The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1922-12-01
UTAH COUNTY
NEWS PARAGRAPHS
Clipped From The Columns
of Neighboring Papers.

Satisfactory progress is being made
on the Moscow Bovill state highway
in this district east of Deary. The
right-of-way has all been cleared and
the first half mile of the road will
practically be completed today by
the grading crew. Up to this time
most of the work has consisted of
putting bridges and clearing the
right-of-way. The open weather win
enable the workmen to keep things
going in good shape and it is thought
that the road can be made available
for use as sled road this winter.
Highway District No. 4 has started
work on the Helmer end of the road,
to connect just west Of that point
with this districts operations. Dist
rict 4 has already completed the
road from Helmer to Bovill. BY next
year District 8 hopes to be able to
commence work on the state high
way west of Deary, to join the east
ern end in the Troy district at Dry
Creek.
The right-of-way for the road in
this district has been somwhat cost
ly, but in the main the owners of
the land crossed by the road did not
receive excessive amounts when all
is considered. The individual dam
age in some cases was considerable
= Practically the whole map as regards
roads will be changed on this five
mile strip and some of the land own
ers will have to make expensive read
justments. However, it is admitted
that the road is being put where it
belongs. 1t will become permanent
highway and one of the finest and
most useful thoroughfares in Latah
county.
In spite of numerous complaints of
one kind and another it must be ad-
mitted that since the organization
of the highway districts this part of
Latah county is getting lot of good
roads, which would not have been the
case had matters been left as they
were before. We have built for our
selves more and better roads during
the past four years than all the
boards of county commissioners for
the previous 80 years had built for
us, or would have built for us in the
next 80 years, as things had been go
ing. Maybe the board did pay stiff
prices for some of the rights-of-way
but no doubt the same strips would
have cost more ten or even five years
hence, and the country is getting the
roads now at the time they are Wit
ally needed to aid development
-Deary Press.
The beavers in the mill ditch ir
the city park are again causing
trouble. The animals have construc
ted seven dams in the mill race il
the lower end of the park, and de
spite the work of Street Commission
er Frank Taylor to destroy the dams
the busy little creatures get busy a
night and rebuild them. They ha,
damned the ditch so effectively tina
the water had been turned from it
channel and spread over the roa'
near the culvert in the lower end O
the park. Mr.. Taylor says that the
have placed rocks on one of tn
dams that he thinks will easil
weigh 20 pounds, and how the littl
animals get them there he can
understand. Mr.. Taylor has turne
the water out of the mill ditch at tn
head gate in the hope that the animal
will move their location. The onl
way to get rid of them, it seems,
to capture them, and a permit to
so has been applied for. from tn
game department and it is expecte
that they will be trapped later. The
have been doing considerable dan
age in the park for the past two {
three years.-Juliaetta Record.
Residents of Troy are enjoyin
radio concerts this week. A.
Dunkle has brought his receiving ou
fit from Kendrick, while engaged
his line of work in the village, ar
the same is installed at the Troy Tt
ephone office. Quite number gath
at the office each evening to get
on the entertainment. Reports ha'
been received from Los Angelo
Portland Seattle Spokane Deny
and Toledo. We understand N
Solberg is figuring pretty strong
getting>a outfit of his own.
Troy New
j. l.. Johnson of American rid,
was Lewiston visitor last Sunda