, 1908-09-23
TALKING UP
GOOD ROADS
LARAMIE AUTOMOBILE CLUB AR.
RANGING MEETING WiTHfTHE
CHEYENNE AUTO CLUB.
Tentative Plan Provides for Run from
Laramie to chsyshns on Saturday,
Run BY Two Clubs on Sunday,
With Meeting on Crest Of Noun
talns, and Return on Monday.

With Meeting on Crest Of Noun
talns, and Return on Monday.
At q meeting last night OF the Lara
mie Automobile club, with a good at
tendance OF members, the proposed
conference with the Cheyenne Auto
mobile club concerning the bettermen,
OF the roads between this city and that
was discussed. 1t was decided to send
as many Laramie automobiles "a
could be gotten into line to Cheyenne
on the afternoon Of Saturday, October
3, when the Cheyenne automobile own
ers will be met. On Sunday, October
4, the two clubs will return to this
city. stopping somewhere en- route for
a joint meeting on the best plans for
improving the roads and fostering the
fraternal feeling between the two or
CARNATIONS. Drivers OF machines be-
lieve that with better roads there
would be more frequent exchange OF
visits by auto and at the same time
there would be a greater number Of
visiting automobile parties from 9TH
err cities and states.
Two Clubs on Sunday.
The Cheyenne party, It Is expected.
will spend Sunday night here, return
Ing home the following Monday morn
ing. This matter was left in the hands
of a committee consisting of Elmer
Lovejoy ]. E. Winslow and Joseph Lob
lein, who will correspond with the
Cheyenne club and outline the plans
tentatively adopted at the meeting
last night of the Laramie club. The
committee will report in time to COM
plete arrangements for the run to
Cheyenne, the return run to Laramie
by both organizations and the home
run of the Cheyenne visitors.
John H. Davis, Will McMurray and
Earl Carter were taken into the club
as members, making a club member
ship Of around forty . All are enthu-
siastic autoists and are getting the
maximum OF enjoyment from operating
their machines.
Good Roads and Streets.
The real business Of the meeting
having been finished by the appoint
ment OF this special committee and the
initiation of the three new members,
good roads and streets was the SUBJ
ject of discussion. 1t was reported
that the Woods landing road. ordi.
narily one of the best in the county;
the Sprague lane road, furnishing a
long and delightful trip by automobile
to points far beyond the city; the first
hatchery road, W which many visi-
tors are taken during the season, and
the streets OF the city, sometimes
written of as among the finest in the
United States for bicycles and auto
mobiles, need a good deal Of attention
from the authorities. The Woods
landing road is bad in places. In one
spot, where a new fill has been made,
the surface has never been finished
and there Is a "jump-oh" a foot high
that has a tendency to make a chauf-
feur wonder what Is coming next. This
Is at F~ourteen-mile hill. The bridge at
the new Hutton grove school is well
nigh impossible, not alone for auto
mobiles, but for loaded wagons as well.
Stones have rolled into the road In a
great many places and make going
rather rough and language sometimes
far from heavenly. The road from the
experiment station to the Seven-mile
lakes is always bad and always will be
until the county can arord to roll and
gravel 1t, which will entail consider
able expense. The expense Of putting
the remainder of the road, except that
portion last referred to, In splendid
condition would be comparatively
small and the club members were in
clined to believe that 1t should be done
In view Of the heavy travel over 1t.
Spraque Lane Road.
There are several places on the
Sprague lane road that the road super
visor should not overlook when he
comes to inspect the highways for the
winter traffic from one Of the leading
agricultural regions Of the county. The
road is not good and 1t is the duty Of
the board Of county commissioners, &C
cording to the belief of members Of the
Automobile club, to devote some atten-
ton thereto.
Bad Mudhoie.
There is a mudhole on the fish hatch
cry road that is q disgrace to the
ty. 1t is almost impossible for wagons
and teams, to say nothing Of the o
delicate polish and machinery Of a
automobile, and not a great deal of
work is necessary to remedy the evil,
for evil It is, in unquestioned severity.
This same road is much used on the
way to the maneuvering camps.
Condition Of Streets.
Coming to the streets of the city.
there Is hardly a t~horoughfare that
could not be bettered with effort and
which should be gone over before
winter sets in. Many Of the streets
have been torn up to make room for
new water pipes, a necessary matter,