The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-05-28
WILL EXPFND MILL
IONS ON ITS ROADS
Especial to the silver state.)


I SPOKANE, Wash, May 2S.-Ten
million dollars will be expended In
this state in completing three trunk
lines of total length of 1000 miles
under the direction Of the Washington
Good Roads association if the recon-
mendations of its executive committee,
headed by Frank w. Guilbert, are
adopted by the legislature at it's ses-
sion next January. Following favor
able legislative action upon its pro-
gram the association will support q
bond issue for other road improve
ments. The work to be undertaken in
1913 is as follows
Sunset highway-From the idaho
state line at the eastern terminus Of
the Apple Way, through Spokane,
Davenport, Wilbur, Wenatchee and
Snoqualmie pass to Puget Sound, 400
miles.
Inland Empire highway-From Spo-
kane to Rosalia, thence along the most
feasible routes in Whitman, Garfield
and Walla Walla counties to the city
of Walla Walla, across the Columbia
river at or near Pasco, North Yakima
and thence to the junction at Ellens-
burg with the Sunset highway, $50
miles.
Pacific highway-From Blaine
through Bellingham, Everett, Seattle,
Tacoma, Olympia, Chehalis and Ka-
lama to Vancouver, $50 miles.
Use will be made of existing roads
in the building of the three main
arteries and all roads will start from
trade centers or at the terminal Of
graded roads which begin at such cen
ters. Camps are to be established and
convict labor employed ON all state
road work
The committee placed itselr on
record as opposed to a special session
of the legislature, purposed to be call
ed to consider a bond issue of $15,-
100000 for state road building, the
reason assigned being that highway
construction is yet in an experimental
stage and that no durable and econom-
ical material has been found.
AS a substitute measure the commit
tee will recommend that the yearly
road levies be doubled. Thus the per-
manent highway fund will be increased
from one to two mills year and the
public highway fund from a half mill
to one mill yearly. In this way more
than $3000,000 will be raised. 1t was
agreed that fully $25, 100000 would be
required to carry out the work favor
ed by the association, also that $751;
100000 could not be expended judici-
ously with the present state road or
ganization.
Outlining its legislative program the
committee recommended that 5 per
cent of each road fund be set aside for
maintenance,the money to be expended
the same as the general fund. 1t was
also decided that the state highway
fund, with the exception Of 10 per
cent, be used only on the trunk lines OF
the main road system, and that the ap-
preparation by the legislature of the
remaining 10 per cent be expended on
repairs of existing highways and in
connecting disiointed roads with trade
centers, not more than five miles dis
tant.
1t was recommended that for road
building under the assessment plan,
where abutting property pays Is per
cent of the cost, the assessment zone
shall be from half mile to one and
half miles on either side of the road,
the petitioners to define the width,
and that instead of the assessment be-
ing all due in one payment it be ex-
tended over a period of five or ten
equal annual instalments. 1t was also
voted to advocate the use of wide-tir
farm vehicles.
Governor Hay favors the foregoing
program. He has made good roads one
of the prominent planks in his plat
form in the campaign for reelection
at the general election next fall.
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