The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1919-04-05
NO Time LOST
IN ROAD WORK
SECURING OF RIGHTS OF WAY
PROGRESSING RAPIDLY
IN COUNTY
Chewelah Chamber of Commerce
Votes to Pay Half of the
Expense

There is nothing slow about the
way road matters in Stevens county
have been progressing this spring
On Thursday, March 27, the date
of the meeting of the Colville and
Chewelah Chambers of Commerce in
Chewelah, the county commission
ers with Assistant State Highway
Commissioner H. J. Doolittle and
other road boosters began to Sc
cure the right of way for the ex-
tension of the state road to Che
welah, for which $3SO,OOO is avail
able. By Saturday night most of it
was secured at an expense of nearly
81 900.
On Saturday evening, March 29,
the commissioners met with the
Chewelah Chamber of Commerce
and informed that body that owing
to the fact that the state road ap-
preparation of S380,00O had been
much greater amount than antiei-
pated, $4,000 having been expected,
purchase of the right of way had
not been sufficiently provided for in
the tax levies and that road work
in the county would have to be cur
tailed if the county should bear the
total expense. The commissioners
asked the Chewelah Chamber of
Commerce to pay one-half of this
expense and the organization with
out hesitation voted to do this.
This generous action on the part
of the Chewelah Chamber of Com
merce is in line with the usual at
titude Of the Chewelah business
men. Their organization is be-
coming widely recognized for its
progressive, liberal policies and it's
efficiency in accomplishing things
worth while. Another significant
fact which shows the spirit in the
county regarding the good roads
movement is the response of the
people along the road from whom
rights of way We're secured. They
were found to be very fair and lib
eral in their prices. Lieut.. RowelI,
representative of the state in Sc
curing right of way, proved to be
most diplomatic and efficient in this
work.
State Highway Commissioner J.
Allen has earned the gratitude of
the people of Stevens county be-
cause of his generous treatment of
this county in the matter of state
and federal aid. At the meeting in
Spokane Saturday, March q, when
Commissioners Henry Hughes and
Clair Hunt met with Mr. Allen,
Frank w. Guilbert, president of the
Eastern Washington Good Roads as
sociation, and Assistant State High
way Commissioner Doolittle, Ste
vens county was most literally dealt
with. The $36O,OOO already pro-
vided for the Inland Empire high
way was supposed to be sufficient
for construction to Chewelah, al
though it was not certain whether
or not this amount would be enough.
The county commissioners proposed
to set aside $4,000 of the perma-
nent highway fund and Commission
er Allen added a like amount of
federal aid funds which increased
the appropriation to $380,OOO and
removed all doubt Of the road reach
ing Chewelah. 1t was also ar
ranged with Mr.. Allen that the re-
mainder of this years permanent
highway fund, about $4,000, would
be expended on state highway No.
%, the Columbia river road, this
year, and next year there would be
expended on that road $4,000 state
appropriation, about 100000 county
permanent high fund and $4,000
federal aid money, which sum would
build the road within a few miles
of Clifford. The liberality of State
Highway Commissioner Allen is
much appreciated, especially SO,
when it is remembered that every
county in the state is asking federal
aid funds.
No time is being lost in starting
work on the Aladdin road. On
Monday of this week Commissioner
Hunt and Paul LaPlant, road fore
man in charge of the work, in
spected the road preparatory to be-
ginning activities. Work has now
begun with a small crew, which will
be increased later Over 10000
cedar poles are cut and ready to be
hauled on this road as soon as i'm
provements can be completed. 1t
is expected that the improvements