec
any and all bids.
Ordered that the auditor be and i
hereby empowered to draw warran
Or warrants ON the road fund In favor u
surveyors now employed to survey
certain wagon road leading from Gariel
valley to Deadwood, when they sha
hand in their report Of tho same"
At the same meeting contract Wa
awarded to the Bulen Bridge Compan
10 construct bridge across the Paye.t
river near Marsh post-oGice, on pill
abutments and foot cylinder end-piel
and g. foot river piers including trestl
for slough for the sum of 81 800.
Boise county has no more taxabl
property and no more population tina
idaho county. while her agricultural 7,
sources are not nearly so large or 4
fully developed as ours, Both countis
are isolated and the farmers of each d,
pend exclusively upon the "home ma
Rel" made by the mining districts fl
the sale Of their products. In Bois
county, however. there is disposition
NJ evidenced above, to open new ma
kets, while proposition TO incur sim
lar expenditures for similar purposes
idaho county would paralyze our O
fcials and it's advocates would be to
that the law did not authorize sui
lavish appropriations. We do not RICH
~ understand how 1t happens tn
other counties can build roads al
bridges, while We in Idaho county u
tied peck aud heels.