Philip weekly review. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1907-1912, 1912-02-22
PROPOSED ROAD IS 4 WINNER
Many Inquiries and Much Dis
cussion Of Proposed East and
West Automobile Highway

Of transcontinental highway,
from Chicago through Minnesota
and South Dakota to the coast,
seems to be gaining great head
way. Everywhere the people are
awake to the tremendous i'm
portance of the movement. The
president and secretary of the
organization formed at Deadwood
the fore part of the month have
received letters from every part
of the United States, from Bos-
ton to San Francisco, and as far
south as Mobile, asking for road
maps and for routes and inquirins
about various features of the
South Dakota link in this great
highway. Inquiries, are already
so voluminous that a; large guam
tity Of printed matter, covering
the subject in detail, will be is
sued within q short while.
At Huron on Tuesday Of Last
week a rousing meeting was held
and $1,000 raised within q few
minutes to be expended on the
Beadle county section.
The five members of the board
Of commissioners of Pennington
county met at Wssta Friday, will
State Engineer Lea, and select
ed the site for the bridge across
the Cheyenne river. The bridge
will be built early in the spring,
and so remove one of the great
obstacles to the touring of the
state from east to west. Pen
nington county has already forme
an organization to take cares of
their section Of the road.
A blue print showing the Min
nesota and South Dakota links
Of the highway is exhibited in
the window Of the Security Bank
Secretary Herrick, Of the state
association, said in an interview
a few days ago:
Years ago the coming Of the
railroad was the signal for q
great boom for a town. The won
der work of the locomotive con-
tinues to bring larger develop
| ment more intense commercial
life to each community it reaches
TIE problem of transportation
both Of passengers and freight
! grows increasingly complex with
| the development Of community
life. The automobile has come in.
to the situation as a factor in
traffic whose Importance the hui
man mind cannot grasp at the
present time. There is a fancied
objection in certain quarters on
the part of the farmers to automc
biles. They say that automobile
roads should follow good roads
for the transportation of the farm
ers crop to the farmers market.
There is reason in such a claim a.
this, Of course. The broader view
however is that whatever brings
into existance a road good enougl
to be sought for by the automo-
bilist produces such a road as is
satisfactory to the most exactine
demands Of agriculture. All
these things interlock and work
together.
"The automobilist introduces
new life into q community, Great.
es . line Of business which Is now
apart from every other line in tn
community. Automobile acces
sories are = business Of them.
selves and when we come to Z
further question Of the manu-
facture Of these devices and Z
pliances which makes roads bet
ter and keeps them good, We
touch upon an industry that il
sure to follow the construction
and maintenance Of fine roads.
Il "The present movement doe
not intend to confine itself, b.
any means, to one highway acro
the state. but it win find . il
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