The Glenwood post., 1905-08-12
FOR BETTER
PUBLIC ROADS
Meeting Of National Good Roads
Association Organized in Gar
field COuntY---DiSCuSSiOn
of Local Conditions
TEMPORARY OFFICERS ARE CHOSEN

Inc meetings held at the court
loom last Wednesday in the interest
of good roads were of very interest
ing nature and Notwithstanding the
attendance was not large, the county
will be we'll repaid for the expense of
bringing to Glenwood the experts of
the National Good Roads association,
for the agitation in favor of improved
highways is just what has long been
needed in this county. To be sure
there is hardly person in the county
but will admit that we need good
roads, but nearly all have looked upon
the acqui1ement of these mediums of
civilization as among the impossible
titles.
But these gentlemen are educating
the people to regard good roads not as
luxuries and impossibilities, hut as
necessities and as Investments upon
which the whole people are bound to
realize "Make road over which the
farmer can haul two tons where before
times not that and you have created
something that is of real value to that
farmer and something which after he
has once enjoyed it's benefits he would
not think of doing without no matter
what the cost This is the theory
on which Colonel Moore and his as
sociates operate and they are opening
the eyes of the people all over the
East and South to the absolute neces-
sity for good roads.
Senator Taylor opened the meeting
with few remarks and then called
on Col. w. H. Moore, president Of the
National Good Roads association, who
after making considerable inquiries
as to the local situation and being
advised as to the facts. said it was a
shame that the people of a county the
size of Garfield with 1000 miles of
public road, should expect the, COM
missioners to put the roads in condi
tion and keep them so on pittance
of $12, 600 to $l7, 900 per year.
Later. after the party had been
driven over part of the road between
here and Carbondale, Colonel Moore
took occasion to compliment the COM
missioners for the start made toward
good roads, and said he had not seen
a county in this state where so much
When he found that the commi ssi oners
expected to complete the 12 miles be-
tween Glenwood and Carbondale, this
year he called their attention to the
we have 800 miles of county roads, at
the present rate it will require SO
years to make good roads of them or
SO years on basis of 1000 miles in
the county.
Editor Holmes introduced resolu-
tion recommending that the county
commissioners purchase suitable road
building machinery, also for the sub
mission to the people Of proposition
to bond the county for 300, 600 for
the construction of permanent roads.
The first part of this resolution
seemed popular, but that referring to
the bond issue did not meet with
especial favor as it was regarded as
too indefinite.
E. H. Grubb, being called upon,
spoke in his usually optomistic style
saying good roads were our only need
at present. "We have everything
else which the heart of man could
wish" is the way Gene expressed it.
He favored careful estimate Of the
amount necessary to build permanent
roads all over the county and would
assure each section of a certain expend-
iture and then call for the necessary
onds with that understanding.
Senator A. 8. Mann of Jacksonville,
Florida, made an eloquent plea for
good roads and showed the results of
the associations work in his own state.
His remarks did much to impress on
all present, not only the desirability.
but the necessity for better highways
At the evening session, Colonel
Moore delivered an illustrated lecture
showing by splendid lantern slides the
greatest highways in the world and
explaining the method Of their con-
struction. In his remarks he again
took occasion to praise Colorado and
Glenwood and said the mem oers of his
party were so favorably impressed
with this state that they expected tc
locate here and spend a portion OF