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Title: Third biennial report of the Oregon State Highway Commission
covering the period December 1st, 1916 to November 30th, 1918
Author: Simon Benson
R. A. Booth
Herbert Nunn
W. L. Thompson
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[Illustration: ON THE PACIFIC HIGHWAY IN THE SISKIYOU MOUNTAINS, JACKSON
COUNTY. MACADAMIZED IN 1917]
Third Biennial Report
of the
Oregon State Highway Commission
Covering the Period December 1st, 1916
to November 30th, 1918
OREGON STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION
S. Benson, Chairman
W. L. Thompson, Commissioner; R. A. Booth, Commissioner
Herbert Nunn, State Highway Engineer
SALEM, OREGON:
STATE PRINTING DEPARTMENT
1919
LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL
Salem, Oregon, December 1, 1918.
HONORABLE JAMES WITHYCOMBE, Governor of the State of Oregon,
Dear Sir: In compliance with Section 5, Article II, Chapter 237, Laws of
1917, we have the honor to submit herewith the report of the State
Highway Commission for the period December 1, 1916 to November 30, 1918.
The Commission desires at this time to express its appreciation of the
courtesies and assistance rendered to it by the various state officers
and county officials in the work of the past two years.
Respectfully submitted,
OREGON STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION,
S. Benson, Chairman
W. L. Thompson, Commissioner
R. A. Booth, Commissioner
Attest:
Roy A. Klein, Secretary
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
Letter of Transmittal to the Governor 4
Table of Contents 5
Report of the State Highway Commission 7
General Resume of the Work of the Biennium 7
Proposals Received on Construction Jobs 9
Bond Sales 10
Financial Statement 11
State Highway Engineer's Report to the Highway Commission 13
Letter of Transmittal 14
Work Accomplished 17
Moneys Available and Expended 17
Paving 18
Macadamizing 18
Grading 19
Bridges 19
Elimination of Grade Crossings 21
Federal Cooperation 22
Post Road Projects 23
Forest Road Projects 23
The Pacific Highway 27
The Columbia River Highway 28
County Work Supervised by the Highway Department 29
Construction Work by State Forces 29
State Highway Funds 30
Equipment 31
Office Organization 32
Cost Keeping 34
Employes in the Army Service 35
Tabulated Statements of Expenditures and Costs 39
Allotments to Various Highway Funds 40
Summary of Fund Allotments and Fund Expenditures 40
Expenditures Segregated by Counties 41
Expenditures Segregated Under the Heads of General
Administrative, Surveys, Construction Engineering,
Construction, Equipment, Etc. 41
Expenditures for Construction Detailed by Jobs 42
Expenditures for Surveys Detailed by Jobs 45
Expenditures for Equipment, Bond Interest and Overhead 47
Summary of County Funds Expended by the Department 48
General Tabulated Information and Highway Maps 51
Miles of Highway Construction by the Department During 1917 and
1918 52
Tabulation of Bridge Design and Construction 54
Miles of Location Surveys Made by the Department during 1917
and 1918 58
Miles of Different Types of Roads in Each County 59
Motor Vehicle Registration by Counties 60
County Bond Issues 60
Tabulation of Contract Prices --
Yearly Expenditure of State Funds in Counties 61
Mileage Table of Main Travelled Roads 62
Map of Main Travelled Roads --
Official Designation of State Highways 63
Employes of the Highway Commission 65
Numbers and Mileages of State Highways 66
Map of State Highway System 67
General Description of Work in Various Counties 69
Baker County 69
Benton County 71
Clackamas County 71
Clatsop County 75
Columbia County 80
Coos County 89
Crook County 89
Curry County 90
Deschutes County 91
Douglas County 92
Gilliam County 100
Grant County 101
Harney County 104
Hood River County 106
Jackson County 112
Jefferson County 117
Josephine County 117
Klamath County 122
Lake County 122
Lane County 122
Lincoln County 123
Linn County 123
Malheur County 124
Marion County 125
Morrow County 129
Multnomah County 131
Polk County 132
Sherman County 132
Tillamook County 133
Umatilla County 135
Union County 138
Wallowa County 141
Wasco County 142
Washington County 143
Wheeler County 146
Yamhill County 150
Third Biennial Report
of the
State Highway Commission
of the
State of Oregon
1917-1918
The law establishing this Commission was approved by Governor Withycombe
on February 19, 1917 and on March 1 the following appointments were
made: S. Benson, Portland, for the three-year period; W. L. Thompson,
Pendleton, two-year period; E. J. Adams, Eugene, one-year period. The
first meeting was held on March 6, 1917, when this Commission was
organized and S. Benson elected Chairman and G. Ed Ross, Secretary.
The former Commission, consisting of James Withycombe, Governor, Ben W.
Olcott, Secretary of State, and Thos. B. Kay, State Treasurer, held
meetings on December 15, 1916 and January 15, 1917 and on the
qualification of the members of the new commission, as provided in
Section 14, Article II, Chapter 237, Laws of 1917, transferred all
records, maps, equipment and property in its possession. The former
Commission, in view of proposed legislation providing for a new highway
code, made no appropriations nor were policies outlined, so that when
the new Commission entered upon its duties, it was not embarrassed by
policies made by its predecessors.
At a meeting on April 10, 1917, Herbert Nunn was appointed State Highway
Engineer. On April 1, 1918, Robert A. Booth, of Eugene, was appointed by
Governor Withycombe to succeed E. J. Adams. On August 6, 1918, Roy A.
Klein was appointed Secretary to succeed G. Ed Ross, resigned.
The Commission has held fifty-one meetings for the transaction of its
business. The State highway system as outlined in the law has been
adopted and the work of the biennium confined to the various units of
this system. Specifications covering hard surface pavement have been
prepared by the State Highway Engineer and adopted by the Commission, as
well as specifications for grading and bridge construction which have
been acceptable to the United States Office of Public Roads and are used
on all Federal Aid Projects in the State.
Surveys have been made on State highway routes to determine the best and
most economical location, at the request of the counties, and also
several important bridges have been designed and constructed under the
supervision of the Department. Engineers have been furnished at State
expense to supervise construction work being done by the counties on
State highways in several instances.
The program for 1917 depending upon the passage of the $6,000,000.00
Bonding Act, the working season remaining after ratification by the
voters was short, but engineering parties were sent out and the first
contract under this act was let on June 30, 1917. All except the smaller
contracts entered into were carried over into the 1918 working season.
No new paving or grading contracts of any magnitude have been awarded
this year due to the rising costs of material and scarcity of labor.
There was early seen the necessity of conserving labor and capital in
the national emergency and for that reason the Commission has been
unable to give aid to many meritorious projects submitted by various
sections of the State. At a meeting held on June 25, the Commission went
on record, as a war measure, to devote its resources to the completion
of the two trunk line highways, the Columbia River Highway and the
Pacific Highway, completing projects under construction, temporary
surfacing to keep trunk highways open or roads to develop resources
which are an aid in the prosecution of the war. Notwithstanding the
mandatory nature of the State law which created the Commission and
provides funds for work under it, the Commission believes this course
was warranted and that its action will be supported.
Due to the uncertainty of materials, supplies, labor conditions, etc.,
contractors have been unable to make satisfactory bids and on several
occasions no satisfactory bids being received, the Commission undertook
to do the work by day labor, in each case effecting a saving under the
low bid.
In a few cases, either no bids being received or the ones received being
considered excessive, work has been let on the cost plus basis with
definite cost limit set, beyond which no percentage would be paid. Three
of these force account jobs have later been taken over by the
Commission, as it was felt that the work could be handled more
economically with its own forces.
To determine the legality of the State and Federal co-operative bonds
for co-operation on post and forest roads, a friendly suit was brought
in the Supreme Court which was decided favorable to the issue.
The interpretation placed on the Federal Aid Road Law by the Secretary
of Agriculture requiring actual carriage of the mails or a reasonable
prospect before approving as eligible for Federal co-operation
eliminated from the classification practically all of the Columbia River
Highway and especially links in the Pacific Highway in Douglas county on
which it was desired to receive Federal aid.
Under the post road law seventeen projects have been agreed upon, and to
date ten have been approved, three disapproved, two pending and two in
preparation. Construction work has been started on two of these
projects. Under the forest road law fourteen projects have been
approved. Construction has been started on four of these projects.
Several will carry over into the 1920 program.
A railroad asphalt paving plant was purchased but not used during the
1918 season, since no bituminous pavements were constructed, under new
contracts, in that period. Three concrete pavers are owned by the
Commission, as well as three road rollers, four rock crushers, and six
auto trucks, besides considerable grading construction equipment. A
large part of this equipment has been in use this season and not only
has saved the cost of rented equipment but has been available at times
when it was impossible to get the same elsewhere.
A total of seventy-one projects have been advertised as follows. It will
be noted that the number of proposals exceeds the number of bidders
which may be explained by the fact that on paving work bidders have made
proposals on more than one type of pavement.
=============================+================+===========+===========
Project | Date | Number of | Number of
| | Proposals | Bidders
-----------------------------+----------------+-----------+-----------
Sheridan Paving | May 29, 1917 | 2 | 2
Sheridan Grading | May 29, 1917 | 8 | 2
Cummings Hill Grading | June 19, 1917 | 1 | 1
Pendleton Paving | June 29, 1917 | 8 | 4
Rex-Tigard Grading | July 20, 1917 | 5 | 4
Rex-Tigard Paving | July 20, 1917 | 9 | 4
Clackamas-Marion Paving | July 20, 1917 | 9 | 5
Siskiyou Grading | July 20, 1917 | 1 | 1
Siskiyou Paving | July 20, 1917 | 1 | 1
Astoria-Svenson Grading | July 20, 1917 | 4 | 4
Astoria-Svenson Paving | July 20, 1917 | 7 | 4
Goble Section Grading | July 30, 1917 | 2 | 2
Rainier Hill Section Grading | July 30, 1917 | 4 | 4
Cascade Locks Section Grading| July 30, 1917 | 3 | 3
Viento Section Grading | July 30, 1917 | 4 | 4
Ruthton Hill Section Grading | July 30, 1917 | 7 | 7
Columbia County Bridges, Wood| Aug. 7, 1917 | 5 | 5
Columbia County Bridges, | | |
Concrete | Aug. 7, 1917 | 5 | 5
Wasco County, Macadam | Aug. 7, 1917 | 1 | 1
Cummings Hill, Macadam | Aug. 7, 1917 | 1 | 1
Condon-Thirty Mile Creek, | | |
Macadam | Aug. 7, 1917 | 1 | 1
Mult. County Line-Scappoose, | | |
Paving | Aug. 7, 1917 | 3 | 2
Bend-Lapine, Cindering | Aug. 7, 1917 | 2 | 2
Clatsop County Line-Goble, | | |
Macadam | Aug. 7, 1917 | 2 | 2
New Era Grading | Aug. 7, 1917 | 1 | 1
Divide-Latham Macadam | Aug. 7, 1917 | - | -
Pioneer Mountain Section, | | |
Grading | Aug. 7, 1917 | - | -
Lakeview-Paisley Macadam | Aug. 7, 1917 | - | -
Svenson-Westport Macadam | Aug. 7, 1917 | 1 | 1
Tillamook-Cloverdale Paving | Aug. 7, 1917 | 9 | 3
Oregon City-Canby Paving | Sept. 4, 1917 | 1 | 1
Lane County Line-Comstock | | |
Grading | Sept. 5, 1917 | 2 | 2
Comstock-Leona Grading | Sept. 5, 1917 | 2 | 2
Yoncalla-Oakland Grading | Sept. 5, 1917 | 3 | 3
Locust Hill Section Grading | Sept. 25, 1917 | 4 | 4
Wolf Creek-Grave Creek | | |
Grading | Nov. 6, 1917 | 9 | 9
Myrtle Creek-Dillard Grading | Nov. 27, 1917 | 7 | 7
Bridge Creek Section Grading | Nov. 27, 1917 | 2 | 2
John Day Bridge | Nov. 27, 1917 | 4 | 4
Goble Creek Bridge | Nov. 27, 1917 | 5 | 5
Onion Flat Bridge | Nov. 27, 1917 | 3 | 3
Canemah-New Era Grading | Dec. 10, 1917 | 4 | 4
Tualatin Bridge | Jan. 1, 1918 | 3 | 3
Umpqua Bridge 21/2 miles south | | |
of Dillard | Jan. 9, 1918 | 4 | 4
Umpqua Bridge 1 mile north | | |
of Dillard | Jan. 9, 1918 | 5 | 5
Pendleton-Echo Grading and | | |
Macadam | Feb. 5, 1918 | 3 | 3
Echo-Morrow County Line | | |
Grading and Macadam | Feb. 5, 1918 | 5 | 4
Umpqua Bridge 21/2 miles south | | |
Dillard | Feb. 5, 1918 | 4 | 4
Hood River Bridge | Mar. 5, 1918 | 4 | 4
Umpqua Bridge 21/2 miles south | | |
Dillard | Mar. 5, 1918 | 3 | 3
Beaver Creek Bridge No. 11 | Mar. 23, 1918 | 1 | 1
Half Viaduct Little Jack | | |
Falls | Mar. 23, 1918 | 1 | 1
Svenson-Columbia County Line | | |
Macadam | Mar. 23, 1918 | 1 | 1
Sheridan-McMinnville Section | | |
Paving | Mar. 23, 1918 | 1 | 1
Graham Creek Bridge | Mar. 23, 1918 | ... | ...
Plympton Creek Bridge | Mar. 23, 1918 | ... | ...
Little Creek Bridge | Mar. 23, 1918 | ... | ...
Big Creek Bridge | Mar. 23, 1918 | ... | ...
Clatsop County Line-Tide | | |
Creek Macadam | Mar. 23, 1918 | ... | ...
2 half viaducts in Columbia | | |
County | Mar. 23, 1918 | ... | ...
Stone Wall Construction | | |
Columbia County | Mar. 23, 1918 | ... | ...
Cascade Locks Section Gravel | May 14, 1918 | 1 | 1
Salem-Aurora Paving unit | | |
No. 1 | June 25, 1918 | 3 | 2
Salem-Aurora Paving unit | | |
No. 2 | June 25, 1918 | 3 | 2
Fanno Creek Bridge | July 9, 1918 | 6 | 6
Elgin-Minam Section Grading | July 9, 1918 | 1 | 1
Union-Telocaset Section | | |
Grading | July 9, 1918 | 4 | 4
Elgin-Minam Section Grading | July 9, 1918 | 3 | 3
Ashland Paving | July 9, 1918 | 3 | 2
Divide-Comstock Macadam | July 9, 1918 | 1 | 1
Divide Overhead Crossing | Sept. 10, 1918 | 1 | 1
Divide Overhead Crossing | | |
Grading | Sept. 10, 1918 | 1 | 1
Marshfield-Coquille Macadam | Oct. 8, 1918 | 2 | 2
| +-----------+-----------
| | 216 | 182
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Under the provisions of the Six Million Dollar Bonding Act, bonds to the
amount of $2,190,000.00 par value have been sold. These bonds bear four
per cent interest and mature in from five to twenty-five years from date
of issue. An average of six proposals were made for each issue.
===========+==========+===========+===============+==========+==========
Date of | Date of | Numbers | Highest |Par Value |Price Paid
Sales | Bonds | | Bidder | |
-----------+----------+-----------+---------------+----------+----------
Aug. 7, | Aug. 1, | 1- 520 | Lumbermen's | $ 500,000| $ 471,300
1917 | 1917 | | Trust | |
| | | Company | |
Sept. 12, | Sept. 1, | 521-1040 | E. H. Rollins | 500,000| 472,130
1917 | 1917 | | & Sons | |
Mar. 15, | April 1, | 1041-1560 | Henry Teal | 500,000| 455,850
1918 | 1918 | | | |
July 9, | July 1, | 1561-2280 | E. H. Rollins | 690,000| 643,770
1918 | 1918 | | & Sons and | |
| | | A. B. Leach | |
| | | +----------+----------
Totals |$2,190,000|$2,043,050
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Under the provisions of Chapter 175 of the Laws of 1917, (Bean-Barrett)
bonds to meet Federal co-operation are authorized. Four hundred thousand
dollars par value of these bonds were sold August 18, 1918 by the Board
of Control to the highest bidder, Clark-Kendall & Co., whose proposal
was $381,160.00. These bonds are four per cent and mature in from four
to eight years.
The work accomplished during the biennium may be summed up as follows:
50 miles of hard surface.
111.8 miles of broken stone or gravel surface.
134.5 miles of graded roadbed.
40 bridges.
With the close of the war and the prospect of declining prices of
material and a more plentiful supply of labor, the Commission looks
forward to 1919 as a year in which a great deal can be accomplished and
at this date a tentative program has been prepared providing for
improvement of the State Highways in every county of the State.
