The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-08-12

ana STATE LEGISLATORS
will hear from home up to the casting
81 the ballots in November. The SEES
sion Of the California Development
board at San Jose practically resolved
itself into good roads assemblage,
for the business men and women pres
emit consider the highway question
the most important thing in multiply
ing the resources Of the great state,
which is Just beginning work on two
highways extending from the Oregon
to the Mexican lines. The time Is
near at hand when one win be able
comfortably to tour anywhere in this
great state. The Montana Good Roads
congress at Anaconda was anothed H.
lustration OF what has gotten under
way in a state OF magnificent dis
tances, wherein road building is at
tended with exceeding difficulties. The
enthusiasm of such well known men
as e. P. Mathewson, president Of
both the State Automobile association
and Of the Good Roads congress, and
A. ]. Davis, president Of the Butte
Automobile club, set thee wheels in
motion, and the 1918 gathering at
Kalispell, on Flathead lake and near
the famous Glacier National park,
will be a notable event
1T is to be expected that all
through the Inter Mountains and
northwest country there is a pro-
nounced belief that whatever plans
are necessary should be quickly con-
summated for the admission of mo-
tor-driven vehicles into Yellowstone
park. A trip through this wonder
land convinced me that the obstacles
which seemed to exist can be easily
surmounted, and the demand for ac-
ton will soon become SO pronounced
that the secretary of the interior will
be compelled to give the subject posi-
tive attention.
In laying out a trans-continental
road, A. L. Westgard, the A. A. A.
pathfinder, included the spur from
Livingstone, Mont, to Gardner, the
northern gateway of the Yellowstone
park. Ultimately the roads approach
ing the park from Yellowstone on the
west, Cody on the east and Jackson
lake on the south, will have to be i'm
proved in order that access will be
possible from every direction. The
spur from the main road to Glacier
national park will also be included
in the trans-continental line, and it
Is timely. to note that Glacier is even
now open to motor-driven vehicles,
thanks to the energy of the Flathead
Motor club, which, out of it's own
treasury, paid the expenses of the
connecting road. Rainier national
park is also open to motorists, and
there is great probability that within
the coming year the Yosemite valley
will also provide for up-to-date form
Of transport.
In the entire length of the Pa
c1fic coast the activities of the Pa
cific Highway association are mani.
fest. supplemented by the substantial
support Of the Portland, Tacoma and
Seattle automobile clubs. The Calf
ornia State Automobile association is
meeting the needs of the northern
section, while the automobile club of
Southern California looking after its
territory in a manner made possible
by its multiplying membership. In
the entire west the automobilists are
dutifully coming forward and bearing
their share of the burden in the wide
spread good roads development that
is taking place, realizing that the
work is duty properly developing
upon them, and in which they must of
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