Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1912-05-28
MUCH SUBSTANTIAL HIGHWAY
IMPROVEMENT NOW UNDER
WAY AND PLANNED
BY COURT.
wlLLAMlNA LARGEST JOB
Piece of Work Being Done
in Northwest Part Of County IS
Declaration; Rock Crusher Moved;
To Move No. Plant to Luckia-
mute.

More than $145,000 viii be ex-
pended in better roads for Polk
county for the two year period end
ing with the first of the coming year.
which is declared to be very much
| in excess of the total amount ex-
pended for a like purpose during any
previous five years. There are az
present several important highways
under construction but the largest
contract Is in the Northern part OK
the county on what Is known as the
'Winamina road" This highway is
located in district No. /, which voted
special 8 mill tax for road purposes
last fall w. f. Schaad is the super
visor of this district and r. b. Wins
How has been selected by the county
court as the supervising engineer.
This contract Is being prosecuted
with dispatch and the road Is being
built In thoroughly workmanlike
manner. 1t is one of the most inn
portant roads in the entire county
and will form a valuable artery Of
commerce and provide adequate fa-
cilities for the people Of Northern
Polk and the new settlers that are
expected.
Rock Crusher Moved.
County Judge Ed. II. Coad visited
operations on this road on Friday
and saws the rock crusher plant No.
1. which had been in operation for
several months at the old location
was moved last week to a site near
er the base of operations on the
road. AS It was formerly located.
the haul of rock had become TOO
long 10 get the best results, hence
the move. In its new location the
crusher is situated about three
fourths Of a mile up the Hamhih
river from the Wallace bridge where
the new quarry has been laid out
The face of the rock formation here
is about 200 feet in length and ap-
nroxlmately "a feet in helghth. The
longest haul is now about one and
one-fourth mile but this viii gradu-
ally decrease as the work proceeds.
The new quarry is only about 500 feet
from the road and the rock work
MANNED will extend about one ana
one-baif mile west from this site.
Thirtv-seven men and FIVE teams are
now employed in this work, and II
is declared that a irst-class job Is
being done.
Move Crusher No. ..
n, ts nrobabie that rock crusher
No 2 which is now working north
Of the city In the Salt Creek road
will be moved 10 the Luckiamute
nelghborhood before the season clos
"a and considerable work will be
dome on roads IN that vicinity. IL
WIS AT first planned 20 move the
crusber TO the vicinity Of Mccoy but
Investigation By the county court re-
vealed the fact that rock in suiiie-
lent quantity and Of preferred quai-
tv did not exist near enough 10 the
uroposed work there 70 warrant the
operation Of the crusher-
II r. claimed that 20 have arrans-
"a matters this way would have re-
sulted in taking a large slice Of the
appropriation available IN paying Tor
the hauling of The material Tor tne
great distance required Under the
. new deal made b. the commission
ers with the railroad company Tor
the hauling Of gravel and with a
N Corvallis arm 10 furnish Il, the road
work IN the vicinity of Mccoy VIII
not be neglected. but q is hoped 20
build a large amount o. substantial
birhwav in that section before the
urason shall come 20 an end.