FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Thursday, April 20. 1830
Highway Progress
Thought Near End
Late in Year 1922
(This is another in a rial
of articlei entitled "Glimpses
at Highway History," compil
ed by Ralph Watson, highway
department writer. Editor's
note.)
On Nov. 24, 1922, Oregon's
highway system so far as fed
eral aid is concerned was
"jelled" when the federal bureau
of roads and the hiehway com
mission reached a meeting of
minds regarding the designated
highways, and the mileage, for
the construction of which the
government would allocate its
funds.
This agreement made no ma
terial change in the main or
trunk line highways which had
been set up by the commission,
but it established a definite
basis for joint endeavor which
has not since been changed ex
cept by an increase in the per
centage of federal funds allowed.
The first federal aid law limit
ed federal funds to "post roads,"
roads over which the mail was
to be carried. Later this was
changed to "such projects as will
expedite the completion of an
adequate and connected system
of highways, interstate in cnar
acter."
It required that before federal
aid would be given, the state
must set uo a system of highways
not to exceed seven per cent of
the total highway mileage in the
state, and that federal money
should be spent with the mileage
limits of that seven percent.
Those provisions have been mod
ified by an amendment increas
ing the percentage by one point
whenever the designated roads
were 90 percent completed.
Progress To 1922
The state in 1922 had 41.825.7
miles of public roads, which en
titled it to a federal system of
not to exceed 2,927.8 miles. The
remainder of the road mileage
was left to state, county and city
financing and it is upon this pro
gram that the commissions have
been working since 1922.
Oregon's highways at first
were 16 feet wide, compared to
15 feet in California. On that
standard the close of 1922 saw
the state with 837.7 miles of pav
ed highways; 1,197.3 surfaced
macadam or gravel; 1940.2 still
unimproved. Fifty percent of the
system as then contemplated
had been completed with prac
tically all of the more important
and most expensive portions en
tirely completed.
That was the optimistic view
of the commission on Nov. 30,
1922 when its biennial report
states: "Except for the construc
tion of one single mile of pave
ment (through Rainier) the Col
umbia River highway is, at the
end of 1922, a completed high
way . . , The completed cost ex
clusive of those sections within
cities and towns will aggregate
approximately $11 million . . .
The Pacific highway, 345 miles
in length, stands practically
completed; 327 miles paved, the
remaining 18 miles improved to
a very excellent all-season
road."
The Roosevelt Highway had
been "extensively improved"
but not yet "opened over its en
tire length." Its total cost when
completed was estimated at $10
million, covering its entire 409
miles.
Cost Told
That was the way they felt
about the highway job when the
commission balanced its books as
of Nov. 30. 1922. From the be
ginning of the highway endeavor
in 1913, the commission had ex
pended $56,809,107 in highway
construction and its contingent
expenses. Of this total, state
funds, lrom bonds and other
Welfare Budget of
Marion County Higher
Salem, Ore., Apr. 20 ;U.R)
Marion county's welfare budget
for next year will be about $1,
454.000, Marion Bowen, county
welfare administrator said today.
The budget for the fiscal year
starting July 1 will be $60,000
higher than the current fiscal
year. County and state welfare
commissions have both approved
the budget. The county's contri
bution to the budget has been
increased by $19,690 to $265,000.
The budget will include; gen
eral assistance, $221,000; old age
assistance, $984,000; aid to de
pendent children, $229,000, and
aid to the blind, $20,000.
The federal government pro
vides 52 per cent of the old age
fund, 30 per cent for dependent
children and 48 per cent for the
blind. The remainder of each
fund is furnished on a 70-30 basis ;
by state and county. j
revenue sources, represented
$43,963,030; county cooperative
funds, $8,202,166; federal funds, !
$4,546,530, and railroad funds
$97,381. Of this total approxim
ately $31 million were expended
during the 1921-22 biennium.
Up to then the commission ,
had been wheeling along on 16-1
foot highways and bclievcd they I
could see the sunset 01 ineir en
deavors with their job more than '
half done. They did not toresee
how fast, or how far, the econo
mic world was going to travel on
rubber; envision the fleets of
72,000 pound trucks the millions
of motorists, the high speed and
the super highways. They
.thought they almost were ready
to hang up their tools. In reality
they had just outlined the back
bone and a few of the ribs of
their final handiwork. i
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