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Show STEEL BRIDGE FOR WEST SIDE County Commissioners Are Being Urged To Make Much Needed Improvement Near the , Junction Ono of tho many contemplated Improvements Im-provements of tho couuty commission era this summer, Is tho installation of a now steel bridge across Dear ' rlvor nenr Cacho Junction This 1 bridgo is to bo constructed nt a cost ! of approximately 12t000 if present plans mature Tho peoplo who uro directly benefited by tho Improvement Improve-ment aro tho tax payors nnd cltlzons of Nowton and Clarkston, for It is over this bridge that thoy market all 1 tholr produce, using tho Junction as I tholr shipping point. For years tho old bridgo had served tho purposo for which it was built, and has served It well, but It has practically outlived outliv-ed Its usefulness. It Is iu such a stato of deterioration that tbo necessity neces-sity of a now bridgo Is imperative Tho approach to tho bridgo on either ei-ther fltdo for considerable distance Is (Continued on pago four) STEEL BRIDGE FOR WEST SIDE Continued from Pnge One about a seven and hnlf per cent grade, as everybody knows who have had occasion to travel the road. No Individual realizes the drawback to tho road on this account moro than do thoso who uro obliged to haul heavy loads of grain from their dry farms In the vicinity of CInrkston and Newton or coal from tho Junction Junc-tion to their homes. Owners of heavy thrashing machines tako the dugway with considerable difficulty. There seems to bo a way to overcome this steep grade, howevor, and several of thc west sldo citizens aro urging tho commissioners to look Into tho proposition. pro-position. It Is said that about n quarter of n mllo farther up tho stream a Alto can bo found whero tho Bpan Ib shorter than at tho present pres-ent site and a much better plnco for n brldgo. At this ,poInt tho approach will afford about a four per cent grade. Tho trembling public on tho west sldo seem to havo consldornblo 'kick' coming also from tho fact that with tho present arrangement tho Oregon Short Lino trains aro often left across tho present road way and teams nro held for consldornblo length of tlmo whllo water and coal nro taken. Should tho county commissioners com-missioners Investlgato tho new brldgo sight and find It a sultablo ono, they aro urged to go ono stop farther and arrango with tho railroad company to construct on ncpioduct to pass undor tho O. S'. L. railway aa by bo doing do-ing they would mako an Improvement Improve-ment that will bring to them tho congratulations con-gratulations and good wishes of overy ov-ery man, woman and child of tho two towns nbovo -mentioned. |