Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1913-01-17
FAVOR CHANGES
IN ROAD LAWS
resolutions Adopted by the Com
mittee of the Good Roads Assoc
citation of Whitman County

Roads Association OF Whitman
County, held a session at the Palace
hotel here last Monday, at which f.
!, Wilmer of Rosalia presided.
Those present were: F. j. Will
mer. representing Rosalia; H. w.
Goff for P w. Cox of Colfax; R. C.
McCroskey of Garfield; Peter
Treisch of Uniontown; G. d. Kin
caid of Palouse; G. l.. Mackenzie of
Colfax; O. l.. Waller of Pullman,
B. D. Henry of Endicott was rep
resented by proxy.
Upon converting, suggestions were
called for by the chairman. Mr..
Waller suggested a change in the
levy for the permanent highway
fund. Mr. McCroskey recommend
ed macadamized roads. Mr.. VIII
mer reported resolutions regarding
the county engineer.
Resolutions were then called for
aud the following were adopted
unanimously as the findings of the
committee
levy to provide funds for the per-
manent highway fund from one to
two mills
We recommend that where con-
Wet labor of the county and state is
employed in the construction of the
roads that they be under the direct
supervision of the public authori-
ties instead of contractors,
We recommend that the office of
the county engineer be abolished and
that the county commissioners en-
ploy such engineering help as may
be needed or as they may see fit.
We recommend the repeal Of the
present definition of the good roads
Jaw as construed to mean new roads
constructed in sparsely settled and
mountainous sections of the state,
and to define the principle that state
roads shall be constructed between
Incorporated cities or trade centers,
as roads bearing a relation to good
state roads in the promotion of
general system throughout the state.
We recommend an amendment to
the state highway law which will
provide that any roads built under
us provision shall conform to the
specifications of roads built under
the permanent highway law in any
Oh the several counties of the state.
we deplore the tendency of the
present state highway law to create
friction in local communities stu
aled geographically as in Whitman
county, where we have ten or twelve
cities, each of which can advance as
5000 an argument as the other as to
locating any state highway through
'helr particular community and To-
cal pride and ambition always
pfompting such action, thereby Gre
sung dlscord and hindering the gen
efai movement for good roads every
where.
we believe that general system
= improved highways is necessary
" properly care for the traffic of
"litman county and that the need
= improved roads Is as pressing and
Just as important in one part of the
sounty as another. We, therefore,
seneVe that the provisions of the
s'a'e highway law which gives Whit
~an county about two miles of inn
s'0sed road per year are inadequate
:" properly meet the needs of this
'sOanly We believe we should con-
e1piate the completion of general
ss'eem OF improved highways for the
county.
VIC recommend that to get away
A0m local influence the state high
10y through Whitman county should
ocated by the state highway com
0'oner, as he Is a disinterested
sa'V and his office is technically
su'pped to determine route that
~ oiier the most geographical adj
people.
a. ne'ig that, in order to get all
an, 'oaas we need within a reason
49, ume, the people of Whitman
!, s may decide to make an issue
I, Illus against the general credit
tman county and in order to
PREVENT double taxation. we favor
a. endment to the state highway
=, eAempting any county that bonds
n,a. million dollars or over to i'm
=. the highways within Its bord-
ls,,. on the provisions of the ex-
ens.s state highway law, also the
nent OF new statute providing