County Commission Plans Systematic Road Upgrades
Walla Walla County officials and road supervisors meet to formalize a new, systematic approach to improving rural infrastructure.
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County commissioners, John Fuller and L. R. Hawley, road supervisors, and County Surveyor Loehr held a conference at the Hall of Records today to discuss plans for improving the county roads. It is the intention of the board and supervisors to perform the work of building new roads and improving the old ones in as systematic a manner as possible. Each commissioner will superintend the work in his respective district. Work on the roads in District 3, in the Eureka Flat section, will be commenced about February 1, and that in the other districts will be taken up as soon as the condition of the ground and weather will permit. The board has decided to accept a proposition from residents of the Russell Creek section: they have offered to furnish teams to haul gravel or crushed rock, if the board will pay for the teamsters. It has also been decided to use considerable crushed rock on the roads, and as soon as the new crusher, which was recently purchased, arrives, it will be started up.
“It is the intention of the board and supervisors to perform the work of building new roads and improving the old ones in as systematic a manner as possible.”
The perennial struggle to maintain rural road quality in Walla Walla County mirrors modern debates over infrastructure funding and the reliance on public-private cooperation—or, in this case, resident-contributed labor.
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