The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-02-24
CONTINUE WORK
ON BOND ROADS
Perfect Surface Being
Made on County
Highways
RENTING TRUCKS
Public Asked to Take
Care and Keep
Out of Ruts

The plans for Bingham county
bond roads call for the completion
of about 104 miles of grades and
nearly all of it has been done. The
work of covering the surface or Of
giving it the final covering with the
grader and rolling down and packing
it is not all completed.
An eight-hOrse team is operating
a grader between" the Power county
line to Sterling to give the surface of
the grade the correct form so it will
drain readily. The travel by the pub
lie is expected to be spread all over
the full amount of the grade so it
will be packed all alike. If the travel
should string aong in one pace it
would form ruts and the water would
soak in at the ruts instead Of drain
ing off over the sides, then soft places
would be formed and the grade
would not have full strength as it
would otherwise have.
An eight-horse team is operating
grader on the section between Sterl-
his mind at this period of his life.
between Blackfoot and Thomas; an
eight-horse team between Blackfoot
and Gibson, and when that section is
finished it will do some work on
that road between the rivers. A
tractor with a grader attached is
grading the road southwark from the
Bonneville county line towards
Blackfoot.
Tha &c ly,,o iel, m Iie
tribute the travel over the full width
of the grades and not to travel in
ruts. The roads belong to the people
and now comes the test of self inter-
est when the people show either that
they are willing to protect the roads
by keeping out of the ruts.
until recently The Republican Of
fee has not been informed as to what
the plan of the 4v20 road work
would be. We assumed that more
grading would be done because al
most half of the bond money still re-
manned to be spent. But we are in
formed that the rest of the money
will be expended as follows: Twenty
iron and steel bridges will be built
across canals. Ten of these will be in
district No. | three or four of which
will span Sand creek. Five other
bridges will be built in district No.
2 and five in district No. 3. Three or
four will be built across the lowline
canal in the Aberdeen district, one
or two across the Danskin ditch east
of Moreland and one with thirty
foot span will be built across the
American Falls or Peoples canal |
west of Thomas opposite the j. H.
Merrill farm.
In district No. there has been
constructed about ninety culverts and
siphons. In district No. 2 about |
eighty have been built and in dis
trict No. 3, 175. These structures |
vary in cost from $10S to $3.50.
On the road between Springfield
and Pingree there is gang of men
putting in twelve pipes to carry
water across the road for irrigation
purposes. A bridge gang is working
on the road near Moreland and will |
finish the work this week. Another
crew is working between Pingree |
and Thomas, constructing eight 81
phons and culverts.
Fifteen freight cars are in the SER
vice hauling gravel from Moreland to
Aberdeen. Claassen & Co. are haul
ing gravel from Aberdeen to top coat
stretch of road one and half |
miles in extent leading southwark |
from Aberdeen and another one and |
half miles leading northward from
the town.
The city and county will join
forces in building bitulithic paving !