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'''December 07, 1912 Spokesman-Review Page 6:'''
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[[file:1912-12-07-sr-p6-reardan-spokane-road.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]'''BAD LINK IN GOOD ROADS IS THORN'''
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'''Half Mile on Lincoln-Spokane County Line May Never Be Improved.'''
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'''GRADE IS TOO STEEP'''
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'''Would Connect Sunset Boulevard and Reardan Highway—Commissioners Explain.'''
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According to the county commissioners
there {s a strip of road on the
county line between this county and
Lincoln county that stands small
chance of ever being improved to connect
miles of good macadam road on
either side. Sunset boulevard and the
Reardan road are now taken to within
one-half mile of each other.

The road is one mile on the county
line and Lincoln county has put in its
half of the mile and is waiting for
the commissioners of Spokane county
to put in the other half. As it is now
the half mile {s in very bad shape,
according to those who have seen it.

Commissioners Allan R, Scott and
Fred K, McBroom said yesterday that
the half mile of road was so hilly that
the state would never approve of a
road of that grade. The state will not
permit a road of more than 5 per cent
grade and they allege this will be more
than that unless it winds around the
hills to a greater length than a half
mile.

“In the first place there was a more
practical and cheaper route than the
one taken,” said Commissioner McBroom,
“Lincoln county agreed to consult
us about putting in the connecting link,
but has not done so and has
constructed the easy half of the road
and left us the hard part of it.”
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