The report of the State Highway Engineer to the Commission is hereto
appended, showing in detail the work accomplished and the expenditures
during the biennium.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT OREGON STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION
STATEMENT FOR THE BIENNIUM ENDING NOVEMBER 30, 1918
ONE-QUARTER MILL TAX FUND--
Balance on hand December 1,
1916 $ 94,418.14
Turnover January 1, 1917 219,690.98
Turnover January 1, 1918 232,151.39
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Total receipts $ 546,260.51
Expenditures from 1/4 mill tax
fund to Nov. 30, 1918 528,789.99
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Balance on hand December 1,
1918 $ 17,470.52
AUTOMOBILE LICENSE FUND--
Turnover October 1, 1917 $150,000.00
Turnover April 1, 1918 300,000.00
Turnover October 1, 1918 125,000.00
-----------
Total receipts $ 575,000.00
Total expenditures to Nov. 30,
1918 281,902.67
------------
Balance, December 1, 1918 $293,097.33
SIX MILLION DOLLAR BOND FUND--
August 7, 1917, $500,000.00
bonds $471,300.08
Accrued interest 2,333.33
Sept. 12, 1917, $500,000.00
bonds 472,130.00
Accrued interest 1,833.33
March 15, 1918, $500,000.00
bonds 455,850.00
Accrued interest 222.22
July 9, 1918, $690,000.00
bonds 643,770.00
Accrued interest 2,606.54
-----------
Total receipts from bond sales $2,050,045.42
Expenditures to November 30, 1918 2,049,025.47
------------
------------
Balance on hand December 1, 1918 $ 1,019.95
STATE AND FEDERAL CO-OPERATIVE BONDS--
August 18, 1917, sold
$400,000.00 $388,040.00
Accrued interest 2,844.44
-----------
$390,884.44
Expenditure of Board of
Control this issue 400.00
-----------
Turnover by Board of Control
to State Highway Commission $ 390,484.44
Expenditures to Nov. 30, 1918 28,539.55
------------
Balance on hand December 1, 1918 $361,944.89
SUMMARY
=======+===========+===========+=============+============+=============
| | | | Federal |
| | | |Co-operative|
| 1/4-Mill | Auto | Six Million | Bonds |Bean-Barrett
| | | | State and |
-------+-----------+-----------+-------------+------------+-------------
Total |$546,260.51|$575,000.00|$2,050,045.42| $390,484.44|$3,561,790.37
Funds | | | | |
Expend-| 528,789.99| 281,902.67| 2,049,025.47| 28,539.55| 2,888,257.68
itures | | | | |
+-----------+-----------+-------------+------------+-------------
Balance| $17,470.52|$293,097.33|$ 1,019.95| $361,944.89|$ 673,532.69
-------+-----------+-----------+-------------+------------+-------------
[Illustration: LITTLE JACK FALLS ON THE COLUMBIA RIVER HIGHWAY BETWEEN
GOBLE AND RAINIER IN COLUMBIA COUNTY]
Report of the
State Highway Engineer
to the
State Highway Commission
of the
State of Oregon
1917-1918
Herbert Nunn, State Highway Engineer
LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL
Salem, Oregon, December 18, 1918.
TO THE HONORABLE STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION, S. BENSON, Chairman, W. L.
THOMPSON, Commissioner, R. A. BOOTH, Commissioner.
Gentlemen:
I have the honor to submit report covering the operations of the Highway
Department for the fiscal years ending November 30, 1917, and November
30, 1918.
In view of the fact that the State Highway Department did not complete
its organization until late in the season of 1917 and due to the further
fact that practically all contracts were awarded after the first day of
July, 1917, it was impossible to place before the State Highway
Commission a report which would be of any particular value to the
general public at the end of the last fiscal year. Therefore, it has
been decided to submit the two fiscal years under one cover in order
that the public may have at its command a statement of public highway
expenditures and the accomplishments of the State Highway Department
under the supervision of the State Highway Commission.
It was considered advisable by the Highway Commission to award contracts
and get work under way as early in 1917 as the necessarily late
organization of the Department would permit. The matter of preparing
estimates and calling for bids was therefore carried out as rapidly as
possible, using the data and surveys of the previous administration as a
basis for estimates.
It is believed that by awarding the contracts during the year 1917,
approximately twenty per cent was saved on all construction for the
reason that the shortage in labor and material did not become serious in
the State of Oregon until late in that season.
I wish to call the attention of the Commission to the law which requires
the State Highway Commission to make county surveys upon the State
highway system within the boundaries of any county making application. I
believe the law to be a good one, inasmuch as it furnishes free to
counties engineering skill which they cannot afford and places at their
command an organization which is in a position to carry out preliminary
location and estimates. The law states that this work shall be charged
to the counties under any future appropriation which may be made to
them.
The law limiting the expenditures of the State Highway Department for
engineering and administrative purposes to ten per cent of the total
moneys appropriated for construction, is sufficient for all purposes of
the State Highway Department, as an examination of the tabulated report
will show. However, as there are no separate funds set aside for the
county work as above noted, it has been necessary for this Department to
charge in all such work against our own engineering forces, and when I
state to you that the total sum for strictly county work, as requested
by the county courts, amounts to $137,954.74 in two years, you will see
that the Department is carrying a rather heavy burden which in reality
does not belong to it. So far the Department has been able to carry the
burden and still live within the ten per cent, but at any time the
counties increase their construction and engineering work and request
our supervision, this might exceed the lawful limit which we are
allowed. I recommend that this law be made clearer and that certain
funds be set aside for engineering work handled by the State Highway
Department for counties.
In order to anticipate the large amount of construction for 1919, the
State Highway Department has worked a rather large engineering force
throughout the summer of 1918 and will continue it through the winter of
1918 and 1919. This preliminary work is absolutely necessary in order to
award contracts early in the spring of 1919. The Federal Government
requires very carefully prepared plans and estimates for all future
Government work and this has been anticipated also, and practically
every project has been completed as to engineering features and
submitted to the Federal Government for approval.
Respectfully submitted,
HERBERT NUNN, State Highway Engineer.
Report of the
State Highway Engineer
To the
Oregon State Highway Commission
December 1, 1916, to November 30, 1918
WORK ACCOMPLISHED
During the two-year period covered by this report, conditions have been
unusually unfavorable for highway construction work. Labor and materials
of all kinds have been difficult to secure, wages and prices have been
very high, transportation facilities have been inadequate and many other
conditions have operated to interfere with highway construction. During
the last year public sentiment has been opposed to the prosecution of
construction work and the restrictions imposed by the Federal Government
have prevented the undertaking of any extensive program of road
improvement. For these reasons the Highway Department has not handled
nearly the amount of work that it would have handled under normal
conditions, but nevertheless a great stride has been made in the
development of Oregon's good roads system, and the Department feels that
a fairly good showing has been made. The actual construction work
undertaken and completed during the two years consists of fifty miles of
paving, one hundred and eleven and eight-tenths miles of macadamizing,
one hundred and thirty-four and five-tenths miles of grading and forty
bridges and large culverts.
In addition to this actual construction work the Department has made
surveys of nine hundred and two miles of State roads and has prepared
designs for forty-two bridges for county authorities.
MONEYS AVAILABLE AND EXPENDED
From December 1, 1916, to November 30, 1918, the State Highway
Department has had available for expenditure a total of $4,271,515.16 of
State and County funds. Of this amount $3,597,982.47 has been expended.
These amounts distributed over funds are as follows:
=================================+===============+===============
Funds | Amounts | Amounts
| Available | Expended
---------------------------------+---------------+---------------
State Funds: | |
One-quarter mill tax fund | $ 546,260.51 | $ 528,789.99
Automobile license fund | 575,000.00 | 281,902.67
Six million dollar bond fund | 2,050,045.42 | 2,049,025.47
State and Federal Co-operative | 390,484.44 | 28,539.55
bond fund | |
+---------------+---------------
Total State funds | $3,561,790.37 | $2,888,257.68
County funds | 709,724.79 | 709,724.79
+---------------+---------------
Grand total | $4,271,515.16 | $3,597,982.47
---------------------------------+---------------+---------------
PAVING
A total of fifty miles of pavement was completed by the Department
during the 1917 and 1918 seasons. Had it not been for the entrance of
the United States into the war, this mileage would have been more than
doubled, but with need of paving materials, labor and capital for war
uses, the Commission felt that it must curtail its paving program to the
greatest possible extent. To this end, only three miles of pavement was
started during the 1918 season, whereas under normal conditions the
mileage of new work would have been greatly in excess of the forty-seven
miles undertaken in 1917.
The sections of pavement completed are as follows:
Clackamas County-- Miles
Oregon City to Canby 7.5
Clatsop County--
Astoria to Svensen 3.5
Columbia County--
Scappoose to Multnomah County Line 2.5
Jackson County--
Ashland Hill Section 0.8
Tillamook County--
Tillamook-Cloverdale Section 5.0
Umatilla County--
Pendleton to Adams 10.0
Pendleton to State Hospital 1.0
Washington County--
Multnomah County Line to Yamhill County Line 12.5
Yamhill County--
Newberg to Washington County Line 3.2
Sheridan east 4.0
----
Total miles paved 50.0
All of the above pavements are sixteen feet in width, and despite the
fact that the prices of material and labor increased greatly during the
period between the inauguration of the six million dollar paving program
and the actual commencement of work, the cost of these paved roads has
been only slightly in excess of $1,000.00 per mile per foot width
contemplated at the time the six million dollar bond issue was voted.
The actual cost of the fifty miles of completed pavement was
approximately $872,500.00 which gives a unit cost of $1,090.00 per mile
per foot width.
Each of the sections paved is described in full in an article under the
heading of the particular county in which it is located.
MACADAMIZING
One hundred and twelve miles of State roads have been surfaced with
broken stone and gravel macadam. Practically all of this surfacing is
sixteen feet wide; there are, however, a few short stretches of
nine-foot width necessitated by the coming on of wet weather before the
full sixteen-foot width could be completed. The total quantity of broken
stone and gravel placed in these 112 miles of surface was 247,925 cubic
yards, an average of 2,210 cubic yards per mile, which quantity of
material per mile gives an average loose thickness of eight and one-half
inches for macadam sixteen feet wide. The Department's specifications
call for a minimum thickness of six inches. In many places, however,
particularly on the lower Columbia River work it was found necessary to
place as much as eighteen and twenty-four inches of rock before a
satisfactory foundation could be secured.
The sections upon which broken stone or gravel surfacing was placed are
as follows:
Clatsop County-- Miles
Astoria to Columbia County Line 24.4
Columbia County--
Clatsop County Line to Goble 27.2
Deschutes County--
Bend-Lapine Section (cinder macadam) 12.5
Douglas County--
Divide to Leona 7.0
Gilliam County--
Condon to Thirty Mile Creek 6.7
Hood River County--
Cascade Locks to Hood River 18.0
Jackson County--
Siskiyou Mountain Section 6.5
Lake County--
Lakeview-Paisley Section 4.0
Lane County--
Divide-Cottage Grove Section 1.0
Wheeler County--
Cummins Hill Section 4.5
-----
Total miles of macadam surfacing 111.8
A complete description of each of the above sections will be found in
the chapter devoted to the county in which the work was performed.
GRADING
The grading work of the Highway Department is confined to the building
of those sections of State roads which are so located that the counties
in which they occur are not directly interested in their construction or
which are so expensive that county funds are inadequate for their
construction. The total number of miles graded during the last two-year
period was 134.5 miles, most of which was on the Pacific and Columbia
River highways.
While the grading work was greatly curtailed during 1918 on account of
war conditions, work was continued in those localities where resident
labor was available and where the work interfered in no way with more
essential war industries.
A complete tabulation of the grading jobs is given elsewhere in this
report, and a detailed outline of each is given under the respective
county headings. A few of the more important grading jobs are as
follows:
Miles
Grading between Cascade Locks and Hood River in Hood River County 14.2
Elimination of Roberts Mountain grades in Douglas County 12.8
Grading of Rice Hill section between Oakland and Yoncalla 10.4
Elimination of Wolf Creek-Grave Creek grades in Josephine County 4.9
Reduction of Cummins Hill grade in Wheeler County 3.5
Grading between Oregon City and New Era in Clackamas county 4.5
BRIDGES
The State Highway Department has, during the period covered by this
report, prepared designs for ninety-six bridges and fourteen special
culverts. Of these structures sixty bridges and ten culverts have been
constructed at a total cost to State and Counties of $617,388.09.
The structures paid for out of State funds consist of twenty-two
reinforced concrete bridges, ten wood bridges, and seven culverts. The
total expenditure of State funds for these bridges and culverts was
$239,044.85.
[Illustration: REINFORCED CONCRETE BRIDGE OVER HOOD RIVER, NEARING
COMPLETION, ON THE COLUMBIA RIVER HIGHWAY AT HOOD RIVER CITY. BUILT IN
1918.]
The structures paid for out of county funds consist of thirteen
reinforced concrete bridges, fourteen wood and steel bridges, and four
culverts; the total cost of these structures being $378,343.24.
Of the structures paid for by the counties, the State Highway Department
supervised the construction for three reinforced concrete bridges, four
steel and wood bridges, and one culvert; the cost of which totaled
$288,743.24.
A complete tabulation of the bridges designed and constructed is given
in another part of this report, and complete descriptions of the more
important structures will be found in the articles devoted to the
particular counties in which the structures are located.
The $250,000.00 intercounty bridge across the Willamette River at Salem
was completed, and has attracted more than local attention. While the
cost of this structure was borne by Marion and Polk Counties the design
and construction engineering were handled by this Department.
The reinforced concrete arch bridge at Hood River, the largest concrete
bridge yet constructed in this State was designed and built under State
supervision, although the County also contributed toward its cost.
Among the proposed bridges of considerable magnitude for which county
officials have requested designs from this Department may be mentioned
the Deschutes and Oregon City. The former will be located between the
present toll bridge and the railroad bridge across the Deschutes River
and will thus obviate the necessity of toll payments. It will consist of
a series of reinforced concrete arches. The Oregon City bridge will
replace the old suspension bridge across the Willamette. Studies are
being made and comparisons of various types of bridges and locations of
site are being made.
During the war period, both for patriotic and economic reasons the
employment of steel bridges was discontinued and wooden truss bridges
used instead. Now that the demand for steel for war purposes has
subsided, and there are indications of a decline in the price of
structural steel in the near future, the resumption of use of that
material in the construction of bridges will probably be more general.
ELIMINATION OF GRADE CROSSINGS
The Department is working consistently for the elimination of dangerous
grade crossings. No less than ten grade crossings have been done away
with as far as through traffic on State Roads is concerned, during the
past two years. Most of these eliminations have been brought about by
holding roads on the same side of railway tracks instead of crossing
over and back. Two of the eliminations, however, were brought about by
grade separations; one near Rex in Washington County and another near
Ashland in Jackson County, both of these grade separations being
undercrossings.
An agreement was also reached whereby a reinforced concrete overhead
crossing will be constructed to eliminate a very dangerous grade
crossing on the Pacific Highway near Divide, in Lane County. This
structure would have been built in 1918, but on account of the
requirements of material for war purposes, the United States Highway
Council ordered the construction delayed. It will undoubtedly be
constructed during the 1919 season.
FEDERAL CO-OPERATION
In 1916, the United States Congress enacted a law making available
$85,000,000.00 of Federal Government moneys for co-operation with the
several States in the construction and improvement of roads. Of this
amount, $75,000,000.00 is appropriated for co-operation on "Post Roads,"
roads over which either rural or star post routes are operated, and
$10,000,000.00 is appropriated for co-operation on "Forest Roads," roads
within or partly within National Forests.
During the five year period prior to July 1, 1921, there will become
available to the State of Oregon from the Government Funds set aside by
this Act the following amounts:
===============================+================+================
| For | For
| Post Roads | Forest Roads
-------------------------------+----------------+----------------
July 1, 1916, to July 1, 1917 |$ 78,687.00 | $ 127,794.00
July 1, 1917, to July 1, 1918 | 157,375.00 | 127,794.00
July 1, 1918, to July 1, 1919 | 236,062.00 | 127,794.00
July 1, 1919, to July 1, 1920 | 314,749.00 | 127 794.00
July 1, 1920, to July 1, 1921 | 393,437.00 | 127,794.00
+----------------+----------------
Totals |$ 1,180,310.00 | $ 638,970.00
-------------------------------+----------------+----------------
Total amount of government funds apportioned to the State of Oregon for
co-operative work. $1,819,280.00.
With the funds thus apportioned to the State, the Government will
co-operate on approved road projects to not to exceed fifty per cent of
their cost. Therefore, the State, or the State co-operating with the
Counties, must provide amounts at least equal to the amounts set aside
by the Federal Government in order to avail itself of the funds
apportioned to it.
In 1917, the State Legislature passed a bill accepting the terms of the
Federal Government's co-operative offer and authorizing the issue of
bonds to the amount of $1,819,280.00 to provide the funds necessary to
match the Government funds. There is thus available for expenditure on
post and forest roads in the State during the five years prior to July
1, 1921, the following amounts:
For Post Road Projects:
Federal Government Funds $1,180,310.00
State Funds 1,180,310.00
-------------- $2,360,620.00
For Forest Road Projects:
Federal Government Funds $ 638,970.00
State Funds 638,970.00
-------------- 1,277,940.00
--------------
Total $3,638,560.00
For Post Road Projects the plans are prepared, contracts let and work
supervised by the State Highway Department, subject, of course, to
approval and acceptance by the Secretary of Agriculture through the
Federal Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering. For Forest Road
Projects, the plans are prepared, contracts let and work supervised by
the Federal Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering acting for the
Secretary of Agriculture. The State Highway Department is, therefore,
directly responsible for the work done on Post Road Projects, whereas on
Forest Road Projects the responsibility rests with the Office of Public
Roads and Rural Engineering, the State Highway Department simply
approving the projects and auditing the claims presented by the Federal
Government against the State's share of the funds.
It is the policy of the Highway Department to match the Government Funds
with equal amounts from State Funds only, any County Funds which may be
available being used to increase the total amounts available rather than
to reduce the amount of State co-operation. On projects approved to
November 30, 1918, the amount of these additional funds provided by
counties is approximately $325,000.00.
POST ROAD PROJECTS
Up to November 30, 1918, fifteen Post Road Projects had been submitted
to the Office of Public Roads for approval. Of these fifteen projects
nine have received approval, three have been rejected as not complying
with the government requirements as regards rural and star route mail
service over them, and three are pending action by the Secretary of
Agriculture. The rejected projects were the Wolf Creek-Grave Creek
project in Josephine county, the Canyonville-Galesville project in
Douglas County, and the Myrtle Creek-Dillard project also in Douglas
County. The first and third of these projects have since been
constructed without government co-operation, and the second is under
construction as a "Forest Road."
Construction is now under way on two Post Road Projects both of which
are in Union County. These are the Elgin-Minam project, estimated to
cost $41,151.00, and the Union-Telocaset project, estimated to cost
$30,000.00. The contracts for the construction of both jobs were let on
July 9, 1918, to Union County, represented by the County Court, the
lowest bidder. Subsequent to the letting, however, the Attorney General
gave the opinion that the County Court had no legal authority to enter
into a contract of this nature, and in order to facilitate matters and
prevent delay in construction the State Highway Commission on September
10, 1918, agreed to take the work over at the prices bid by the County,
the County agreeing to reimburse the State in case the cost of the work
exceeded the bid prices.
