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THK IlKXD IiUMJ'.TIX, IIKND, OHK., WEDNESDAY, OCTOIIKR -l, 1010.
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HIGHWAYS
in OREGON
Dy John H. Lewii, Stale Engineer
Bend-Silver Lake
and way points
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fiom various points of view. The
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first, n. Btimmnry on iccommciit.u
tlons by Stnto Engineer Low Is, Is
ropclnted U3 follows:
If we tin to get anywhere In tha
mnttor of road construction In Ore
gon, vp mint hr.ve n plan or defi
nite road policy. Alco un orgnnlzu
tlon to oxeruto such n plnn and pol
4cy7 At the present time, we have no
plan and no policy. Responsibility
1h cot definitely flxc.l In any par
ticular officers or hoards ICr tho
maintenance of any particular
roads.
At the piosent time the state Is
working on one project where state,
county, district, city and prlvuto
funds aro being expended In tho
M.nui work. Much effoit Is wn.'tcd
Jn getting all these agencies to woik
In harmony at the rlBhl time to the
Hiimo end. When the woik Is com
pleted, who will he responsible for
tho maintenance of tills woik?
In two other rases, the state In
cooperation vlih rount'es expended
largo minis In the construction of
now grades. The vork was nbiwi
doired durliiB the winter Unit) nnil
ii iiumbei' of lllls were unshed out
nnd many imuccvMiiry slides camo
In for lack of piorer altcntlnii at the
rli;ht time. In the spring, disputes
xvcio had between the coumy and
i tutu ollli'lnlr ns to who was respon
sible for removlni; theso slides mid
rinkliiB new fit's so that the roads
constructed at i;roat public expense
could lu need dining the suiuuier
motitliH.
In one of our cnunlles wh-ro the
stale Is coiiNtructlni; a trunk line on
f por cent grade, tho county or the
district this Hiimuiur exiiuiided n
tomdduialdo sum In constructing a
10 per cent grade. Ignoring the stato
survey, uiid v here the miio In
vestmeut will prove a totnl loss mid
tho work done oer lu n yeai or so.
Under tlio I. w, the county courts
mitcl e.llot 70 per cent of all mail
IovIihs to the districts for o.xprndl-
ttire by the road suponluiis, the
balunce of such road funds to be
tixpiuili'd by and iindei (ho direc
tion of tha county com Is. There urc
itio pnitirulnr ronds set r.pmt for tho
Pioneer Auto Stage and Truck Co.
SUCCESSORS TO WENANDY LIVERY CO.
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county i oiii t to build or nm'nlnlii
The result In the luter-mlngllng
of work In i.ii c!i n way that the peo
ple fins not tell whether tiiu county
court or Hiipervlsois lire to bliiine.
(Jitidlt fur good woik c.iuiiot, there
fore, be glvofi tun! the responsibility
for bad wink ri.iinot lie iMIuliel)
fixed.
Thorn Is br.t Httlo Improvement
In the matter of st'ile highway ex
penditure. The lonlsli.turo In l'Jlll
attempted to diillnltely adopt n itr.te
highway aysle.u on which nil state
tiiuils worn to bo expended until
Hindi tliiiu us ho sjttcni 'uk cum
plute, but the Attorney fioneml linn
rocunlly hold t Tin t tho Highway
(.'oiniiilnsloii tit ii expend :i to money
on any mad whlub II nicy i.dopt us it
stale road.
This Is wtong. The legislature
jiluno tdiould liuvo the power in this
very Intpoitnnt mntter of selecting
trunk IIiich of the state and auth
orizing tho expenditure of stain
funds thereon,
NVe linvo approximately 37,000
mlloH of road In Oregon to bo main
tained at the present time. In
addition, tunny more miles of new
roads must be built to open up the
shortest mid most desirable throiiKli
routes. llesldi'H, mtll'ons of dollars
must be luiestcd In the near fiituio
lu pavements. With the most rigid
economy, the problem confronting
Oregon Is enormous, when we tnko
tutu consldeiutlou Its great urea and
limited taxable wealth.
