The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-11-01

HOW IIle. KOdQ FuIlQS Are
Wasted
Hundreds of yards of inferior gravel have been ship
ped into Latah county and put the roads. Six
cutve county warrants, totang $1O9283 paid
single meeting for freight washed gravevastly in
feror local gravel which there would have been
freight charges
Gravel, which the says costs $1.35 yard
the Inland rese north of has been bought for the
road toward Viola Better material be obtained at
foot of the mountain for Csc soc yard The loss in
money 85c to $10 yard say nothing of the inferior
ty of the material.
Now that the election approaching gravel being
hauled upon roads in many parts of the county, evidently
with the purpose of influencing the farmers vote, for the
road beds have not been prepared properly for gravel
topping and much OF the money being spent is being
wasted :. =.
Gravel bought in Spokane at a high price is being
hauled from Palouse Washington into Idaho notwtn-
standing that free sand is available from Palouse
nearby, and in the county.
A number of cases. in which the work done the
roads has had the effect of making them worse have been
pointed If you familiar with the pieces of road
near the Dowdy place east of town; the Cameron
place northeast of town. the Hazene place of
town. between the Anderson and Lyon ranches of
town. go and how the road funds wasted them
Observe that year after year culverts have been put
too close to the surface of the road and have formed
each and been repaired neglected each whereas
they should have been any of expense for
maintenance
Observe that good roads, such the road running
between the Sandeus and White properties and that
between the Hanna and Stewart places of town. go to
small fraction of the usual expense repaired ntegently
at the right time.
Observe that every road that has been graded to
width greater than ten to fourteen feet bad road The
grading wasted and the road wide that be
maintained at any reasonable expense and not at all with
a drag.
Visit the road toward the county farm Judge for
yourself whether great part of the gravel put has
been lost because the subgrade made properly
gravel OF inferior quality used applied at the wrong time
and in the wrong manner, and never worked properly
Size up the wooden bridges and culvers and if you
discover any evidence of any standard of design To-
cation. Inquired among the road overseers, and sec
whether they given any intelligent instructions
on building and repairing their roads,
Thousands of dollars have been wasted yearly If you
your road money be used primarily for roads and
in playing politics, and if you dollar of road
money buy dollars worth of work the roads, you
Lyon and Woody of office They have made
miserable failure of the road SYSTEM and have put the
road districts in debt thousands of dollars.
The mysterious thirty thousand dollars wanted to
pay off time checks Thirty thousand dollars probably
represents the amount of money the commissioners have
wasted They brag that the county absolutely free from
debt but they evying thirty thousand dollar to
payoff debts that they don't you to know
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