Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1906-05-21
WAGON ROAD AROUND The BLUFF
WILL Be BUILT this Year.
The Vidette Makes lnexCuSabIe Error
in Saying Aberdeen has Taken no
Steps Toward Building This Road,
The Difficult Problem is Near
Solution.

Peter Hunley, who has sub contrac,
from }. w. Hall for aiding several miles
Oh county road between this city and b.
erueen, Is now working mile or two be.
low town, his camp being located on
Ciemmons slough, from which point he
Is finishing up the road down towards the
poor farm.
Mr.. Hunley now has about fifteen men
at work and was in town Wednesday
| looking Tor more hands, he wanting tC
1nish up his contract as soon as possible
SO as 20 get down to his mili, which he is
gong to build further down the river.
WIN the completion of the stretch now
being built by Mr.. Hunley, the road from
Montesanu to Aberdeen will be finished
to the corporation line OF the latter citv
though no steps have been taken by Alb.
erdeen to build the road into that town.
-alontesauo Vidette.
The last sentence in the forgoiny is
not true, and the Vidette would have
known it had that usually correct paper
noted the action of the Chamber of Com
merce and city council of Aberdeen.
This p ece OF road is, perhaps, for it's
length the most difficult of construction
in the state, which fact is the reason for
its long delay, but never in all the agita.
ton OF the past eight years has the build.
ing OF it seemed so sure OF accomplish-
ment as at the present moment. Not
only were the natural obstacles to be
overcome in this matter, but every con.
celvable means to prevent it have been
resoi ted to by those thinking to delay
the development Of Grays Harbor. But,
most ali things end, and the opposition
to this road is finding itself so vastly
ontnnmbered as to become almost
ancient history.
For the benefit OF the Vidette and
others, the status of that piece of road is
now in such shape as to justify the asser.
tlon that it will be completed by the
time tie November elections have re-.
moved the county seat. There will soon
be meeting in Aberdeen of the state
road commissioner, an engineer of
the N. 7. Ry. Co. and the city authori.
ties that promises tc. definitely cactse
the bnilding Of the road at once.
The railroad company is not disposed
to obstruct, provided it's track room is
not encroached upon, and it is highly
probable that an arrangement will be
made whereby the railroad and city will
jointly make a fill from the adjoining
bluff that will afford additional track
room for the railroad. and good sized
street for the city. This arrangement is
dictated by purely business reasons. The
company wants more room along the
blnf, and to make it by removing the
sand rock from the perpendicular face
that now threatens lands!ides every win.
ter, it will be doing two necessary Jobs
at once.
AS for the funds necessary for this
work, Aberdeen will not be faxed BY the
item, although it is worthy OF considera-
tion. The Improvement is not strictly
an Aberdeen necessity, but is equally
necessary 70 the development of every
locality on the north side of Grays Har.
Dor, and is a STUMBLE block in the
route Of the state road, for which there
is $l3 500 appropriated. State Road
Commissioner Snow is now having a
written opinion given by the attorney
general as to the legality of exspending
state road money within the limits of a
city, and expects it to be Acknowledgement
as the Daily Bulletin has it, to expend
the whole sum hereto the expenditure
OF reasonable amount on this obstruc-
tion on the line Of the defined state road.
Our worthy contemporary need not
worry over this road not being built.
The unavoidable prelminaries will soon
be settled, and the work OF actual con.
struction will quickly follow.