Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-03-17 | Page 1 | River Bridge Contract Signed

RIVER BRIDGE I CONTRACT SIGNED OLYMPIA Wash March 17 The T r. r e p highway Sh f. f commit committee tee signed ill the e contract tin LIi 9 half 1 Ot or the I proposed interstate and Inter- Inter coun county ty bridge across the Pep Pend OReille river between Newport Wash and Newport Idaho The contract will be Submitted within the next few days by Tom Holman assistant attorney general to Idaho officials at Boise for tor their consideration consideration consid consid- it was said Officials of Pend OReille and Bonner counties also will be signatories signatories' to to the contract con con- tract I 1 Under the tle party four-party plan of ot financing the construction the state of Washington has available an appropriation of ot Pend OReille county will provide Bonner county Idaho and the state of Idaho in federal federal federal fed fed- eral aid funds lunds making a total ap appropriation appropriation ap- ap of 64 The proposed proposed proposed pro pro- posed bridge joins the Pend highway In this state with thO th Clark Fork highway In Idaho and andIs Is designed to replace the Inter- Inter county ferry now in operation