The Daily Missoulian., 1913-08-01
WORK ON ON HIGHWAYS )
WILL START
AT ONCE
ON BOTH SIDES OF THE DIVIDE
THE MuLLAN- -MissouLA ROAD
WILL BE GOOD.

Mullan, July (special) THE
uncompleted three miles of road east
OF Pottsville on the Mullan-to to Mis-
soula highway will be built at once.
according to statement made
Wednesday by A. P. McRae, chair
man of the board of county commits
sloners. In an interview Mr.. McRae
said that it is the intention of the
commissioners to at once advertise
for bids for the construction OF the
uncOmpleted link in the road and that
the actual work will be started as
soon as the necessary 10 days' adver-
t1sing has been made. According
to County Surveyor Trask's estimate.
the road to be built is about three
and quarter miles long. 1t will start
from the west sWitchback and will
run on a surveyed grade and connect
with the surveyed road at Pottsville
The estimated cost is about $1,000 per
mile. Thls new link will complete the
road to the Montana summit on a sur
Veyed grade and will leave only one
sWltchback crossing the hill. Any
portion of the grade will not exceed
IL per cent and most of it will be be
tween and 10 per cent. All Of the
road is In excellent road building ma
ferial and will be one of the best
mountain roads in the county
This news, in connection with the
report from Taft that the Missoula
county commissioners have started
work on the short uncompleted link
Of the road on the Montana side Is
encouraging indeed and gives us hope !!
pleted in time for the inspection Of |
A. L Westgard Of New York, who is |
making the trip across the continent |
for the purpose of inspecting the road |
work done in the different counties on
the route of the northwest trilil since
his last trip over the route. Mr..
Westgard was so confident that this 1
route through here would be COM
pleted this year that he placed the
route on his official map of the nupth-
west trail
The Mulan Commercial club is in
receipt of letter from Clarence IT.
Davis. president of the National
Highways association, stating that A.
l.. Westgard, the man of many miles
and official road finder for the Ameri-
can Automobile association and for
the National Highways association,
will be through Mullan this summer
to inspect the road through this dis
trict to Missoula Mr. Westgard was
scheduled to make the trip last year
by way of Mullan, but on. account of
the impossible condition of the old
Mullan road he was compelled to make
the trip by way of Thompssnn Falls
and Murray. Since that time both
Shoshone and Missoula. counties have
made new grades and Improvements
on the road, and it is hoped that this
season Mr.. Westgard will be able to
make the trip in his machine and
thus permanently place this route
among the transcontinental highways
The letter from Mr.. Davis follows:
Mr.. A. l.. Westgard, vice president
Of the National Highways association,
will shortly pass through your city
on his 17O00-mile trip by motorcar
which he is taking under the auspices
Of this association in the interests of
good roads everywhere. In his ride
through Utah he was accompanied
part of the way by Governor Spry
and while in Nevada was joined by
Governor Oddie. This trip he is talk
ing is creating wide interest every
where, as every city, town and ham,
let is anxious to share in the good
work that the National Highways as
is planning to do. Good
roads all over the country mean de-
velopment all along the line We shall
appreciate any publicity you may give
his matter before Mr.. Westgard
passes through your part of the coun-
.ry."