The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1921-12-16
COMMUNICATIONS.
Editor, Leavenworth Echo.
Dear Sir:

Editor, Leavenworth Echo.
Dear Sir:
| noted statement in the Wenat-
chee Daily Worlt of the 18th iast.
that the delegates sent to Wenatchee
t1om the CONNER cial Club of Leav-
onworth to ascertain from the com
rissioners why the road on the sout
ioe of the river leading from Leg
enwortb to Pesaastin had not 6ear
graded and hard surfaced as pr1.r-
lsed,-had come away satisfied with
the assurance that all the mo1ev
! from the bond issue had been dis Il
pated on Improvements between
Cashmere and Wrnatchee. barring -
small sum spent near Chelan and that
with few thousand dollars which
were being spent widening the 70 d
around and above rock cut no further
improvement nee be looked for on
this road. If the delegation was sd
isfied with this statement the citizens
of Leavenworth do not favor TIL.
views and should insist on a compl te
fulfillment of promises made by le
commissioners.
DO not let us f. rget that the II e
thousand inhabit It's in and around
Leavenworth are laying great po =
tion of the bonds, the money from
which the commissioners have spen =
not to make good ingress and eyre $
to ropulous community like lie "
enworth, but on a section of road
which heretofore has had the lions
share of all road improvements in
Chelan county. The commissioners no
doubt can produce a volume of tax
figures and arguments in support of
their contention that they have done
the right thing; we however, who at
times travel from Leavenworth to
Wenatchee, can see what has and has
not been done, in the different sec
tions, and fully realize that we have
been cheated out of our brthright.
Reading from the files of the Leaven-
bond issue were that 100000 were to
be used for the purpose of hard sur
facing highway from the city limits
of Leavenworth to the city limits of
Wenatchee. Herein lies the joker.
The cloven hoof of the lawmaker no
doubt hailing from Wenatchee, made
the loophole so big that all the com
missioners could crawl through, and
spend the money on whatever part o.
the road that they chose, with i'm
punity and they have notably availed
themselves of this magnanimous op-
portunity. Just so long as the COM
missioner for this district has his
home and large interests in Cashmere.
just so long may we expect our
money to be spent for the betterment
of the roads around that section.
We will grant that very few
thousand dollars have been spent on a
new bridge built this fall across tn
Wenatchee river on the road leading
through the Cascade orchards. Bear
in mind that the bridge at this point
had been condemned as unsafe for
heavy traffic some considerable time
before any action was taken by tho
commissioners to have it strengthene
or repaired, showing that the work
had to be done and its doing was no
credit to the commissioners.
am not conversant with the
amount which this bridge cost. but i
was infnitismal compared with the
bridge at Cashmere, with moner
which you and | of Leavenworth must
pay goodly amount. A bridge ad
equate for all purposes could have
been built at this point for half the
amount and the balance of the none"
spent where it rightfully belongs
Again we will no doubt be told that
the new bridge across Ingals Creek i
in the Leavenworth district and COS
with approachea $4,000. This.
gentlemen, is part of the state high
way, who pay half of this i'm
provement.
1t is plain that our hope of saliva
tion lies in having someone from our
own district represent us on the com
mission board, who will insist on ouf'
just rights and see that we get them.
| will not, Mr.. Editor, trespass fur
ther on your time and space in this
issue of your valued paper I would
request, however, the privilege Of
space in your next issue for a fulther
discussion of this subject.
A Recalcitrant