The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1935-02-20
COUNTY BOARD
ASKS BIC FUND
FOR LAKE ROAD
Commissioners File Application
For 100000; Covers
Bridge Costs
Want PWA Money
Would Finance Project From
Proposed Appropriation,
Taylor Explains

Coulee dam is asked in an applica
ton filed by Okanogan county COM
missioners last week at the Olympia
office of the federal public works
department.
The ALLEGATION would include con-
Struction of a new bridge over the
Okanogan river at Okanogan.
Saw E. F. Banker
Application was made after the
commissioners, during a visit at the
state capitol, consulted with e. F.
Banker, state director of con-
servation and development, e. F.
Taylor, county commissioner said.
"Mr. Banker advised us that, al
though there is no assurance the
funds will become available, it
would do no harm to make appnca-
tion," he said. The money sought
would come from the administra-
TONS four billion dollar public
works appropriation, not yet ap-
proved by congress. The application
also would have to be approved by
the public works administration be-
AoAC : uAAOo SONASA Nc -OONAO ~.
The application, handed to e. r.
Hoffman, state engineer for the
Federal Emergency Administration
of Public Works included a request
for $25, 900 to finance construction
of new INDECENT home at the coun-
ty farm, and $1,000 for Palmer Lake
flood relief road improvement.
In the remarks" column OF their
application for road funds. the
county commissioner said:
Boost Lake Road
This road Improvement has been
started by Okanogan county spend
ing 100000 (work already done at
Omak lake,. 1t will provide access
to the dam development. Emergen-
cy exists account Of this develop
ment and the fact that the road
crosses much nom taxable Indian
land. The project fits in state high
way program and federal system as
an important connecting link"
The application also revealed that
four miles Of the proposed route. the
so-called Gamble cutoff" south Of
Nespelen1, had been surveyed. This
indicated that the road would elm
mate Nespelem from the cross
country highway system, a move
strenuously fought by that commu-
nifty when former Commissioner
Gamble proposed the cutoff.
Mr.. Taylor said yesterday that
Lacy Murrow, state highway di-
rector, also had been consulted be-
fore the road ALLEGATION application
was filed.
Explaining the request for funds
for a new building at the county
farm, the commissioners footnoted:
Limited hospital facilities are pro-
vided but more housing room is
necessary"
They explained, regarding the
$4,000 request for the Palmer Lake
project, that the road is flooded an
nually, and that improvement would
involve relocating the route above
water.
Controversy has long waged over
the selection of a route for the
Okancgan valley Coulee dam road
one faction holding that the Omak
lake road is more suitable, while
another has urged that the Nespel-
EN- route, via Disautel, could be
built at less cost and over a more
satisfactory route, than the other
At present five miles Of the Dis
autel road have been completed by
the county, and the Indian depart
ment and forest service are improv-
ing the road. Eight miles of the
Omak- Disautel- road will
be completed by the Indian depart
ment soon and it is expected that
work will be continued.