1940-03-10-sr-p9-lincoln-stevens-counties-must-decide-bridge-location
March 10, 1940 Spokesman-Review Page 9:
U.S. WON'T MIX IN BRIDGE TILT.
Lincoln and Stevens County Officials Must Choose No. 22 Location.
Commissioners of Lincoln and Stevens counties must decide where a new bridge is to cross the Spokane river in the vicinity of Detillion bridge on state road No. 22. The new bridge is necessary because of the backwater from Grand Coulee dam. It will be paid for by the bureau of reclamation.
The commissioners must decide by early this week, Lacey V. Murrow of Olympia, state director of highways, announced yesterday after a conference here with commissioners of the two counties, The commissioners went to Grand Coulee yesterday for a conference with Frank A, Banks, reclamation bureau engineer in charge of dam construction.
Two Survey Lines.
"Reclamation engineers have run two survey lines for bridges at two different locations, but the bureau can not be expected to build two bridges, after all the money it has spent in replacing roads to be destroyed by the backwater," Director Murrow said.
One bridge location is about five miles upstream on the Spokane river from Detillion bridge. The second is at the location of the present bridge near the junction of the Spokane and Columbia rivers, Estimated cost of this bridge is about $400,000. The bridge above Detillion, at a site known as Laughton's bridge, would cost about $500,000.
The Laughton bridge site would move traffic into Davenport, while the other would move traffic into Creston.
