The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-05-16
NOW IT'S A MILLION SIX HUN
DRfD THOUSAND FOR ROAD
Original Plan Turned DOwn-Amount
:. Taxpayers Will Be Asked For.
Is Doubled

When the County Good Roads COM
mittee of thirty met in Wenatchee last
Tuesday to present the road plan to
the county commissioners and ask
them to order bond election for
eight hundred thousand dollars they
were met with proposition from
County Engineer Berry to revise their
plans and ask for bond issue of l.
100000. He presented plan under
which he stated it would be possible
to build all the main highways and
the main feeder, or county roads, of
concrete, and grade and gravel all
other roads.
The committee from Commissioners
precinct Two discovered in making
their plans to spend the $175,O0O under
the eight hundred thousand dollar
plan that if the money was equitably
divided that there would only be suf-
ficient to grade and gravel the worst
places on the county roads and leave
all roads in an uncompleted condition.
The experience of the committeeman
from precincts One and three was re-
ported to be practically the same.
Nearly every man, or at least most of
those who expressed themselves, ia
vored the larger plan of asking for one
million, six hundred thousand dollars,
for the reason that it would give Che
Ian county a first class and complete
road system in the next six or seven
years. p
This method seemed to meet with
the approval of majority and the
matter was brought to head by the
introduction of the following resolu-
ton by Mr.. Bohlke of Dryden, in Pre-
cinct two:
WHEREAS, the Committee of
commissioner District No. 2 assem-
bled at Leavenworth, May 9th 1919, to
consider the distribution of funds to
be raised by the proposed bond issue
of 100000, $500,O00 of which is for
feeder roads in the county, has pre-
pared such a plan and found to prop
erly construct and carry out suffic-
lent road system of feeder roads in
District 2 that the expense thereof
would be at least 100000 and that to
attempt to construct a satisfactory
system for the $157,000 provided by
the proposed bond issue would result
only in makeshift road system this
committee from District No. hereby
presents the following resolution:
RESOLVED, that steps be taken to
bond the county at five per cent of the
actual value, or approximately in the
amount of $1,600,000 and that the
commissioners be requested to in
struct the County Engineers office to
prepare a comprehensive plan for the
permanent improvement of the high
ways of the county to be submitted to
the people in connection with the vote
or such a bond issue.
The motion to adopt the resolution
was carried without opposition.
County Engineer Berry presented
a map ten feet square showing every
read in Chelan county with notations
showing every road proposed to be
built of concrete. A motion was made
that SO much of the original plan, that
is, that $525,OOO be divided as origi-
nally planned equally between the
three commissioners precints on the
county roads, and the balance, or
81 ,O75, 900 as might be needed to carry
out the plan presented by County En-
gineer Berry.
After the meeting adjourned
meeting of the executive committee of
nine was held and the plans prepared
for presentation to the county COM
missioners.