The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-09-24
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BRADY INTERESTED IN GOOD
ROADS
Claims Idaho Needs Better Transport
tation Facilities, Country High
ways Especially Needed.

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Governor James H. Brady propose,
to actively enter the good roads move
ment, which as a public question be.
fore the people of Idaho Is second In
prominence to local option. The
building Of good public highways, he
declares, will be the most important
factor in the development of the state
II have read with increasing inter
est the articles and editorials which
have been appearing in the papers
over the state, evidently written for
the purpose Of arousing the interest
of the people to the Importance of i'm
proving the present system of county
roads," he stated yesterday.
II have not been able to give this
subject the attention that it merits,
but want to regiser my APPROVAL OF
any agitation which will bring about
this improvement. In my message to
the Tenth Legislature I.called atten-
ton to the need for better legislation
along these lines, and was much
gratified when Senator Whitaker in
troduced senate bill No. 108, which
was enacted into a law and is now
upon our statute books.
Tribute to Senator
1.-THE law itself Is tribute to the
hard working, careful, painstaking
senator from Bonner county and is
admirably drawn for the purpose of
meeting conditions in counties al
ready having system of roads which
are in need Of improvement.
Thereafter senate bill No. 1858,
what was known as the highway dis
trict bill, and an excellent one, was
introduced by Senators Haight and
Davis, evidently drawn to meet diff
ferent conditions where there was
special need for a certain highway,
road or railroad from one particular
point to another. However, the much
needed improvement Of our county
roads may be brought about under the
provisions of either law.
Better Transportation Facilities
What Idaho needs is better trans
portation facilities. The open river
from Lewiston to ten sea, railroads,
electric lines and, first, last and all the
time, better county roads We have
great natural resources lying dorm
ant; we have great belts of arid lands
now fast being brought under culti-
walton, vast bodies of lands now un,
der cultivation, and the most serious
problem which we have faced in each
instance has been the question Of
transportation.
idaho is just beginning to develop,
and the state is coming more and
more into public notice every day.
Thousands and thousands of people,
attracted by the hospitality dispensed
at our building at Seattle, the SPLEEN
did exhibits which we now have, and
the literature there being distributed,
are registering their names and adj
dresses on the little cards, asking for
information about Idaho.
Products to Market
When. they are shown our SPLEEN
did fruit farms, wheat fields, mines
and ranches, the first question they
ask is where is the market and how
do you get the product to it? We
should be able to point to the SPLEEN
did, easily accessible highway.
1--WE are entering new epoch in
the history of the development Of
Idaho, that is to say, the intense cul-
tivation of our lands, and good roads
is the most important factor in this
development. Every good citizen in
the state should, and will, lend his
aid and moral support to the cause"
Idaho Daily Statesman, September
3, 1909.