Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-06-10
HANSON ROAD
B0BS Up AGAIN
Logging Foreman Presents
Some Questions - Road
To Be Built in Due Time
THE SOUTH BAY FERRY
Contract Awarded for Ope-
ration Of Ferry on Road
to Southside Beaches

! MONTESANO, June 9.--(Special.)-
| The G. d. Hanson road bobbed up
| from a new angle today at the meet
ing of the board of county commits
sioners, when Jacob Schnock, fore
man OF the Poison Logging company
presented a petition signed by about
100 employees of that company. The
document cannot properly be termed
petition, it was rather in the form
of three interrogatories, in the follow
ing language:
"We the undersigned ask your
board why you cancelled the contract
for the c. D. Hanson road let by the
old board of county commissioners,
and after canceIIng the same why
you did not call for bids and re-Iet
the contract for the building Of it.
at is. true that you are determined
to follow out Mr.. Fishers policy not
to build any roads that would benefit
the men working in the logging
camps?
"lf it is not true will you call for
bids at once and build US a road as
you have promised to, but so far have
not done?'
Commissioners Locke and Wilson,
Fishel being absent, rather objected
TO the language used in the so-called
petition but were quite willing to dis
cuss this road with Mr.. Schnock who
addressed the board at some length,
dwelling upon the difficulty in get
ting men from the camps to the hos
pital at HoQuiam in cases of accident
saying that 600 men were employed
there. Locke inquired if the men
paid hospital fees, and Schnock re-
piled that they paid $1.00 a month
each. Locke suggested that $500 a
month would maintain a pretty good
hospital right at the works, but this
phase was not followed up.
When Schnock insisted that the
contract that was recalled last spring
be relet, he was asked if he knew that
to merely open this or 4 miles of
road would cost about $4,000 and that
before it could he used two bridges
must De built costing as much more
and that the road would have to be
graveled, at a cost of about $10,0
more before it could be used in the
winter but he had not figured all this
out. Neither was he aware that this
entire commissioners district had
but $25,0 900 for all it's roads, and that
to eXpend it all on this piece of road,
that led nowhere, would result in rank
injustice to other sections. Both
Commissioners, Wilson and Locke, eX-
pressed a desire to build the road as
soon as funds were available and the
right of way secured, and Locke con-
cluded the discussion by saying:
"We are going to build that Han
son road. We must get our right-of-
way first, and our engineer, though
he has instructions to run the lines,
has not found time to run them, and
so we don't know just what right-of
way we will have to get. ! don't know
if it will be built this year or not.
We can't finish it that is certain. But,
we are going to build the road"
South Bay Ferry Let
Bids were opened for The operation
of tho South Bay Ferry, and the CON
tract was awarded to J. B. Benson, of
Aberdeen. The bids of Benson and Geo.
II. Parr We're alike, and Il coin was
tossed to decide between them, Ben
son winning the TOSS. A bid was re-
ceiyed from Sven Johnson, but was
not considered, as he wanted to fur
lish the scow and help, and have the
county operate the boat which was
just what the county does not desire
to do. The contract with Benson sim
ply gives him the license to conduct
his own ferry, with the rates of toll
fixed by the commissioners.
Wants Lazy Husband Money
The first application for funds under
the new Lazy Husband" law was
made to the commissioners today al
though the law is not effective until
next Saturday. The applicant was a
Mrs. Selling. of Aberdeen, whose hus-