The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1917-03-15
|u;,, Reach Grangeville by
n New Survey to Be Made
in Few Weeks.
|,s25,oOO-AvAILABLE
r;rst Work, It Is Announced,
viii Be Between Grange
vile and Whitebird.

r,nrsdav's Tribune: Within the
..srs 1917 and 1918 the gross sum Of
;ess eSs1 000 win be expended In construc-
N ~ the north and south state high.
SsT w This expenditure will complete
i - erade the highway, the surfacing
\ 6e carried out through future ap-
rgg ghe above is briefly a concrete an
slvsis of the situation as 1t applies
4 Il this important highway, as the re-
sult n the passage by the legislature
I Il tbe million-dollar bill. The infor-
nation Is given by State Highway
engineer Eugene Booth, who reached
lewiston yesterday morning from
Portland, where he has been In con-
ference With L. /. Hewes, engineer In
charge IL the expenditure of the fed
eral post roads funds In the north
vest states.
This conference dealt principally with
The methods of making surveys to
conform with the federal and state
Standards and also with the specific
form Of cooperation on the part Of
the federal government In the con-
sruction Of the north and south road,
. for which the state bond issue of ST.
100000 carries an appropriation of
Ss75OO0
These various details having been
adjusted at the conference, Engineer
Booth was prepared yesterday to state
that the federal allotment on the por-
ton Of the highway between Grange
vile in Idaho county, and New Mead
ogs IN Washington county, will be
Sl5OO0O. Within few days a sur
yeylng crew will be put to work at
Whitebird to work toward New Mead
ows This crew will likely be under
Engineer r. II. Merrick of Weiser. 4
Mr. Booth further announced that
there will be change I'm the route of
the state highway from Whitebird to
me prairie SO that Grangeville will be
reached, whereas the present survey
misses that point five miles. The
ehange will occur ON the prairie,
swinging from Tolo lake. From
Glangeyille the survey then runs to
cottonwood. Due to weather condi-
uons, the survey for the change can
not be made probably sooner than 60
oays and this accounts for the first
crew being put in service out of White
ulru Where weather conditions along
me river would not be such as to
cause delay. The Whitebird crew
should be at work within two weeks.
ooa Mr Booth in explaining that $780,
wv VIII be available for the stretch Of
sate highway between Grangeville
ana New Meadows for the years 1917
lows: No
Federal aid $50. 900
TS.a -------------------- 2O0,OOO
1nnv ~, cuunty ------- 10000
ms stretch of state highway is APP
pioosaimately "a 80 miles In length.
al, me allotment for the stretch of
nngnway from New Meadows to
,neiser' distance of SO miles, and
,loln a1 drangeville via Lewiston to Mos
MN, NM. distance Of approximately 125
a. n,'es, is $525,000, thus making the
grand an total of $925, 900.
n " the $525,000 to be expended on
saer I stretch suh OF highway referred to,
fasoovp ~. VIII be provided by the state,
h. n's leaving $350,000 to be provided
y ~. uie counties and good roads dis
s.'s sa.' served by the road. Washington
wou,0 ,'s nov now has In its treasury for this
iss,a IN sloO,OO0, the result of bond
~ ana Adams county within 60