The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-01-28
OUTLOOK GOOD.
For The Building Of The Gross The State
Highway, and The Route Through
McC0nneIIsburg.
LIKELY TO BE CHOSEN.

mate success in the present leg
lslature of the 'cross-state high
way from Philadelphia to Pitts
burg by way of Harrisburg, as
recon mended in Governor Stu.
arts message to the legislature.
Not only is the governors s IN.
fuence taken as strong factor,
but study of the house public
roads committee leads to the be-
\ lief that Its personnel was Sc
lected by some one. not wholly
dislnterested in the construction
of the proposed state highway.
According to the makeup of
this com mittee the southern tier
of counties on the com mlttee are
represented as follows:
Dauphln, Delaware, Chester,
Lancaster, York, Franklin, Bed.
ford, Westmoreland, Fayette, AL
lesheny and Washington. Other
counties below the center are
Northampton, Lehigh, Bucks,
Montgomery, Lebanon, Junlata,
Mlffiln and Snyder.
The remaining counties repre-
sented on the com mittee are
Susquehanna, Lackawanna, Luz
zerne, Columbia, Lycomlng, Pot
ter, Union, Clearfield, Forest,
Butler, Venango, Warren and
Erie.
Allegheny, Luzerne and Della
ware have two members each on
the committee.
The proposition, which will!
have the backing of the admins
tratlon, Is to build road from
Allegheny through Westmore.
land, Somerset, Bedford, Fulton,
Franklin and Cumberland to Har.
risburg.
From Harrisburg two plans
present themselves, which are
almost equally advantageous.
One is to continue the road to
Philadelphia through Lancaster,
Chester and Delaware. The 9th.
er is to build this stretch through
Lebanon, Berks and Montgom-
cry.
Franklin and Adams counties
are also very much interested in
having an offshoot of the propos-
ed road from Chambersburg to
Gettysburg, although they are
not especially deslrous OF having
it continued on through York and
Lancaster as those roads are now
in pretty good shape. The Frank
lin and Adams men are especial.
ly anxious for the Gettysburg Off
shoot to be built because of the
probability of the federal govern
ment building the Lincoln boule.
ward from Washington to q ettys.
burg,
A powerful factor in having the
eastern portion of the state high.
way built on the Lebanon-Berks-
Montgomery route, instead Of
the Lancaster-Chester-Delawar
route is that Representative Am
bier, of Montgomery, is char
man of the house roads commit.
tee, although an Offset to this is
that Senator Thomson, of Ches-
ter, is chairman of the senate
roads com mlttee.
Chairman Amber will be pow.
erfully supported for the upper
route by Meyer, of Lebanon, who
is chairman of the rules and ju-
dietary general committees in ad-
dition to his membership ON the
roads, and who has earned recog-
milton for himself by binding
himself tightly to Penrose.
West of Harrisburg the men,
bers have not made up their
minds how they will stand, as,
naturally, 1t makes little differ
ence to them whether Philadel'
phia Is reached through Lancas-
ter or through Reading.
An argument which will be US
ed against the Reading route Is
that the roads now existing he
tween Harrisburg and Phlladel-
phia, VIA Reading, are very good,
while the condition of the Lancas
ter pike Is little short Of disgrace
ful