We must, therefore, sjstematlio
Mini organize this work In the Inter
est of the luxpuyer and the traveling
public and see that mi unwise ox
peudltiuo Is made and that all
work Is done lu aecordsnoo with
some delluite plun so that event
ually when our i')itm I cnmplHto
there will bo no dupllntiiM of uiT'irt
or waste.
This can I e nctvuui!.dirl by clas
sify Iiik our roads In nccjiduur w'lli
their relative Importance and dtli
nltoly HxIiir responsibility upon
t-puclllu otllcers for the construction
and maintenance of each particular
class of roads.
Three classes appear sutllclent -Male,
county and district roads.
The state roads should include
til principal Inter-county and Inter
state route. Home of these have not
h yet been opened up. For this
leiison. they should bo spoken of In
the law as routes,
VIicneor any portion of a stato
route has been constructed by the
state, the statu and no other sub
division of the government should
ho thereafter responsible for thu
maintenance of this road,
Theso loutea should bo briefly
dgtlued lu the law, such es the Pa
ulllc Highway, boglunlng at tho Inter-state
bridge near 1'ortlaiut, ruu
nliiK thvuco southerly through Port
land, Kufieno and Modford to tho
California Hue.
In a like manner all other Im
portant routes should bo defined.
The John Day route, e.xtendlnB from
Portland across ho Coscnde itcngo
south of ML Hood, up the John Day
river to the Idaho lino near Ontar
io, will shorten the distance for
through travel from Idaho, t'tnh
and eastern points more than one
hundred miles. In u like maimer,
tho Ihigcuc-Klnmatli Kails line
when completed will shorten tho
distance to Portland from Klamath
mid Lake Counties nnd other points
to the southeast -by about one hund
red miles.
The stnte ronds should be under
tho Jurisdiction of the State High-v.-ny
Department and no state funds
should bo expended on rny other
road until such time as thu program
Icld out by the leglslutuio has been
completed,
The county roads should Include
the most Important inr.ds lu tho
county and operate as feeders for
the state trunk line ajstem. They
should be selertcd by the County
Couit with the appiov.il of Jio
Btnto UlKhway Dcpailmei.i cud
their totnl lmi;Mi limited to s .me
roiaoii'iblu per cent of the tot il
mileage of roads In th? count , and
all county funds should be expended
upon thoho id ills by tho county
couits. Pti'or It the tnl.lns ever
cf tho Intel -statu load? In the
county by the state, tN county
nhoultl be responsible for the ion-
Htructlou end mt.lnteunncc cf nich
state routes.
The district roads will coinprljo
nil other iiicils. Theso nro the lo
cal roads rnd of little linpoitancc to
Iiitct-ntctc or !utor.coun?y tr..llle.
Thojio "linuM bo umloi local control
Sultleleiit power must bo IoiIkciI.
l.owever, In the State Highway De
partment to ioi relate iho work of
nil three of theso hallway depart
ments. Thu stuto should preset Ibe
dcllultu slandaido for ciiivn'ure,
width, Kitidu (fud nllKiimenl for
oach of these classes of roads, also
stnudaid loadings to bo uaed In tho
diislgn of nil bilduoa , culverts,
Pveiuonts, etc.
In older to enforce such stand
arde, all plans anil specifications for
construction oik by tho county
or district hi excesn of n llxed
amount ulimild be submitted to the
Stuto lllKlivuy Department for lis
approval prior to the lettlim of con
tracts lu this way (bu best prnc
tlco of ull tho countlen can bo mndo
nvi liable tn each and the statu
standards adopted enn lie com en-
len..y eiifoiccd. Tho rends be
tween districts nnd vount'os, when!
they connect nt tho border, will then
all be found to follow tho same ,
tit a ml u til h and ultlmutely form units
lu n complete state sstem.
One of the most Important func
tions of the State Highway Depart
ment should bo to prescribe nnil en
force a-unlform sctem of cost keep
ing; nnd pitblluli nunurlly total anil
unit costs of nil construction or
malnteuauca work nt - thu el'ise of
each car. Tho pcoplo In this way
can be convonlcntly Informed ns to
how and whuiu their fluids aro be-i
lug Invented.
This Is tho iil.itt followed In New
Y'lk and many other states at the
present time.
