The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-02-10
OKLAHOMA ROADS
LEAD TO V|N|TA
Mammoth Good Roads Movement
Started in Northeastern Oklahoma
With Vinita as the Center.
From Saturdays Daily

From Saturdays Daily
Vinita is coming into her own as the
recognized center of northeastern Ok
lahoma A movement is now we'll un-
der way for a good roads district to be
created in the northeastern part of the
state with Vinita as the center. The
following from the Tulsa World ex-
plains the proposed good roads
scheme:
'In addition to the good roads
movement which is now underway in
Tulsa county, looking to the forma-
ton of the first good roads district in
eastern Oklahoma, as provided by re-
GENTLY the state legislature, the auto
mobilists of the state are now con-
cerned with another movement which,
lif successfully carried out, will do
much towards giving the eastern part
lof Oklahoma dozens of miles of good
lroads.
while the proposed movement
comes as an incentive to automobile
| ing, and grows out of the intended
route from the larger cities of Okla.
homa to Monte Ne, in northwestern
Arkansas, it's elimination will see sev.
eral hundred miles of good roads es-
tablished not alone for the man with
the automobile, but for the men with
the hay wagon as we'll
THE proposed routes will lead from
Tulsa, Sapulpa, Bartlesville, Paw.
Ihuska, Muskogee, Claremore, Vinita
and numerous other points. There are
in Oklahoma about $50 members oi
the Monte Ne club, and between thirty
and forty of these reside in Tulsa
These automobilists propose to i'm
prove some one road connecting all oil
these cities and towns so that traveI
at all times of the year by auto will be
a pleasure, with the club house in the
Ozarks as the objective.
"All of the routes out of Oklahoma
will center at Vinita. They will BIZ
marked with white rings painted OF
the telephone poles and fence posts
by the wayside, and from Vinita ON
ward the route will be similarly mark
ed. This will leave the autoist free t.
travel without uneasiness as to The
road he is to take.
"E. R. Kemp of the Tulsa member
ship of the club, will take care of thu
proposed route from Tulsa to Vinita
according to w. HI. Harvey, presiden
and manager of the club, who spen
yesterday in Tulsa in the interest o.
the good roads movement. w. F. Mof
fit, president of the Automobile clul
of Muskogee will look after the route
from Muskogee to Vinita; the Bartles
vile and Nowata members will have
charge of their route into Vinita;
while Mr.. Harvey will personally take
care of the 80 mile route from Vinitf
to Monte Ne. The other distances, re
spectively, to Monte Ne, are: Tulsa
$50 miles Bartlesville, 100; and Mus
kogee, $50. Recently ten of the Bart
lesville members covered their route
in two machines and went the 15C
miles in eight hours. In this party
were George c. Priestly, DR.. R. D
Rood. Frank Phillips, Clint Moore ant
Judge ]. ]. Shea. Through Roger!
county, the Claremore members are tt
be asked to look after the improving
of the road.
"The route now contemplated from
Vinita will pass through Grove, South
west City, Sulphur Springs and Rogers
Ark. and while the road is said to b.
good in its present state, Mr.. Harvey
is now organizing a volunteer move
ment, on the Iowa plan, to make it
turnpike and to have it completed b!
April l.
From the very first, automobilisti
have been the heavy favorites of gooC
roads, and while this has been du,
more, perhaps, to the pleasure of rid