The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1911-07-06
Eureka Wants Whitefish to get Busy
ON an Automobile Road to Con.
meet with Glacier Park Road and
Run West to Eureka and Inter-
national Boundary.
WHITEFIsH ROADS INNER wav
Road Work Now Being Done Will
Form Part of the Connecting
Link-Up to Eureka Now.

In another column of this paper
will be found .an article from the
Eureka Journal in which the editor
suggests that Whitefish get busy at
once and tie onto the Kalispell-Gla-
cier park road, pointing out the ad-
vantages that this would be to our
city on account of the travel that
would come this way, and it would
connect our beautiful lake with Lake
Mcdonald. He farther suggests that
the road be continued westward in
to The saltwater country where an
other chain of natures gems glisten
and sparkle in the sunshine, and
from there Eureka will take care
of the situation and continue the
auto road. on to the Canadian
boundary, up into Crows Nest
country, thus putting Whitefish on
an international automobile road.
"Will Whitefish rise to this oppor-
tunity that will give her national
distinction by placing her in the
doorway of the Glacier National
park he asks. Will we? Just
watch our smoke. Mr.Journal man.
You probably are not aware that
for month now large crew of
men have been at work on a road
into the Saltwater country. Five
thousand dollars have been appropri-
ated for the work and this, though
probably not sufficient to complete
the work this fall will make q
good road to Twin Bridges. An.
other proposition is now on foot to
continue the road on to Tally lake.
Whitefish people have subscribed
literally to the project, and the
ranchers living in that section have
signed up to donate from a week
to two weeks work each. The for
estry department has donated the
money for bridge across a stream
that flows out of Tally lake, and
the lumber companies who have pro-
perty on the Saltwater river have
signified their willingness to help
the work along The promoters
feel very enthusiastic over the en-
couragement they have received
from everyone they have ap-
preached on the subject, and they
believe that inside of couple of
weeks they will be able to start
grading.
This will make a total of ten
miles of road that is under way out.
of Whitefish on the west. Then on
the east there is a good road to
Columbia Falls with the exception
OF few places, and thousand dol
lars has been appropriated to
straighten out some of the sharp
curves, and fill up in the muddy
places. This work is also under
way. and before the summer is over
this will make an excellent high
way for automobiles or any other
thing that runs on wheels or foot.
Until the road to Kalispell was
fixed up this spring, the popular
route for automobiles from the
county seat to this city was by the
way of Columbia Falls. The trip
has been made in forty-five minutes,
SO that speaks pretty we'll for the
connection we have with the Gla-
cler park highway on the east.
Besides the roads running out of
mere both east and west of this city
we are connected to the county seat
with one of the best roads in the
county. Considerable money and
much work has been expended on
this highway this spring, and Com
missioner Good has made good his
promise to make a road that boys
can play marbles on The road
has been widened out all along, the
grade has been cut down wherever
necessary and the soft spots in the
road have been fixed up, So that
automobiles can travel over it now
without the least inconvenience.
The road west to Twin Bridges
Is going to make an excellent high
wey when it gets finished also.
When the road was surveyed this
spring Commissioner Good was right
on the scene all the time and saw to