Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-06-23
GOOD ROADS ON
GOOD FRIDAY"
FRIDAY, JUNE ~, II THE DATE
on THE ZIG MEETING IN
LIVELY TULSA.
TO GATHER IN TULSA SOON
Frisco Good Roads special with u, d
NoaAum VIII BE lIe.c 10 IN
plain Just "Nhy"

Friday. June 2S, is going TO De a
! big day IN Tulsa, II viii be good
roads da}. The special good roads
! demonstration train, conducted boy Is,
/ i. loakum on the Frisco lines, VIII be
/ here that day Persons interested IN
F better highways, ana especially In tn
great nOrth-and- south road that VIII
run through Tulsa county will gather
/ here by the scores, for G. H. CleVe-
I land president of the Tulsa County
Good Roads association has called "A
special mass meeting Of everyone
from CancN kan, 10 DcnlsOn, Tex
who is Interested In the matter, The
meeting VIII be held on The sqme day.
The Dsnison boosters are coming
up on a special train.
a barbecue at Sand Springs will be
one Of the features of the days enter
tainmcnt An automobile ride over
the fifty miles of paved streets viii
be another. The visitors viii al as
semble about the special train .and be
photographed by newspaper photog-
raphers and by the Tulsa representa-
tive Of the "Gaumont Weekly a mo-
tion picture product that chronicles
big news happenings.
The following eIiRrams are taken
from speeches made by MIR. r. T..
Noakum, chairman Of the executive
committee, st. Louis and san Fran
cisco Railroad company, upon the
subject of good roads:
There Is no work more important
than TO build public roads In such
manner that they will be permanent
and economical IN maintenance.
Good roads cut the time TO market
n hal 90 ia,
lands
You cannot make as good an invest
ment in any other way and the state
and general public should and Will
aid you If you go about it in the right
manner.
Compare the country roads full of
mud holes with the improved town
streets Look at the country wooden
bridges and then at town stone bridges
and steel Viaducts. Farmers, get to-
gether and progress; not retreat
Cities are growing faster because
money Is pouring in for improvement.
Farming industry Is at a standstill
because there is not enough money eX-
pended to make the roads passable
enough for social visits.
The value of farm lands is fixed by
'neir nearness to railroads or the
qu.Valent-good roads.
Tht farmer has never been accused
of thinking Of his own interests too
far ahead.
The railroads are interested in your
welfare and may be depended upon to
aid In working out your economies 1t
is good business to do so.
The only way to get good roads is
to ligh; for them.
Government statistics tell us that 1t
costs our farmers 10 cents more TO
haul one ton one mile than in Europe.
1t took quarters of century
to build up the American railroads,
and during this period but little at
tention was given to the American
country roads, yet the value of the
two to the public goes hand in hand. |
If the country roadmakers had kept !
up with the railroad makers it would |
not cost the farmer to haul ton of
grain one mile as much as it costs him
to send It by railroad fifty miles.
A farmer who lives fifteen miles
from a shipping station on a good |
road is better off than one who lives
five miles off on poor road.
We have more than two million |
miles of public roads, and of this
only about two miles out of |
each hundred are under high state |
Of improvement; eight miles out Of
zach hundred under any kind of inn
A good farm away from a railroad |
or 2 good public road is almost as
Improbable as farm without wa
ter.
n T. YOakum has long been known