The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-08-01

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Obliged to make the trip alone. When
seen by an Astorian representative
last night Judge Gray said.
"On the first day went through 10
Elsie Al the junction of the Elsie
and Jewell road. Mr Cole. supervisor
Of District No 10. met me By appoint.
mcnt He had a crew OF men cutting
out and making the new road around
Humbug mountain. The brush had
been cut out but the logs made II i'm
possible for n horse to travel over
A. The distance over which work had
been done was three and one-half
miles The supervisor and myself
walked over this part Of the road
when We arrived at the road-makers
camp wr found Mr.. Steve Gragg. with
falls, etc, pulling stumps and clearing
logs out of the road Since S o'clock
that morning he had covered dis
tance Of 1900 feet on the side Of the
hill the grade IL from 20 10 4j per
cent Among the party of road-makers
was Mr.. Gus Gronnel and Mr Adams,
with two spans Of big horses attached
10 one Of the celebrated plows The
men were very much pleased with the
way In which the plow worked and
their experience that day was. that in
running two burrows Of 1900 feet in
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fair road for a wagon over that en-
tire distance. There were four teams
and eight men at work altogether
They expect TO have the three and one
half miles very nearly completed for
wagon use this week.
From here We went on TO Elsie,
where we spent the night Next morn
ing we visited Mr.. Gronnel's hop yard
and forded the river. coming up over
the proposed route about one mile
back Of Mishawaka. 10 Vine Maple,
where We crossed the river again 10
Mlllburn, and then proceeded to Grand
Rapids where We found considerable
work had been done by Supervisor
CASTOR. OF District No Is. between
that place and Jewell. The night was
spent at Jewell, and the next day |
went up the river over the celebrated
state wagon road. which was found to
be hardly NJ for n goct trail. This
road from Jewell TO NespeI has been
a disgrace to the county since 1t was
built Supervisors CASTOR In the Fiji
tcenth, and Miller In the Twelfth Dis
trlcts. will commence right away 10
put this road in order and have al
ready made some good changes which
viii improve II greatly. The total ex-
pcnse Of this work viii be about $500
Some ~ this amount win be contrib
uted by private subscriptions. This
road will undoubtedly bring quite a
considerable traffic to Astoria from
the splendid settlement in the east end
Of Clatsop county. These people now
have no other way OF getting their
produce TO market except by hauling
IL TO Clatskanie. or TO Woods Landing,
In Columbia county. While Clatsop
county has some bad roads in compari-
son with some In Columbia county,
the worst road and one which is al
most impossible for horses, even at
this time Of the year. l found from
Woods Landing to westport, in Col
umhia county.
1T is quite surprising to see the
amount OF fine country thai by work
and much labor has been opened up
in the eastern part of the Nehalem
valley. The energy and spirit of the
people of Elsie and vicinity In hunting
out and building that difficult piece of
road around Humbug mountain, which
is 900 feet high. and in securing grades
less than ten per cent. deserves the
greatest encouragement and will re-
dound to the benefit OF their beautiful
little valley, which has heretofore
been isolated