The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-08-08
ROAD GANGS WORK
ING MANY SECTIONS
" hole Organization
Getting Down to
Real I cam Work
VISITORS COMING

The grading Of the county roads
preparatory to- covering with gravel
~ proceeding insa2do1en sections thru
- county and II, progressing en-
specifically.
On the Bridge street road west OF
0ackf0ot the grade will be finished
from the city limits to the railroad
tracks near the Snake river bridge
~ Saturday the eleventh. The grade
between the railroad tracks and the
4 bridge has been raised and widened
fO make easy travelling for all time.
The danger from the high grade and
4 the narr0Wness OF It at the railroad
u crossing has been remedied. The
approaches to the bridge at both ends
have been torn out and are being re-
built with steel and concrete. It has
always been impossible to keep them
IN condition using wooden girders
and planks on the slope.
The trucks hauling clay to mix
with the gravel on the road to River
side have been loading back with
black sand and spreading It for a
wearing coat on the Moreland road
from the bridge north and west
The loading station has been built
ct the gravel pit near the Riverside
Thomas cemetery, and will be. ready
for use Tuesday.
The Yuba tractor and scarifier are
soaring the road leading into
Thomas ready for the grading.
Wherever there are rocks in the road
the grade will be built UP above them
If practical, so they will never wear
the tires and the grade will not,
gather snow in winter.
Montgomery and Naillon are OPP
Grating grading outfits in the Pin
gree district, the Springfield work is
progressing, and the graders work
ing up from Aberdeen are within
mile and a half OF Sterling.
The application for change in the
route thru Grandview was rejected
but an order was made to grade two
miles of road to connect Grandview
with the hfghway on the east to con
meet with Sterling.
A meeting of people of Moreland
decided to open new route to
Riverside leading straight south from
the Moreland depot, but there are
difficulties about the right of way,
and now a, remonstrance Is opposing
the new line, and it may be that the
improved road will lead north from
Peterson's store.
In the northern end of the county,
Contractor Hansen Is grading on the
Firth Goshen road, Mccullough and
Hurst are working on the Shelley
nnchny, coOfinn Mr. O,N sc,x two
with his force on the Shelley-Wood-
willie section.
Superintendent w C. Stone will
take couple of days off to show his
wife and daughter an auto trip thru
the upper valley to the Yellowstone
park, but he will not accompany
them thru the park. He has the
work well in hand now and says he
wants to stay on the job and keep 1t
going for all there is in it, and in
doing. that he is considering the ad-
vantage it will be for every mile of
completed road he gets ironed down
for use in the fall hauling.
Next week is the time the commits
sioners from several other counties
have engaged to 60 over Bingham
county and study road work as it is
done land study the system of ac-
counting to show where each dollar
is spent and what district it is
charged against in the division be-
tween localities. Bingham county
gave a high vote for the bonds, it
sold it's bonds for high price, it has
spent 10 per cent of the money for
machinery to work with. and the Of
ficials of other counties are coming
to see what they think Of the way
matters are moving.