New Ulm review., 1912-03-20
Mass Meeting 4 Tracy to lay
Plans 10 Secure The Passing
,of This Autonabile Route
through tron mankato
to Tracy.

the improvement of our highways by
undressing the amount of money
available for the building of good
substantial roads, but the towns art
waking up tc the fact that better re-
suits will be achieved if the road taz
levied now and worked out on the
roads by the various farmers is paiG
in cash, the same TO be expended by
competent overseeEs. The extenlion
of the state roads from one County to
connect with state roads of other csun.
ties is being planned and slowly car.
ried into effect.
This is all information that is more
or less generally known, because it is
being discussed in the nevspapersand
by people who haze the matterof good
roads at heart. But it mag be news
to the most of us that great automo-
b lie road from Chicago to the Pacific
Coast taking in the Yellow Stone
Park has been projected and mapped
ont, the original plans running the
road from Chicago thru Mankato,
New Ulm and other points vest along
the Chicago & Northwestern, touching
Tracy and Brookipgs, s. D. ......-.
1t does not take great stretch of the
Imagination for the most skeptical to
see that such road would be of i'm.
mense benefit 10 all the towns thru
which it would pass. The route will
naturally b published In the Blue Book
aud thousands OF automobile tourists
would travel it annually. New Ulm
being . historic spot would attract .
great number of the tourists sufficient
" 10 cause them to stop over for :
!. lsy or at least Q portion Of a.dsy to
visit our city which -wss % vsliently |
dsisnded BY our citisens sgainst the |
onslsughts Of the savage Sioux.
Although not 60 large as many Of the
cities of the State, New Ulm 10 better
known over the length and breadth of
this country thsnssny other city Of it,
sise.
An effort 10 being made. BY towns
not on the Projected route to have it
diverted. This work has been done
very quietly and it 10 only recently
that the towns along the proposed
route have learned of this movement
and are waking up to the fact that
something must be done AZ once to
counteract this influence. Tracy was
the first town to sound the note Of {
warning and its commercial club and ,
club have arranged for a ]
big meeting to be held in that thriving
burg on the 9th of March at which
Time and place they expect delegates to 7
attend from al towns between Msnkato {
md Brookings to give the project the 9
impetus. @
. Prof. Solberg of the Engineering Y
Department of Brookings Agricultural .
College, the originator of the project, d
100 been secured and he will address S
he meeting. Herman F. Setter of Il
Tracy, one of our sons of whom New {,
Jim is'justly proud, in q communt. 8,
alton to DR.. o. c., Strickler urges the K
itizeps of New Ulm to take up this q
natter and arrange to be strongly B
epresented Ut this meeting. DR.. 81
'trickler Immediately set to work and hi
o far has the promise of F. W. John. 81
on and Emil G. Hsge that they will "
ttend as delegates from New in
I'm. The number ought to be -
nd surely will~be augmented by -,
he time the meeting takes place. 10
here can be no doubt that much vi
1 the road Improvement which has th
one on during the past few years has ne
cen accomplished thru the efforts of ur
he automobilists and to them we M
hould give lcredit for succeeding in Or
mes where only half hearted work VI
ad: heretofore been d. ne. Their St,
ork, while undertaken primarily for
,eir own benefit reacts to the good OF SD
rery person in q community. The co
,rmer needs good roads aud until he tn,
Is them the getting of bis produce to ev
arket is drudgery. He will naturally pu
Ike his products to the village or ar
~ which is reached by we'll kept me
ighwsys. The merchants and their an
.trons will benefit by improved be,
.rket conditions and SO all along arI
a line the work of the sueomobilists mel
y an upbuilding effect. Now when No No
, have the opportunity to help them of
return and ut the same time reap Ev