Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-09-29
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REPRESENTED
At tho Good Roads Convention
...Strong Resolutions Ae
Adopted
R ECON MEN DAT|0NS
For Steps to Secure Government Aid
and Appointment Of Highway Su.
Pervisor.. r..Executivs Committee.

Very timely and proper resolutions
were adopted by the New Mexico
Good Roads Convention, which was
in session In Las Vegas on the 26th
and 9th instants. The resolutions are
of great interest to the people Of the
Territory and hence are published In
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ITO the Chairman and Members Of the
Good Roads Convention of the Ter
ritory of New Mexico, now assem-
bled in Las Vegas, New Mexico.
your committee on resolutions very
respectfully beg to report as fol-
lows, to-wit.:
"First-As attesting the general and
widespread interest taken by the Ter
ritory on the important question of
good roads, it is gratifying to your
committee to see that out of the
twenty-five (22) counties of this Ter
ritory, nineteen (19) Of them are rep
resented in this convention by large
and respectable delegations of prom
inent citizens of said counties.
"Second-We heartily approve of
the practice, heretofore adopted as an
experiment, of employing the convict
labor Of the territorial penitentiary In
the construction Of public highways.
The trial heretofore made in that di-
rection by the employment of that
character of labor in the building of
the Scenic Highway between the cities
of Las Vegas and Santa Fe, has con-
clusively shown that the practice is
not only feasible but practicable and
practical, to say nothing of the OBJ
vious act>of humanity extended to the
unfortunates who perform the work, In
permitting them, while engaged in a
work of incalculable public utility, to
enjoy the comparative liberty accorded
them while so engaged
"We, therefore, earnestly recon-
mend to the proper authorities the
continued employment of convict labor
in the construction of public highways.
"Third-We respectfully call the
attention of our delegate in Con-
lgress, to the great advantage that
would accrue to this Territory by Sc
Touring the financial assistance of the
federal government in the construction
of public highways in this Territory,
and we urgently request of him that
he use his best endeavors to secure
such assistance.
| "Fourth-Judging from the practic-
al results that have been obtained In
other states In the Union, from the ex-
istence of an officer whose only duty
| it is to look into the proper construc-
tion and preservation of public high
ways, we believe that the creation OF
such an Office in this Territory would
result in equal beneficial results; we
therefore recommend to the serious
and earnest consideration of the next
annual good roads convention to be
held in this Territory, the propriety
of recommending the creation of
territorial public highway supervisor
to the next ensuing legislative assem-
bly, for the Territory of New Mexico.
"Fifth-With a view Of keeping
alive among the people of the Terri
tory the interest now felt in the ques-
tion of good roads, and for the pur-
pose of more advisedly to act in mat
ters relating thereto, we recommend
that there be now appointed, to be
hereafter permanently kept In exist
ence, an executive committee, to be
known as the Territorial Good Roads
Committee of the Territory Of New
Mexico, which shall consist in addition
to one member from each judicial
district, of one member from each
county in the Territory. and that this
committee be particularly charged
with the duty of studying and contriv-
ing the best methods and course to
pursue in the matter Of having good
and substantial highways in our Ter
ritory, and Of recommending such
measures as to them may seem most
conducive to the accomplishment Of
that purpose, for the consideration of
the proper authorities.
1--WE further recommend, as an ad-
ditional duty devolving upon the In
diviAual members of that committee,
that they use their best efforts and en-
deavors in the organization Of Good
Roads clubs in their respective juris-
diction.
"Sixth-We further recommend that
"a Territorial Good Roads Convention
be held once in each and every year
hereafter, at such time and place as
the conventions may designate, and
that the Board of County Commission
ers in each county, and the municipal
government of every incorporated city
and town in the Territory, appoint
such number of delegates to such con-
ventions as they may decide.
"Very respectfully submitted,
20. A. LARRAZOLO,
Chairman
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