On the Clatskanie-Westport Section, which extended from Clatskanie to
the Clatsop County Line, the work was handled originally by the Warren
Construction Company, on a cost plus ten per cent. basis. The State
Highway Department took this work over December 26, 1917, and from that
time on the work was handled by this Department. This work consisted of
8.62 miles of sixteen-foot waterbound macadam.
On this section the costs show that the Warren Construction Company laid
crushed rock slightly cheaper than the State. However, the State did all
the finishing on this section, which is more expensive than laying the
base rock and it was necessary to raise the wages twenty-five per cent.
after the work was taken over by the Department. C. L. Grutze was
resident engineer on this work.