Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-01-19
REPUBLICANS MAKE MANY
DRASTIC DEMANDS FROM
IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT
Of every STATE
IS N0WPLANNED
Robert M. McWade.

Bureau of Bismarck Tribune. 1926
New York Avenue.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1s.-Farmers
and business and professional men
are banding themselves together in the
good roads movement, that is fact he.
coming nationwide in its scope and
progress. Automobiles and patrons of
the rural free delivery service are al.
so lending considerable impetus to
the agitation for needed Compression.
al action, the imperative necessity for
which will be viewed by the delegates
to the big convention of the American
Automobile association at the Raleigh
Hotel on January 16 and II, where
every phase Of this important matter
VIII be threshed out. Just at the crit.
1cal moment, when both senators and
representatives are beginning to take
up the question informally, the Ma.
tional Highways Association comes
to the front, and, showing excellent
reasons for it's commendable sins, pre-.
sents a plan which it has worked
out for a series of national highways,
which cross and re-cross the United
States from east to west, from north
to south, connecting and inter-con.
Meeting all states, and designed to
furnish the maximum of convenience
and utility, while serving the largest
proportion Of the population of the
territory through which the Highways
pass.
The association says that the ire are
more than 100000 miles of highways
in the United States, and it suggests
the building and construction of So.
600 miles of national highways-a 1T.
tie more than per cent of the total
road mileage Of this country
Systematic plans have been care
fully worked out by trained and ex-
perienced road engineers and mapped,
showing roadways that will serve the
entire country, will centralize where
Capitalization is obviously necessary,
will touch every capital of every state
as well as all large and important cit
les, and will provide for a free and
unrestricted intercommunication not
only between west and east, north
and south, but between state and
state, and as we'll, in directions i'm.
possible to cover with a straight east
and west, and north and south lines.
This system consists Of six great
main highways, thirteen trunk line
and forty link highways.
the mains and trunks and
reaching out in all directions, until
the country as whole is covered with
almost a spider web tracery of high
ways. In spite of their effective dis
position, and the results they will ac-
complish when built, this spider-web
of suggested roads aggregates barely
more, as have said, than 2 per cent
Of the total highways of the nation.
These highways have been named
by the association with terminolo-
gy which, like the system of roads it.
self, is merely tentative, yet which is
and descriptive, and with
out any element of antagonism, as
is often the case in the proposition to
name a road for some man or local
ity, which is displeasing to portion
of the community through which the
road is to go.
Here is list of the six Main, and
of the thirteen Trunk Line Highways,
with terminals and mileages. Those
who read it even in a cursOry way will
1Conrinel1 IN maze A.