The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 12, 1929, Page 2

Highway Comm {Weather Report || SMOOTHING NO. DAKOTAROADS | =:."3: “mazes FOR MOTORISTS COST $461,299.79) MOTORISTS URGED 00 ers Wait Till It Ends h SHOVELS, MITTENS NEEDED Chief Reliance Is Being Placed on Shielding Fences; 22 Pieces of Machinery Partly in self-defense and partly to beneift the public, the siate high- way department has issued a set of instructions to motorists making trips in North Daketa in the winter. are: 1. Supply yourself with a warm overcoat, heavy overshoes, a cap, pre-| ferably with eartabs, and mittens. 2 Equip your car with chains. if} you encounter loose snow on_ the road to put them on at once. walt to get struck and then try to put| them on. i 3. Carry a good big shovel and b> prepared to use it in an emergency. At times it may be the cnly thing that will get you through. 4. Do not attempt to travel during fa storm unless it is absolutely neces- sary. If you do, go prepared for trouble. You may find a lot of it. Operate Only After Storm - Accompanying its list of instruc- tions to motorists, the department is- sued a statement as to what motoriss may reasonably expect in the way of snow-removal on state highways. People traveling in a storm should) § Not expect to encounter the depart- ment's maintenance men until the storm is over and the wind has died | y, down. They have been instructed to wait until the snow has quit falling and drifting before they go to work. One reason for this is that money ‘available for snow-removal is limited. Another is that the work is incffec-j tive since new drifts form soon after @ plow has passed over a road. | In the event of a severe storm. th statement said. motorists should ex-| pect to find the roads blocked for one, two even three days. “Should the weather become too severe.” the statement continued, “we might be compelled to leave them blocked as our equipment and funds for snow- removal are very limited. Summer Uses Maintenance Cash “Proper care of the roads during the summer months uses up about all of the available maintenance money and gasoline tax receipts during De- cember, January end February arc insufficient to take care of snow- removal unless the snowfall is very light. “The department is willing to spend | its gasoline tax income for these months on snow-removal work but fecls that it is not justified in taking gasoline tax receipts from other months to spend durinz December, January and February and in this way rob the other months. when traffic is heavier, of their just share highway maintenance funds.” Officials of the department said the statement was issued in order to ad- vise the public of the conditions un- der which it operates and to prevent public expectation that all state high- ways will be kept open continuously tegardiess of conditions to be met. Such anticipation by the public would RQUIP CARS AND 2 They | Don't | w "The low ed States, ssure over the western units, designed to buck large drifts, Next come eight caterpillar | derly conduct. tractors equipped with plows, and | caused excitement on other occasions last, but very effective for removing | Steaming for help after drinking ; Heading the list are two Sno-go re- | care THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1929 ___ as tion Highest wind veloc SELVES FOR WINTER o Department Advises That in Case of Storm Snow Remov- Smoothing the road for the North Dakota motorist cost the state highway department $461,299.79 this year, and will cost $513,764 in 1990, according to the budget of the maintenance division of the state highway department, st made public today a Work of smoothing the surfaces of state highways is regarded as one { the most important jobs of the maintenance division. and to It goes nearly half of the $1,335,000 allotted to the division for 1930. The cost of various items listed in the division budget for 1930, together with the cost of similar work in 1929, is shown by the following table: ; Routine Maintenanco— 1929 Budget for 1930 ow Smoothing surface . $461,299.79 $513,764.00 iO ir 112,334.35 126,205.00 27,873.65 30,810.00 131,630. 147,070.00 37,876.88 41,737.00 84,596.49 133,000.00 1“) Cleaning culverts and ditches 4, Cutting weeds and brush “Snow prevention 4" Snow removal ow Major Repairs: *o) Reshaping ... °° Surface additions . 0y | Roadbed repairs Drainage structures . ia) Guard rail . 19.645.07 21,860.00 12,557.56 9.500.383 6,600.47 2,039.54 37,072.41 Roadbed .. Surface Structures .. Snowfence and posts . Special Work— Buildings Equipment. Minor purchase Prorated Expe Salaries Workmen's compensation Traffic census .. 904. Marking highways 17,887.00 i secon maga rors ne Totals... ........ cece ee eseeeseeceeeeres é. $1,170,159.72 $1,335,706.00 The credit of $85,000 in the equipment, repair and operation account is ven to the department in return for the operation of owned n coast. Moderate prevail throughout but slightly ight snows, are 12 four-wheel-drive e|trucks equipped with plows. TH 4 IES | ‘These travel at relatively high |_AT THE MOVIES | |speeds and do their work quickly but ‘are not fitted for the work of remov- ing unusually heavy drifts. CALLS HELP—GETS FINE Baltimore —Henry Deares, 23, after king iodine, screamed for help. His ips were burned, hospital investiga- tion showed, but no serious injury re- --——| sujted. He was fined $5 after his calls for help were listed as disor- It is said that he had oBERTS, eorologist. More than a million feet of snow- is place this year and it is snowfence that the department its chief reliance to find a for the snow problem. 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