Hungry Horse news. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1948-current, 1955-04-08
Seek Two7Way Nj. Hiway Financing

prove4nent Of the North Fork road
and eventually having it serve Is
the west side of a circle 8 Glacier
Watertbn Lakes National Park
highway system were discussed
for over two hours at q meeting
called by Scott p. Hart, Helena,
state highway engineer and IlAt-
head county commissioners, Reu
Carr, H. w. Irwin and Harley
Houston.
Hart was unable to attend, and
S tanley Halvorson, Kalispell,
of the Montana Highway
commission, presided.
Halvorson, Fred Quinnell, Jr..
administrative engineer, and Ben
Briscoe, also Of Helena, secondary
roads engineer, assured F1athead
county commissioners that they
would help toward including the
North Fork road in the state Sec
ondary road system and II possible
also in the forest highway setup.
COMMISSION ACTION
Recommendations are being re-
vised this weekend by Flathead
county commissioners to this ef-
feet. 1t is considered q long range
development program.
1t was explained at the meeting
held at Kalispeu city hall council
chambers the county court house
chambers were in use-that the
forest highway system OF 1894
miles in Montana had not been re-
vised since it had been first set up
years ago.
Comment was that now was as
good time as any to recommend
added and replacement miles to
this 100 per cent federally fin
anced highway construction sye-
tenn.
The present North Fork road,
while on federal, state and pri-
vate lands, serves a drainage that
is IS per cent federally owned.
BPR COMMENTS
L. E. Dodson, Missoula, Bureau
of Public Roads representative
when questioned, said that It was
possible for highway to be on
the state secondary program with
construction based on the 81 pea
cent federal and 43 per cent mat
ched state funds, and also at III
same time be on the forest high.
way system and have other con.
struction projects underway on til
same road lentirely federally fin
anced. ThiS\was being done.
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: secondary road construction. tn
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