Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-08-02
A.buouerQue Delegation Visits
lNe Towns in -Four States
and is Royalty Received by
civ Officials Everywhere,
WONDERFUL SHOWING
IN OKLAHOMA CAPITAL
Knockers, Plentiful There When
Street Improvements Were
Begun, Now Exist Only as
Unpleasant Memory,

Thr committee of the city council
and the city Improvement district No.
tbich has been absent from Albu-
o,erdpe for nine days inspecting the
.traet paving OF different cities OF
the southwest, returned yesterday
morning from El PasO. The commit
tea was composed of city Engineer
lanes Gladdng. Alderman Thomas
Isherwood, and Jacob korber The
committee visited Trinidad and Den
yer IN Colorado, Hutchinson and New
ION in Kansas. oklahoma CITY in Ok
nhoma. Dallas, Fort Worth Abilene
and El Paso in Texas. Everywhere
the committee went the members
we're treated with the greatest court
esy and consideration by the city Of
fcals. who did everything in their
mower to let the visitors from Albu-
ouerQue into the inside of the pay
INK matter. And while there may
have been some doubts i'm the mind
of the committee as to the value of
paving when the committee started,
every member Is now most enthusi-
astic pavement booster "Albuquer-
que wants the best, was the slogan
Of the travellers, and they have re-
turned with the idea of giving Albu-
buquerque the best.
we LETT here on Saturday night, "
said Alderman Sherwood, and
reached Trinidad Sunday morning. We
elephoned the mayor and city engl-
yest ai,.1 thep nansl esn down ~ show
us over the town. Trinidad is paw
ed with brick, sheet asphalt and an
asphalt macadam. After spending the
day at Trinidad we went to Denver.
Upon arriving there we called up
on the acting mayor who immedl-
ately out their asphalt experts at our
service. chartered two automobiles
ana took us around to see the city,
is pavements and the sights in gem
eHl. We spent two days in Denver
The city owns its own plant there
and they are laying what they call a
concrete asphalt, which is about the
same thing as btulithic pavement.
The streets are in fine shape For the
streets over which the heavier trait
fiC goes, they have stone blocks. and
in some districts they have put down
sheet asphalt
I'VE went from Deliver to Newton
and Hutchinson, Kansas, but saw
very little in those two towns to in
terest u.s. oklahoma City is the town
that impressed us as much as any city
we visited The city has just gotten
through paving about l25 miles Of
streets. ana the spirit of the citizens
in the face OF "a So per hundred tax
Is The finest ] have ever seen.
I'm this place, torber and ! went
out to talk to the business men, While
Gladdine went to see the. city officials.
We don't know what he found out,
presumably he got lot Of technical
knowledge. but what we found out
seems To me to be great thing, and
would do Well in this city.
"0ne of the men told us that when
the pavement agitation was on in that
Place ana after construction was be-
gun one OF the Leading papers placed
column at the disposal of the boost
ers and one for the knockers. Every
morning the paper would come out
WIN what the boosters had to say
ana what the knockers had to say,
ana they printed names. The merch-
anus told me that the knockers didn't
'Sl tong under such treatment. They
oeeame fewer and fewer as the work
went on and now you can hardly find
khooker in Oklahoma City. The
cty Is paVed out to the corn fields,
ana Well paved at that"
The bitulikic pavement at Abi-
l,ne Texas, shows up in great shape, ="
salo city Engineer Gladding. We
were quite surprised at the showing
VI mat up-to-date little city. We had
IuSl been through Fort Worth and
Ualas ana thought we would not see
nluch more until we got to IGl Paso,
|uen we ran into Abilene. with its
e,esaht streets and the surprise was
" 'ne most pleasant variety.
Most Of Oklahoma Citv's streets
TIie pafen with a rock asphalt, which
~ native product and which we
'dnaot duplicate here. The pavement
van De put in there cheaper than the
t'''uolactured paVements and gives as
So'u satisfaction / think as anything
a., "Ae thing ! want to say" said
Gt5 G1t,5Getman sherwood. "and that is, we
o,, tol strike place where Albu-
ca,. que Us not known as one Of the
Fg,''ihs ~, city of the southwest.
t','I BODY had a good word for the
~" Y and everybody seemed to want
o' 70 set statehood right away. Of
st"tSt In that section they want the
Wisbeo 20 deWocratic, but their good
'N are nevertheless sincere"
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