The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1919-10-17
BIG SUM T0bE
USED ON ROADS
State Highway Program Calls
For Expenditure of
$7,536,622

HClc 10 uoW SlluCT
ton or to be constructed during the
next IL months in the state of Idaho,
642.7 miles of state highway which
will cost, it is estimat ted, S,536,622, ac-
cording to an official announcement
by w. ]. Hall, state commissioner OF
public works.
Approximately 1000 additional miles
are under survey and will be CON
tracted during the wilmer for con-
struction during 1920 and 1921.
In addition to this road work, five
large bridges will be built across the
main Snake river between Owyhee
and Canyon, Ada and Elmore counties
at cost of approximately $500,00O
A contract on one of these, at Home
dale, has already been awarded at a
cost of $1,000, which was considerably
above the estimate. Preliminary con-
struction of substructure for a sec
ond, at Pickle Butte, has been halted
by refusal of contractors to bid upon
it because of a threatened injunction
suit against the state by persons dis
satisfied over the location chosen.
There are four main state highway
routes north and south, namely: yell
lowstone highway, Idaho Montana
highway, Sawtooth park highway and
North and South highway There are
four east and west, as follows: Idaho
Pacific, Idaho Central, Lewis and
| Clark and North Pacific.
North and South Highway.
The approximate number of miles,
type of construction and estimated
cost of sections on the various Idaho
state highways now in course of con-
struction or to be let within the next
few months is as follows:
| North and South Highway-Bound
airy county, Is miles, gravel, $l84,-
COS. so; Bonner county, 225 miles
gravel or chrushed rock, $255, 480;
Kootenai county, is miles, concrete
$50, 600; Kootenai, IFS miles, gravel
$1o7 800; Latah, 22.4 miles, crushed
rock, $306,815.4l; Latah, Ia miles
crushed rock, SOL, ALSO; Idaho, 2l7
miles, earth and crushed rock, $247.-
600; Idaho, 305 miles, Garth, $679,,
298o9; Washington, 40.5 miles, gravel
100000. Total, 1871 miles, $2,50l 1874
| Sawtooth Park Highway-Lemh
county, SO miles, earth and gravel
$306, 24l.8o; Lincoln, 8 miles, ceratI
and gravel, $4,000; Jerome, miles
earth and gravel, $4,000. Total s.
miles, 1891 ,24189.
Il Yellowstone Highway-Bonnevill'
: county, miles, concrete or botulithic
$244, 633.68; Madison, Is miles, sand
clay, $4,000; Fremont, 47.3 miles
, earth, 100000; Jefferson, rs miles
earth, $4,000; Bingham, SO miles
! concrete or bitulithic, 100000; Ban
! mock, Is miles, gravel and crushe
rock, SAG, 53368; Franklin, rs miles
: sand-clay, $4,000. Total, 1884 miles
$914, 1876.
> Idaho Pacific Highway-Payett
E1moye, 4os miles, gravel gravel $sS5slqs5
! Twin Lalls county, 14.7 miles, grave
: $136,07o.75; Twin Falls, 35.8 miles
:, Power, 1872 miles. gravel, $l8l,8le
$4,000 Total, 1861 miles, $1,903
!, 861.78
q Other Fine Roads.
Idaho Central Highway-Elmor
Z county, IA miles, crushed rock, SIS
COO; Blaine county, 80 miles, gray,
! and crushed rock, $400,O00; Butte, z
: miles,, gravel, 100000; Bonneville,
/ miles, concrete or bitulithic, $685.
Total. 60.4 miles, $768,150.
5 Lewis and Clark Highway-Idah
< county, 70 miles, earth, $ll7,300.
4 Idaho Central Highway-Bonnevil
+ county, miles, concrete or bitulithi
: $4,000.
n Roosevelt Highway Bonnevil
county, 10 miles, concrete of bitulithi
|. $3.50, 200.
,e Lost River-Custer county l9
y miles, earth, 100000.
N Gooding- Ruprt Highway-Jeron
i county, 8.3 miles, gravel, $l4s, 20n.
mi Moscow Bovill Highway = Lat;
IS county, 6 miles, crushed rock. %l ,0C
u Grand Totals; Mileage. 6247, Cos
;, 81, 536622.