[Illustration: HEAVY GRADING ON RUTHTON HILL IN HOOD RIVER COUNTY.
CONSTRUCTED IN 1917 AND 1918]
The Highway Department expended in Jackson County during 1917 and 1918
the sum of $86,619.88. The work accomplished with this amount consists
of six and five-tenths miles of 16-foot crushed rock macadam in the
Siskiyou Mountains, an undergrade crossing with the Southern Pacific
Railway just north of Ashland, and 4,200 lineal feet of grading and
paving north of Ashland. A survey has also been started on the
Ashland-Klamath Falls Road about fifteen miles of which was completed
before weather conditions made it necessary to discontinue field work
until spring.