The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-04-04
BIG PREPARATIONS
FOR MEETING
lNTER-MOUNTAIN GOOD ROADS
CONGRESS TO HAVE SEES
SION NEXT JUNE.

AIood pSib as
ISOLATION, an organization in which
good road enthusiasts in western Mon.
tana have always beer Interested be-
cause of its practical methods of do
ing things Inc because of the good
that comes from each of the annual
sessions, is to have a meeting his
year at Boise, Idaho, in June. The
Pocatello Tribune has the following to
say concerning the plans of the COM
ing session:
Advices from Secretary o. j. Still
well of the Inter- Mountain Good
Roads association, which organization
met in Pocatello two years ago, is to
the effect that June IL, IL and 10,
are the days selected for the fourth
annual meeting this year at Boise.
DR.. L. P. McCalla of Boise, chair
man of the executive committee for
the state of Idaho, is already BUSY
on the preliminary arrangements, and
we are informed that the Boise Com
mercial club is taking in hand the
matter of properly caring for the con-
vention.
To the executive committee of the
state has been assigned the duty of
selecting the speakers from this state
who will appear this yea on the pro-
gram, and Chairman McCalla is now
issuing these invitations.
President j. A. Hendrickson of Lo-
gan has called a meeting of the eXecu-
tive committee in Boise on April Is,
which will be attended by President
Hendrickson and Secretary O. J..
Stilwell, inc to which the members
of all committees in this state will be
invited. At this time the program
will be rounded into shape, and an
aggressive publicity campaign for the
coming convention will be i%naugurAs-
ed. Executive Committeeman Will
liam Wallin of this city is now send
ing out notices and invitations for this
executive meeting.
Many new features are contem-
plated for the meeting this year,
Which is expected to be greater in ev-
cry respect than the one held at Lo-
gan When there We're 365 delegates
registered-one for each day in the
year. Efforts are already being made
- ptS>oAS tiS SoNSi 5ood
roads exhibit, and speakers of ma
tional reputation. Nearly every coun-
ty in Utah, and scattering counties in
all other states encourage financially
the attendance at these conventions of
the members of their board of county
commissioners, n it is fully ex-
pected this year that a special train
will be arranged to carry the dele
gates from Utah and south Idaho
points to the convention.
The chairman of the board of
county commissioners in every county
in the states of Idaho, Utah, Montana,
Colorado, Wyoming and Nevada, will
this year be urged to attend the con
vention n to furnish a written re-
port of the road work n experience
in road making in his county to be
published in book form after the ad-
journment of the convention.
Objects of Congress.
The object of tho Inter- Mountain
Good Roads association as set out in
it's constitution is ordinarily to pro-
mote the building OF good roads and
uniform highways in and through the
various states constituting the terri
tory and scope of this association. to
encourage the passage of uniform road
laws in the various states and the
gathering and dissemination of data
and information tending to promote
the enactment Of such legislation; the
dissemination of data and informa-
ton among the road commissioners
of the various states hat will aid in
the construction of the best highways
at the lowest cost; to aid in the estab-
llshment of Interstate highways in
the west and between the capitals
and principal cities thereof; the pro-
motion and location of proper routes
for national highways from coast to
coast and from the Grand Canyon of
the Colorado to the Yellowstone ma
tional park; and to endeavor by every
legitimate mean to induce the ma
tiCnal government and states to aid in
construction of highways over and
through the vast plains and
of the Rocky mountain region by the
appropriation and proceeds of public
lands, or by other direct appropria-
lions or legislation"