The Lamar register., 1905-08-02
oGOOD ROADS Meeting
LARGE CONVENTION AT DENVER
State Largely Represented-Practi
Working Organization Will
Be Formed

Denver, July 2S.-The good roads
convention met at the chamber OF
commerce hall yesterday and was wei
coined by the governor and president
of the chamber of commerce. The del
,egations are both large and enthusias-
tic. There were twentyfour mayors
in attendance yesterday. There are
also many county commissioners
among the delegates, and this first con-
vention has been very satisfactory in
point of numbers that represent all
parts of the state.
There have been twenty-four Or
ganizations formed in the West as a
r-sult of these conventions which the
national officers are holding. BY get
ting these organized in every county
and meeting every month to discuss all
matters pertaining to roads there
should be very remarkable change
wrought in the condition of Colorado's
public highways" said Colonel Rixey,
who spoke at the afternoon session of
the convention on Legislation"
Senator E. T. Taylor of Glenwood
Springs was chosen temporary chair
man of the convention and Arthur Will
liams of Denver, secretary, with n. E.
Brazie of Wray, assistant. Later this
organization was made permanent.
A. NJ. Teller of Morrison, Colorado.
delivered an address on Experimental
Road Building in Colorado" He spoke
first of the work of ID. Ward King Of
Maitland, Missouri, in building cheap
and useful roads and placed him with
Burbank and Campbell as benefactors
>of mankind.
u Mr. Teller said he had experimental
with the King system at Morrison and
found it worked well. The principal
aim was to go over a road with a
drag" after every rain and keep 1t
packed. OF course the road must be
kept crowned or sloped.
Colonel Moore said this was all right
for makeshift, but the convention
should insist on permanent roadways
throughout the state and Nation. The
road from Denver to Colorado Springs
could be made permanent structure
for 81 900 to $1,000 a mile.
An automobile ride was given the
visitors by the Colorado Automobile
Club.
At the evening session of the State
Good Roads convention, held at the
Womans Club building, DR.. F. F.
Bartlett, president of the Colorado Au-
tomobile Club, read paper on the
progress of the Automobile and the i'm
portant part it plays in the main
tenance OF good roads. To the auto
mobile. he said, should be given the
credit of being one of the chief means
of securing good roads, its travel caus'
ing no wear whatever to streets.
DR.. Bartlett told of the time when
the first automobiles were built ana
the criticism that was made against
them.
Five years ago." he said. cit re-
.quired courage to run an automobile
Through the streets of a city. Some
people declared that it was lad OF
rich people: cities and towns legislated
against them, and in some sections Oh
the eastern and middle states their use
was prohibited altogether. They were
the subject of ridicule and derisioa In
the comic and daily papers.
During the last year, DR.. Bartlett
STATED, remarkable change had been
Oscored in favor of the machine.
The automobile, DR.. Bartlett stated
is as reliable for travel as any locomo
tive. To-day, he said. there are 2OO
concerns engaged in the manufacture
of automobiles, the combined capital
of the industry being s25,OOO,OOO. In
this city alone, he estimated, there
were nearly $1,000.0o0 forth OF ma
chimes.
Il will venture to say that in ten
years the automobile will displace
seventy-five per cent. of the horses
now in use. AS means for travel the
automobile engine is the most econom
ical of all motive powers, even using
gasoline for fuel. but gas from coal
direct, it is four and one-half times as
economical as the locomotive. 1t Is
one of the greatest means for securing
good roads that could be devised.