Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-08-04
STILL TALK
BIG BOND
Half Million Deemed Insufi-
cient to Solve Road Prob
lens of This Big County,
A Million Might Do 1t.

Quite a number of delegates
| from the various parts of the
county attended the big good
roads meeting at Grangeville
Wednesday and, although the
meeting was not as largely at.
tended nor as enthusiastic as the
one held at this place two weeks
before, much good work was ac-
complished. Talks of a general
charater were in order until noon
when the delegates were invited
to luncheon at the Imperial hotel
as guests of the Grangeville COM
mercial club.
In the afternoon the districts
that were prepared handed in
to the secretary reports covering
the roads needed, with the esti-
mated cost thereof, in their dis
tricts and these were discussed
at some length. The Clearwater
river sections were best prepared
in this respect and some seven
highway districts in that part of
the county combined their desires
in single application for road
improvements covering sum to-
tai of approximately $193, 900.
This called for the construction
of a belt road from the present
state highway near Grangeville
to Harpster, thence down the
river past Sites and Kooskia to
Kamiah, and, in case Lewis
county should not provide a con-
nection with the state highway,
the belt road to be continued up.
Lawyers canyon to a connection
with the state road at the near
est point. This belt road was es-
timated at 81 miles and to- cost
$685. A further sum of $780, !
600 was asked to build and i'm
prove lateral roads leading into
the belt road from points east of
the river and from the Winona
and Fort Misery highway dis
/ tricts.
Other districts were not so
we'll prepared to outline their re-
quirements and in several cases
these figures could not be def
initely determined until the per-
manent location of the state
highway across the county is es-
tablished. This finally resulted
in all propositions being with
drawn and the executive COM
mittee decided to hold another
general meeting at a later date
when the details of county road
improvements could be presented
in a more comprehensive form.
In the meantime an effort will be
made to secure definite informa-
ton as to the exact location of
the state road north from
Whitebird, which will materially
simplify the work of several dis
tricts in determining their esti-
mates.
During the meeting many talks
were made on good roads and
bonding matters and it was gen.
orally conceded that a half
million dollar bond would not be
sufficient to take care of all the
necessary road improvements in
the various parts of the county.
Just how the question will be
finally decided is hard to deter
mine, though several solutions
are offered, among them being
the following: Bonding for suffi-
cient to construct our part of the
state highway and allowing the
districts to take care of their own
roads in any manner they see fit;
bonding the county for million
dollars to build the state road and
al! other needed roads in the
county; letting the state, with
federal aid, build the state road
and each county be required by
the state to pay its just portion
of the expense as determined by