Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-09-22
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER q.
A GOOD ROADS TRAIN.

cage ut the next session of the Mis
souri, Legislature provides for tn
appointment If state engineer and
for state appropriation in aid o
highway construction. Itprovide'
that the state engineer shall hav'
jurisdiction over all public roat
petitions. keeping statistics, giving
Information, making reports ant
holding mee,ings each year ID
every county. Each petition with
plans for road improvement com
ing from FIVE or more residents
must pass through the county
court and up to the state engineer
for approval. upon which the court
shall advertise for construction
bids aud the expense is paid, one
half by the state. IS per centum by
the county and Is per centum by
the district. Thereafter the road is
to be kept ap by the county or dis
trict. An adequate state appropri
alton 10 asked.
The same pressure is being
brought to bear upon senators and
representatives In the national con.
gress, where the good work has
gone so far as to promise the favor
able reporting of the Latimer.
Brownlow bill Dec. IL. This bill
provides for an appropriation OF
$24, 100000 for national aid in the i'm
provement of public roads. and for
the esta blishment in the depart.
ment of agriculture of bureau of
public highways in the new bureau
and the federal government is to
cooperate with the states by pay.
ing half the cost of constructing
any road that may be shown to be
important for common traffic or for
carrying the United States mails,
no state or territory to receive in
any one year larger proportion of
the Gum appropriated than its pop
ulation bears to the total popula-
ton of the United States.
The organization of this good
roads train has been accomplished
through the efforts of President w.
II. Moore of the National Good
Roads Association, which organi-
cation has q vice president and a
national advisory committee In
each state and territory of the
Union. The national executive COM
mittee 10 composed of W. H. Moore.
president; r. w. Richardson. secre-
tsry; C. n. Huttig, treasurer; Rus.
sell Harding and Albert Blair, all
of St. Louis. Also Col. Elliott Du.
ran of the National Business League
of Chicago and Martin Dodge. di.
rector of the Office of Public Road
Inquiries, agricultural department,
United States government, Wash.
ington, d. c.
OF the project President Moore
speaks as follows to the Sunday
Post isptch: "These special good
roads campaigns will help to &C.
complish two things. First, In the
near future laws will be passed pro.
viding that all tramps, Migrants
and misdemeanor prisoners shaii
be worked In the preparation of
roads or road material; second, sue
cess will reward the efforts of the
labor unions in their demands that
all penitentiary labor now compel
ing with free labor shall be divert.
ed to road work instead.
"This is the third good roads spe-
cial that will have been operated in
the United States. In 1901 the Iii.
nois Central railway, under the su.
pervision of the officers of the Ma
tional Good Roads Association and
the road department of the govern
meut. equipped train and operat-
ed Il over that entire system be-
tween Chicago and New Orleans.
Object lesson roads, amounting TO