The total estimated cost of all projects agreed upon to date is
$1,409,993.24 of which $627,496.62 is to be paid by the Federal
Government, $627,496.62 by the State, and $155,000.00 by the Counties
interested. On page 24 is given a tabulation of the Post Road Projects
approved, giving the estimated cost of each project with the respective
amounts to be paid by the State, the Federal Government and the
Counties.
FOREST ROAD PROJECTS
The Federal authorities and the State Highway Commission have to date
agreed upon co-operation on fourteen Forest Road Projects. The total
estimated cost of these fourteen projects is $1,246,204.65; $538,231.78
to be provided by the Government, $538,231.78 by the State, and
$169,741.09 by the Counties.
Construction is already under way on three of the Forest Projects,
namely: the Canyonville-Galesville section of the Pacific Highway in
Douglas County, the Three Rivers Project in Tillamook County, and the
Ochoco Canyon Project in Crook County.
POST ROAD PROJECTS
PROJECTS AGREED UPON TO NOVEMBER 30, 1918
=========+=======+========+=============+===================================
|Project| Miles | | Funds Provided
Projects |Number | and | Estimated +-----------+-----------+-----------
+----+ | Kind | Total | By | By | By
| | of Work| Cost |Government | State | Counties
--------------+--+--------+-------------+-----------+-----------+-----------
Baker | | | | | |
County: | | | | | |
Baker-Middle |10|17.0 |$ 71,235.45|$ 28,117.73|$ 28,117.72|$ 15,000.00
Bridge | |miles-- | | | |
section | |grading | | | |
Sag Section | 9|4.9 | 41,926.00| 17,963.00| 17,963.00| 6,000.00
of Baker- | |miles-- | | | |
Baker- | |grading | | | |
Cornucopia | |and | | | |
Road | |gravel | | | |
Canyon |11|4.5 | 22,498.00| 8,249.00| 8,249.00| 6,000.00
Section of | |miles-- | | | |
Baker- | |grading | | | |
Cornucopia | | | | | |
Road | | | | | |
| | | | | |
Grant County: | | | | | |
John Day to |13|7.2 | 143,817.14| 71,908.57| 71,908.57| ...
Fiske Creek | |miles-- | | | |
Section | |grading | | | |
| |and | | | |
| |gravel | | | |
Hall Hill to |14|2.2 | 43,282.47| 21,641.23| 21,641.24| ...
Prairie | |miles-- | | | |
City | |grading | | | |
Section | |and | | | |
| |gravel | | | |
| | | | | |
Harney County:| | | | | |
Burns-Crane |15|6.0 | 48,000.00| 20,000.00| 20,000.00| 8,000.00
Project | |miles-- | | | |
| |grading | | | |
| |and | | | |
| |gravel | | | |
Malheur | | | | | |
County: | | | | | |
Project to be| | | 100,000.00| 40,000.00| 40,000.00| 20,000.00
selected | | | | | |
| | | | | |
Marion | | | | | |
County: | | | | | |
Salem- | 7|18.0 | 347,232.60| 173,616.30| 173,616.30| ...
Aurora | |miles-- | | | |
Project | |grading | | | |
| | | | | |
Union County: | | | | | |
Elgin-Minam | 5|9.3 | 41,151.00| 20,575.50| 20,575.50| ...
Project | |miles-- | | | |
| |grading | | | |
Union- | 8|6.0 | 30,000.00| 15,000.00| 15,000.00| ...
Telocaset | |miles-- | | | |
Project | |grading | | | |
| | | | | |
Wasco County: | | | | | |
The Dalles- |..|2.0 | 44,000.00| 20,000.00| 20,000.00| 4,000.00
Three Mile | |miles-- | | | |
Creek | |paving | | | |
Project | | | | | |
| | | | | |
Wheeler | | | | | |
County: | | | | | |
Fossil- | 4|9.5 | 36,733.40| 18,366.70| 18,366.70| ...
Sarvice | |miles-- | | | |
Creek | |grading | | | |
Project | | | | | |
| | | | | |
Wheeler and | | | | | |
Grant | | | | | |
Counties: | | | | | |
Sarvice | 6|48.5 | 400,433.80| 157,216.90| 157,216.90| 86,000.00
Creek- | |miles-- | | | |
Valades | |grading | | | |
Ranch | | | | | |
Project | | | | | |
| | | | | |
Yamhill | | | | | |
County: | | | | | |
Grande |12|2.8 | 39,683.38| 14,841.69| 14,841.69| 10,000.00
Ronde | |miles-- | | | |
Project | |grading | | | |
| |and | | | |
| |gravel | | | |
--------------+--+--------+-------------+-----------+-----------+-----------
Total estimated cost|$1,409,993.24| | |
of all Projects | | | |
Federal Government | |$627,496.62| |
Funds | | | |
State Funds | | |$627,496.62|
County Funds | | | |$155,000.00
--------------------------+-------------+-----------+-----------+-----------
The Canyonville-Galesville section is what is generally known as Cow
Creek Canyon, one of the worst stretches on the Pacific Highway. This
section is 9.7 miles in length, and is to be graded sixteen feet wide;
the estimated total cost being $211,000.00. The work is under contract
to John Hampshire & Co., of Grants Pass.
The Three Rivers Project is 10.35 miles in length and lies between Hebo
and Dolph on the Portland-Tillamook Highway in Tillamook County. The
County of Tillamook, represented by its County Court was the low bidder
on this work, but before the contract was entered into, the Attorney
General ruled that the County Court had no authority to contract work of
this kind. The State Highway Department having available the necessary
equipment and desiring to get this important piece of road work under
way, agreed with the Federal Government to take the work over at the
prices bid by Tillamook County.
A tabulation of Forest Road Projects approved to date and giving the
estimated cost and amounts of County, State and Government Funds is
given below.
FOREST ROAD PROJECTS
PROJECTS APPROVED TO NOVEMBER 30, 1918
=====================+=============+===================================
| | Funds Provided
| Estimated +-----------+-----------+-----------
Projects | Total | By | By | By
| Cost | Government| State | County
---------------------+-------------+-----------+-----------+-----------
Clackamas County: | | | |
Zigzag Section of | | | |
Mt. Hood Road |$ 48,000.00|$ 24,000.00|$ 24,000.00| ...
| | | |
Crook County: | | | |
Ochoco Canyon | 52,500.00| 17,500.00| 17,500.00| 17,500.00
Project | | | |
| | | |
Curry County: | | | |
Curry-Coos Project | 110,000.00| 55,000.00| 55,000.00| ...
| | | |
Deschutes-Lane | | | |
Counties: | | | |
McKenzie Pass | 190,455.00| 82,078.00| 82,078.00| 26,299.00
Project | | | |
| | | |
Douglas County: | | | |
Canyonville- | 211,000.00| 94,000.00| 94,000.00| 23,000.00
Galesville | | | |
Tiller Trail | 123,603.00| 48,439.00| 48,439.00| 26,725.00
Project | | | |
| | | |
Lake County: | | | |
Lapine-Lakeview | 79,419.00| 39,709.50| 39,709.50| ...
Project | | | |
| | | |
Jackson County: | | | |
Medford-Crater | | | |
Lake Project | 72,372.00| 34,436.00| 34,436.00| 3,500.00
| | | |
Josephine County: | | | |
Grants Pass- | | | |
Crescent City | 31,476.00| 15,738.00| 15,738.00| ...
Project | | | |
| | | |
Klamath County: | | | |
Anna Creek Section | | | |
of Crater Lake | 6,780.40| 3,390.20| 3,390.20| ...
Road | | | |
| | | |
Lane County: | | | |
Eugene-Florence | 123,951.25| 41,317.08| 41.317.08| 41,317.09
Project | | | |
| | | |
Tillamook County: | | | |
Three Rivers | 122,000.00| 50,250.00| 50,250.00| 21,500.00
Project | | | |
| | | |
Wallowa County: | | | |
Flora-Enterprise | 29,648.00| 12,324.00| 12,324.00| 5,000.00
Project | | | |
| | | |
Wheeler County: | | | |
Ochoco Canyon | 45,000.00| 20,050.00| 20,050.00| 4,900.00
Project | | | |
+-------------+-----------+-----------+-----------
Total estimated |$1,246,204.65| | |
cost of all | | | |
Projects | | | |
Federal Govt. Funds| |$538,231.78| |
State Funds | | |$538,231.78|
County Funds | | | |$169,741.09
---------------------+-------------+-----------+-----------+-----------
[Illustration: MOUNT ASHLAND FROM THE PACIFIC HIGHWAY IN JACKSON COUNTY.
ELEVATION OF HIGHWAY 4,480 FEET]
THE PACIFIC HIGHWAY
The Pacific Highway running from Portland, through Oregon City, Salem,
Albany, Eugene, Roseburg, Grants Pass, Medford and Ashland to the
California line, is probably the most important through highway in the
State. Along it are situated nine of the most important cities of the
State. It traverses the immensely productive valleys of the Willamette,
the Umpqua and the Rogue Rivers. It is the intercommunicating road for
nine of the thirty-five counties of the State, and passes through the
county seats of all but one of the nine. It is the only continuous and
direct road along the Pacific Coast west of the Cascade Mountains, and
connecting as it does the metropoli of the three Pacific Coast States it
is the most important interstate highway in the West. From the
standpoint of the tourist, Oregon would not be on the map if it had no
Pacific Highway. It is the road that makes Oregon accessible to tourists
from other states.
Being the most important highway in the State, the Pacific Highway
should be the best highway in the State. To make it the best and at the
same time to bring it up to the standard of the same highway in the
adjacent states of Washington and California is one of the ends toward
which the Highway Commission has been working during the past two years.
During that time 53.3 miles of the very worst stretches of this highway
have been newly graded to trunk highway standards. This grading has
eliminated practically all of those heavy and dangerous grades which
have made Oregon notorious for bad roads and which have kept thousands
of auto tourists from visiting the State. In addition to grading 53.3
miles on the Pacific Highway, the Highway Commission has put down 8.3
miles of pavement and 14.5 miles of macadam, the total cost of all of
these improvements being $971,000.00. As a part of the 1919 program, the
Highway Commission has already appropriated for the improvement of the
Pacific Highway the sum of $1,147,000.00, with which it is planned to
build 46 miles of pavement and 38 miles of macadam surface.
The particular sections of the Pacific Highway constructed during 1917
and 1918, together with their mileages and total costs are given below.
All of these sections are completed with the exception of the
Canyonville-Galesville Forest Road Project which is well under way.
================================================+=====+===========
Sections |Miles| Total Cost
------------------------------------------------+-----+-----------
Grading (including bridges)-- | |
Oregon City to New Era | 4.0|$ 75,000.00
Divide to Leona | 7.0| 50,000.00
Yoncalla to Oakland | 10.8| 101,100.00
Myrtle Creek to Dillard | 12.8| 165,500.00
Canyonville to Galesville | 9.7| 211,000.00
Wolf Creek to Grave Creek | 4.9| 68,300.00
Grants Pass to Jackson County Line | 3.3| 13,000.00
Ashland Undercrossing | .8| 9,800.00
| |
Macadam-- | |
Cottage Grove to Divide | 1.0| 6,100.00
Divide to Leona | 7.0| 64,000.00
Siskiyou to California Line | 6.5| 56,300.00
| |
Paving-- | |
Oregon City to Canby | 7.5| 135,000.00
Ashland Hill Section | .8| 15,900.00
+-----+-----------
Total cost of improvements completed and under| |
way on Pacific Highway, 1917-1918 | |$971,000.00
------------------------------------------------+-----+-----------
THE COLUMBIA RIVER HIGHWAY
The Columbia River Highway is second only to the Pacific Highway as a
commercial necessity in the state of Oregon; furthermore, the Columbia
River Highway is the only connecting link between Eastern and Western
Oregon that can be kept open for vehicular traffic throughout the entire
year.
From a scenic standpoint, the Columbia River Highway has now become
world famous, not only because of its wonderful natural advantages of
location, but because of the high standard of construction. A large part
of this combined commercial and scenic road is now open to traffic and
the coming year will see the elimination of the last almost impassable
barrier--the summit between Hood River and Mosier, a piece of
construction 5.8 miles in length which will cost approximately $350,000
for the grading alone.
The Columbia River Highway parallels the Columbia River from the Pacific
Ocean to Umatilla, a distance of 320 miles, thence southeast an
additional 40 miles to Pendleton, where it connects with the Old Oregon
Trail. The Old Oregon Trail continues southeast for a distance of 190
miles, crossing the Idaho-Oregon line at Huntington; making a continuous
highway 550 miles in length.
At this date, the grading of the Columbia River Highway is practically
complete from Astoria to Hood River, a total distance of 174 miles, and
the greater part of it is now either paved or macadamized.
The cost of work completed on the Columbia River Highway between Astoria
and Portland during the period covered by this report, after all
payments are made will be approximately $866,000.00, of which amount
$832,078.35 has been expended to date. The work accomplished consists of
9.4 miles of grading, 51.6 miles of macadamizing, 6 miles of paving, 15
reinforced concrete bridges and one covered wood draw bridge.
On the upper Columbia River Highway between Hood River and Cascade
Locks, 14.2 miles have been graded, 18 miles gravelled, and a number of
reinforced concrete bridges built, among which is the Hood River bridge
at Hood River, costing $48,000.00. The total cost of the work completed
between Hood River and Cascade Locks will amount to $466,000.00.
The sections improved during this period, with their mileages and costs
are as follows:
====================================+=====+=============
Sections |Miles| Total Cost
------------------------------------+-----+-------------
Grading-- | |
Cascade Locks to Hood River | 14.2|$ 355,000.00
Goble to Clatskanie | 8.2| 78,500.00
Astoria to Svensen | 1.2| 15,000.00
| |
Bridges-- | |
Hood River Bridge | | 48,000.00
Beaver Valley Bridges | | 32,000.00
John Day River Bridge | | 25,000.00
Other Bridges | | 31,000.00
| |
Paving-- | |
Astoria to Svensen | 3.5| 65,000.00
Scappoose to Multnomah County Line| 2.5| 37,500.00
| |
Macadamizing-- | |
Astoria to Svensen | 5.5| 30,000.00
Svensen to Columbia County Line | 18.9| 215,000.00
Clatsop County Line to Goble | 27.2| 335,000.00
Cascade Locks to Hood River | 18.0| 65,000.00
+-----+-------------
Total Expenditures 1917 and 1918| |$1,332,000.00
------------------------------------+-----+-------------
During 1919, work will be undertaken on the Columbia River Highway to
the amount of $1,400,000.00, comprising 10 miles of pavement, 85 miles
of gravel macadam and 80 miles of grading. This work when completed will
provide a surfaced highway between Astoria and Pendleton.
COUNTY WORK SUPERVISED BY THE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
That the Counties of the State have confidence in the Highway Department
and recognize the ability of the Department to get results is evidenced
by the fact that $709,724.79 of county funds have been voluntarily
turned over to the Department during 1917 and 1918 to be expended under
its supervision.
This, $709,724.79, is the actual amount of money paid out by Counties on
vouchers audited and approved by the Department. In addition to this a
large amount of work has been done by Counties under the supervision of
the Department, for which payment was made direct by the Counties
without being audited by the Highway Department. No record of the total
amount thus expended is available, but it is estimated to be about
$200,000.00. No part of this amount is included in any of the
tabulations of expenditures given in this report. The cost of
engineering and supervision of work handled in this manner, has been
paid by the Highway Department and is included in Table VI of the
Financial Report as "Engineering County Construction."
For co-operation on Post and Forest Road Projects, a total of
$325,000.00 of County Funds have already been pledged. Of this amount
$155,000.00 will be expended under State supervision, and $170,000.00
under Federal Government supervision.
CONSTRUCTION WORK BY STATE FORCES
While the major part of the work supervised by the State Highway
Department is handled under the contract system, it has been found to be
good business for the Department to go into competition with contractors
and where satisfactory bids are not received to proceed to handle the
work with State forces.
During 1917 and 1918, the Department handled in this manner the
construction of 45.5 miles of macadam surfacing, 3.0 miles of concrete
paving, and 27.3 miles of grading.
Although war conditions prevailed during the past year and every
possible obstacle had to be surmounted, the work done with State forces
made a creditable showing when compared with cost plus and contract
jobs. Especially is this true of paving work where a comparison of costs
with bid prices show a very substantial saving to the State, as
illustrated by the following table:
===================+======+==========+==========+===========+==========
|Length| Prelimi- |Cost Based|Actual Cost|Saving to
| in | nary | on Lowest| With State| State
| Miles| Estimate | Bid Price| Forces |
| | of Cost | | |
-------------------+------+----------+----------+-----------+----------
Sheridan Paving | 2.2 |$42,535.50|$52,438.00|$40,065.61 |$12,372.39
Ashland Hill Paving| .8 | 16,962.00| 19,858.66| 15,908.03 | 3,950.63
+------+----------+----------+-----------+----------
Total | 3.0 |$59,497.50|$72,296.66|$55,973.64 |$16,323.02
-------------------+------+----------+----------+-----------+----------
Highway construction by the State Highway Department with its own forces
has its limitation, however, in spite of the fact that it is often
possible to do work at less cost than by contract. The Oregon State
Highway Department is by law and of necessity an engineering
organization and, in order to have the best success in handling
construction work, it is necessary to have a distinct organization.
In the hiring of men for handling such construction, it is necessary for
the State to compete with contractors for the higher priced and more
experienced men, and the contractor is often in a position to offer more
salary than the State. Furthermore, it is necessary for the State to
carry large quantities of expensive equipment which is idle at least a
part of the year, and, in fact, the amount of equipment necessary to
handle all of the State work by force account would represent too large
a portion of the year's available money for road work.
In handling its construction work direct, however, the Department has
the advantage of not being required to make a profit on the work,
neither has it to pay interest on the necessary moneys to carry payrolls
and other incidentals, neither is there any loss in retained percentage.
The State does not have to carry a construction bond and, in fact, there
are many reasons why a state should handle its construction direct,
cheaper than by contract.
