The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-07-02
STATE BOULEVARD.
Governor Stuart Favors the Rebuilding
and ImvroviDg the Old State Road
from Philadelphia TO Pittsburg
WOULD BE GREAT BOON TO FARMERS

CAPE MAY, JUNE 26.-Gover'
nor EdwiL S. Stuart, of Pennsyl.
vania, in an address before the
Penn. ylvania bar association on
Thursday night, made a plea for
rehabllitlon of the old state road
from Philadelphia to Plttsburg,
improving it along the lines fol
lowed by the state highway de
partment.
The governor opened with a
brief review of the history OF
Pennsylvania for $50 years past,
recitlng how the land west of the
Alleghenies was reaches first by
natural waterways and later by
Indian trails. Then he detailed
events leading up to the construc.
of the ONO trading company
train; how the pathfinding mill
tary expedition of Washington
to Braddock carving out a some
what better road; how Forbes
military road became the next
artery and how this was super
seded by the famous state road.
"We have no occasion today to
prophesy the passing OF the
steam railroad; but we do know
that never before has progress
in transportation. facilities made
such rapid strides and the bene-
fis of internal communication
been so widely distributed and
appreciated. The good roads era
is IN its dawn.
"And now we may approach a
subject and project worth to com
mand popular support in proper
ton of a rehabllltated Pennsylva-
MIA highway across the state be-
tween Philadelphia and Pitts
burg. Separate and distinct
from the present method of pro
cedure, the project l have in
mind is to survey the old state
road, rebuild and improve it and
complete the work from one end
to the other IN it's entirety, COM
menclng sim ultaneouely at Pitts
burg and Philadelphia.
"Such modern highway from
Philadelphia to Pitts burg would
bring continuous stream of tour
lists from the far west and west
through Pennsylvania territory
and would tend to open up many
new avenues. 1T would promote
activity IN real estate and would
be so long that private monopoly
would be out Of the question. I'm
migration would follow, as would
development and house building
and improvement and use OF idle
land. Production of crops and
stock raising would ensue. The
usefulness and value of existing
farms would be enhanced.
Between these great munici.
pahties is another one of import
ance, the capital city of Harris
burg, and the chief place on the
Susquehanna; a city whose loca.
ton makes 1t the gateway to the
bltuminous coal fields, the oil and
gas fields, the lake regions and
the west.
"Fo the east of it along the old
Pennsylvania road, IN Lancaster,
the banner agricultural county oi
the United States in point Of val
ue of crops produced. To the
west OF Harrisburg are the agri-
cultural counties of Cumberland
and Franklin, whose seats Of Coy
ernment, Carlisle and Cham hers
burg, are becoming prosperous
manufacturing towns. And far
ther on are the sparsely populat'
CD, wooded mountainous counties
OF Fulton, Bedford and Somerset
beautiful in scenery, possessed
OF a salubrious atmosphere and
noted health resorts. And final
~ are the extensive coal fields O.
Somerset and Westmoreland
counties, whose mine operations
and coke ovens give employ men1
10 increasing numbers of mer
and foster allied industries. "
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Miss Janet Gump and Miss
Velma Sheeder, Of Everett, were
guests Of Miss Minnie Reisnel