Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-09-13
GOOD ROADS As A
VITAL QUESTION
DISTRICT NO, 1 VOTES ON I'M.
PROMINENT BONDS TUESDAY,
some Pertinent facts
One Dollar on Each Thousand Does
it-inrm 20 Market Costlicr Than
From New York To England.

W n'H tdehhT took an eastward rluo
and grabbed the Gauls for Rome,
What was the first thing that he
did to make them feel at home?
Did he increase tho peoples loads
and liberty forbid2
No-he dug In and built Good
Roads, that's what old Caesar did
Did Caesar put the iron heel upon
the foemen's breast?
Or did he try to make them feel
that Rome's rule was the best2
What did he do to make them glad
he's come their midst amid?
He built good roads In place OF bad
that's what old Caesar did!
He built good roads from hill to
hill, Good Roads from vale to vale;
lie ran Good Roads movement,
till old Rome got all the "kale."
He told the folks to buy home,
build roads their hills amid.
Until all roads led up to Rome.
that's what old Caesar did!
II we can get our statesmen now
to pattern after Rome,
Woll have Good Roads and Chris
tians, too. and keep the cash at home.
Our boys will be true patriots, Of
traitors We'll get rid.
II Tulsa lends a little help and
does as Caesar did
on harbors and the Arkansas our
millions have been spent,
The poor old mast, muddy roads
have never got cent.
The steamship and the iron horse
are helped upon their trip,
But the tired horse and farmer new
er have been in the Tip"
So whoop 'er up next Tuesday,
while there's fire meath the grid"
And vote for bonds and build Good
Roads-just like old Caesar did
"A La Scissors.
Caesar isn't living In Tulsa County,
but c. II. Cleveland and other 'live
ones" do. and to their efforts Is due
the fact that on next Tuesday Sep
tember 49, the people residing In
Good Roads District Number /. COM
prising most of Tulsa County, will
have an opportunity TO cast ballots
for the 100000 Good Roads bond
appropriation. It always being pre-
sumed that every one who votes will
be in favor of the bonds, and that
those who stay away from the polls
are either Indifferent or non-com-
initial.
The election Is unquestionably the
most vital improvement issue that
Tulsa County ever faced, and the fact
that no visible agitation against tho
aH 90 ~.
ticed, makes It appear highly prcb-
able that an overwhelming vote In
favor Of Good Roads" will be cast
upon Tuesday.
Those who have studied out every
phase OF the proposition, and who
have found out Just how much of
difference there will be In the benefits
derived from macadamized, or hard
surface" roads. and the change in
the tax levy, are almost a unit in tho
opinion that not to vote for the bonds
on Tuesday next means registering a
backward blow on the individual and
general interests of the payers
Of the county.
While the election will pass very
quietly In tho City OF Tulsa, II Is pre-
sumed there will be lively times in
the rural districts, and that one of
the biggest country votes ever cast In
the territory comprising Roads Dis
trict Number ], WI turn out.
This Is the second time in the his
tory OF Tulsa County that bonds have
been up for road improvements. In
the fall Of 1903, the Board of County
Commissioners put before the people
a proposition for a 100000 Good
Roads bond. allowance, and 1t carried.
Not cent Of that money has been
used as yet, but part of II will be-
used In making the extensive road im,i
provements contemplated in the event
Tuesday
Three-fourths Of the cost OF the
road improvements must be paid by
each individual district in which such
roads are built. This three fourths
will come out OF the 100000 issue.
In case the proposition carries at the
forthcoming election. The other one
fourth Of the cost will .be paid out
Of the s40O, 900 worth of bonds voted
in 1909.
The magnitude Of the task laid out
by the County Commissioners, Tulsa
County Good Roads Association, and
other bodies and individuals at the
head OF the movement. can scarcely
be realized by the average citizen.
Not only will the amount to be voted
upon, together with that already in
the bank for this purpose, give Tulsa
the best roads and more of them,
than any county in the state, but II
will place her in the first ranks Of
the roadlbullding counties Of the
West. The proposed chain of roads in
Road District Number 1, will consti-
tute one link in great Gulf to tho
Great Lakes" roadway that will af-
ford continual stretch of dust-proof
and mud-proof roadway through such
cltis as Dallas. Galveston, Huoston,
Denison. oklahoma City. Tulsa, st.
Joseph. Council Bluffs. Omaha. Sioux
City. ST. James, Mimi, Minneapolis,
81. Paul and Duluth.
Thus 1t can readily be seen that
Tulsa County. by making this master