The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-05-10

strikes the embankment, as planned,
it will automatically turn the car
toward the center of the grade. They
will also build strong rail to save
cars from going OF of the grade,
II the enbankment does not save
them. At the south end Of the
bridge the bitulithic paving will be
built to connect with the flooring Of
the bridge and on a level with 1t.
The beam reaching across the track
now, that bounces all vehicles, will
be on the level with the paving when
completed.
A contract has been let for paw
ing North Main street out past the
sugar factory, to the sugar house
switch. The city and county are
trying to make arrangements to lay
bitulithic paving on South Broad
way to the Blackfoot river. The
steel bridge over the Blackfoot is to
be turned so that it lines with the
road. The sandy section and those
sections that pulverize and become
dusty, on the road between the Black
foot river and the Fort Hall
macadam are to be top-coated with
gravel.
The road from the sugar house
crossing to the Porterville bridge is
just about graded and will be top
coated with gravel.
| Two and half miles on the Rich
lane are being graveled, and little
over half of it is completed.
The road connecting with the
Riverside road quarter of mile
west of Snake river bridge, and ex-
tending two miles north, is being
graded and will be graveled later in
the season.
Up at KimbalI, where the road
goes across the canal and there has
always been a steep hill, there is a
high hill on the east side of the rail-
road track and arrangements have
been made with the railroad COM
pany to permit the removal of the
hill on the east side Of the track and
build 1t into wide grade from the
canal north, so that the HILL instead
of being short and steep, will be a
long easy grade. Just south of Kim
ball road is being graded east to
the foot hills, and this goes on over
Presto bench to Wolverine canyon
and over the range into Willow
Creek. 1t is expected that this road
will all be in good condition by the
first of July, and some of the local
boosters are planning to have a big
picnic and excursion to Willow creek
by automobile on July 70.
J. D.. Pratt is still grading on the
Firth-Presto road and has three and
half miles completed. They are
top-coating it with clay and gravel
on all the sandy sections and the
sections where it pulverises easily.
The road from Firth to Snake
river bridge is completed. The road
from the railroad track, above Firth.
and leading eastward to Goshen, has
all been graded, and two and three
fourths miles of it has been graveled.
There Is still two and a quarter
miles to be graveled. The bridges
are all completed on the Shelley
Woodville road and all but two small n
culverts have been put in on the
road beyond Moreland. On the line
between Thomas and Aberdeen about
eighty bridges, culverts and siphons
have been built. On the road be-
tween the rivers some high bridges
are being taken out, the grade cut
thru on level and siphons put in to
conduct the water under the road.
On the twenty-fourth Of May the
county commissioners will receive
bids for the construction of twenty
steel and concrete bridges. Ten Of
these will be in commissioners dis
trict No. (north end Of county,:
i've of them will be in district No. 2,
which Is the middle Of the county:
and five in district No. 8, the south
End Of the county.