The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-11-08

Highway from north to south. i
ponplc organized. the money they palo
for membership dues was used to
send the state engineer there to 10.
cale the Highway through that coun
~ and ii was done and Milburn will
b, on that great road when ii Is
built. The State Highway depart
mant ha, no money and the people
must cooperate with it or nothing
can be accomplished. sulphur has a
membership of $50 and the cngineo:
has located 'oad through that
county with only grade of five per
cent. We do not propose to build
these roads along section lines but
they will he surveyed through the
best routes like railroad takes, they
will shorten distances, the surveys
will cheaper construction and an en-
gincer is Just as necessary on these
roads as they are building railroads.
My department has plans made for
concrete bridges. They provide for
material that We have in our own
state. they cost no more than steel
bridges, they will bear double the
weight and will last for generations.
The repair on other bridges soon
cost what concrete bridges cost Gov
ernor Cruce Was surprised at the
progress made in my department and
he has promised to do everything he
can to help MS out.
There has been much discussion
about the width of the roads. | rec
ommonded nine feet and twelve lee'
was adopted. Others wanted wider
roads but a nine or twelve foot rock
road with five feet of good dirt roads
no either side wul meet every de
mand. They are cheaper TO build
ard cheaper to maintain.
New York state has voted 1U3 nil
lions in per cent 40 year bonds, 70
build cood roads but if OhlahohG
we g TO do that the people would
think the state would be bankrupt,
but in truth | want to tell you that
under the present system oklahoma
will spend 1870 millions in forty years
! to maintain bad roads. These are
( figures that will bear investigation
and the people ought TO rise in their
might and demand that "A system OF
| building permanent roads be enacted
into law Get your association here
organized, affiliate with the state as.
sociation and send your best brains
10 the state capital to work with the
7 legislature in getting your laws
framed. ] want ten thousand red
blooded men TO follow me in this
work, today | have one thousand in
one COUNTY.
Garter county has enough OF dis
integrated gravel to pave every road
in the state and it has enough lime
rock and asphalt to sell to pay fol
every road that can be built. Ior
have lime rock here that makes The
old fashioned macadam and that.
hard to beat
u know of a country that was ruI
down, it's lands were being sold toI
five dollars an acre but fertilizer anC
good roads made if into a series o
orchards and truck patches and today
the lands are worth from ten tC
twenty times what they We're. Five
hundred cars Of vegetables are ship
per every year INFO DG.aliowa City
and the wholesalers get hose veg
etabIes by the car when every ounce
of them should be raised on oar own
truck patcncs. Build good Dads ia
the country and the cod steraae
plant, will he fill ii Sitl hcm' grown
fruits and vegetables
Any man can figure the cost OF
roads, any man can figure the saving
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