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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 16, 1929)
The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, June 16, 1929 - - New Through Travel Road Into Longview Territory Is Requested By District State Highway Commission Makes Outline of Requirements For Route to Rainier And Longview In answer to your Inquiry as toi comparative distances over practi cal roads from Junction City, Ore., to Kelso, Wash., taking into con sideration the proposed connec tion by way of the Longview Rainier bridge, we wish t submit the folowing information: While the agitation for the Longview bridge hat-been contin uing over a period ofto 7$rg. 11 was only recently that this de partment made an investigation seeking to determine the compar ative distances by various routes connecting this bridge with the Pacific highway. "Inasmuch as the local travel Is cared for by county roads, we made our investigations taking Into consideration distances from two points by the various routes suggested. One set of distances was taken frvim Junction City, a common point for all roads on the Pacific highway south and Kelso a common point for the various routings on the Pacific highway north. Another set tof distances on the various routes were taken from McMinnville, a common point for the various routes on the West Side Pacific highway, and Kelso to the north. "With these . points in mind, we submit the following table of distances from Junction City to the Junction of the road leading to the Longview bridge with the Pa cific highway at Kelso, Wash.: From Junction City to Kelso via Vancouver bridge 160.9 mi. From Junction City to Kelso via Portland Rainier 163.5 ml. From Junction City to Kelso via Forest Grove Buxton 162.9 mi. . From Junction City to Kelso via Forest Grove Timber 171.0 ml. From McMinnville to the Junc tion of the road leading to the Longview bridge and the Pacific highway at Kelso: From McMinnville tv Kelso via Vancouver bridge 90.1 ml. From McMinnville t'o Kelso via Forest Grove-Bixton 88.97 ml. "From the above figures it can readily be seen that the present Pacific highway by way of the Vancouve bridge Is two miles shorter than the shortest proposed , route, by way of Forest Grove and Buxton and in addition the pres ent and shortest route is paved for the entire distance. - "In addition, the proposed short cut from Forest Grove to Rainier would cross three summits, each of them over 1000 feet in eleva tion and requiring about a COO foot climb from each valley with consequent curvature on both the ascending and descending grades. "Answering your request for estimated costs of building the proposed short ut between Forest Grove and Rainier, we can give only an estimate, as the state highway department .has never made a survey of this route. The distances ano estimatidns given below are made after conferences with the county courts of Colum bia and Washington -counties, both of which counties have made some investigations relative to the pro pose! short cut. In the case of Washington county, actual con struction of one of the links of the proposed short cut has been started, but the road is being built with the idea of caring for only local needs and not on state high way specification. "To build the proposed short cut to Rainier from Forest Grove as suggested by various parties. It would be nessary to construct 251 miles of new road (104 miles between Apairy and Pittsburg, four miles along Beaver creek in Columbia county and 11 miles in Washington county from Banks to the Columbia county line). To build these 25 miles of road would require considerably over one-half million dollars. To bring existing county roads along the route to state highway standards would require another one-half million dollars (with replacement of existing structures). The above estimate provides for only a mac adam road and would mean that 53.0 miles of this route would be a macadam road only. "The grading and macadam sur facing of this proposed cut-off would cost over one million dol lars and if th eproposal would en tail the paving of the cut-off, an other one and one-third million dollars would be required, making the total outlay for a paved road from Forest Grove to Rainier of approximately two and one-third million dollars. "With: the completion of this road a. motorist driving from any point en-the Pacific highway south 1- ' New Durant Six-Sixty-Six Announced "j- GETAWAY -vvv srm?ym . v4e?w. 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He would also cross over three sum mits between Forest Grove and Rainier which in addition to the elevation would create a great deal of additional curvature while along the present Pacific highway by way of Vancouver bridge there would be practically no elevation, cnnsiderably less curvature and the bridge at Vancouver is now free of tolls, whereas a small toll charge will undoubtedly be made over the Longview bridge. "The Oregon state highway commission has not officially con sidered this proposed cut off be tween Forest Grove and Rainier and has not made an official sur vey of the route; the above figures are given out after an investiga tion and examination of existing data now in the hands of the coun ty courts of Washington and Col umbia counties. We are enclosing several sets of distance tables from which the above data was made and which you can exam ine at your leisure. 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