The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-05-10
No Other Plan Was Proposed or Consid
ered--Automobile Owners Will Profit
Through Paving--State Engineer
Explains Federal Aid

highway across the county securing heavy
cost of maintenance and after conng with representatives
the federal and government with the view to securing their
which they decided definite
road policy which they found could be carried out without imposing
additional burden upon the people and which contemplated not
the highway
available larger und Tor improving all oter roads OF the county
taking advantage federal all this could
- d h necessary 70 tnc bonded dbt Of ssOo GOO and thew
than half the
paying the interest and providing sinking
fund wiped years
business the
but proceeding with commendabe
consideration they submitted to the Shoshone Good Roads aso
the membership which made representative
Endorsed by the Good Roads Association.
The matter presented at the annual meeting Of the Good
filled the theatre Preliminary the addresses
F. w. Guber the
County association D. Ham, chairman
board county Spokane county
remarks problem
Mr. Ham who well known od-tme Occur dAleners
practical having had wide experience in handling county
Following these addresses Herman Ross
commissioners the Good Roads association
the same that was published IN the Miner last week The letter re-
the past road policy the county the endless and
fd arent and the county how the interest and sDRtne
additional
policy would favor other of the
relieving of the expense of maintaining the main high
improvement other
followed the reading this proposition indicated
general approval No objection whatever was offered and no o
proposition suggested NJ H. Sullivan retiring president of
motion:
rhat we endorse policy commissioners
ing shoshone $ match federal aid in
main road to the state specifications
obtain the state maintenance fund
unanimously It
construed nothing less than an endorsement of plans and pr
the commissioners they explained them the letter
which prompted the motion The strong point the policy adopted
it safe that they will not sanction
notb
Money for Roads-The
The program proposed by commissioners wipe out
Approximately 100000 now paid out for maintenance of the main
maintain be
that when the
carried out the highway department will
highway
purpose
people of
gasoline county pays
year eight highway.
the miles of highway the county standardized and
this would receive from the
in the neighborhood $4,000
Paving Money Automobile Owners.
a big direct saving of
automobile This by statistics compiled by the bureau
public roads department Of agriculture which accessible to
investigate According these
of $1,000 the of
crushed rock or maeadam road 10 cents per car mile
On
which means in round figures that if it could be kept on paved
the individual
Carrying the comparison it conservatively es
would be $4,000 While the
accomplish this saving
substantial saving to the credit of
of a in shoshone county.
Federal Aid Explained.
extending federal aid in cooperative
Murphy highway
S1OO0OOOO
Callahan
available
state county cooperation absolutely
the state
in
of n carried
highway the days
of federal aid
of the
law highways I'm
Idaho the
upon would These
through Pocate
10 old
Montpelier North South
connecting northern and the North
highway the Yellowstone trail extending the
Kooenai Shohone this it
Cataldo distance of 345 miles
mile mi Is under