The State Highway Department expended in Columbia County during 1917 and
1918, the sum of $488,302.15, which is the largest amount expended in
any one county in the state. With this amount the following work was
completed:
2.5 miles of bituminous paving.
27.2 miles of broken stone macadam.
8.2 miles of grading.
11 reinforced concrete bridges.
2 reinforced concrete box culverts.
All of this work is on the Columbia River, and all but the 2.5 miles of
paving is between the Clatsop County Line and a point about two miles
east of Goble.