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Show TWIN FALLS COUNTY TO HAVE FINE ROAD Highway Now Under Construction Will Be One of the Best in the Entire West. Special to The Tribune. BUHL, Idaho, May 4. The last session ses-sion of the Idaho legislature established what is known as the Buhl highway district, dis-trict, located on the west end of the Twin Falls tract and adjoining the Salmon Sal-mon river. This district comprises the townships of Buhl and Castleford. The establishment of the district as set forth in the legislative act, was for the purpose' of building, equipping and maintaining a public highway within the specified boundary ot said district. Last October an election was held for the purpose of bonding the district for the sum of $400,000 to be expended in building the proposed public high-Way. high-Way. The bonds carried by an almost unanimous vote, 98 per' cent of the votes cast being in favor of the bonds. The bonds found a ready sale when advertised ad-vertised and placed on the market, and early in April work in earnest began on the construction of the highway. Four crews of teams and men are at work on as many differtnt roads leading lead-ing out of Buhl. Low grades are being mailc higher by rock fills, and on top of the rocks is placed a dirt fill. A rock crusher has been purchased by the commissioners and the entire highway district is to 'be surfaced with crushed rock and sand. Four five-ton trucks purchased by the district commissioners commission-ers are busy now distributing the crushed rock over the road. It is the purpose of the commissioners to hard surface the entire road system of the district with crushed rock and sand. A concrete crow is busy building concrete bridges and culverts over coulees and irrigating ditches that cross tho roads. Ernost Molander, George Wade and Gearge Saunders are the highway commissioners. com-missioners. F. C. Finch is secretary to tho commissioners. C. H. Dumet is superintendent of the construction work. When the roads comprising the Buhl highway district are completed, it is confidently expected by the citizens of tho district that they will equal, if not excel, the greatly lauded highways high-ways of California or any other place on the Pacific slope. |