Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-07-16
Portland Correspondence.

Good Roads" seems to have becom
in recent months the subject Of almos
every conversation when a group G
citizens get together. During the las
two weeks there has been more dir
cusson Of good roads among member
Of the Portland Commercial Club thai
there has about the political campaign
thai is before US. When dairy men &c
together they discus good roads; it /.
the same with fruit growers, while auto
mobile owners have become veritable
cranks on the subjsct.
An nsistent demand, coming from
everv section of the State, has been
made upon the Portland Commercial
Club to call some character OF represen-
tative meeting to discuss a practical
plan whei ehy all Oregon may have
better highways. President w. K
Newell, of the State Board of Horticul-
ture, has wrttel to the Club asking
that action be taken without delay; A
similar request comes from Hon. ]. ".
Bailey, State Dairy and Food Com
missioner, on behalf of the dairy inter
ests, and the bankers of Portland and
other cities and towns of the State are
of one mind on tbs subject. Many OF
the cities throughout Oregon are build
ing high class hard surface pavanents,
and everywhere YOU 90 you find men
ia king GOOD Roads"
AS result of all this it has been de
termined to hold an "Oregon Good
Roads Conference in the Convention
Hall 9th foor) of the Portland Com
mercial Club, Tuesday, August 11th,
with .norning, afternoon and evening
sessions. No interest in the state seems
to be more anxious to have a part in
developing the good roads sentiment
into a realization than the railroads,
and as result rate of a fare and a
third has been made made for this
meeting tickets will be good the day
before and the day after the meeting,
so that 1t may be extended oyer the
second day If necessary.
An interesting program will be pre-
pared, but there will be no long -winded
theoretical peeches-practica men will
be secured and practical questions dis
cussed. The Good Roads ASS 1ciations
Of Oregon and Washington will be ask ed
to co.operrte in making the meeting a
success. The basis of representation
will be announced within a few DAYS.
out all commercial and industrial bodies,
,ouoty judges, county commissioners,
editors and mayors will be authorized
o appoint delegates and urged TO have
good representation present.
Hon. James r. Garfield Secretary of
he Interior, and Hon. F. H. Newell
chief of the United States Reclamation
Service, spent Thursday in Portland.
Oregon communities as represented
through their commercial bodies and
ther agencies for advertising, should
ommence at once TO take advantage Of
he one-way colonist rates which will be
u effect from Sept. 1st to Oct. 3lst. No
tate in the Union has received greater
,eneft through these colonlst rates than
oregon and at no time in the history of
he State were more people expressing
determination to come here to make
heir ornament home.
Hon. John Sharpe Williams, recently
lpcted United States Senator from
Mississippi, and prominent nationally
5 leader OF the Democracy, while
ere to fill an engagement with the
'hautauqua Association, vas rendered
reception at the Portland Commercial
'lu Friday night.