East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-04-01
GRANT HIGHWAY



road in IN northern part OF Illinois. ]
it was successful in getting all ;of the
road on the state bond issue system |
of trunk line highways. voted by the |
people of this state in November. |
1918. and now under construction.
The paving contracts on the Grant
Highway have been let all the way
from Chicago to Stockton. a dist
ance of nearly $50 miles. and the
state highway department plans to-
have the concrete paving completed
all the way from Lake Michigan to
the Mississippi river by the fall of
1929.
During the war there was a move
ment along the Hawkeye Highway.
Extending across Iowa from Dubuque
to Sioux City in nearly a straight
line. by way of Waterloo. Fort Dodge
and Cherokee. and twenty or thirty
other towns. to have the Grand High
way absorb that route of travel.
Soon after the Armistice was signed
this consolidation of the two orga-
nizations was effected, and in 1919
the Grant Highway was extended
across northern Nebraska by way OF
Laurel. Randolph. Plainview, o'Neill.
Valentine. Gordon. Chadron, Craw-
ford and Harrison and the length of
the great valley of Wyoming by way
lof Lusk. Douglas. Casper. Shoshoni.
lRiverton and Lander and then up
1.-THE Wind River road by way of Du-
bois over the continental divide and
into the Jackson Hole country under
the shadow of the Teton mountains
just south of the Yellowstone Park
In the year 1922 further exten
Ision is being carried out through Te.
ton pass into Idaho and across tha
state by way of st. Anthony, Idaho
, Falls, Blackfoot. Pocatello. American
Falls, Twin Falls, Mountain Home
Boise, and Caldwell to Ontario, Ore
gon. crossing the Snake river by I
good bridge at the last named plac'
Into Oregon.
The national government is i'm
proving the road through the Tetol
Pass, just as 1t has improved tn
road for couple of hundred mile
lin Western Wyoming. because thi
part of the route of travel lies Il
forest resolves and comes unde
federal jurisdiction SO far as high
way construction and maintenance
4 are concerned.
In Idaho. from the Wyoming stat
line to point north of st. Anthony
the Owyhee highway is followed an
from that point to the Oregon line
n what Is known in that part of tn
country as the Idaho-P Pacific, high
lway. The latter traverses the fam
GUS valley of the Snake river wher
!. Iwater power and irrigation have de
!. lveloped what is perhaps the mos
h prosperous and substantial commun
: Ity in the Rocky Mountain district
$ land where thousands of people fror
e the east are each year finding tn
land of their dreams. The road acros
this state is being improved in
thoroughgoing way under the plan
of the state highway department q
I Boise. 1t rs q good road now, be
tween number of large towns wher
Accommodations and convenience
are as good as anywhere in. the Eas
or on the Pacific coast.
But it is in Oregon that the sur
: prise of q lifetime awaits the toul
ist on the Grant Highway route c
y travel, If he is not well acquainte
: with his America. After the reade
n has crossed the Snake river by tn
J. bridge just east of Ontario and is 6
!. last in Oregon, let him read the fo
I lowing extracts from letter recei,
9 ed from the Oregon State Highwa
: Department.
Happily the proper route for tn
: Grant Highway comedies with whs
we consider to be our second mos
e important cross-state rote, the mo!
q Important from our standpoint be
$ ing the north and south highwa
which we call the Pacific Highway
y The fact that the proper route is Q
major Importance as state high
! lway, has made it possible for us t
. expend approximately fifteen millio
dollars in its improvement, an
) makes it a link in the Grant High
way which, we believe, is second t
2 none between Chicago and the coast
The total length of the rout
from the Idaho state line to the Pa
5 cific coast at Seaside, which is II
Y logical terminus, is $40 miles, Q
which distance 225 miles are pave
and 220 miles macadamized, the bal
ance of the mileage to be completes