The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-07-27
GOOD ROADS PROBABLE.

Logan county has an opportunity
10 have good roads
Net The kind YOU grade in the
morning and run back into the
dfchcs with the first shower
Eut actual permanent roadways-
allowing heavy and light traffic to
proceed whenever and however 4
pleases and now it is most conyen
lent
Under The new road law passed BY
the Second legislature. il is proposed
TO make Logan county one good ROAD
district and vote homes for consiruc
ton Of acrOss-cOunty highways
The commissioners have consulted
business men of the various cities.
who approve of plan whereby q
macadam roadway be built across thf
county from north 10 south, striking
the other cities to the north OF Guth
ric and crossing TO the south county
line. Many feel that two roads
should be built at once, one crossing
from east to west That, however
will NOT interfere with the move
ment for If the majority should iav
or two roads, futurity would make
that a purpose II being well under
stood among those who have been
accustomed TO the macadam o sim
liar pavement roads thal the people
never fail 10 keep making them ate
the initial roadway Is finished.
The open places between the farm
ers' fences I'm Logan county are roads
only hecause 50 designated by law
Considering they Iced 10 the states
capital city and through one of the
fruit belts. splendid corn and cottor
lands they are surely as near use
less rs can be- and actually hinde'
farmers, who, II left to their own de
vices, would get better "eross-lot'
roadways
Briefly the proposition TO bond th.
county for $l5N000 for roads ant
bridges of permanent nature Is on
no student Of events can oppose
means that Logan viii establish th'
permanent Improvement systom II
her country districts and smalle
cities; thar farmers can reach mafke
when the price Is right and whc'
the have the time If prices suit
Farmers and business men of low
and Illinois, ont on the Grand Prairie
remember that thirty years ago
crop was mCertaius sometimes iiv
years apa.t Land was cheap anl
ague was thrifty. Horses died @
flies biting them. and ducks actuall
swan I'm The corniields In the se1sol
supposed 3 be dry. a drcdeo dttcl
% drain the lands was proposed and
after ascer,ainug that some farmer
would be aYea as high as $40 pc
acre for thc ditch. q howl Went ur
but the dtches wont through tn
land, and many farmers raised iO
bushels of corn en- an acre of ground
tlat al forty cents per bushel, mad
former farming efforts IN the seetio
seem a joke.
and lhat sold for $50 per acr
now sells for hom $3.50 10 $500 pc
acre. and p Is vc doubtful III ther
be a single Grand Prairie farm &
The state of Illinois that can be pun
chased for $3.50 per acre
Iogan county soil Is good II wiI
produce whatsoever can be grown 81
q latitude further south or muc
further north and given roadway
that viii enable reaching me mal
kCis az proper season her lam
prices viii double I'm value
And by me bonding process futm
ity enjoying The benefit of the pen
mlnont roadw0ye win contribute n
portion of the expense
There rs no argument agains
bonding ogan county for permancn
roads rhera should Ne none Il 4
riem sensible. AMI something tina
Should h1ve been done sooner.
Boost thc scheme BE n rustlor o
hustler hu above an be worke
for hard roads