The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1913-02-27

correspondence OF
more than fifteen thousand per-
sonal letters asking information
ana advice know this system is
only tentative. 1t is but a sugges
I,on' 1t is not intended to be any
lnlng else. There must be a be-
ginning to everything, and little
neadway can be made without some
such careful plan from which to
start.
Links States Together.
Study the map and see where
your home lies with relation TO
The highways. If it is on a main
trunk or link line, you will prob
AMY like the system. But if you
i've somewhere that this system
does not touch, don't condemn the
system. Remember that it is de-
signed to connect the states with
each other. 1t is intended to touch
every large city, every state capt.
tai: and to bring closer together
the several parts of the country.
Inc roads are as straight as the
contour of the country will per-
INIT, without an impossible expen-
dlture of money to tunnel noun
talns or bridge lakes and rivers.
Remember, too, that your locality
would be connected with such a
system by a local road in a very
short time.
Notice that there are three class
es of highways. main, trunk and
| link. The main highways are six
; IN number, northern, central, south
ern, Atlantic, Mississippi and Pa
cific. These form the starting
point and the basis of the system
Next come thirteen great trunk
lines, feeding and crossing the
the various sections of the coun
: try in more intimate relations. Fl
nally come forty link highways
smaller national highways max
ing a gridiron of the whole system
Building the System.
To build such a system complete
1 will take mans lifetime and ;
e huge amount of money. If tn
wealth Of the world were read.
: to build this system tomorrow, j
: would still take many years, be
cause there are available neithe
y engineers nor knowledge enOug
S to do it quickly.
/ When this or a similar syster
of national highways is built -
and built it will surely be som
It day - it will be by a nations
/ highways commission, which frs
d locates then builds, one or NOR
J. roads at a time, learning as
Il builds. When this huge amour
o of money is spent-as spent 1t
If bound to bet will be gradual
l. and through an annual appropri;
le ton.
,e If New York state can affor
d five millions a year for road buil'
,e ing, is it unreasonable to suppos
II the United States government ca
,e afford ten times as much-or fit
millions year?
If Think it over. Look at the mi
,e Study it and see how it will a
" feet you and your home. Ii ye
N have any suggestions to make,
q criticisms to offer, the nation
ID highways association would lii
70 to hear them.
n The system as outlined is on
es a beginnings suggestion. b
err if it appears as beautiful drea1
ty it is at least a practicable, eng
err neer's dream, and dream whi'
is like that of de Lesseps and t
ID canals bound to come true sol
Is time. The national highways 6
ISOLATION believes that the tn
when the dream begins to cor
20 true is close at hand. 1t is
- dream which vitality affects eve
"a man, woman mad child in t
ds country-a dream which, VIII
80 if does come true in its entiret
"a will be found of more importan
IA to our progress as a nation, to o
- wealth, to our social and poll
cal life and to our other ores
&c of absolute independence, tn
no any one movement we, as matt
~ have ever made.
n