The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-08-20

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! ter Colbert, W. F. Warren, John X.
| Dexter. f. f. Watson, ID. II. Dawson,
/ VIM. CHM, A. +. Ramsey j. r. Nc
| Carty, y. II. Mccoy L. T. ReNroaL
$. \. Douglas, John ). owen.
The above gentlemen OF Carter
county have the honor OF beng the
| first TO anix their signatures to the
| charter of the Carter county cooper
ative Good Roads Association, organ
| lied at the district court room yester'
day afternoon.
Pursuant to call ISSUED by Robert
| r. Sciyally, chairman of the board or
county commissioners for mass
meeting of the citizens of the county
interested in the good roads move
ment, a number of prominent farmers
and business men met yesterday af-
ternOon at the district court room for
the purpose of entering into tenn
pOrary organization.
The meeting was called TO order
by Mr. Scivaly and he was chosen as
temlor chairman with y. II. Nc
Coy acting as temporary secretary
and treasurer An executive commit
tee was selected consisting OF L. T..
Rexroat j. r. Dexter and Walter Col
bert.
Colonel Sidney Suggs was called to
explain the situation with reference to
the state highway. and his remarks
injected enthusiasm into his hearers.
He told of his recent trip over the
state and of the great interest being
manifested in many of the counties.
Summed up the situation is just this.
The great north and south interstate
postal highway is to be buift across
the state from point connecting
with the Kansas interstate postal
highway near Hunnewell, Kan, or
Arkansas City to the Texas line. and
with concerted action on the part OF
the citizens OF this county the road
will pass through Ardmore and Car
ter county. The people east and west
of Garter county desire the road as
well and for that reason good show
ing must be made to get It. When
this highway is completed the lat
teral roads that will be constructed
to intorsect it will he of ineStimable
value to the agricultural interests OF
the state. Not only will it enhance
the value of farm property but will
he an inducement, as Commissioner
Suggs states, for young men to be-
come small farmers and own their
own homes. Commissioner SuGgs then
explained. .the manner Of arganization,
and said that the dollar required TO
become "A member of the association
went to the credit of the county or
ganiZation and 30 per cent was uSei
for the expenses of the secretary ana
for the purpose of sending delegates
To county. state and national good
roads conventions and 30 per cent 10
the state organization for engineers
services making plats and maps and
also to defrav expenses of the nation
al engineer who will pass on this work.
He urged every property owner OF
the county to become a member OF
the association and make good roads
certainty in Oklahoma.
Senator Cullom Of Illinois, in bill
introduced in congress proposes to
commit the national government TO
the policy Of constructing improved
highways, and looking TO appropria-
tions for this purpose on as liberai
scale as that on which congress
entered in aiding the first trans-con-
tinenta railroads, making river ana
harbor improvements. and in con
structing the Panama canal
The measure appropriates the sum
of 81 .OO0.OO to enable a commission
TO plan for the construction, including
highways radating from the national
capital to the various parts of the
country. The Roosevelt national hiSh-
way will extend northward from
Washington to Niagara; the Lincoln
highway viii extend to Seattle. Wash.
bv way of Chicago; the great national
interstate highway will cross the cen
ter of the country, and thence through
Utah and Nevada to California; tee
jefferson highway will cross New
Mexico. Arizona and Colorado to San
Francisco. Cal. the Monroe national
highway will have its terminus in
Austin, Tex. and the Lee highway
will end at Miami. Fla.
The bill reciteS that 100000 has
been spent in the Philippines, and
S2.OOO.00O in Alaska by the United
States government for good roads,
and proposes to appropriate Sl5,oOo.-
OO0 year. the amount to he derived
from bond issues for highway con
struction
The plan sets forth that there is
no doubt of the power of congress 10
enter upon the construction of roads
either under the war-making power,
the Interstate commerce clause, or
the power 10 establish post roads
IL recites that the Cumberland rohd