The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-03-09
CLUB REPRESENTED
AT BOARD MEETING
Members of Local Organization
Make Interesting Report at
Mid-Week Luncheon

AT lUe SOIIlIHeTCldl Cluu lufCHcOll
last Wednesday very interesting re-
port was made by E. w. Trenbath,
who, together with w. r. Crawford,
visited the county seat Tuesday as a
Commercial club committee to sit
with the county commissioners and
learn what, if any, assistance the club
could offer for the betterment Of con-
ditions generally in the county.
Thorobred Seeds
Among few of the things accom-
plished by the committee was the as
sistance given County Agriculturalist
Lee M. Lampson, who appeared be-
fore the board to request fund of
$3.50 with which to purchase small
quantity of pure bred seeds for free
distribution thruout the county from
which pure seed may be produced for
general planting the following season.
These seeds will be selected and dis
tributed by Mr.. Lampson under def
mite contracts which will be carefully
prepared looking to the standardiza-
tion and proper cultivation Of more
and better crop productions thruout
the entire county.
Highway Improvement
Thru the competent and untiring ef-
forts of the Good Roads committee a
quantity of road signs were secured
for marking the roads in the county.
These signs are the best that money
can buy being made of heavy enamel
ed iron, on the face Of which the di-
'rections are carverd in plain, good
sized letters which after being coun-
tersunk are treated with an illumin-
ating bronze paint which makes them
visible at great distance in day light
as well as being legible at close range
in semi-darkness. These sign boards
will be mounted on iron pedestals and
are practically indestructable.
In speaking of road improvements,
Mr.. Trenbath stated that very salts
factory progress is being made on the
Prosser-Benton City road. The re-
grading has been completed and some
five or six miles this way from Pros
ser the hard surfacing with crushed
rock has been completed. AS soon as
this piece of road has reached COM
pletion the road from Benton City to
Richland will be commenced in like
manner hard-surfaced clear thru,
which together with slight improve
ments on the Richland- -Kennewick
road and the extension Of the Kenne-
wick-Finley road to Hover will give
Benton county first class highway
and will add greatly to the interstate
traffic which up to the present time
has been largely detoured over other
routes on account Of the exceedingly
bad condition encountered between
Richland and Prosser, which motorists
claim has been the worst road they
have travelled between Chicago and
Seattle. With this menace to traffic
conquered we will have good, smooth
hard-surfaced roads clear thru to
North Yakima and it will all be COM
pleted before June first.
The committee took up the ferry
controversy with the commissioners
and requested that immediate action
be taken by that body to ascertain
when, if ever, the present applicant
for a franchise at Hover intends to
install ferry at that point. They
learned that a period of thirty days
had been given the applicant to COM
plete his application by filing the GUS
tomary bond and commence construc-
tion of a ferry at that point. Failure
of the applicant to comply within the
specified time will open that location
to other parties who may desire a
franchise to operate there.
The commissioners from the east
end of the county expressed their ap-
probation of Kennewick being repre-
sented at that meeting and the club
has. established the policy Of having
one or more Representatives at each
session of the board in the future.