It Is rbsolutely Impossible to pnvo
all roads In Oregon at the present
time Neither will It he possible to
ptiie all state roads In the near fu
ture Wo must, therefore, ascertain
whrt are the most Important pro
jects to be taken up tlrst and pro
reed In an orderly mnnner for tho
completion of the whole plan.
It Is my belief that the stato
should not take up an extensive
paving program at the present time.
Wo should at the outset contluo
oursolves xery largely to the Im
preuuut of alignment and grade
and in opening up tho uncompleted
links of short through routes, so
that within the near future ull of
our roads may bo made uniformly
passable, and that wn may get tho
maximum uso out of theso roads
while wo aro developing our moro
expensive highway system.
With thorough maintenance of
existing: roads, n considerable de
velopment will tako place ana tho
Increased taxable wealth assist In
building a more Ideal system.
Wo should, therefore, confine
ourselves for the next few years to
the cutting down of steep and dnn
goroug grades, such as on tho Pacific
Highway lu Josephine and Douglas j
Counties, and on the Columbia ,
lllver Highway tn Hood ltlvor and
Wasco Counties. There aro a few
important links which should ho
built to connect up present ronds
such us from Prairie City to Pnlty
on the John Day route and n limited
amount of construction to open up
a present road fromx Kugene to
Klamath Kails.
There are also mnnv dangerous
in'lroad gradu crossings which
illicit, Id lie eliminated, t'lich as on tho
illiu between nuKeno nnd ltoscbur,
nil no pavement s'loeld bo permit-
;d on Mie present ' cation until
(hi no crossings aro removed.
Ily the time this work Is well
under way mid the fills thoioiighly
settled, the Statu Highway organi
zation will have been milllcleiitly
tried out and enough foundation
prepared so that extensive p.ivlng
operations can bo cominonced and
carried out with economy and elll
elency. Until such time, ex
pensive wearing sin faces, If ptovld
ed, should bo largely, If not entirely
paid for by the community benefit
ed, ir our limited state high
way fundB nie opened up for pav
ing projects, they can all be used
In tho Willamette Valley without
mnking any material showing. This
would not bo fair to the other sec
tions of tho state which contributed
to this fund.
Tho most Important rond for
enrly paving, however, Is undoubt
edly In the Willamette Valley.
In tho vicinity of tho Pacific
Highway from Kugeno through Sal
om to Portlnnd, more than SO per
cent of the entire population of Or
egon resides nnd a paved auto truck
highway through this section with
necessary feeders would do more to
stimulate development than any
other program which can be sug
gested.
However, It Is useless to stick to
our present stnto standard of G per
cent grades unless wo can get ade
quate entrance to tho various cities
such ns Portland. At tho present
time, It Is absolutely Impossible to
get Into Portland from the south
west on anything Ilko n 5 per cunt
grade. The Terwllllger Iloulevnrd
vns built with park money nnd nuto
truckH will not bo permitted to use'
this load. i:en this, It Is suld, lias
a short utrctch In excess of G per
cent.
Who'e the hoavy trrlllc which
will ultimately develop between
Portland and Tillamook nnd be
ns well as tho west side road from
Portland through Oswego to Oregon
City, Is concentrated for entrance
to tho city streets of Portland, wo
should have a specially constructed
trunk lino ofi not to exceed n 4 per
cent grade, eliminating ns far as
posslblo tho numerous grade cross
ings through the suburbs. This we
must do. If we are to encourage
nuto truck traffic between tho pro
ducer In tho country and merchants
In tho city.
It is fincratly admitted that
with paved trunk lines, auto trucks
can compete with railroads In
handling freight up to n limited dis
tance of approximately 50 miles, on
account of the greater convenience
In lecclvliiS nud delivering. This
Is due to the fact that the cost of
handling frolght In cities, together
with terminal charges on railroads,
Is so great compared with the cost
of hauling short distances that the
cost of haul can practically be Ig
noi ed.
I have endeavored to point out
tho present chnotlc condition of
highway development In Oregon and
show the necessity for the ndoptlon
of some plan nun definite road pol
ler. There Is ampin precedent to bo
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