Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1922-09-14

TO BE LET SOON
SEVENTEEN MILES OF NEW ROAD
ASSURED FOR BOUNDARY
COUNTY THIS YEAR
TO GET STATE AND FEDERAL AID
County Commissioners Buy New Rock
Crusher- State Crusher Here.

Within the next ten days or two
weeks contracts will be let for con-
siderable amount of new roads in
northern Idaho, according TO state
ment made today by G. j. Chaffins,
state engineer in charge of mainte-
nance work on state highways in the
ten northern counties, and it is prob
able that contracts will be let for the
building of II miles or more of state
and federal roads in Boundary county
The bureau of public roads for this
district, with headquarters at Mis-
soula, Mont, will open bids on Sept.
25 for the construction of seven miles
of the Moyie project on the Roosevelt
highway. The contract has already
been let for the construction of a new
steel bridge across the Moyie river
on this project and actual work on the
bridge will begin next week. Bids will
also be opened on Sept 25 for the con-
struction of seven miles of road on
the Kootenai-Cabinet road in Bonner
county; for seven miles of road on
the Mission flats on the Coeur d'Alene
to Wallace road and four miles of
road in the Wolf Lodge district on
the east shore of Occur d'Alene Lake.
The federal and state governments
will cooperate with Boundary cuunty
in the construction OF some ten mics
of road on the North and South High
way from Bonners Ferry to PUstnill
Surveyors are now on the ground and
ID. p Olsen, head of the state iIigh-
way department, announced Gpon his
recent visit here that bids would be
called for at once on this project and
the work started this fall. This road
st,st,. fo.,
$4,000 and will connect with two
mile strip of road leading north from
Bonners Ferry which is just being
completed by Contractor Boomer and
which will eliminate a heavy grade
which has been a terror to autoists
and teams hauling heavy loads The
new road will shorten the present
highway by between four a n five
miles, the distance saved being suffi-
cient to more than offset the cost of
a new right-of-way in sections.
The Boundary county commission
ers recently purchased a $500 port
able rock crusher which arrived this
week and which is being installed on
the old William Bunting place, west
of Bonners Ferry. The new crusher
is fully guaranteed and will be ready
for operation in ten DAYS when it is
proposed to start the graveling of such
county roads as do not receive state
or federal aid. The commissioners be-
lieve that with the new rock crusher
and the road building equipment the
county owns in addition to it, they
will soon be able to hard-surface all
the main roads of Boundary county.
The county owns trucks and other ma
chimes and equipment w h c ii were
purchased from the government for
just about enough to pay for freight
charges.
The state highway department has
m a portable rock crusher in /
Boundary county which will be used /
in preparing fine gravel surface for !
the road between Bonners Ferry and !
the Boundary Bonner county line, a
distance of IS miles. At the time of I
the construction of this road a year
ago it was hard-surfaced with coarse |
gravel. This gravel made service
able roadbed but would not bind prop /
erly and the state will now re-crush |
the loose rock small enough to pass
a three-quarters inch mesh screen. A |
fine binder will be used with the re-
crushed rock in surfacing The work |
of re-surfacing this road will start |
next week, said Engineer Chaffins.