The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-10-05
SECURE RIGHT OF WAY
FOR MISSION FLAT ROAD
MAY HOLD UP CONSTRUCTION
PUBLICITY PROGRAM
is OUTLINED.

Although the contract has been lei
and the contractor is ready to begin
work on the road around Mission flat
it now develops that the right of way
has not been secured and unless this
is secured very soon. il is probable
that the construction OF this important
section of road may have to go over
for another year. The situation was
brought to the attention of the board
of trade yesterday by f. E. Stone, sec
rotary of the Shoshone Good Roads as
ISOLATION. 1t appears from Mr.. Stones
statement that when the Mission flat
project was first taken up. the COM
missioners of Occur dAlene Valley
Highway district in Kootenai county
assured w. J. Hall, state commission
er of public works. that they would Sc
cure the right of way for the proposed
road. Now that the contract has been
awarded it is found that nothing has
been done toward securing the right of
way and that the chairman of the
Occur d'Alene Valley Highway district.
Mr.. Young, of Dudley who was not a
commissioner when the agreement was
made. says that he knows nothing
about it and so far does not seem dis
posed TO carry it out So far as known
at this time, there is no difficulty in
securing the right of way except across
the land owned by w. r. Mullen and
Lookout" Johnson. and Mr. Stone was
Of the opinion that satisfactory
agreement could be reached with them
if the matter was taken up with them
by the commissioners of the highway
district. Mr. Stone said that the con-
tract cost of the road would be S69. 1000.
not dollar of which would come from
the highway district, although the dis
trict and particularly the settlers along
the line would be the chief benefciar-
les What he desired was that the
board of trade send representatives to
interview Mr. Young and other mem
bers of the highway board and endeav-
or to induce them to comply with the
to procure the right of way.
This met with unanimous approval
and a motion to that effect by d. A.
Callahan was carried. Mr. Stone
agreed to take the delegation down. |
Herman ]. Rossi was proposed as one |
of the delegation, and he replied that |
he would be going. over the road the /
next day and would stop and confer |
with Mr.. Mullen and Mr.. Johnson. but |
would not be be able to act further
Publicity Program.
f. f. Mackey, chairman of the pub
lefty committee, reported that his
had met and decided upon
4 publicity program for the coming
year. The first work to be taken up
would be the publication of a pam
billet giving a brief history of the min
ng operations in the district, statis-
les of mineral production, with spe-
'ial appeal to miners to come to the
occur dAlenes. the pamphlet to be il
ustrated by scenic and mining views
# the district. Mr.. Mackey said that
he committee felt that as Wallace
vas the business center of the Occur
'Alene district, the business men OF
his city should take up this line of
first and whatever benefits X
ollowed would be shared by the en-
ire district. After this and whenever
he board felt justified in doing so the :
ommittee recommended that special .
should be prepared in the in :
crest of Wallace .
Mr. Mackey said that while it was
OF a subject that properly belonged .
) his committee, the question of ar .
angling for employees of the mines on d.
anyon creek to live in Wallace was
the matter being suggested
y the action of the Tamarack & Gus J
r company in securing No. tunnel
the Standard Mammoth for per- :;
anent outlet on Canyon creek. He
lggested that a meeting of all COM !
ittees be called to consider this and {
her matters with the view to outline !:
lie work for the year
President Hanley stated that with {.
speot TO the last suggestion ne would j
on call a meeting of all committee I
iairmen with the request that as I
any. members as possible attend also. 1
Fords Lead in Tourist Camp. !
Judge d. II. belong announced that &
ring the past four months 2S77 cars !
d stopped at the tourist camp. and (.
these 1921 were Fords. !.
Buy at Home. !.
Samuel Meyers appealed to the
ard of trade to be more aggressive in :
vocacy of buying at home, and his y
ailments were apparently approved I