The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-09-23
Plans for the Cresed
uttc-Marble Road
Are Rapidly Materializing

was the big question up at the NEE
ting of the board of County Com
missioners Tuesday.
Robert E. Pratt representative
of the Forest reserve money and
new national road funds was present
to consult with the Commissioners
about proposed roads.
He was accompanied by Super
visor Ala Simpson of the Cochetopa
forest and Supervisor w. r. Kreutzer
of the Gunnison Forest. He wanted
TO know how much money the
county could spend, how much the
stote of Colorado could give us, and
how and where we wanted the gov
ernment to match this money on n
fifty-fifty basisr The commission
ers wanted the long talked Of road
through to Marble. Commissioner
Wha!en though he would have at
least So, 900 to spend on this in 1917.
He has been doig some quiet work
with the State Highway Commission
and believed the state would help,
prehaps more than 50 900. With
an equal amount from the govern
ment this would give from s20,00
to 1000 on the road.
But declared Mr.. Pratt, who had
along all sorts of maps and seemed
to be master Of his subject, you
are asking for an appropriation Oh
two roads. the one from Crested
Butte to Bardine (Junction to the
muddy and Anthracite) is desig
mated on both state and government
maps as secondary No Go. it has
been surveyed twice and is plated
as No 63, while the road over Nc
Clure pass, Paonia to Redstone is
secondary highway No ca and has
not yet been surveyed or plated. ="
After two hours discussion from
all angles the commissioners still
still wanted to consider the Crested
Butte Somerset. Marble road RS one
project, Where up on Mr.. Pratt
laid down the word. ..You won't get
to first base if you divide your coun-
try appropriation and ask the state
and nation to match it on both
roads 63 and 64 Accordingly the
board was compelled to bunch its
requests and apply for available
state federal funds on No63 but will
endeaver to add our influence to
that of the Delta and Pitkin county
boosters who are meeting at Paeonia
Saturday with the intention of
going over the Nc Clure pass road
and making request for state and
federal aid from that end.
MIR. Pratt states that quite a bit
Of State and national money is al
ready being spent on Monarch pass
in the direct line of Gunnson county,
and they may require an additional
$500 county money from Commits
ioner Wiley's district on this side of
the pass. Work is now going for
ward upon the Chaffee county side.
where an entirely new road on a
five per cent grade has been survey
ed. 1t will be as fine an approach
as Cochetopa pass. Commissioner
Wiley has our side of the road in
good shape for some time, but this
new survey strikes the devide two
miles south, and at point 500 feet
lower and out ofthe bad snow banks.
| This will necessitate two and a
half mile connection to join the pre-
sent road lower down and reduce
the grade west by cutting out that
| 800 feet elevation.
Mr.. Pratt also stated that the de-
lay il the survey OF the Mcclure pass
road was because of lack of engineers
by both the Highway Commission
and the Forest service. However,
Commissioner Whalen seemed to
think that he had reasonable assur-
ance that this would yet be done
this fall; The D,lta and Pitkin
county boosters are alter this hard
and they are a wide-awake bunch