: Third Biennial Report of the Oregon State Highway Commission Covering the Period December 1st 1916 to November 30th 1918 by Benson Simon Booth R A Nunn Herbert Thompson W L - Highway engineering Oregon History; Water resources development Systems engineeri

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Soleim of Eugene on September 5, 1917. Work covered by the contract was for grading and macadamizing, culverts and bridges.

Due to shortage of labor, poor shipments on macadam rock, and financial difficulties, the contractors were obliged to ask the State Highway Commission to take over the work. On August 20, 1918, after a conference with the County Court and the Contractor's Surety Company, this was done. The work was completed November 30, 1918. The construction details under the State supervision were handled by a State construction engineer, representing the Contractors and Surety Company, and the engineering details by the resident engineer on the work--the latter rendering regular monthly estimates of work done on the unit contract prices, of the original contract.

This work complete will cost approximately ,000.00 of which the County will pay ,349.72 and the State ,650.28.

The construction of this section was in charge of E. B. Bishop, resident engineer, and F. E. LaPointe, construction superintendent.

Grading--Oakland to Yoncalla

This work extends from the Calapooya River Bridge at Oakland to a point two miles south of Yoncalla, a total distance of 10.4 miles. A contract for clearing, grading and culverts was awarded the Warren Construction Company, September 5, 1917, being the last of three contracts signed jointly by the County Court and State Highway Commission.

This work was completed July 25, 1918, and is an excellent piece of standard construction 24 feet in width. It eliminates the old excessive grade over Rice Hill, and some bad sections just north of Oakland--there being now no grades over 5 per cent.

On the completion of the grading the State Highway Commission requested permission Of the Capital Issues Committee to sell bonds, part of which were to cover the rocking of this unit to make it passable for winter. This request was refused on the ground that it was not a necessary war measure. The road will therefore not be passable this winter, but it is expected that the section will be macadamized during the 1919 season.

Mr. Robert A. Pratt was resident engineer in charge of the construction.

DETAILED EXPENDITURE STATEMENT--GRADING--OAKLAND TO YONCALLA

Grading--Myrtle Creek to Dillard

On November 27, 1917, a contract was awarded to Calvert & Wolke of Grants Pass , for the clearing, grading, culverts and concrete bridges on a section of 12.8 miles between Myrtle Creek and the junction of the Pacific Highway with the Roseburg-Coos Bay Highway, one mile and a half north of Dillard. This construction eliminates the well but unfavorably known Roberts Mountain grade just south of Roseburg, on which several lives have been lost and also, seven grade crossings of the Southern Pacific Railway. It will be a water grade highway along the beautiful Umpqua River.

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