Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1922-11-02
COUNTY WORK
Is CHEAPER
B. BR0DY SAYS COUNTY is
CRAWLING ROADS AT COST
OF 50 CENTS PER YARD
CLOSED POUCH MAIL SECURED
Westinghouse Electric Co. Represen-
tative Praises City Power Plant.

Inc regular Monday night meeting
OF the kootenai Valley Commercial
Club was an interesting one and was
well attended
AT previous meeting the matter of
asking the customs collector for this
district TO keep customs official at
all times at Porthill was brought up
and committee was appointed to
present the request to Customs Col
lector Roberts, of Helena, Mont. He
wrote the club that the regular Off
Ger, Vern Harroun, was only tempor-
arily stationed in Montana and that
he would soon be sent back to Port
hill and that in the meantime. Cana
dian tourists could register at Spo-
kane or Eastport.
A letter was also read by Secretary
Palmer from George II. Addleman.
chief of the railway mail service. in
answer to the request of the COM
mercial club for a closed mail pouch
I service from Bonners Ferry to Spo-
kane. Mr.. Addleman wrote that he
would be glad to give this service To
. Bonners Ferry and Postmaster Wiley
! stated that the service would begin
! November /.
Road matters in the county were
discussed by County Commissioner
Welch and County Auditor j. B.
Brody. Mr.. Welch stated that the
commissioners were insisting upoi.
| specifications in connection with pro-
posed road construction by the state
and federal government, which would
provide for standard grades and
widths and in addition, trenched road
4 peas TO prevent the scattering and
loss of gravel, and also the placing
Cf finer gravel He stated that the
new specifications are calling for
gravel small enough to pass an inch
ana quarter screen. Mr.. Welch said
that the plans and specifications for
the proposed ten miles of hard sur
facing on the North and South High
way between Bonners Ferry ana
copeland, had not been sent here as
yet from Boise and that he did NOT
KNOW what the specifications were.
County Auditor Brody stated that
the maintenance work on the road
from Bonners Ferry south to the Bon
ner county line, was being done en-
tirely at the expense of the state and
that $4,000 would be used in putting
this road in shape. He said that the
/ road engineers believed that the us-
ing of dirt for a binder on the road
would prove successful.
He told of the work the county
commissioners were doing in connec-
ton with the graveling of the south
river road below Bonners Ferry. us
ing the new county rock crusher The
road is being trenched and founda-
tlon OF large gravel is being used and
rs BEING covered with about six inches
OF line gravel for a binder He said
that on Monday the county crew had
placed l3O yards of gravel on the road
at a cost of about so cents a ward
and that this same kind of work has
been costing the county $3.50 ward
when done by contract. Mr.. Brody
said that the county crusher and ma
chinery will easily put out gravel at
from 90 to rs cents a yard.
Mr. Brody also stated that the good
roads committee of the commercial
club had ordered a number of heavy
metal road signs which would be
placed on the county roads early in
The spring. He said that representa-
tives of the Bureau of Public Roads
from Missoula, Mont, had recently
been here to inspect the roads from
Bonners Ferry to Eastport and that
II is quite evident that the govern
ment plans to do some extensive road
building next year either by way of
Round Prairie or Meadow Greek.
through to Eastport.
Mr. Aspingwall, representative of
the Westinghouse Electric Co. was
present and congratulated the city OF
Bonners Ferry on the near completion
OF the new city power plant at Moyie
Springs, saying that the plant was the
most modern in the country and that
II could be operated at a very slight
expense and that it had been built so
that new units could be added as
needed at very slight expense. He
complimented the members of the
town board on their business judg-
ment in looking forward to future
needs of the community in making
their plans for the new power plant
and also complimented Manager II. H.
Hughes upon the thoroughness and
practical ability he had displayed in
experimenting the construction work
DIR. Cornwall. the new Boy Scout
Executive for Boundary and Bonner
counties, told of the need for more
Boy Scout workers and urged all club
members to try to learn more about
the work