There is much to be said on both sides of the question, but the
Department at this time does not believe that it is justified in
attempting to handle all of the State work, believing that only under
certain conditions where the State does not receive reasonable bids the
work should be handled direct.
The State Highway Department has many large construction jobs under
contract at one time, and it is obvious, even to the layman, that an
organization to handle all of this work with State forces is impossible
under the present laws of the State of Oregon, and the Department
recommends that force account be limited to such cases as are mentioned
above and work for which the quantities and cost can not be closely
estimated in advance of construction, such as maintenance work and light
grading.
STATE HIGHWAY FUNDS
The funds at the disposal of the Highway Department are divided as
follows:
* * * * *
=The State Highway Fund= provides for one-quarter mill tax on the
assessed valuation of the State. This fund amounted to $219,690.98 in
1917; $232,151.39 in 1918 and in 1919 will equal $246,883.47. The money
available in this fund provides a sufficient sum for the salaries and
expenses of the State Highway Department, and the cost of maintaining
State highways which have been constructed or improved. It is provided
also, that with the proceeds of this fund, the Commission may enter into
co-operative agreements with any County for the survey, construction,
improvement or maintenance of any State highway upon such basis or
contribution as may be agreed upon. The Bridge Department is maintained
out of this fund and furnishes designs for structures desired by the
counties.
* * * * *
=The Automobile License Fund.= Under the provision of Section 12,
Chapter 423, Laws of 1917, the Secretary of State is directed to
transfer to an account under the jurisdiction of the State Highway
Commission, the receipts from the automobile license fees, less the cost
of administration. The law provides that these funds be transferred on
April 1 and October 1 of each year. The 1918 receipts from this fund
were $425,000.00 and with the rapid increase of the number of
automobiles, it is expected that this amount will be increased from year
to year. The fund provides for the payment of principal and interest, as
the same shall become due, on the bonded indebtedness of the State of
Oregon, contracted for road purposes under the provisions of the Six
Million Dollar Bonding Act and the State and Federal Road Bonding Act.
The unexpended balance may be expended on such State highway projects as
the Commission approves.
This fund is also used for co-operative work in counties where the Six
Million Dollar Fund may not be used and on State Highways not eligible
for improvement under the Post and Forest Road Acts.
* * * * *
=The Six Million Dollar Road Bond Fund= provides for the issuance of six
million dollars in bonds during the next five years. It provides for the
sale of one million dollars in bonds in 1917; two million dollars in
1918, and the balance as the Commission may think advisable. The primary
purpose of this act was to provide paving on the main highways of the
State, contingent upon the counties preparing the road bed according to
the plans of the State Highway Engineer.
It also provides funds for the grading of the road bed on the Columbia
River Highway in Clatsop, Columbia and Hood River Counties and on the
Pacific Highway in Jackson County.
At this date a total of $2,190,000 par value of bonds have been sold.
* * * * *
=State and Federal Co-operative Road Bonds.= Under the Federal Aid Road
Act there is provided for expenditure by the Federal Government during
the next five years, $1,180,310.85 for the construction of Post Roads in
the State of Oregon and there is also available during the same period
the sum of $638,970.00 for the construction of highways within or partly
within the National Forests of the State. The purpose of this Act is to
meet Federal Aid in an equal amount and under this provision a total of
$1,819,280.85 in bonds is authorized to be issued by the Board of
Control and placed in a special fund to be used in carrying out the
provisions of this Act. A total of $400,000.00 par value of these bonds
have been sold.
EQUIPMENT
The State Highway Department owns construction and hauling equipment to
the approximate value of $100,000.00. This equipment is too varied and
extensive to be shown in detail in this report. However, it includes six
heavy auto trucks, two light auto trucks, twenty-two touring cars, three
concrete mixers, two gasoline locomotives, three road rollers, one Brown
hoist, one asphalt paving plant, three rock crushers and an extensive
supply of camp equipment, small tools, drills, steel, pipe, etc.
Most of this equipment is in fine working condition and adaptable to
general highway work and has been used during the past year. However, we
have on hand a certain amount of machinery which was bought for special
purposes in former years, and while it has no doubt made a saving
sufficient to justify its original cost, the Department has no more use
for it and it would be advantageous to the Department if this equipment
could be disposed of and the money invested in more necessary machinery.
Under present conditions, the State law makes it necessary to return any
money from the sale of materials, supplies or equipment into the General
Fund of the State, and it is impossible to get this money back into
highway funds without a special act of the Legislature. Despite this
fact, however, some equipment was disposed of during the past year and
the money turned into the General Fund.
If the State Highway Department is to proceed with any considerable
amount of work with State forces, it will be necessary to purchase some
additional equipment so that the work may be prosecuted more
economically, especially is this true of concrete bridge work and
general maintenance work. These are special types of work and special
types of equipment are necessary to handle them properly.
During the past year a great amount of equipment has been rented from
private contractors and in case of short jobs and on special types of
work, this is economical, but on long jobs, it is much more economical
to purchase the necessary machinery as the amount paid out in rentals
for a period of six or eight months is a considerable portion of the
purchase price.
During the past season a warehouse was built by the Department for the
purpose of housing construction equipment. This warehouse is located on
State property near the Penitentiary. It is 40 by 80 feet in size and
has railroad facilities.
All idle equipment and left over material is shipped to Salem, for
storage, at the close of the season. There the equipment is overhauled,
repaired, repainted, and placed in readiness for the next season's work.
The warehouse was built by the Department with day labor.
It will probably be advisable during the coming year to erect two more
units to the warehouse to take care of a larger amount of equipment and
provide for repair shop and garage.
A garage was rented at 660 North Capitol Street, Salem, and an efficient
automobile mechanic was placed in charge. By this means the automobiles
of the Department are kept in good repair, oiled and tires vulcanized.
Facilities are provided also for overhauling and repainting, which
effects a considerable saving.
OFFICE ORGANIZATION
The work handled in the offices of the State Highway Department is of
four classes, each requiring specialized training, and, in a way, of
little or no relation to each other. For this reason, the office
organization consists of four different offices or departments: the
General Office, the Auditing Department, the Office Engineering
Department and the Bridge Department. The work of these departments is
outlined in the following paragraphs.
* * * * *
=General Office.=--All business of the Highway Commission and all
business of the Department with the public is transacted through the
General Office. Under the direction of the Secretary of the Commission
and the First Assistant Engineer, this office handles all
correspondence, the issuance of bonds, the execution of contracts, the
purchase of supplies and equipment, and all general office detail.
The seal of the State Highway Commission and the minutes of the
Commission meetings are in the custody of the Secretary. All mail is
received and distributed through the Secretary's office, and in it filed
all correspondence, legal documents, etc. This office also keeps a
record of all State equipment and takes care of the charging out of
rental and depreciation on same.
The purchase of office, engineering and construction supplies and
equipment is handled by this department and a considerable saving is
realized by buying in quantities. On all stock supplies, each job is
charged with the amount furnished and similarly rental on our own
engineering instruments and automobiles is charged, so that the cost of
each job may be determined. On construction projects which are furnished
with our own trucks, road rollers, etc., each piece of equipment is
rented out to the job in the same manner. A record is kept of the rental
charged on each piece of equipment so that its value can be determined
at any time.
* * * * *
=Auditing Department.=--This department, working under the supervision
of the Auditor, handles all claims against the Commission, verifies each
one, prepares the vouchers to cover, sends them out to claimants to be
certified, and mails out the warrants when received from the Secretary
of State. All vouchers drawn from the counties for co-operative work or
projects over which the Commission has supervision, are also audited in
this department. In 1917 there were 1,782 State vouchers passed,
aggregating a total of $682,321.98; in 1918, 3,371 were passed,
aggregating $2,205,935.70. In 1917 there were 544 County vouchers
totaling $270,162.37, and in 1918, 410 vouchers totaling $439,562.79. A
total of all such vouchers for the biennium aggregating $3,597,982.84.
Employes of the Commission are paid by payroll warrants drawn in favor
of the State Highway Engineer and bank checks issued against the same.
The total number of paychecks issued in 1917 was 2,771, and in 1918
there was a total of 7,350.
It will be noted that in the past two years the Commission has done
considerable work by day labor and the above statement includes all
direct employes. It is desirable to expedite payment of labor claims,
especially to men who quit on short notice. The present law requires
that claims be prepared in voucher form, approved by the Commission for
payment and then sent to the Secretary of State for audit. The warrant
when received is deposited in a bank and a paycheck issued. It is
recommended that a revolving payroll fund be created on which pay checks
could be drawn and sent out immediately as requested. These could later
be listed and the payroll voucher prepared in the usual manner in favor
of the State Highway Engineer. The warrant when received, to be refunded
to the payroll fund which would be kept intact. The State Highway
Engineer should furnish a payroll bond to cover. This fund could also be
used for emergency claims to take advantage of trade discounts and
permit the payment of small claims which it is desired to pay promptly.
In the numerous cases in which the Commission has taken over the work to
do with its own forces, the necessary bookkeeping and detail records for
handling material, supplies and labor payrolls have been carried by this
office. On several force account jobs each invoice and payroll of the
contractor has been carefully checked and verified before being paid.
The record of both State and County funds have been audited by reputable
certified public accountants and found correct.
Mr. G. Ed Ross served in the capacity of Auditor until his resignation
in July, 1918, when his duties were taken over by Roy A. Klein,
Assistant Engineer.
* * * * *
=Office Engineering Department.=--In the Office Engineering Department
are handled the numerous office details in connection with the
engineering work of the Department. The more important of these duties
are the working up of maps, profiles, specifications and estimates for
new projects; the checking of monthly and final estimates for payments
on contract work; the filing of engineering records of all kinds; the
keeping of cost distribution and the compilation of reports, statistics
and other data.
During the past year this department, in addition to its other work,
prepared and had published a road map of the State of Oregon. This map
shows all of the main traveled roads of the State and is believed to be
the most authentic as well as the most complete road map of Oregon yet
published. A small reproduction of the map is contained in this report.
Single copies of a larger size, 13 by 22 inches will be supplied upon
application.
* * * * *
=Bridge Department.=--The Bridge Department prepares designs, plans,
specifications and estimates for all bridges and similar structures. The
inspection and the supervision of construction of bridges is also in
charge of this department.
The laws of the State require that bridge designs be prepared for
counties by the Highway Department, upon the request of County Courts.
Twelve counties have taken advantage of this law during the past two
years and have called upon the Department for designs for a total of
thirty-four bridges and six culverts, and of these structures
twenty-seven bridges and four culverts have been built.
A total of ninety-five bridges and fifteen culverts were designed by the
Bridge Department, of which fifty-nine bridges and eleven culverts have
been constructed.
COST KEEPING
The keeping of an accurate segregation of expenditures and a detailed
distribution of costs for an organization handling the amount of work
and the character of work handled by the Highway Department is a matter
of the greatest importance. The Highway Department seldom has under way
less than eighty or ninety separate and distinct jobs. These jobs are
scattered all over the State, and few of them are of sufficient size to
warrant the employment of timekeepers on the jobs to keep exact records
of expenditures and costs. The records for all of these jobs must be
kept in the main office where it is impossible for those keeping the
records to be personally familiar with the details of the numerous
expenditures made on each of the many jobs.
To secure proper records of expenditures, therefore, a system of cost
keeping must be used which requires little attention from the engineers
and superintendents in charge of the various jobs, and at the same time
gives sufficient information to those keeping the records in the main
office to enable them to segregate all expenditures so that detailed
information as regards total expenditures, monthly expenditures,
expenditures from different funds, expenditures for different purposes,
unit costs, etc., are readily available at any time, and in such form
that all jobs may be combined to give total expenditures of various
kinds, so that the Department is always Informed as to the financial
status of each job and of all jobs.
The system of cost keeping now in use by the Department has been evolved
from a number of other systems in use on work of a similar nature, and
is a system specially devised to meet the requirements of the
Department. For every cent expended by the Highway Department or under
its supervision, there appears in the cost records, entries which give
at a glance the name of the County in which the expenditure is
incurred, the name of the particular job, whether it is an engineering
cost or a construction cost, the particular part of the work involved,
the fund from which it is paid, and a reference to the original invoice
or statement upon which the payment is made. These records are so
arranged and so summarized each month that almost any desired
combination of costs is available, such as the totals for each county,
for each job, for each fund, for engineering, for construction, for
surveys, for administration, for construction engineering, etc.
The expenditure tabulations given in various parts of this report, and
especially those in the part devoted to the Financial Report, give a
good idea of the results being obtained with the system in use although
they do not give the detail which is readily available in the records
themselves.
EMPLOYES IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY SERVICE
The State Highway Department is very proud of its representation in the
Army Service and in recognition of the patriotism of those employes who
have gone to the Front, the Department has maintained a Service Flag
upon which there are now sixty stars. The men represented by these stars
are listed on the following Roll of Honor:
HONOR ROLL
Name and Company Former Position
with Department
Abbott, Charles H., 23d Engineers Inspector
Brown, Merle, Batt. F, 5th Field Artillery Chainman
Chittick, Ernest Chainman
Chrisman, William Chainman
Coats, Solomon Chainman
Conway, M. A., Navy Timekeeper
Cook, Harold, Private, S. A. T. C., Willamette University Blueprinter
Cooley, Lorrin D., Company Mechanic, 11th Co., Coast Chainman
Artillery
Cowgill, W. C. Jr., 1st Provisional Co., 32d Resident Engineer
Engineers
Cutler, Oscar, 472d Engineer Reg. Locating Engineer
Glass, D. G., 2d Lieut., Co. D, 42d Engineers Locating Engineer
Grabenhorst, Eugene B., Private, Co. P, 5th Bn., Instrumentman
22d Engineers
Green, E. R. Private, Co. A, 23d Engineers Resident Engineer
Greenwood, P. S. Transitman
Grey, Ulric R., Camp 4-C, Spruce Squadron Instrumentman
Hale, E. E. Chainman
Harris, Milton, 2d Lieut. Transitman
Hodgman, K. E., Captain, Spruce Division, Signal Resident Engineer
Corps
Hyatt, Waldron, 22d Co., 1st Regiment, U. S. Marine Corps Instrumentman
Ingels, Hollis G., H. Q. Co., 62d Inf. Levelman
Ingram, R. C., Corporal, Co. L, 23d Engineers Draftsman
Isakson, C. O., 1st Lieut., 12th Engineers Instrumentman
Jones, Melville S., Master Engineer, Co. C, 116th Engineers Computer
Judd, Henry C., 3d Co., Coast Artillery Chainman
Junken, Fred S., Navy Rodman
Kelley, C. C., 1st Lieut., Co. E, 2d Bn., 20th District Engineer
Engineers
Kinsey, Claude, Co. A, 20th Engineers Instrumentman
Lawrence, Perry, Amb. Co. No. 361 Topographer
Lytle, K. D., Co. C, 43d Engineers Transitman
McClintock, John, Hospital Unit, Coast Artillery Chainman
McClintock, Leon, Hospital Unit, Coast Artillery Rodman
May, Aloys H. Transit Rodman
Metzger, Floyd S., Co. C. Q. M. Unit No. 305 Timekeeper
Miller, E. V. Draftsman
Miller, Ralph W. E., Corporal, Co. I, 62d Infantry Costkeeper
Minton, Joseph, Co. M, 162d Infantry Rodman
Moe, Forrest L., 9th Co. Coast Artillery Chainman
Moore, Don H., Co. A, 116th Engineers Chainman
Moore, Merton, Co. A, 116th Engineers Chainman
Moore, Royal, Co. C, S. A. T. C., U. of California Chainman
Morgan, Silas B. Rodman
Murdock, R. B., 2d Lieut., Co. C, 42d Engineers District Engineer
Murphy, Thomas, Hospital Corps, 40th Division Chainman
Noble, Chas. S., Y. M. C. A. Locating Engineer
Nunn, Roy, Sergeant, H. Q. Co., 166th Depot Brig. Resident Engineer
Oerding, Chas., Engineers Chainman
Oerding, Harry, Co. A, 20th Engineers Chainman
Quine, Ralph, Hospital Unit, Coast Artillery Chainman
Reiter, C. G., 1st Lieut. Locating Engineer
Rynning, P. B., Co. H, 23d Engineers Resident Engineer
Schaffenberg, H. Chainman
Smith, Frederic W., Co. C, Q. M. Unit No. 305 Timekeeper
Smith, Thos. P. Stakeman
Stretchberry, Ray, 17th Co., 23d Engineers Rodman
Sutter, L. R., Co. F, 4th Engineers Chainman
Tilley, Walker B., Co. K, 18th Railway Engineers Instrumentman
Welborn, Forrest, Sergeant, 44th Machine Gun Company Clerk
Wilson, Otis E. Inspector
Withycombe, Earl, 20th Engineers Resident Engineer
Vester, Albert Chainman
SUMMARY
The classification of employes lost to the Department through enlistment
in the Army is as follows:
District engineers 2
Locating engineers 4
Resident engineers 6
Transitmen 9
Draftsmen 2
Levelmen 1
Computers 2
Topographers 1
Timekeepers 3
Inspectors 2
Office clerks 1
Blue Printer 1
Rodmen 6
Chainmen 20
--
Total number 60
[Illustration: REINFORCED CONCRETE HALF VIADUCT ON THE COLUMBIA RIVER
HIGHWAY BETWEEN GOBLE AND RAINIER IN COLUMBIA COUNTY, CONSTRUCTED IN
1918]
Financial Report
Fund Allotments and Expenditures
During the Fiscal Period
December 1, 1916, to November 30, 1918
Grand Total of Funds Allotted $4,271,515.16
Grand Total of Expenditures 3,597,982.47
-------------
Balance on hand December 1st, 1918 $ 673,532.69
The details of fund allotments and expenditures are set forth in tables
as follows:
Table I. Fund Allotments from all sources.
Table II. Summary of Fund Allotments and Fund Expenditures.
Table III. Expenditures Segregated by Counties.
Table IV. Expenditures Segregated under the Headings of General
Administrative, Surveys, Construction Engineering,
Construction, Equipment and Unclassified.
Table V. Expenditures for Construction Detailed by Jobs.
Table VI. Expenditures for Surveys Detailed by Jobs.
Table VII. Expenditures for Equipment, Bond Interest and Overhead.
Table VIII. Summary of County Funds Expended by Department.
TABLE I
FUND ALLOTMENTS FROM ALL SOURCES--DECEMBER 1ST, 1916, TO NOVEMBER 30TH,
1918
_One-Quarter Mill Tax Fund_--
Balance on hand Dec. 1, 1916 $ 94,418.14
Turnover January 1, 1917 219,690.98
Turnover January 1, 1918 232,151.39
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Total $ 546,260.51
_Automobile License Fund_--
Turnover October 1, 1917 $150,000.00
Turnover April 1, 1918 300,000.00
Turnover October 1, 1918 125,000.00
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Total $ 575,000.00
_Six Million Dollar Bond Fund_--
Bond Sale, August 7, 1917 $471,300.00
Accrued Interest 2,333.33
Bond Sale, September 12, 1917 472,130.00
Accrued Interest 1,833.33
Bond Sale, March 15, 1918 455,850.00
Accrued Interest 222.22
Bond Sale, July 9, 1918 643,770.00
Accrued Interest 2,606.54
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Total $2,050,045.42
_State and Federal Co-operative Bond Fund_--
Bond Sale, August 18, 1917 $388,040.00
Accrued Interest 2,844.44
Less expenditures by Board of Control 400.00
-----------
Total $ 390,484.44
_County Funds_--
Payments on Vouchers drawn by Department 709,724.79
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Grand Total Funds Allotted to Highway
Department, December 1, 1916 to November
30, 1918 4,271,515.16
(For description of the several funds provided for the work of the
Highway Department see pages 30 and 31.)
TABLE II
SUMMARY OF FUND ALLOTMENTS AND FUND EXPENDITURES--DECEMBER 1ST, 1916, TO
NOVEMBER 30TH, 1918
==============================+=============+=============+===========
| | | Balance
Funds | Allotments | Expenditures| December,
| | | 1, 1918
------------------------------+-------------+-------------+-----------
One Quarter Mill Tax Fund | $ 546,260.51| $ 528,789.99|$ 17,470.52
Automobile License Fund | 575,000.00| 281,902.67| 293,097.33
Six Million Dollar Bond Fund | 2,050,045.42| 2,049,025.47| 1,019.95
State and Federal Co-operative| | |
Bond Fund | 390,484.44| 28,539.55| 361,944.89
------------------------------+-------------+-------------+-----------
Total State Funds |$3,561,790.37|$2,888,257.68|$673,532.69
| | |
County Funds | 709,724.79| 709,724.79| ...
------------------------------+-------------+-------------+-----------
Grand Total |$4,271,515.16|$3,597,982.47|$673,532.69
------------------------------+-------------+-------------+-----------
TABLE III
EXPENDITURES SEGREGATED BY COUNTIES (INCLUDING COUNTY FUNDS EXPENDED
UNDER STATE SUPERVISION)--DECEMBER 1ST, 1916, TO NOVEMBER 30TH, 1918
===========+===============+===============+===============
County | State Funds | County Funds | Total
-----------+---------------+---------------+---------------
Baker | $ 7,578.68 | ... | $ 7,578.68
Benton | 47.56 | $ 479.20 | 526.76
Clackamas | 155,861.10 | 43,091.14 | 198,952.24
Clatsop | 344,387.23 | ... | 344,387.23
Columbia | 488,302.15 | ... | 488,302.15
Coos | 16,967.68 | 170,781.83 | 187,749.51
Crook | 3,053.72 | ... | 3,053.72
Curry | 5,629.24 | ... | 5,629.24
Deschutes | 20,716.37 | ... | 20,716.37
Douglas | 159,769.58 | 173,550.18 | 333,320.76
Gilliam | 35,999.48 | ... | 35,999.48
Grant | 7,468.78 | 291.10 | 7,759.88
Harney | 1,873.45 | ... | 1,873.45
Hood River | 433,928.22 | 3,968.49 | 437,896.71
Jackson | 86,619.88 | ... | 86,619.88
Josephine | 77,998.14 | ... | 77,998.14
Klamath | 819.23 | ... | 819.23
Lake | 15,391.67 | ... | 15,391.67
Lane | 14,529.52 | ... | 14,529.52
Lincoln | 2,997.47 | ... | 2,997.47
Linn | 791.07 | 5.00 | 796.07
Malheur | 866.65 | ... | 866.65
Marion | 5,083.59 | 223,794.99 | 228,878.58
Morrow | 10,863.10 | 1,009.44 | 11,872.54
Polk | 802.92 | 17,200.70 | 18,008.62
Sherman | 3,052.14 | ... | 3,052.14
Tillamook | 68,274.29 | 26,009.84 | 94,284.13
Umatilla | 173,942.50 | 3,542.75 | 177,485.25
Union | 32,188.17 | 78.59 | 32,266.76
Wallowa | 765.07 | ... | 765.07
Wasco | 4,313.79 | 19.45 | 4,333.24
Washington | 246,769.05 | 9,395.00 | 256,164.05
Wheeler | 69,214.78 | 18,233.60 | 87,448.38
Yamhill | 124,958.84 | 18,273.49 | 143,232.33
+---------------+---------------+---------------
Total | $2,621,825.11 | $709,724.79 | $3,331,549.90
-----------+---------------+---------------+---------------
TABLE IV
EXPENDITURES SEGREGATED UNDER THE HEADINGS OF GENERAL ADMINISTRATION,
SURVEYS, CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING, CONSTRUCTION, EQUIPMENT AND
UNCLASSIFIED.
=========================+===============+===============+============
Classification | Total | State | County
| | Funds | Funds
-------------------------+---------------+---------------+------------
General Administration | | |
and Supervision | $ 97,621.82 | $ 97,621.82 | ...
Surveys and Engineering | | |
County Work | 144,086.67 | 137,954.74 | $ 6,131.93
Construction Engineering | 127,805.58 | 127,803.08 | 2.50
Construction | 3,059,657.65 | 2,356,067.29 | 703,590.36
Equipment | 86,717.55 | 86,717.55 | ...
Unclassified (Interest | | |
on Bonds, etc.) | 82,093.20 | 82,093.20 | ...
+---------------+---------------+------------
Grand Total Expenditures | $3,597,982.47 | $2,888,257.68 | $709,724.79
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TABLE V
EXPENDITURES FOR CONSTRUCTION WORK DETAILED BY JOBS--DECEMBER 1ST, 1916,
TO NOVEMBER 30TH, 1918
==================================+=============================+
| TOTALS |
+--------------+--------------+
| Estimated | Expended |
JOBS | total | to date |
| cost of job | |
----------------------------------+--------------+--------------+
Clackamas County: | | |
Paving--Oregon City to Canby | $135,000.00 | $102,114.85 |
Grading--Canemah Hill Section | 27,500.00 | 24,037.20 |
Grading and Rock Crushing--New | 66,000.00 | 63,047.79 |
Era | | |
Grading--Multnomah Co. Line to | 5,746.80 | 7,746.68 |
Oswego | | |
Clatsop County: | | |
Grading and Paving--Astoria to | 236,000.00 | 96,955.97 |
Svensen | | |
Macadamizing--Svensen to | 216,000.00 | 210,079.16 |
Columbia Co. Line | | |
John Day River Bridge east of | 25,000.00 | 21,051.52 |
Astoria | | |
Plympton Creek Bridge at | 6,413.19 | 6,413.19 |
Westport | | |
Big Creek Bridge near Knappa | 8,446.70 | 8,446.70 |
Little Creek Culvert near Knappa| 929.69 | 929.60 |
Miscellaneous charges on work | 247.94 | 247.94 |
prior to 1917 | | |
Columbia County: | | |
Paving--Multnomah Co. Line to | 37,652.59 | 37,652.59 |
Scappoose | | |
Macadam--Clatsop Co. Line to | 121,000.00 | 118,922.90 |
Clatskanie | | |
Macadam--Clatskanie to Delena | 142,000.00 | 136,560.40 |
Macadam--Delena to Goble | 49,955.08 | 49,955.08 |
Macadam--Goble Section | 23,000.00 | 21,478.97 |
Grading--Goble Section | 46,262.64 | 46,262.64 |
Grading--Rainier Hill Section | 6,350.61 | 6,350.61 |
Grading--Beaver Valley Section | 20,978.22 | 20,978.22 |
Grading--Deer Island Section | 2,398.10 | 2,398.10 |
Concrete Viaduct, Cribbing and | 9,039.86 | 9,039.86 |
Masonry Wall, near Prescott | | |
Beaver Valley Bridges | 32,000.00 | 29,808.58 |
Scappoose Culvert | 1,834.60 | 1,834.60 |
Goble Creek Bridge near Goble | 5,907.14 | 5,907.14 |
Graham Creek Culvert near | 804.49 | 804.49 |
Clatskanie | | |
Coos County: | | |
Coast Highway and Myrtle Point- | 180,235.18 | 180,235.18 |
Coquille Road | | |
Crook County: | | |
Ochoco Canyon Forest Road | 52,500.00 | 3,053.72 |
Project (Federal Government | | |
cooperates on this project to | | |
the amount of $17,500.00) | | |
Deschutes County: | | |
Cinder Macadam--Bend to LaPine | 20,183.60 | 20,183.60 |
Douglas County: | | |
Grading--Divide to Comstock | 19,146.74 | 19,146.74 |
Grading and Macadam--Comstock | 80,000.00 | 79,092.87 |
to Leona | | |
Grading--Oakland to Yoncalla | 101,096.12 | 101,096.12 |
Grading--Myrtle Creek to Dillard| 120,000.00 | 88,376.99 |
Macadamizing--Divide to Comstock| 15,185.09 | 15,185.09 |
Maintenance--Glendale to Stage | 74.65 | 74.65 |
Road Pass | | |
Umpqua River Bridges near | 45,500.00 | 24,802.85 |
Dillard | | |
Gilliam County: | | |
Macadam--Condon to Thirty Mile | 32,500.00 | 31,096.05 |
Creek | | |
Hood River County: | | |
Grading--Cascade Locks Section | 152,904.85 | 152,904.85 |
Grading--Viento Section | 102,750.00 | 86,933.00 |
Grading--Ruthton Hill Section | 107,000.00 | 90,257.53 |
Macadam--Cascade Locks to Hood | 68,000.00 | 62,895.48 |
River | | |
Hood River Bridge | 48,000.00 | 40,528.29 |
Jackson County: | | |
Macadam--Siskiyou to California | 56,252.98 | 56,252.98 |
Line | | |
Ashland Under-crossing | 9,768.88 | 9,768.88 |
Paving--Ashland Hill Section | 15,908.03 | 15,908.03 |
Maintenance--Siskiyou Section | 748.34 | 748.34 |
Josephine County: | | |
Grading--Wolf Creek to Grave | 68,301.53 | 68,301.53 |
Creek | | |
Grading--Locust Hill Section | 4,869.97 | 4,869.97 |
Miscellaneous charges on | 409.43 | 409.43 |
construction in 1916 | | |
Lake County: | | |
Grading and Macadam--Lakeview | 15,391.67 | 15,391.67 |
to Paisley | | |
Lane County: | | |
Macadam--Divide to Cottage Grove| 6,099.86 | 6,099.86 |
Construction prior to 1917 | 424.44 | 424.44 |
Lincoln County: | | |
Grading--Pioneer Mountain | 2,054.05 | 2,054.05 |
Section | | |
Marion County: | | |
Salem Bridge over Willamette | 223,902.99 | 223,902.99 |
River | | |
Polk County: | | |
Approach to Salem Bridge | 4,548.10 | 4,548.10 |
Reinforced Concrete Bridge at | 10,755.68 | 10,755.68 |
Dallas | | |
Reinforced Concrete Bridge | 1,898.17 | 1,898.17 |
between Monmouth and Dallas | | |
Charges on work prior to 1917 | 418.69 | 418.69 |
Tillamook County: | | |
Grading and Paving--Tillamook | 109,250.00 | 89,213.74 |
to Hebo | | |
Grading--Three Rivers Forest | 122,000.00 | 2,076.78 |
Road Project (The Federal | | |
Government cooperates on this | | |
project to the amount of | | |
$50,250.00.) | | |
Umatilla County: | | |
Paving--Wild Horse Creek Section| 162,626.56 | 162,626.56 |
Union County: | | |
Grading--La Grande to Hot Lake | 5,000.16 | 5,000.16 |
Grading--Elgin-Minam Post Road | 41,151.00 | 3,838.44 |
Project (The Federal | | |
Government cooperates on this | | |
project to the amount of | | |
$20,575.50) | | |
Grading--Union-Telocaset Post | 30,000.00 | 16,642.29 |
Road Project (The Federal | | |
Government cooperates on this | | |
project to the amount of | | |
$15,000.00.) | | |
Washington County: | | |
Grading and Paving--Multnomah | 332,000.00 | 278,976.93 |
Co. Line to Newberg | | |
Onion Flat Trestle near Sherwood| 8,372.22 | 8,372.22 |
Tualatin River Bridge near | 12,968.60 | 12,968.60 |
Tigardville | | |
Fanno Creek Bridge near Tigard | 1,882.81 | 1,882.81 |
Wheeler County: | | |
Grading--Cummins Hill Section | 14,532.35 | 14,532.35 |
Macadam--Cummins Hill Section | 34,000.00 | 32,465 44 |
Grading--Bridge Creek Section | 24,235.45 | 24,235.45 |
Resurfacing between Fossil and | 15,000.00 | 444.88 |
Condon | | |
Yamhill County: | | |
Grading Rex to Newberg | 6,153.05 | 6,153.05 |
Sheridan Paving, 1917 | 38,216.04 | 38,216.04 |
Sheridan Paving, 1918 | 40,065.61 | 40,065.61 |
Completion of Sour Grass Cut-off| 5,111.19 | 5,111.19 |
+--------------+--------------+
|$3,795,861.61 |$3,187,463.23 |
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==================================+=============================+
| STATE FUNDS |
+--------------+--------------+
| State's | Expended |
JOBS | share of | from |
| estimated | State funds |
| cost | to date |
----------------------------------+--------------+--------------+
Clackamas County: | | |
Paving--Oregon City to Canby | $135,000.00 | $102,114.85 |
Grading--Canemah Hill Section | 2,500.00 | 1,944.67 |
Grading and Rock Crushing--New | 50,240.09 | 47,287.88 |
Era | | |
Grading--Multnomah Co. Line to | 507.98 | 507.98 |
Oswego | | |
Clatsop County: | | |
Grading and Paving--Astoria to | 236,000.00 | 96,955.97 |
Svensen | | |
Macadamizing--Svensen to | 216,000.00 | 210,079.16 |
Columbia Co. Line | | |
John Day River Bridge east of | 25,000.00 | 21,051.52 |
Astoria | | |
Plympton Creek Bridge at | 6,413.19 | 6,413.19 |
Westport | | |
Big Creek Bridge near Knappa | 8,446.70 | 8,446.70 |
Little Creek Culvert near Knappa| 929.69 | 929.69 |
Miscellaneous charges on work | 247.94 | 247.94 |
prior to 1917 | | |
Columbia County: | | |
Paving--Multnomah Co. Line to | 37,652.59 | 37,652.59 |
Scappoose | | |
Macadam--Clatsop Co. Line to | 121,000.00 | 118,922.90 |
Clatskanie | | |
Macadam--Clatskanie to Delena | 142,000.00 | 136,560.40 |
Macadam--Delena to Goble | 49,955.08 | 49,955.08 |
Macadam--Goble Section | 23,000.00 | 21,478.97 |
Grading--Goble Section | 46,262.64 | 46,262.64 |
Grading--Rainier Hill Section | 6,350.61 | 6,350.61 |
Grading--Beaver Valley Section | 20,978.22 | 20,978.22 |
Grading--Deer Island Section | 2,398.10 | 2,398.10 |
Concrete Viaduct, Cribbing and | 9,039.86 | 9,039.86 |
Masonry Wall, near Prescott | | |
Beaver Valley Bridges | 32,000.00 | 29,808.58 |
Scappoose Culvert | 1,834.60 | 1,834.60 |
Goble Creek Bridge near Goble | 5,907.14 | 5,907.14 |
Graham Creek Culvert near | 804.49 | 804.49 |
Clatskanie | | |
Coos County: | | |
Coast Highway and Myrtle Point- | 9,453.35 | 9,453.35 |
Coquille Road | | |
Crook County: | | |
Ochoco Canyon Forest Road | 17,500.00 | 3,053.72 |
Project (Federal Government | | |
cooperates on this project to | | |
the amount of $17,500.00) | | |
Deschutes County: | | |
Cinder Macadam--Bend to LaPine | 20,183.60 | 20,183.60 |
Douglas County: | | |
Grading--Divide to Comstock | 2,027.30 | 2,027.30 |
Grading and Macadam--Comstock | 5,650.28 | 4,743.15 |
to Leona | | |
Grading--Oakland to Yoncalla | 17,565.28 | 19,015.10 |
Grading--Myrtle Creek to Dillard| 120,000.00 | 88,376.99 |
Macadamizing--Divide to Comstock| 15,185.09 | 15,185.09 |
Maintenance--Glendale to Stage | 74.65 | 74.65 |
Road Pass | | |
Umpqua River Bridges near | 45,500.00 | 24,802.85 |
Dillard | | |
Gilliam County: | | |
Macadam--Condon to Thirty Mile | 32,500.00 | 31,096.05 |
Creek | | |
Hood River County: | | |
Grading--Cascade Locks Section | 152,904.85 | 152,904.85 |
Grading--Viento Section | 102,750.00 | 86,933.00 |
Grading--Ruthton Hill Section | 107,000.00 | 90,257.53 |
Macadam--Cascade Locks to Hood | 68,000.00 | 62,895.48 |
River | | |
Hood River Bridge | 43,968.49 | 36,559.80 |
Jackson County: | | |
Macadam--Siskiyou to California | 56,252.98 | 56,252.98 |
Line | | |
Ashland Under-crossing | 9,768.88 | 9,768.88 |
Paving--Ashland Hill Section | 15,908.03 | 15,908.03 |
Maintenance--Siskiyou Section | 748.34 | 748.34 |
Josephine County: | | |
Grading--Wolf Creek to Grave | 68,301.53 | 68,301.53 |
Creek | | |
Grading--Locust Hill Section | 4,869.97 | 4,869.97 |
Miscellaneous charges on | 409.43 | 409.43 |
construction in 1916 | | |
Lake County: | | |
Grading and Macadam--Lakeview | 15,391.67 | 15,391.67 |
to Paisley | | |
Lane County: | | |
Macadam--Divide to Cottage Grove| 6,099.86 | 6,099.86 |
Construction prior to 1917 | 424.44 | 424.44 |
Lincoln County: | | |
Grading--Pioneer Mountain | 2,054.05 | 2,054.05 |
Section | | |
Marion County: | | |
Salem Bridge over Willamette | 108.00 | 108.00 |
River | | |
Polk County: | | |
Approach to Salem Bridge | ... | ... |
Reinforced Concrete Bridge at | 1.25 | 1.25 |
Dallas | | |
Reinforced Concrete Bridge | ... | ... |
between Monmouth and Dallas | | |
Charges on work prior to 1917 | 418.69 | 418.69 |
Tillamook County: | | |
Grading and Paving--Tillamook | 74,925.00 | 63,203.90 |
to Hebo | | |
Grading--Three Rivers Forest | 50,250.00 | 2,076.78 |
Road Project (The Federal | | |
Government cooperates on this | | |
project to the amount of | | |
$50,250.00.) | | |
Umatilla County: | | |
Paving--Wild Horse Creek Section| 162,626.56 | 162,626.56 |
Union County: | | |
Grading--La Grande to Hot Lake | 5,000.16 | 5,000.16 |
Grading--Elgin-Minam Post Road | 20,575.50 | 3,838.44 |
Project (The Federal | | |
Government cooperates on this | | |
project to the amount of | | |
$20,575.50) | | |
Grading--Union-Telocaset Post | 15,000.00 | 16,642.29 |
Road Project (The Federal | | |
Government cooperates on this | | |
project to the amount of | | |
$15,000.00.) | | |
Washington County: | | |
Grading and Paving--Multnomah | 322,605.00 | 269,581.93 |
Co. Line to Newberg | | |
Onion Flat Trestle near Sherwood| 8,372.22 | 8,372.22 |
Tualatin River Bridge near | 12,968.60 | 12,968.60 |
Tigardville | | |
Fanno Creek Bridge near Tigard | 1,882.81 | 1,882.81 |
Wheeler County: | | |
Grading--Cummins Hill Section | 7,005.15 | 7,005.15 |
Macadam--Cummins Hill Section | 34,000.00 | 32,465.44 |
Grading--Bridge Creek Section | 14,235.45 | 14,235.45 |
Resurfacing between Fossil and | 15,000.00 | 444.88 |
Condon | | |
Yamhill County: | | |
Grading Rex to Newberg | ... | ... |
Sheridan Paving, 1917 | 28,216.04 | 28,216.04 |
Sheridan Paving, 1918 | 37,945.17 | 37,945.17 |
Completion of Sour Grass cut-off| 5,111.19 | 5,111.19 |
+--------------+--------------+
|$2,937,207.78 |$2,483,870.37 |
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==================================+=========================+============
| COUNTY FUNDS |Construction
+------------+------------+ engineering
| County's | Expended | cost
JOBS | share of | from | Included in
| estimated |County funds| preceding
| cost | to date | columns
----------------------------------+------------+------------+-----------
Clackamas County: | | |
Paving--Oregon City to Canby |$ ... |$ ... |$ 2,444.57
Grading--Canemah Hill Section | 25,000.00 | 22,092.53 | 1,944.67
Grading and Rock Crushing--New | 15,759.91 | 15,759.91 | 3,552.82
Era | | |
Grading--Multnomah Co. Line to | 5,238.70 | 5,238.70 | 507.98
Oswego | | |
Clatsop County: | | |
Grading and Paving--Astoria to | ... | ... | 5,906.19
Svensen | | |
Macadamizing--Svensen to | ... | ... | 4,443.18
Columbia Co. Line | | |
John Day River Bridge east of | ... | ... | 734.91
Astoria | | |
Plympton Creek Bridge at | ... | ... | 255.08
Westport | | |
Big Creek Bridge near Knappa | ... | ... | 140.99
Little Creek Culvert near Knappa| ... | ... | 37.02
Miscellaneous charges on work | ... | ... | 25.00
prior to 1917 | | |
Columbia County: | | |
Paving--Multnomah Co. Line to | ... | ... | 1,364.28
Scappoose | | |
Macadam--Clatsop Co. Line to | ... | ... | 554.62
Clatskanie | | |
Macadam--Clatskanie to Delena | ... | ... | 5,998.96
Macadam--Delena to Goble | ... | ... | 2,902.35
Macadam--Goble Section | ... | ... | 548.12
Grading--Goble Section | ... | ... | 2,925.64
Grading--Rainier Hill Section | ... | ... | 468.88
Grading--Beaver Valley Section | ... | ... | ...
Grading--Deer Island Section | ... | ... | 163.30
Concrete Viaduct, Cribbing and | ... | ... | 580.53
Masonry Wall, near Prescott | | |
Beaver Valley Bridges | ... | ... | 922.54
Scappoose Culvert | ... | ... | ...
Goble Creek Bridge near Goble | ... | ... | 77.47
Graham Creek Culvert near | ... | ... | 31.98
Clatskanie | | |
Coos County: | | |
Coast Highway and Myrtle Point- | 170,781.83 | 170,781.83 | 14,612.33
Coquille Road | | |
Crook County: | | |
Ochoco Canyon Forest Road | 17,500.00 | ... | ...
Project (Federal Government | | |
cooperates on this project to | | |
the amount of $17,500.00) | | |
Deschutes County: | | |
Cinder Macadam--Bend to LaPine | ... | ... | ...
Douglas County: | | |
Grading--Divide to Comstock | 17,119.44 | 17,119.44 | 2,029.80
Grading and Macadam--Comstock | 74,349.72 | 74,349.72 | 4,766.13
to Leona | | |
Grading--Oakland to Yoncalla | 83,530.84 | 82,081.02 | 5,864.31
Grading--Myrtle Creek to Dillard| ... | ... | 7,499.22
Macadamizing--Divide to Comstock| ... | ... | 302.09
Maintenance--Glendale to Stage | ... | ... | ...
Road Pass | | |
Umpqua River Bridges near | ... | ... | 839.18
Dillard | | |
Gilliam County: | | |
Macadam--Condon to Thirty Mile | ... | ... | 1,292.39
Creek | | |
Hood River County: | | |
Grading--Cascade Locks Section | ... | ... | 8,744.41
Grading--Viento Section | ... | ... | 4,513.24
Grading--Ruthton Hill Section | ... | ... | 4,074.19
Macadam--Cascade Locks to Hood | ... | ... | 826.18
River | | |
Hood River Bridge | 4,031.51 | 3,968.49 | 1,410.63
Jackson County: | | |
Macadam--Siskiyou to California | ... | ... | 962.27
Line | | |
Ashland Under-crossing | ... | ... | 275.21
Paving--Ashland Hill Section | ... | ... | 630.87
Maintenance--Siskiyou Section | ... | ... |
Josephine County: | | |
Grading--Wolf Creek to Grave | ... | ... | 4,872.94
Creek | | |
Grading--Locust Hill Section | ... | ... | 162.88
Miscellaneous charges on | ... | ... | 219.23
construction in 1916 | | |
Lake County: | | |
Grading and Macadam--Lakeview | ... | ... | ...
to Paisley | | |
Lane County: | | |
Macadam--Divide to Cottage Grove| ... | ... | 175.84
Construction prior to 1917 | ... | ... | 30.64
Lincoln County: | | |
Grading--Pioneer Mountain | ... | ... | ...
Section | | |
Marion County: | | |
Salem Bridge over Willamette | 223,794.99 | 223,794.99 | 265.26
River | | |
Polk County: | | |
Approach to Salem Bridge | 4,548.10 | 4,548.10 | ...
Reinforced Concrete Bridge at | 10,754.43 | 10,754.43 | 55.10
Dallas | | |
Reinforced Concrete Bridge | 1,898.17 | 1,898.17 | ...
between Monmouth and Dallas | | |
Charges on work prior to 1917 | ... | ... | 15.79
Tillamook County: | | |
Grading and Paving--Tillamook | 34,325.00 | 26,009.84 | 6,391.47
to Hebo | | |
Grading--Three Rivers Forest | 21,500.00 | ... | ...
Road Project (The Federal | | |
Government cooperates on this | | |
project to the amount of | | |
$50,250.00.) | | |
Umatilla County: | | |
Paving--Wild Horse Creek Section| ... | ... | 2,609.88
Union County: | | |
Grading--La Grande to Hot Lake | ... | ... | 821.68
Grading--Elgin-Minam Post Road | ... | ... | 377.80
Project (The Federal | | |
Government cooperates on this | | |
project to the amount of | | |
$20,575.50) | | |
Grading--Union-Telocaset Post | ... | ... | 1,183.22
Road Project (The Federal | | |
Government cooperates on this | | |
project to the amount of | | |
$15,000.00.) | | |
Washington County: | | |
Grading and Paving--Multnomah | 9,395.00 | 9,395.00 | 9,445.56
Co. Line to Newberg | | |
Onion Flat Trestle near Sherwood| ... | ... | 197.87
Tualatin River Bridge near | ... | ... | ...
Tigardville | | |
Fanno Creek Bridge near Tigard | ... | ... | ...
Wheeler County: | | |
Grading--Cummins Hill Section | 7,527.20 | 7,527.20 | 1,402.73
Macadam--Cummins Hill Section | ... | ... | 1,313.82
Grading--Bridge Creek Section | 10,000.00 | 10,000.00 | 635.30
Resurfacing between Fossil and | ... | ... | ...
Condon | | |
Yamhill County: | | |
Grading Rex to Newberg | 6,163.05 | 6,153.05 | ...
Sheridan Paving, 1917 | 10,000.00 | 10,000.00 | 1,131.35
Sheridan Paving, 1918 | 2,120.44 | 2,120.44 | 1,166.85
Completion of Sour Grass cut-off| ... | ... | 157.39
+------------+------------+-----------
|$755,328.33 |$703,592.86 |$127,805.58
----------------------------------+------------+------------+-----------
SUMMARY
Estimated total cost Expended to date
State $2,937,207.78 $2,483,870.37
County 755,328.33 703,592.86
Federal Government 103,325.50 ...
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Totals $3,795,861.61 $3,187,463.23
TABLE VI
EXPENDITURES FOR SURVEYS AND ENGINEERING COUNTY CONSTRUCTION DETAILED BY
JOBS--DECEMBER 1, 1916, TO NOVEMBER 30, 1918
==================================+============+===========+============
| EXPENDITURES
JOBS +------------+-----------+------------
| By State | By County | Total
----------------------------------+------------+-----------+------------
Baker County | | |
Survey, Baker-Middle Bridge |$ 2,806.77 | ... | $ 2,806.77
Section | | |
Survey, Middle Bridge-Black | 2,422.54 | ... | 2,422.54
Bridge Section | | |
Survey, Canyon Sec. of Baker- | 928.08 | ... | 928.08
Cornucopia Road | | |
Survey, Sag Section of Baker- | 719.61 | ... | 719.61
Cornucopia Road | | |
Survey Unity to Baker | 645.29 | ... | 645.29
| | |
Benton County | | |
Reconnaissance | 47.56 | ... | 47.56
Survey, Corvallis to Polk | ... | $ 479.20 | 479.20
County Line | | |
| | |
Clackamas County | | |
Survey, Zig Zag Creek Forest | 427.30 | ... | 427.30
Road Project | | |
Survey, Oswego to Oregon City | 972.85 | ... | 972.85
Survey, Oregon City to New Era | 1,429.28 | ... | 1,429.28
Survey, Canby to Aurora | 1,176.29 | ... | 1,176.29
| | |
Clatsop County | | |
Reconnaissance, Coast & Col. | 471.05 | ... | 471.05
River Highways | | |
| | |
Columbia County | | |
Reconnaissance, Columbia River | 170.93 | ... | 170.93
Highway | | |
Survey, Columbia City to | 177.04 | ... | 177.04
Scappoose | | |
| | |
Coos County | | |
Survey, Coast Hwy. & Myrtle | 5,737.58 | ... | 5,737.53
Point-Coquille Road | | |
Survey, Myrtle Point to Douglas | 1,456.80 | ... | 1,456.80
County Line | | |
| | |
Curry County | | |
Survey, Coast Highway | 5,629.24 | ... | 5,629.24
| | |
Deschutes County | | |
Survey, Harney County Line West | 532.77 | ... | 532.77
Seven Miles | | |
| | |
Douglas County | | |
Survey, Canyon Creek Pass to | 197.89 | ... | 197.89
Johns Ranch | | |
Survey, Johns Ranch to Jacques | 829.03 | ... | 829.03
Ranch | | |
Survey, Brockway to Round | 280.00 | ... | 280.00
Prairie | | |
Survey, Roseburg to Coos County | 2,665.93 | ... | 2,665.93
Line | | |
Survey, Canyonville-Galesville | 442.99 | ... | 442.99
Forest Project | | |
Miscell. Surveys and | 808.61 | ... | 808.61
Reconnaissance | | |
| | |
Gilliam County | | |
Survey, John Day River to | 3,865.66 | ... | 3,865.66
Blalock | | |
Survey and Engineering County | 981.27 | ... | 981.27
Const. John Day River to | | |
Arlington | | |
| | |
Grant County | | |
Survey, Big Basin Section of | 4,322.92 | 291.10 | 4,614.02
John Day Highway | | |
Survey, & Engineering County | 1,596.28 | ... | 1,596.28
Const. Fisk Creek to Hall Hill| | |
Survey, Hall Hill to Prairie | 384.19 | ... | 384.19
City | | |
Survey, John Day to Fisk Creek | 1,165.39 | ... | 1,165.39
| | |
Harney County | | |
Survey, Burns to Crane | 922.55 | ... | 922.55
Survey, Sage Hen to Burns | 719.74 | ... | 719.74
Survey, Deschutes Co. Line East | 231.16 | ... | 231.16
Seven Miles | | |
| | |
Hood River County | | |
Survey, Hood River to Mosier | 6,877.56 | ... | 6,877.56
(Two Routes) | | |
| | |
Jackson County | | |
Survey, Ashland to Klamath Falls| 2,789.87 | ... | 2,789.87
Survey, Medford to Crater Lake | 1,151.78 | ... | 1,151.78
| | |
Josephine County | | |
Survey, Wolf Creek to Grave | 1,110.70 | ... | 1,110.70
Creek | | |
Survey, Grave Creek to Grants | 2,038.11 | ... | 2,038.11
Pass | | |
Survey, Wolf Creek to Stage Road| 151.33 | ... | 153.33
Pass | | |
Engineering County Const. Grants| 1,117.07 | ... | 1,117.07
Pass to Jackson County Line | | |
| | |
Klamath County | | |
Reconnaissance, Klamath Falls | 124.58 | ... | 124.58
to Olene | | |
Survey, Klamath Falls to | 377.21 | ... | 377.21
Chiloquin | | |
Survey, Chiloquin to Sand Creek | 172.95 | ... | 172.95
Survey, Anna Creek Forest Road | 144.49 | ... | 144.49
Project | | |
| | |
Lane County | | |
Survey, Goshen to Cottage Grove | 1,051.48 | ... | 1,051.48
Survey, Eugene to Florence | 6,555.84 | ... | 6,555.84
Survey for Overhead Crossing at | 233.25 | ... | 233.25
Divide | | |
| | |
Lincoln County | | |
Surveys for Bridge at Toledo and| 293.42 | ... | 293.42
Waldport | | |
| | |
Linn County | | |
Survey, Albany to Jefferson | 791.07 | 5.00 | 796.07
| | |
Malheur County | | |
Reconnaissance | 93.02 | ... | 93.02
Survey, Cow Valley-Brogan | 773.63 | ... | 773.63
Section | | |
| | |
Marion County | | |
Survey, Salem-Aurora | 2,463.75 | ... | 2,463.75
Survey, Salem-Jefferson | 2,511.84 | ... | 2,511.84
| | |
Morrow County | | |
Survey, Columbia River Highway | 2,546.77 | 1,009.44 | 3,556.01
Survey, Oregon-Washington | 6,831.56 | ... | 6,831.56
Highway | | |
Engineering County Const. | 1,428.47 | ... | 1,428.47
Oregon-Washington Highway | | |
| | |
Polk County | | |
Survey Between Monmouth and | 115.30 | ... | 115.30
Dallas | | |
Survey Near Eola | 67.43 | ... | 67.43
Survey, Independence to Benton | 220.25 | ... | 220.25
County Line | | |
| | |
Sherman County | | |
Survey, Columbia River Highway | 2,995.64 | ... | 2,995.64
| | |
Tillamook County | | |
Survey, Tillamook to Hebo | 807.03 | ... | 807.03
Survey, Neskowin to Salmon River| 2,628.59 | ... | 2,628.59
| | |
Umatilla County | | |
Survey, Pendleton to Kamela | 5,624.73 | 1,575.29 | 7,200.02
Survey, Pendleton to Umatilla | 3,759.87 | 1,684.76 | 5,444.63
Survey, Pendleton to Gilliam | 1,793.58 | 282.70 | 2,076.28
Co. Line via Pilot Rock | | |
Engineering County Const., | 81.26 | ... | 81.26
Pendleton to Poor Farm | | |
| | |
Union County | | |
Survey, La Grande to Kamela | 2,737.34 | 78.59 | 2,815.93
Survey, La Grande to Minam | 2,834.18 | ... | 2,834.18
Survey, Union to Telocaset | 364.64 | ... | 364.64
Survey, La Grande to Union | 714.62 | ... | 714.62
| | |
Wallowa County | | |
Survey, Flora-Enterprise Forest | 765.07 | ... | 765.07
Road Project | | |
| | |
Wasco County | | |
Survey, Seuferts to Deschutes | 1,757.29 | ... | 1,757.29
River | | |
Design Culvert over Three Mile | | 19.45 | 19.45
Creek | | |
| | |
Washington County | | |
Survey, Multnomah Co. Line to | $ 2,036.55 | ... | $ 2,036.55
Newberg | | |
Survey and Engineering County | 2,326.94 | ... | 2,326.94
Const. Beaverton to Gaston | | |
| | |
Wheeler County | | |
Survey, John Day River Highway | 7,492.22 | $706.40 | 8,198.62
Survey, Mitchell to Dayville | 5,451.58 | ... | 5,451.58
Survey, Fossil to Gilliam County| 791.47 | ... | 791.47
Line | | |
Survey, Ochoco Canyon Forest | 242.26 | ... | 242.26
Road Project | | |
Engineering County Const. | 550.51 | ... | 550.51
Sarvice Creek Summit Section | | |
Engineering County Const. Fossil| 507.20 | ... | 507.20
to Gilliam County Line | | |
Engineering County Const. | 28.62 | ... | 28.62
Sigfrit Hill Section | | |
| | |
Yamhill County | | |
Survey, McMinnville to Dayton | 655.03 | ... | 655.03
Survey, Grand Ronde Section | 2,631.41 | ... | 2,631.41
| | |
Miscellaneous | | |
Reconnaissance Surveys in | 1,200.04 | ... | 1,200.04
various Counties | | |
+------------+-----------+------------
Total expenditure for Surveys and |$137,954.74 | $6,131.99 | $144,086.67
Engineering County | | |
Construction Work | | |
----------------------------------+------------+-----------+------------
TABLE VII
GENERAL EXPENDITURES--DECEMBER 1, 1916, TO NOVEMBER 30, 1918
Administrative and General Supervision:
General Administrative $ 14,706.67
State Highway Commissioners 4,863.11
Auditing Department 14,770.77
Purchasing Department 531.17
Office Engineering Department 9,636.90
Bridge Department 15,054.48
Pendleton Office 10,917.05
Roseburg Office 819.59
State Highway Engineer and Assistants 26,322.08
------------
Total $ 97,621.82
Equipment and Stock:
Equipment (This item represents all expenditures
for purchase and maintenance of heavy equipment
less monthly rentals charged against jobs) $ 78,775.26
Stock (This item represents all expenditures for
supplies and materials bought and held for
distribution, less deductions made as supplies
and materials are shipped out and charged to
jobs) 5,721.08
Construction of New Warehouse at Salem 2,221.21
------------
Total $ 86,717.55
Unclassified:
Interest and other costs on bonds $ 82,083.05
Miscellaneous 10.15
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Total $ 82,093.20
TABLE VIII
COUNTY FUNDS EXPENDED BY STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT--DECEMBER 1, 1916 TO
NOVEMBER 30, 1918.
County Amount on Totals for
Each Job Each County
Benton County
Survey--Independence to Corvallis $ 479.20 $ 479.20
Clackamas County
Grading--New Era to Canemah 37,852.44 ...
Grading--Multnomah County Line to Oswego 5,238.70 43,091.14
Coos County
Grading--Coast Highway & Coquille-Myrtle 160,781.83 160,781.83
Point Rd.
Douglas County
Grading--Divide to Comstock 17,119.44 ...
Grading and Macadam--Comstock to Leona 74,349.72 ...
Grading--Oakland to Yoncalla 82,081.02 173,550.18
Grant County
Survey--John Day River Highway 291.10 291.10
Hood River County
Hood River Bridge 3,968.49 3,968.49
Linn County
Survey--Albany to Jefferson 5.00 5.00
Marion County
Salem Bridge 223,794.99 223,794.99
Morrow County
Survey of Columbia River Highway 1,009.44 1,009.44
Polk County
Approach to Salem Bridge 4,548.10 ...
Dallas Bridge 10,754.43 ...
Bridge between Monmouth and Dallas 1,898.17 17,200.70
Tillamook County
Grading & Paving--Tillamook to Cloverdale 26,009.84 26,009.84
Umatilla County
Surveys--Pendleton to Echo 1,684.76 ...
Surveys--Pendleton to Pilot Rock 282.70 ...
Surveys--Pendleton to Kamela 1,575.29 3,542.75
Union County
Surveys--La Grande to Kamela 78.59 78.59
Wasco County
Design for Three Mile Creek Bridge 19.45 19.45
Washington County
Grading--Multnomah Co. Line to Newberg 9,395.00 9,395.00
Wheeler County
Grading--Cummins Hill Section 7,527.20 ...
Grading--Bridge Creek Section 10,000.00 ...
Surveys--John Day River Highway 706.40 18,233.60
Yamhill County
Grading--Rex to Newberg 6,153.05 ...
Sheridan Paving, 1917 10,000.00 ...
Sheridan Paving, 1918 2,120.44 18,273.49
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Total County Funds Expended by Department $709,724.79
The above tabulated amounts cover only those expenditures made on
vouchers drawn by the Highway Department. The Department has supervised
a very large amount of County construction upon which payment has been
made direct by the County, which payments are not included above.
[Illustration: REINFORCED CONCRETE CRIBBING NEAR PRESCOTT ON THE
COLUMBIA RIVER HIGHWAY IN COLUMBIA COUNTY. BUILT IN 1918]
General Tabulated Information
and
Highway Maps
TABLES
Table A--Miles of Highway Construction Completed by the Highway
Department during 1917 and 1918.
Table B--Tabulation of Bridge Design and Construction.
Table C--Miles of Location Surveys made by the Department during 1917
and 1918.
Table D--Miles of Different Types of Roads in each County.
Table E--Motor Vehicle Registration by Counties.
Table F--County Bond Issues.
Table G--Tabulation of Contract Prices.
Table H--Yearly Expenditure of State Funds in Counties.
Table I--Mileage Table of Main Traveled Roads.
Table J--Official Designation of State Highways.
Table K--Employes of the State Highway Department.
Table L--Numbers and Mileages of State Highways.
MAPS
Map I.--Main Traveled Roads of the State.
Map II.--State Highway System.
TABLE A
MILES OF HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTED BY HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT 1917-1918
========================+========+========+========+========+========
| | Bitu- | Broken | |
Jobs |Concrete| minous | Stone | Gravel | Grading
|Pavement|Pavement| Macadam|Macadam |
------------------------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------
Clackamas County-- | ... | ... | ... | ... | ...
Oregon City to Canby | ... | 7.5 | ... | ... | ...
New Era to Oregon City| ... | ... | ... | ... | 4.5
Multnomah County Line | ... | ... | ... | ... | .2
to Oswego | | | | |
| | | | |
Clatsop County-- | | | | |
Astoria to Svensen | ... | 3.5 | 5.5 | ... | 1.2
Svensen to Westport | ... | ... | 17.2 | 1.7 | ...
| | | | |
Columbia County-- | | | | |
Multnomah County Line-| ... | 2.5 | ... | ... | ...
Scappoose | | | | |
Westport to Clatskanie| ... | ... | 8.6 | ... | ...
Clatskanie to Delena | ... | ... | 9.0 | ... | ...
Delena to Goble | ... | ... | 7.6 | ... | ...
Goble Section | ... | ... | 2.0 | ... | 2.0
Beaver Valley Section | ... | ... | ... | ... | 4.0
Rainier Hill Section | ... | ... | ... | ... | 2.2
| | | | |
Coos County-- | | | | |
Marshfield to Curry | ... | ... | ... | ... | 20.0
County Line | | | | |
Coquille to Myrtle | ... | ... | ... | ... | 3.0
Point | | | | |
| | | | |
Deschutes County-- | ... | ... | ... | ... | ...
Bend to Lapine | ... | ... | ... | 12.5 | ...
(cinder macadam) | | | | |
| | | | |
Douglas County-- | | | | |
Myrtle Creek to | ... | ... | ... | ... | 12.8
Dillard | | | | |
Oakland to Yoncalla | ... | ... | ... | ... | 10.4
Divide to Comstock | ... | ... | 2.4 | ... | 2.4
Comstock to Leona | ... | ... | 4.6 | ... | 4.6
| | | | |
Gilliam County-- | | | | |
Mayville to Wheeler | ... | ... | 1.0 | ... | ...
County Line | | | | |
Condon to Thirty Mile | ... | ... | 5.7 | ... | ...
Creek | | | | |
| | | | |
Hood River County-- | | | | |
Cascade Locks Section | ... | ... | ... | ... | 8.2
Viento Section | ... | ... | ... | ... | 3.6
Ruthton Hill Section | ... | ... | ... | ... | 2.4
Cascade Locks to Hood | ... | ... | ... | 18.0 | ...
River | | | | |
| | | | |
Jackson County-- | | | | |
Siskiyou Mountain | ... | ... | 6.5 | ... | ...
Section | | | | |
Ashland Undercrossing | ... | ... | ... | ... | .8
Ashland Paving | .8 | ... | ... | ... | ...
| | | | |
Josephine County-- | ... | ... | ... | ... | ...
Wolf Creek to Grave | ... | ... | ... | ... | 4.9
Creek | | | | |
Grants Pass-Jackson | ... | ... | ... | ... | 3.3
County Line | | | | |
| | | | |
Lake County-- | | | | |
Lakeview to Paisley | ... | ... | 4.0 | ... | 6.4
| | | | |
Lane County-- | | | | |
Divide to Cottage | ... | ... | 1.0 | ... | ...
Grove | | | | |
| | | | |
Lincoln County-- | | | | |
Pioneer Mountain | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1.0
Section | | | | |
| | | | |
Tillamook County-- | | | | |
Tillamook-Cloverdale | ... | 5.0 | ... | ... | 5.0
Paving | | | | |
| | | | |
Umatilla County-- | | | | |
Pendleton-Adams | ... | 10.0 | ... | ... | ...
Section | | | | |
Pendleton-West | ... | 1.0 | ... | ... | ...
| | | | |
Union County-- | | | | |
Elgin to Minam | ... | ... | ... | ... | .8
Union to Telocaset | ... | ... | ... | ... | 3.0
La Grande to Hot Lake | ... | ... | ... | ... | 3.7
| | | | |
Washington County-- | | | | |
Multnomah County Line | ... | 12.5 | ... | ... | 12.5
to Newberg | | | | |
| | | | |
Wheeler County | | | | |
Cummins Hill Section | ... | ... | 3.5 | ... | 3.5
Fossil-Cummins Hill | ... | ... | 1.0 | ... | ...
Section | | | | |
Bridge Creek Section | ... | ... | ... | ... | .9
| | | | |
Yamhill County-- | | | | |
Sheridan Paving | 4.0 | ... | ... | ... | 4.0
Multnomah County Line,| ... | 3.2 | ... | ... | 3.2
Newberg Paving | | | | |
------------------------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------
Totals | 4.8 | 45.2 | 79.6 | 32.2 | 134.5
------------------------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------
TABLE B
BRIDGE AND CULVERT DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION DECEMBER 1ST, 1916, TO
NOVEMBER 30TH, 1918
====================+===================+===============================
| |Total Length of Bridge
| |and Approaches (Feet)
| | +--------------------------
| | |Width of Roadway (Feet)
| | | +----------------------
| | | |Loading (See Footnote)
| | | | +---------------
|Structure No. | | | | TOTAL COST
| +---------------+ | | | Actual Cost
Name of Structure | | Type of | | | | if Complete;
| | Structure | | | | Estimated
| | | | | |if Uncompleted
--------------------+---+---------------+----+---+------+--------------
Benton: | | | | | |
Culvert on West |207|Double 5'x5' | 12| 24|Heavy |[1]$ 800.00
Side Highway, | |R. C. Culvert | | | |
41/2 Mi. No. of | | | | | |
Corvallis | | | | | |
Culvert on West |208|Double 6'x8' | 14| 24|Heavy |[1] 1,300.00
Side Highway, 5 | |R. C. Culvert | | | |
Mi. No. of | | | | | |
Corvallis | | | | | |
Bridge over Mill |230|Reinforced | 85| 20|Heavy |[1] 7,000.00
Race South of | |concrete bridge| | | |
Corvallis | | | | | |
| | | | | |
Clatsop: | | | | | |
Drawbridge over |148|2-108' Wood | 296| 18|Heavy |[2] 25,000.00
John Day River | |Spans | | | |
| |1-40' Lift Span| | | |
Plympton Creek |185|R. C. Thru Span| 60| 20|Heavy |[2] 6,413.19
Bridge at | | | | | |
Westport | | | | | |
Big Creek Bridge |186|R. C. Bridge | 90| 20|Heavy |[2] 8,446.70
near Knappa | |6'x12' R. C. | | | |
Little Creek |198| Culvert | 14| 24|Heavy |[2] 929.69
Culvert near | | | | | |
Knappa | | | | | |
Bridge over |214|20' R. C. | 20| 20|Heavy |[1] 1,600.00
McDonald's Log | |Bridge | | | |
Chute on Colum- | | | | | |
bia River Hwy. | | | | | |
| | | | | |
Columbia: | | | | | |
Beaver Creek |132|90' R. C. | 90| 20|Heavy |[1] 5,000.00
Bridge No. 1 | |Bridge | | | |
Beaver Creek |134|70' R. C. | 70| 20|Heavy |[1] 4,300.00
Bridge No. 2 | |Bridge | | | |
Beaver Creek |136|70' R. C. | 70|} | |
Bridge No. 3 | |Bridge | |} | |
Beaver Creek |138|70' R. C. | 70|} | |
Bridge No. 4 | |Bridge | |} | |
Beaver Creek |140|60' R. C. | 60|} | |
Bridge No. 5 | |Bridge | |} | |
Beaver Creek |142|70' R. C. | 70|} | |
Bridge No. 6 | |Bridge | |}20|Heavy |[2] 32,000.00
Beaver Creek |144|60' R. C. | 60|} | |
Bridge No. 7 | |Bridge | |} | |
Beaver Creek |146|50' R. C. | 50|} | |
Bridge No. 8 | |Bridge | |} | |
Beaver Creek |157|70' R. C. | 70|} | |
Bridge No. "A" | |Bridge | |} | |
Beaver Creek |155|105' R. C. | 105|} | |
Bridge No. "B" | |Bridge | |} | |
Beaver Creek |150|30' R. C. | 30| 20|Heavy |[1] 3,600.00
Bridge No. 10 | |Bridge | | | |
Beaver Creek |152|30' R. C. | 30| 20|Heavy |[2] 3,600.00
Bridge No. 11 | | | | | |
Culvert near |188|8'x10' | 12| 24|Heavy |[2] 1,834.60
Scappoose on | |R. C. Culvert | | | |
Columbia River | | | | | |
Highway | | | | | |
Graham Creek |184|Double 6'x6' | 14| 24|Heavy |[2] 804.49
Culvert near | |R. C. Box | | | |
Clatskanie | | | | | |
Goble Creek Bridge|191|90' R. C. | 90| 20|Heavy |[2] 5,907.14
at Goble | |Bridge | | | |
Half viaduct near |236|R. C. | 75| 20|Heavy |[2] 2,000.00
Little Jack | |Half Viaduct | | | |
Falls | | | | | |
| | | | | |
Coos: | | | | | |
Overhead Railway |110|R. C. Viaduct | 114| 18|Heavy |[3] 10,000.00
Crossing at | | | | | |
Overland | | | | | |
45' Wooden Truss |111|Wooden truss | 45| 24|Medium|[3] 500.00
Haynes Slough |113|40' Lift (Wood)| 60| 16|Medium|[3] 4,000.00
Bridge | | | | | |
North Slough |114|40' Lift (Wood)| 60| 16|Medium|[3] 4,000.00
Bridge | | | | | |
Isthmus Slough |115|80' Draw Span | 180| 16|Medium|[3] 12,500.00
Bridge | | | | | |
Larson Slough |116|40' Wood Lift | 60| 16|Medium|[3] 4,500.00
Bridge | |and Trestle | | | |
Powers Bridge |252|2-126' Wood | 520| 18|Medium|[1] 12,000.00
| |Spans | | | |
Bridge at Gravel |125|126' Wood Span | 790| 16|Medium|[3] 8,000.00
Ford--No. Fork | | | | | |
of Coquille | | | | | |
River | | | | | |
| | | | | |
Douglas: | | | | | |
Pheasant Creek |187|8'x8' R. C. | 10| 24|Heavy |[2] 1,804.69
Culvert near | |Culvert | | | |
Curtin | | | | | |
Pass Creek |194|20' R. C. | 20| 20|Heavy |[2] 2,184.00
Culvert, 1 mi. | |Bridge | | | |
North of | | | | | |
Comstock | | | | | |
Umpqua River |195|2-144' Wood | 330| 18|Heavy |[2] 19,000.00
Bridge South of | |Spans | | | |
Dillard | | | | | |
Rock Creek Bridge |196|30' R. C. | 30| 20|Heavy |[2] 2,169.70
near Anlauf | |Bridge | | | |
Umpqua River |202|3-144' Wood | 480| 18|Heavy |[2] 26,500.00
Bridge north of | |Spans | | | |
Dillard | | | | | |
20' R. C. Bridge |216|20' R. C. | 20| 20|Heavy |[1] 1,200.00
| |Bridge | | | |
Van Tyne Creek |234|60' R. C. | 60| 20|Heavy |[2] 3,575.70
Bridge between | |Bridge | | | |
Myrtle Creek | | | | | |
and Dillard | | | | | |
Viaduct 1 mile |245|58' R. C. | 58| 20|Heavy |[2] 2,648.54
North of Myrtle | |Viaduct | | | |
Creek | | | | | |
Viaduct 1 mile |246|45' R. C. | 45| 20|Heavy |[2] 2,415.28
North of Myrtle | |Viaduct | | | |
Creek | | | | | |
Pass Creek Culvert|190|Double 6'x7' | 14| 24|Heavy |[2] 1,380.03
11/2 miles North | |R. C. Culvert | | | |
of Comstock | | | | | |
| | | | | |
Grant: | | | | | |
John Day River |124|180' Wood Span | 450| 16|Medium|[1] 11,000.00
Bridge at | | | | | |
Monument | | | | | |
Gulch |239|40' Wood Span | 40| 18|Medium|[1] 600.00
Gulch |240|40' Wood Span | 52| 18|Medium|[1] 700.00
Gulch |241|40' Wood Span | 52| 18|Medium|[1] 700.00
Rock Creek |242|40' Wood Span | 86| 18|Medium|[1] 1,700.00
John Day River at |243|108' Wood Span | 150| 18|Medium|[1] 8,800.00
Goose Rock | | | | | |
North Fork John |244|144' Wood Span | 184| 18|Medium|[1] 11,500.00
Day River | | | | | |
Holmes Creek |255|40' Wood Span | 78| 18|Medium|[1] 1,500.00
Rattlesnake Creek |256|40' Wood Span | 52| 18|Medium|[1] 1,000.00
Dixie Creek Bridge|282|50' Wood Span | 50| 18|Medium|[2] 6,000,00
