The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1934-08-22
COMMUNITIES UNITE TO ASSAM.
PROPOSED COUNTY ROAD TO DAM
Editorials And Resolutions Slam
Road Project Sponsored By
y. S. Gamble
Hit Fund Diversion

Money Allocated To Second Dis
trict Should Not Be Spent
Elsewhere, Opponents Say
Sharply attacking the proposed
four mlle road project by which
county Commissioner d. S. Gamble
proposes to connect the Indian
service highway and Onak lake
road several miles south of Mes
pelem, other communities in the
county have lined up with Mes
pelem and Onlak in their fight
against the road.
Resolutions co.ldemning the
transfer OF funds have been passed
by Chambers. OF Commerce OF lWisp,
Winthrop, Carlton, Brewster and
Pateros. Opposed also to the plan
is j. r. Laycock, commissioner for
the First district, who refused to
endorse Commissioner CANDLES
plan at a recent meeting OF the
county commissioners.
Commenting on the plan the
Brewster Herald declares editorially:
Don't Give Away Our Road Money
"A rather unusual situation has
arisen in road matters in Okanogan
county. 1t will be necessary to ex-
plain the location of the road dist
riots to bring the dilemma before
the readers of this editorial.
Road districts number in CEN
trail Okanogan county and number
A in Eastern Okanogan county are
under the direction of County Com
missioner j. r. Laycock. Road dist
riot number 2 is under D. S. Gamble,
chairman of the county commits
sioners, and road district is served
by county commissioner L. S. Farver.
It is the usual procedure and
agreement that each commissioner
have charge of the distribution Of
the money for the road work in
his district and that it be spent in
his district.
1.-THE money collected this year
to be, spent on the roads has been
divided to the respective districts. In
the first and fourth districts the
money was expended in building
part of the road to Disautel. IT any
complaints were made they surely
could come only from the residents
living in those two road districts.
This allotment of money was auth
orized by j. r. Laycock and the
people of this district have no COM
plant.
Little complaint has been heard
from money allotted to the third
district so we can assume that that
money is being spent judiciously in
the third district where 1t should
be spent.
1.-THE funds of the second district
(Which includes Brewster, Pateros
and the Methow Valley may be
spent to construct roads in Mr..
Laycock's district number 4. The
resolution was passed by d. S.
Gamble and L. S. Farver to get the
approval of the State Highway
Department to the construction of
about four miles of road from Grand
Coulee Dam along the Columbia
river to the end of the Omache lake
road. This will tie in with the
Omache lake road and later, if ever
completed, also tie in with the sixty
miles of road along the Columbia
road to our district.
THE strange thing about it is
that road district number 2 will
spend it's money against the wishes
of Mr., Laycock who has charge OF
the district where the contemplated
road will be constructed. In spite OF
Mr.. Laycock's protests Mr.. Gamble
and Mr.. Farver are going to force
Mr.. Laycock's district to take our
money to construct road where Mr..
Laycock does not want it.
Can any reader of this article
tell us why our district should not
have this $4,000?
'The money has been allotted to
our road district and it is only
ethical that it be spent in our dist
riot or positive provisions be made
that district number four return
the money next year. Ethically that
$4,000 should be spent in our
district
District number two has more
miles of road than any district in
Okanogan county and why should
we pass our money to another dist
riot, especially when the commits
sioner of that district said, NO we
do not want your money district
number g.
"This seems like giving a big
robust healthy boy caster oil be-
cause he is so healthy he doesn't
need it.
1--WE sincerely protest this action
because we feel it is unjust and not
fair to road district number g."
The Pateros Reporter, in an
editorial entitled, who Wants that
Bit of Coulee Dam Road Built?'
stated: