The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-01
ROAD men MEET
Sunflower Trail Association
Elects Officers for Year.
Good Route Through Kansas
Now Guaranteed.

Trail association held it's annual meet
ing at Beloit, Kan, on Saturday, April
81, 1912. The meeting was largely at
tended; the Marquette club rooms in
which it was held being filled with
directors and boosters from the va
rious towns along the trail. Each
town on the trail is represented by a
director-fourteen in all-and the fact
that eleven of the directors were pres
ent in person, accompanied by an en-
thusiastic bunch of boosters from each
town indicates the thoroughness with
which the Sunflower Trail is doing its
work.
The officers elected for the coming
year were: R. NJ. Anderson of Beloit,
president; DR.. r. B. Robinson OF Ell
linwood, vice president; Frank A.
Lutz, secretary, and L. A. Merger,
treasurer.
The Sunflower Trail is a perfected
connecting motor highway between the
Platte Valley Transcontinental route
at Kearney, Neb, on the north and the
Santa F'e trail to California, on the
south at Ellinwood, Kan. At Minden,
Neb., it crosses the Omaha-Denver
transcontinental route at Wilson and
at Salina, Kan, it intersects the Col
den Belt route from Kansas City to
Colorado, and is pronounced by the
Blue Book to be: 1.-THE only first class
well organized, north and south route
connecting all the east and west
routes at important points,
The officers reported at the meeting
that over one thousand inquiries from
prospective tourists for the coming
season from points east of the Miss1s-
sippi have been answered by personal
communications, and in each instance
have been furnished with the highly
attractive official map and log of the
Sunfiower trail This fact Illustrates
in a measure, the amount of transcon-
tinental tourist traffic over our west
ern motor highway during the coming
season. That they will be delighted
with the motor roads OF central ran,
sas is evidenced by the fact that all
of the parties attending the annual
meeting of the Sunf1ower Trail asso-
citation this year, journeyed to BeIo1t
in their automobiles. The route is
marked for the entire distance with
an eighteen inch yellow band around
the telephone poles which. makes it a
very simple matter for the tourist to
follow the trail.
Delegates from Formosa and Ran
dali to the northeast of Glasco and
Minneapolis to the southeast were in
attendance on the meeting, asking that
cutoffs of the Sunfower trail be eS-
tablished through their towns. The
cutoff to the southeast would extend
from Beloit through Simpson, Glasco,
DeIphos and Minneapolis to Salina, at
which point it would connect up with
the Golden Belt, making an ideal mo-
tor road between Denver and Kansas
City for the entire distance by way of
the Golden Belt from Kansas City to
Salina; by way of the Sunf1ower trail
from Salina to Beloit, Cawker City,
Ports, Smith Center to Minden, Ne
braska, on the Omaha-Denver trans
continental route and over this latter
trail comprised of the splendid state
highways of Nebraska and Colorado to
Denver. This connection has been
mentioned by the Denver chamber of
commerce as the most practical and
best route for Denver-Kansas City
traffic as 1t is already constructed and
maintained in excellent condition and
marked with road markers throughout
the entire distance. This last connec-
ton is endorsed by the B. F. Good
rich company in the following Ian
guage:
''This route makes a splendid con-
nection from Kansas City to Denver
via the route north of the Platte river
and the route called the Omaha-Den-
yer transcontinental. route running
south of the Platte river It's bene-
fits will be doubly enhanced after the
completion of the new route laid out
by the state of Missouri from Kansas
City to st. Louis
The officers who have been elected
are good road boosters from the start,
and assurance can well be extended
to all tourists that those who travel
over the Sunflower trail will find an
ideal route The attractive folder con- |
tanning the map and official log can be
procured by addressing Sunf1ower
Trail at Beloit, Kan.