The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1910-01-13
PORTLANDERS AFTER
HOOD RIVER ROAD

The effort to secure proper road
connection betweeG portlsud IA. d
Hood River is net new one, it hav
Ing been worked upon for the past
three years through hard work by
Louis Russell aud + Henry Nemme
the project ls now in such shape as to
practically assure it= going through
The Portl md Automobile club will
merely stsrt the ball rolling.
lhs bulldlDg OF a road from Port.
land to Hood River wolves upon
three parties-Multnomah county,
Hood River and the Oregon Railroad
Navigation company. rhe y. r & N.
is said O be wiling to do its share of
the work during the coming summer,
aud it is now necessary TO secure the
Cooperation of the county commits
sioners of Multnomah county to get
tho road built straight through, This
is what Is to be undertaken by the
Portland Automobile club.
According to the Portland Tele.
gram, the Portland Automobile Club
is circulating petition Aasking the
Multnomah County Court to set
aside $7O, ,0U0 from the road fund to
be used IN the construction Of the
Hood River road. The Portland
papers seem to have gained assurance
from some unknown source that the
road will be improved through Hood
River part of the route, although
no definite action has been taken
here.
:. It is claimed by Hood River auto
mobile dealers according to the Port.
land journal, that any number of
people are putting off buying an auto
mobile merely because there is no
road from Portland. 1t would mean
much to them to be able to make a
trip to Portland in their cars, as they
could start and stop when they pleas
ed. The trip could be made easily
In day with pie .ty of time TO at.
tend to business In between runs.
The Oregon Railroad Il Navigation
company's connection with the road
comes through an old franchise dug
up by interested oIneys. The Ore
gon Railroad & Navigation company,
In taking a franchise over the old
army road, which followed the Crl-
umbia river for some miles, agreed
to build and maintain another road
parallel to the one which they tore
up in laying their tracks. The COM
pany never complied with this agree
ment, but are said to be ready and
willing now to construct their share
of the work, should 1t be wanted.
A new wagon road from Bride Veil
to Cascade Locks, along the south
tank OF the Columbia River, is the
project tor which 260 Portland pro-
perty owners petitioned the Multno
NAH County Court, Friday morning.
Ine petition Was presented by Henry
Wemme and Lewis Russell. A survey
has already teen made by Newell,
Gossett Il Walsh, the estimaed cost
OF the new road being $40, $40. %
ThIssroad is expected to be the Port
land end of the au omohile road to
Hood River.
The totrl distance ia 17.3 mills.
The old wagon road is to be used
according to plans, tor 612 miles,
and the old o. K d N, grade for Ala
miles, leaving 5ls miles to be OF new
construction. According to esti-
mates, 692o cubic yards lof solid rock
will be required. at cost OF 81. 70
yard, or Sl2, 22l %: 80, l75 yards of
loose rock or gravel at 40 ceuts q
yard, or Sl5, 1870; 300 yards of shsle
ut % cents yard or 1920 and l6U6
cubic yards OF retaining wall at 81. 25
a yard or S2007 So 1t is figured
that 38 acres must be cleared at a
cost of $40 an acre, or sl526; that
the bridges and culverts will cost
s5S75, the moving of telegraph and
teleph, ne poles, 500, aud redressing
the old o. r. & n grade for Ala
miles, $40. Ihe right-of- way dam.
ages are figured at 81, as it 10 believed
the property owners will be glad to
contrit ute the required land tor the
road.