The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-10

cool association was DeSull tHlS
.,,,iog in the Wala Walla club
.,oms President Samuel Hill pre-
..,.s and there was in attendance
r,roa number of delegates from the
.,rn+ies in western and eastern
Washington.
Address of Welcome.
rv-Governor Miles c. Moore was
irroIuced and delivered a short ad-
dress Of welcome. Governor Moore
said in part:
Gentlemen of Good Roads con-
- Arion: We are delighted to see
vg here. Our citizens extend to you
cordial greeting and beg to ex-
rrass to you assurance of their ap-
rrq.ation of the honor conferred by
selecting Walla Walla as the place
Of meeting.
The small attendance is to be re-
grqtted, but we should console our
selves with the reflection that what
is lacking in numbers is made up of
superior personnel of the delegation.
Considering the difficulty to be over
come in reaching Walla Walla, your
presence here attests a deep interest
in the subject of good roads. In the
Old days Walla Walla valley was
the tayorite council ground of the
red men. When Governor Stevens
sent his emissiaries over the noun
tains in the spring of 1855 to con-
fer with the Indian chief regarding
suitable place to hold a coun-
dl Kamiacian. chief of the Yaki-
mas said: In ancient times we held
our councils in the Walla Walla val
ley and we will hold it there now
In those days all trails led to Walla
Nalla, and it was somewhat easier
70 get here than under the present
faIToad schedule. We still hope,
however, that in the process of time
Ue Nalla Walla valley will become
laVorlte meeting place for the white
Nan and that Walla Walla by reason
AeF central location will become
EpuIar convention city This will
H 'i1ppen when we are on the map as an
-PVF'ant station on the c. M. and
a. r road. You gentlemen from
We Sound can then board a train in
VIC evening and be delivered in the
'"I' morning without a change of
'aS There will be no midnight
'"ailse Of cars and no opportunity to
see Pasco.e
Hill Responds.
me address of welcome was re-
f'1oeu 10 by President Hill, who
'7aSed the citizens of Walla Walla
"e cordial welcome and hospi-
'aIi'y extended. He explained the
0ehehtS that could be derived
'~I'ed action of the people in the
OF good roads. He urged
''eu action and asked that the
ss''es' when they returned to their
~ oegn the task of spread
s 'ae gospel of good roads,"
Legislation Needed.
>spn N. Snow, state highway
missioner, then made an address
e-., Necessity of Legislation" He
co;. d length on the subject and
b,i. Jul many laws that would
T.. "OouI good roads throughout
~ State, After showing that under
miss 'O' road law the county COM
Sin. ''e's Of King county had con-
d o.. '''o'e miles of road and at
r.,5 sssa'ly reduced cost than ope-
Tia, =, 0N0er the Old system, he said
all was most needed was state
sbor,, ne believed that the legislature
di.,-ia, sr5a Appropriate money to be
Of -ba throughout the counties
and ns' e'S'e to assist in constructing
no;s 'olillng good roo5s ua
isIs,n., out that While the last leg
highway ''V''oed for the office of a
|. - ,, commissioner, it ne
Fas norr 'iierate his duties. 1t
0e pnt :, eSSary that this office
good working order so