Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1921-10-20
million MORE.
FOR ROADS IN.
IDAHO, PLAN.
Measure Providing Fedora
Aid Passes Senate, and Is
Up for House Consideration
If Bill Passes Congress II
Will Mean Completion of
North and South Highway
FINISH HIGHWAY

o Booth & johnson, contractors, @
o have just finished the Grange @
(. Vile Whitebird link of the North @
o and South highway, and have O
o broken camp. @
@ The firm has been working all O
g summer, completing the road. @
o The contract called for placing o
o four miles of macadam on the o
o Grangeville end of the read, trim o
g ming slopes, ditching at the sides 8
(. of the road, and removing rock @
@ slides which occurred last spring. o
O Contract for building the road (.
@ between Grangeville and White @
o bird was originally let to j. A. o
O Hoskins & Co., who began work @
O in January, 1919, and we're to o
o have completed the highway by @
@ July /, 1920 Financial Difficult @
o ties brought about several changes 9
o in contractors for the road. O
9 Booth & johnson were finally en- o
o poyed to finish the job. @
o o o o o o o o Q. o o o o o o 8 @
Practically a round million dollars
will be Idaho share of the $751;
100000 for federal aid on highways,
should the bill now pending be-
fore congress become law. The
measure has passed the senate and is
now up for consideration before the
house of representatives
Under the new measure all high
ways in the country are divided into
two .classes-primary or Interstate
highways and secondary or inter
county roads. The bill also provides
that states shall select not to exceed
z percent of the total number of
miles of road in the state for i'm
provement.
Idaho. according to d. p. Olson, di-
rector of the bureau of highways, at
Boise, has 10000 miles of highway in
the state. Seven percent of this amount
is 1900 miles.
PRIMARY ROADS
The department has selected the
following roads as Idaho's pri-
mary system and on which the
majority of the federal funds shall be
spent: The North-Pacifc highway,
connecting MONTANA and Washington
through northern Idaho; the North
and South highway; the Idaho-Pacific
highway, traversing the state from
Wyoming to Oregon; the Idaho-Mon-
tana highway going north out of Ida
no Falls to the Montana line 1.-THE yell
lowstone park highway, forming Ida
hos entrance to the national play
ground, and the IdahoUtah highway
connecting southern Idaho with Salt
Lake.
The total length of these highways
in Idaho is about 2000 miles and it
is on these roads that most of
the federal funds will be spent. The
bill in congress provides that go per-
cent of the funds allotted to any
state be spent on primary roads.
Another new feature of the bill is
that the various states are not re-
auired to cooperate On $3.50 basis,
as stipulated in previous legislation
On federal aid for highway work. In
response to demand from President
the bill Incorporates the re-
uuirement upon the states of keeping
the highways in repair after they are
built Failure TO do this will cause
The government to place the roads in
good shape and cut off the state from
diu uhtii bhC
cost is paid.
FOREST ROADS
Forest roads also are provided for
IN the bill with an appropriation of
$4,000, 900. Idaho's share on nc
count of large forest areas would be
lbout million dollars annually.
These funds, however, must be spent
within the forest areas and are not
AVAILABLE for Improvement of post
-oads.
Sale of Idaho's two million dollar
highway bond issue recently will put
new life into construction in the
state, it is pointed out. Under
he provision of a bill of the
1921 session of the legislature, which
three-fourths of the bond
ssue to the counties of the state, 1914
percent of the issue or $250,000, is to
be spent on the North and South
highway. This amount, with federal
aid would, highway officials say, com
plete the North and South road and
make it one of the best roads in the