at Prairie City | | | | | |
| | | | | |
Hood River: | | | | | |
East Fork of Hood |119|140' R. C. | 140| 16|Heavy |[1] 8,400.00
River | |Viaduct | | | |
Neal Creek Bridge |120|25' Bridge, | 25| 16|Heavy |[3] 1,000.00
| |R. C. | | | |
Bridge over Hood |121|126' Wooden | 126| 16|Medium|[3] 3,500.00
River at Dee | |Span | | | |
Odell Creek Bridge|122|15' R. C. | 15| 18|Heavy |[3] 600.00
| |Bridge | | | |
Herman Creek |159|100' R. C. | 100| 20|Heavy |[2] 7,389.06
Bridge | |Bridge | | | |
Culvert for Flume |162|R. C. Culvert | ...| 24|Heavy |[2] 378.44
Line at Mitchell| | | | | |
Point | | | | | |
Culvert for Pipe |171|3'x61/2' R. C. | 8| 24|Heavy |[2] 642.41
Line at Cascade | |Culvert | | | |
Locks | | | | | |
Viento Creek |172|20' R. C. | 20| 20|Heavy |[2] 1,650.97
Bridge at Viento| |Bridge | | | |
Gorton Creek |173|50' R. C. | 50| 20|Heavy |[2] 3,153.90
Bridge | |Bridge | | | |
Parham Creek |182|4'x10' R. C. | 12| 24|Heavy |[2] 965.85
Culvert near | |Culvert | | | |
Viento | | | | | |
Indian Creek |197|Culvert | 10|...|... |[3] 1,500.00
Hood River Bridge |200|420' R. C. Arch| 420| 20|Heavy |[2] 48,000.00
at Hood River | |and Viaduct | | | |
Half Viaduct on |273|54' Half | 74|...|Heavy |[2] 1,563.01
Ruthton Hill | |Viaduct | | | |
| | | | | |
Jackson: | | | | | |
Big Applegate near|147|126' Wood Span,| 226| 16|Medium|[1] 4,000.00
Jacksonville | |100' approach | | | |
| | | | | |
Josephine: | | | | | |
Trestle over Dry |210|120' Wood | 120| 18|Medium|[3] 1,852.78
Gulch East of | |Trestle | | | |
Wolf Creek | | | | | |
Coyote Creek |211|58' Wood | 58| 18|Medium|[3] 811.28
Bridge East of | |Trestle | | | |
Wolf Creek | | | | | |
| | | | | |
Lane: | | | | | |
Overhead Railway |163|92' R. C. | 92| 20|Heavy |[1] 6,500.00
Crossing at | |Viaduct | | | |
Divide | | | | | |
| | | | | |
Lincoln: | | | | | |
Alsea River, 7 |260|144' Wood Span | 258| 18|Medium|[3] 10,000.00
miles above | | | | | |
Waldport | | | | | |
| | | | | |
Linn: | | | | | |
Bridge over Mill |274|40' R. C. | 40| 24|Heavy |[1] 2,000.00
Race in Lebanon | |Bridge | | | |
| | | | | |
Marion: | | | | | |
Willamette River |123|Steel Bridge |2220| 24| (¶) |[3] 250,000.00
Bridge at Salem | | | | | |
Slough |253|6'x7' R. C. | ...|...|Heavy |[1] 1,200.00
| |Culvert | | | |
Slough |254|Double 21/2'x3' | ...|...|Heavy |[1] 500.00
| |R. C. Culvert | | | |
| | | | | |
Multnomah: | | | | | |
Overhead Crossing |169|106' Wooden | 106| 20|Heavy |[2] 800.00
--Ore. Elec. Ry.| |Overcrossing | | | |
at Capital Hill | | | | | |
Slough |258|60' Wooden Span| 60| 16|Medium|[2] 1,000.00
| | | | | |
Polk: | | | | | |
Mulkey Cut-off |201|40' Wood | 40| 18|Medium|[1] 600.00
near Monmouth | |trestle | | | |
LaCreole Creek in |231|70' R. C. Arch | 70| 22|Heavy |[3] 10,755.68
Dallas (not | | | | | |
designed by | | | | | |
State) | | | | | |
R. C. Bridge |233|36' Wood Bridge| 36| 20|Heavy |[3] 1,898.17
between Dallas | | | | | |
and Monmouth | | | | | |
Little Luckiamute |238|72' Wood Span | 130| 18|Medium|[3] 3,615.00
Big Luckiamute, |283|160' Suspension| 160| 4| ... |[3] 500.00
at Montgomery | |Foot Bridge | | | |
School (See also| | | | | |
Marion County | | | | | |
for Salem | | | | | |
Bridge) | | | | | |
| | | | | |
Sherman: | | | | | |
John Day River |108|2-126' Wood | 372| 18|Heavy |[1] 20,000.00
Bridge on | |Deck Spans | | | |
Columbia River | | | | | |
Highway | | | | | |
| | | | | |
Tillamook: | | | | | |
Bridge over North |127|40' Lift and | 750| 16|Medium|[2] 11,000.00
Fork of Nehalem | |90' Span | | | |
River | | | | | |
Bridge over Beaver|153|172' R. C. | 172| 20|Heavy |[1] 8,000.00
Creek, North of | |Bridge | | | |
Beaver | | | | | |
Bridge over Beaver|154|120' R. C. | 120| 20|Heavy |[2] 6,000.00
Creek in Beaver | |Bridge | | | |
Munson Creek |160|16' R. C. | 16| 20|Heavy |[2] 500.00
Bridge | |Bridge | | | |
| | | | | |
Umatilla: | | | | | |
Bridge over Wash- |229|54' Wood Span | 54| 18|Medium|[1] 1,500.00
out Gulch near | | | | | |
Reith | | | | | |
| | | | | |
Union: | | | | | |
Grand Ronde River |174|2-126' Wooden | 270| 16|Medium|[1] 8,000.00
Bridge | |Spans | | | |
Grand Ronde River |175|1-162' Wooden | 200| 16|Medium|[1] 8,000.00
Bridge | |Spans | | | |
Bridge between La |275|12' R. C. | 12| 24|Heavy |[1] 1,000.00
Grande and Hot | |Bridge | | | |
Lake | | | | | |
Bridge between La |276|10' R. C. | 10| 24|Heavy |[1] 900.00
Grande and Hot | |Bridge | | | |
Lake | | | | | |
Bridge between La |277|26' R. C. | 26| 20|Heavy |[1] 2,000.00
Grande and Hot | |Bridge | | | |
Lake | | | | | |
Bridge between La |278|18' R. C. | 18| 20|Heavy |[1] 1,500.00
Grande and Hot | |Bridge | | | |
Lake | | | | | |
Bridge between La |279|14' R. C. | 14| 20|Heavy |[2] 1,400.00
Grande and Hot | |Bridge | | | |
Lake | | | | | |
Box Culvert near |215|7'x8' R. C. | 10| 24|Heavy |[2] 800.00
Hot Lake | |Box Culvert | | | |
| | | | | |
Wasco: | | | | | |
Eight Mile Creek |106|60' R. C. Box | 60| 20|Heavy |[2] 3,000.00
Bridge East of | |Culvert | | | |
the Dalles | | | | | |
Three Mile Creek |109|6'x6' R. C. | ...| 20|Heavy |[2] 700.00
Bridge--East of | |Culvert | | | |
the Dalles | | | | | |
Mosier Creek |118|175' R. C. | 175| 20|Heavy |[2] 7,000.00
Bridge at Mosier| |Viaduct | | | |
Butler Creek |128|36' R. C. | 36| 20|Heavy |[2] 1,800.00
Bridge | |Bridge | | | |
Tygh Creek Bridge |129|78' R. C. | 78| 20|Heavy |[2] 5,500.00
near Tygh Valley| |Bridge | | | |
Rock Creek Bridge |203|45' R. C. | 45| 20|Heavy |[1] 2,700.00
| |Bridge | | | |
| | | | | |
Washington: | | | | | |
Onion Flat Trestle|199|599' Wood | 599| 18|Heavy |[3] 8,372.22
between Rex and | |Trestle | | | |
Tigardville | | | | | |
Tualatin River |204|144' Wood Span | 310| 18|Heavy |[3] 12,968.60
Bridge, 2 mi. | | | | | |
So. of | | | | | |
Tigardville | | | | | |
Fanno Creek Bridge|264|70' Wood | 70| 18|Heavy |[3] 1,882.81
at Tigard | |Trestle | | | |
| | | | | |
Wheeler: | | | | | |
Bridge over Bridge|176|162' Wooden | 333| 16|Medium|[1] 10,000.00
Creek, near | |Span | | | |
Mitchell | | | | | |
Bridge over Bridge|177|90' Wooden Span| 105| 16|Medium|[3] 6,774.15
Creek, 4 mi. | | | | | |
West of Mitchell| | | | | |
Bridge over West |178|30' Wooden Span| 30| 16|Medium|[1] 500.00
Branch Creek, | | | | | |
near Mitchell | | | | | |
Bridge at Mitchell|179|162' Wooden | 200| 16|Medium|[1] 8,000.00
| |Span | | | |
| | | | | |
Yamhill: | | | | | |
Bridge over |262|40' Wooden Span| 97| 18|Medium|[1] 1,000.00
Yamhill River--6| | | | | |
mi. West of | | | | | |
Grande Ronde | | | | | |
Bridge over Cedar |263|30' Wooden Span| 68| 18|Medium|[1] 800.00
Creek--4 mi. | | | | | |
West of Grande | | | | | |
Ronde | | | | | |
--------------------+---+---------------+----+---+------+--------------
Total | $788,788.09
--------------------------------------------------------+--------------
[1] Designed by Highway Department but not yet constructed.
[2] Designed by Highway Department and construction supervised by
Counties.
[3] Designed and construction supervised by Highway Department.
Where loading is referred to as "Heavy," the structure is designed for a
twenty-ton roller and for 100 lbs. per sq. ft. Where loading is referred
to as "Medium," the structure is designed for a fifteen-ton roller and
for 75 lbs. per sq. ft.
SUMMARY OF BRIDGE AND CULVERT DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION
Designed and Construction Supervised by Highway Department $527,788.09
Designed by Highway Department and Construction supervised
by Counties 89,600.00
Designed by Highway Department but not yet constructed 171,400.00
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Total $788,788.09
TABLE C
MILES OF LOCATION SURVEYS MADE BY HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT 1917-1918
Jobs Miles
Baker County--
Baker to Middle Bridge 17.0
Canyon Section of Baker-Cornucopia Road 4.5
Sag Section of Baker-Cornucopia Road 4.9
Middle Bridge to Black Bridge 13.0
Clackamas County--
Canby to Oregon City 7.5
Oregon City to Multnomah County Line 6.5
Aurora to Canby 5.0
Columbia County--
Columbia City to Scappoose 11.2
Coos County--
Myrtle Point to Douglas County Line 24.4
Marshfield to Curry County Line 39.2
Coquille to Myrtle Point 9.0
Curry County--
Coast Highway 20.0
Douglas County--
Johns Ranch to Jacques Ranch 7.2
Canyon Creek Pass to Johns Place 2.3
Coos County Line to Roseburg 28.7
Gilliam County--
Columbia River Highway 34.0
Grant County--
Big Basin Section of John Day River Highway 23.5
John Day to Fisk Creek 7.4
Fisk Creek to Hall Hill 3.5
Hall Hill to Prairie City 2.2
Harney County--
Burns to Crane 6.0
Hood River County--
Hood River to Mosier 7.0
Jackson County--
Ashland to Klamath Falls 15.6
Josephine County--
Wolf Creek to Grave Creek 4.0
Grants Pass to Grave Creek 17.2
Wolf Creek to Stage Road Pass 2.4
Klamath County--
Klamath Falls-Chiloquin 3.3
Lane County--
Goshen to Cottage Grove 18.2
Eugene to Florence 37.5
Divide to Overhead 1.3
Linn County--
Albany to Jefferson 7.8
Marion County--
Salem to Aurora 22.2
Salem to Jefferson 15.5
Morrow County--
Columbia River Highway 28.6
Heppner to Willows 43.0
Heppner to Umatilla County Line 28.4
Polk County--
Between Monmouth and Dallas .7
Between Salem and Dallas .8
Sherman County--
Columbia River Highway 14.0
Tillamook County--
Tillamook to Cloverdale 15.0
Neskowin to Salmon River 8.0
Umatilla County--
Pendleton to Umatilla 40.6
Pendleton to Pilot Rock 13.9
Pilot Rock to Morrow County Line 18.3
Pendleton to Kamela 26.8
Union County--
Elgin to Minam 9.4
Union to Telocaset 7.2
La Grande to Elgin 29.1
La Grande to Union 9.4
La Grande to Kamela 22.4
Wasco County--
Seuffert to Deschutes River 12.5
Washington County--
Multnomah County Line to Newberg 15.7
Beaverton to Hillsboro 7.6
Forest Grove to Gaston 6.7
Wheeler County--
Sarvice Creek to Grant County Line 25.5
Ochoco Forest to Grant County Line 50.5
Fossil to Gilliam County Line 4.5
Fossil to mouth of Sarvice Creek 21.0
Yamhill County--
McMinnville to Dayton 6.7
Grande Ronde Section 6.8
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Total miles of surveys 902.1
TABLE D
MILES OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF ROAD IN EACH COUNTY
(These mileages are only roughly approximate as accurate data is
obtainable in very few counties)
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| Public Roads
| |Concrete Pavements
| | |Asphaltic Concrete
COUNTIES | | | |Plank Roads
| | | | |Broken Stone
| | | | | |Gravel Roads
| | | | | | | Earth Roads
| | | | | | |Improved
| | | | | | | |Un-
| | | | | | | |improved
----------+--------+----+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------+--------
Baker | 3,500.0| ...| ...| ...| ...| 30.0| 470.0| 3,000.0
Benton | 550.0| ...| ...| ...| 10.0| 200.0| 200.0| 140.0
Clackamas | 1,220.0| 2.0| 24.0| 99.0| 177.0| 221.0| 441.0| 256.0
Clatsop | 310.0| 4.5| 25.0| 26.0| 94.0| 19.0| 141.0| ...
Columbia | 575.0| ...| 4.5| 19.0| 116.5| 42.0| 17.0| 376.0
Coos | 675.0| .5| 1.5| 51.0| 16.0| 86.0| 86.0| 434.0
Crook | 1,450.0| ...| ...| ...| 2.0| 50.0| 300.0| 1,098.0
Curry | 140.0| ...| ...| ...| 2.0| 52.0| 53.0| 33.0
Deschutes | 1,500.0| ...| ...| ...| ...| 25.0| 300.0| 1,175.0
Douglas | 2,000.0| 1.0| 1.0| 8.0| 150.0| 340.0| 500.0| 1,000.0
Gilliam | 600.0| ...| ...| ...| 10.0| 5.0| 50.0| 535.0
Grant | 850.0| ...| ...| ...| ...| 12.0| 15.0| 823.0
Harney | 1,000.0| ...| ...| ...| ...| 8.0| 192.0| 800.0
Hood River| 250.0| ...| 1.0| ...| 7.0| 32.0| 110.0| 100.0
Jackson | 750.0| 8.0| 10.0| ...| 12.0| 20.0| 300.0| 400.0
Jefferson | 1,500.0| ...| ...| ...| 30.0| 25.0| 500.0| 945.0
Josephine | 700.0| ...| ...| ...| 4.0| 52.0| 400.0| 244.0
Klamath | 1,200.0| ...| 2.0| ...| 4.0| 14.0| 300.0| 880.0
Lake | 1,400.0| ...| ...| ...| 5.0| 20.0| 200.0| 1,175.0
Lane | 1,450.0| ...| ...| 26.0| 137.0| 425.0| 78.0| 784.0
Lincoln | 385.0| ...| ...| 5.0| 20.0| 10.0| 250.0| 100.0
Linn | 1,900.0| ...| ...| ...| 70.0| 530.0| 500.0| 800.0
Malheur | 1,800.0| ...| ...| ...| ...| 25.0| 200.0| 1575.0
Marion | 1,300.0| ...| 8.0| ...| 123.0| 272.0| 300.0| 597.0
Morrow | 900.0| ...| ...| ...| 4.0| ...| 33.0| 863.0
Multnomah | 500.0|12.0| 77.0| 3.0| 125.0| 136.0| 120.0| 27.0
Polk | 1,100.0| ...| 1.0| ...| 40.0| 300.0| 300.0| 459.0
Sherman | 500.0| ...| ...| ...| ...| 4.0| 90.0| 406.0
Tillamook | 350.0| 6.0| 5.0| 11.0| ...| 228.0| 50.0| 50.0
Umatilla | 3,000.0| ...| 11.0| ...| 30.0| 30.0| 644.0| 2,285.0
Union | 800.0| ...| ...| ...| 3.0| 10.0| 187.0| 600.0
Wallowa | 1,500.0| ...| ...| ...| ...| ...| 300.0| 1,200.0
Wasco | 1,100.0| ...| ...| ...| 25.0| 100.0| 475.0| 500.0
Washington| 975.0| ...| 16.0| 25.0| 171.0| 33.0| 300.0| 430.0
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