Fate of CETC building up in air

A crew from Strata Inc., Moscow, last Thursday bored two soil sample holes next to the CETC Building in downtown Colfax in the latest part of an engineer’s study to determine if the building is worth saving. The bore samples will be used to determine the type material under the building, formerly the Elks Club.

Evan Laubach, Pullman consulting engineer, said the aim is to determine whether conditions which caused a corner of the building to settle several years ago might still be present and lead to additional settlement.

The CETC building settled several inches at its northwest corner, the co...