Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1914-05-15
highway Commissioner Roy Views
Proposed Route, But Says Moth
ing-Delegation Attends
Colfax Meeting

pullman is after the state road in
earnest and If concerted action and
lots Of hard work will accomplish re-
oults. she will get what she desires.
large delegation of boosters on
Tuesday afternoon went to ColfaX to
meet State Highway Commissioner
W. R. Roy, and the matter of The
nronosed change in the state route
was placed before him in compre-
hensiye way. The commissioner was
noncommital, however, and gave no
inkling of his personal opinion in the
matter. The route of the state road,
as outlined in the law which passed
the last legislature, was from ColfaX
to Pomeroy, crossing the Snake river
either at Almota or Penawawa. The
engineers are said co have reported
however, that both of these proposed
routes are infeasible, but that a
grade could be established through
Central Ferry.
The proposition of the Pullman
people, which is strongly supported
by the boosters of Uniontown, Col
ton, Lewiston, Charleston and Albion,
is to establish the route from ColfaX
to Pullman, thence through Cotton
and Uniontown to Lewiston ana
Charleston and on to Pomeroy, Day
ton and Walla Walla. The proposed
route would tap one of the richest
farming countries in the United
States, and in the matter of popula-
ton is thousand fold more desir-
able than either of the routes sug-
gested in the law. Inasmuch as a
deviation from the law is necessary,
according to the engineers, it is not
improbable that the route proposed
will be accepted, and the boosters of
the proposition are optimistic. The
grade of the entire route would be an
easy one, and one of the greatest ar
guments in favor of the route is the
fact that the road would connect at
Lewiston with the Idaho state road,
which will run through the entire
state of Idaho, passing through
Boise and extending to the national
mark Annfhnr nha5n urhi oh chn-t1l
be considered is the substantial
bridge across the Snake river, con-
Meeting Lewiston and Charleston,
which would preclude the necessity
OF constructing bridge across the
river at Almota, Penawawa or Cen
trail Ferry which would probably
cost $150,000.
Highway Commissioner Roy and
Engineer G. l. Signer were brought
from ColfaX to Pullman, over that
part OF the proposed route in an au-
tomobile this morning by DIR. E. A.
Archer and M. w. Whitlow and then
on to Uniontown, where they were
met by a Lewiston delegation and
aKen over the remainder of the
route to POmeroy. Again the COM
missioner did not show an inclination
10 give voice to his opinions in the
matter, but the hopes of the local
supporters of the movement were
considerably strengthened when he
instructed Engineer G. I. Signer to
walk over the entire route and report
MS findings to headquarters. Com
missioner Roy was also taken over
me stretch of macadam road south
Pullman, which has been branded
aS unsatisfactory in no uncertal,.
terms' and stated that in his opinion
tne only way to remedy the road is
70 drag it when it Is wet.
Y. l.. Chamberlain of Colfax, who
represented this district at the ses-
SION OF the legislature, when the
measure providing for the route of
Tue state road was passed, in an ad-
u'eSs before the meeting in Colfax
tuesday afternoon, stated that as The
"a" provided for the route of the
,oao' 1t would be illegal to change
~ and is alleged to have intimated
mat the action of the Pullman,
..niontoWn, Lewiston, Clarkson and
albion SunDortaro IF +ba yoovapoant
u attempting to have the route
elanged is an attempt to defeat the
"in OF the legislature and should not
" considered. Others who are ia
maliar with the bill, however, state
mat the law gives the engineers the
privilege of changing parts of the
'Ou'e which are found not feasible.