Third biennial report of the Oregon State Highway Commission : $b covering the period December 1st, 1916 to November 30th, 1918Benson, Simon
History
Third biennial report of the Oregon State Highway Commission : $b covering the period December 1st, 1916 to November 30th, 1918
Benson, Simon
Highway engineering -- Oregon -- History; Water resources development -- Systems engineering -- Oregon -- History
The other eight structures were built by L. O. Herrold of Salem, on a
unit price basis, the cost of the eight being $32,000.00.
Graham Creek Culvert
A double 6x6 foot reinforced concrete box culvert was built on the
Columbia River Highway to provide passage for Graham Creek near
Marshland. This culvert was built with State forces. It contains fifty
cubic yards of concrete and cost $804.49.
Survey--Columbia City to Scappoose
A survey was made between Scappoose and McBride a distance of eleven and
two-tenths miles. This survey follows the S. P. & S. Ry. on the south
side the entire distance and is shorter than the present traveled road
by about one mile, and also does away with six grade crossings. While
most of the roadbed will be entirely new work, it will not be of heavy
construction, the country being comparatively flat. Between Scappoose
and St. Helens the material is mostly earth. Between St. Helens and
McBride the material is mostly rock.
[Illustration: ONE OF NINE REINFORCED CONCRETE BRIDGES IN THE BEAVER
CREEK VALLEY, COLUMBIA COUNTY, ON THE COLUMBIA RIVER HIGHWAY BETWEEN
RAINIER AND CLATSKANIE. ALL BUILT IN 1917 AND 1918]
Two bridges of thirty foot spans or more are needed, also several box
culverts and pipe culverts.
The survey from Scappoose to St. Helens was made by P. W. Marx; from St.
Helens to McBride by H. C. Compton.
COOS COUNTY
The work of the Highway Department in Coos County consisted entirely in
assistance given the County in the making of surveys and the engineering
of construction work done under the County's bond issue of $362,000.00.
For this purpose $16,967.68 of State funds were expended, and the total
amount of County expenditures audited and vouchered through the Highway
department was $170,781.83. These expenditures were made on work on the
Coast Highway between Marshfield and the Curry County Line, and on the
Coos Bay-Roseburg Highway between Coquille and Myrtle Point. The
engineering work was in charge of R. B. Murdock.
CROOK COUNTY
Crook County is one of the districts of Eastern Oregon where the road
program is an expensive one. Prineville now has rail communication with
outside points, and in sections of the County there is found some good
natural roads, but much is wanting in the line of transportation
facilities. Owing to a large portion of the County being mountainous in
character, much of the roads are little else than trails.
Formerly the boundaries of Crook County encircled an area now comprising
several counties. The paring process, caused by the forming of new
counties left Crook County in a peculiar position. The local road map
indicates that the County is divided into two communities with the
dividing line following the rugged country a few miles east of
Prineville. A single road that is a succession of heavy grades and poor
alignment, is the sole medium of traffic communication between the two
ends of the County.
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