The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1914-01-29
SO. FORK ROAD
C0NTRIBUT IONS
Public Spirited M en- and
Firms Who Made High.
way A Possibility.

Tn0 Que9UlOu ID frequently neard,
"what has the commercial club of
Grangeville ever done anyway"
There are certainly many things it
should have done that it has not; still
It has done some things worthy of
mention, and no doubt could and
would have done many more had
those who have stood off and asked
such questions come In instead and
taken a hand In the work of helping
"do things"
The Globe has no disposition to
read moral lecture to any one, or
to use any "whitewash" to cover up
the defects of the commercial club
It has no brief In either case. Nor
does it intend going back into the
dead past to condure up spooks rep
resentative of deeds performed; that
b not necessary. 1t will simply state
that the work of cinching the exten-
sion Of the Mt. Idaho South Fork
trunk line road into the mining and
timber sections southeast of Grange
vile, work on which is now being
prosecuted with between twenty and
twenty-five men employed, was due
to the action of the local commercial
club cooperating with Supervisor Geo.
V. Ring, who has taken a most ac-
tive part in this enterprise. The COM
mercial club stood In the breach when
the $1,000 necessary to complete the
contract with government and secure
the $1,000 from the forest fund had
to be raised, and appointed a commit
tee to get busy and raise that sum.
The possibility of securing the need
ed amount was questioned by many,
and was freely discussed by the COM
mittee composed of Frank McGrane,
]. Frank Sims, A. F. Parker and c.
A. Branscombe, with the result that
McGrane and Branscombe believed
1t could be pulled through and
went at it. When the COM
mttee made its final report
1t had $1257.50 banked and ready to
be checked on by Supervisor Ring.
That there has been no more i'm
portant move made in many a day
for the mining sections included in
the Elk City district, Buffalo Hump,
Dixie and other camps, as well as for
the settlers up the South Fork, can
not be questioned. That the citizens
OF Grangeville are entitled to great
credit for their hberality and en-
terprise Is equally true, and the part
the commercial club played in the
matter should also be borne in mind
Dy those disposed to criticize, for
through the initiative of that organic
alton was the road made possible.
Inc government representative from
Missoula said Grangeville had clear
iy surpassed any town that had come
under the observation OF his depart
ment in the enterprise shown in sup
plementing the government work in
this case. The article published by
tne Globe last week makes clear the
fact that this road will be extended
on to Elk City, and had we failed in
raising our part of the funds it would
nave been dropped, whereas now it
is secure. The road extension is CIV
ing work to some twenty to twenty
i've men, all of whom have to have
supplies and this work furnishes the
funds to buy them with-besides,
we are getting the road built into a
country which will develop under this
stimulous and in time furnish worlds
OF traffic. Following Is the list of
the contributions to this fund and
the names of those contributing:
Alexander Freidenrich Co. $3.50 90
Bank of Camas Prairie -. 100 90
Bert L. Crosby Co. ...... Is 90
p. F. Courtney !. $50. so 90
First National Bank !. 100 90
imperial Hotel =. !. ...... 90 90
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