The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1917-03-29
NEW ROAD DESIGNATIONS

has made the follow .ag designations
Of highway routes TO be embraced in
the STATE System OF Permanent High
ways.
All the roads embraced in the state
bondins act as Post Roads or Forest
Roads, as the Ease may be; roads de-
signated in the Act as Paved Roads
are designated by the Commission as
Post Roads, pending the vote of
the people on the bonding act; if the
people fail to ratify the bonding act.
the Post Roads" designation to con-
tinue, as there will be no money for
paving; if the people adopt the bond
act, the designation of Paved
Roads" will be the law.
In addition to the roads embraced
in the bonding act, the commission
has designated the following as Post
Roads, Forest Roads and one Mill
tary Road:
Mt. Hood Loop, Forest Road from
Columbia Highway at Hood River to
join with the Barlow Road where it
crosses the Cascade Mountains south
of Mt. Hood.
Barlow Road, Forest Road from
Oregon City up the Clackamas River
through Government Camp South of
Mt. Hood to connect with post road
at Maupin.
Emigrant Trail Road, Post Road
from Wasco In Sherman County east
to Echo in Umatilla County. This
designation leaves the Columbia
Highway proper as designated Post
Road along the river from Biggs to
Arlington.
Forest Road in Morrow County,
south Of Heppner to Ritter in Nor
row County.
Forest Road from Enterprise to
Flora in Wallowa County.
Post Road from Baker eastward
through Pine Valley and Eagle VAL
ley to Cornucopia in Baker County.
Post Road southwest from Baker
to join Post Road at Unity in Baker
County
Post Road south from Burns via
Narrows in Harney County, south
west via Warner Lake to Plush in
Lake County. and westward in Lake
County to Post Road connecting
Bend and Lakeview.
Post Road from Klamath Falls in
Klamath County to Lakeview in Lake
County.
Forest Road from Ashland to Kla-
math Falls.
Forest Road from Grants Pass,
southwest through Josephine County
up the Illinois Valley to the Califor-
MIA Line, connecting with the Cali
fornia Highway leading to Crescent,
California.
Forest Road from the Pacific High
way to Jackson County through the
Applegate Valley to connect with the
Grants Pass-Crescent Highway.
Post and Forest Road from Marsh
field through Bandon in Coos Coun-
ty along the Pacific Ocean in Curry
County to the California Line, to con-
meet with California Coast Highway
through Crescent and Eureka.
Forest Road from Springfield
southeast up the middle fork of the
Willamette River in Lane County
across the Cascade Mountains into
Klamath County to connect with the
Post Road from Bend to klamath
Falls.
Post Road from Albany west thru
Corvallis and Benton and Lincoln
counties to Newport.
| Post Road connecting Salem with
Dallas and independence.
Military Road from Florence In
Lane County north along Pacific
Ocean through Newport and Lincoln
County and Tillamook County to con-
1ect with Post Road from McMinn-
Vile to Tillamook.
The foregoing designations, while
| fllcial, are tentative, made at this
me in conference with T. S, Govern
lent officials to conform with Gov
rnment requirements that a COM
lete state hiehway system be desi-
mated by each state as a condition
{ participating in the benefits of the
ederal appropriations made by the
Shackleford Act. The designations
are subject to later rivision by the
Commission also as to exact location
in the several counties after public
hearings have been held by the Com
mission with the county authorities
to make final determination as to
exact routing.
map showing these designations,
comprising the complete state high
way system, is being prepared by c.
| G. Chapman, Editor of the Oregon
Voter, and will be published stimuli
taneously in the Gazette-Times and