Alamogordo news-advertiser. (Alamogordo, Otero County, N.M.) 1912-1914, 1913-05-16
In -Four Years the Tax Payers
a Fortune to Improve the
Her Old Highways and Build
New and Modern Roads
MOUNTAIN DRIVES ARE
MOST PICTURESQUE
Over $4,000 Expended This
Month for Road Machinery
and Contracts for Additional
Building Of County Roads

The good-roads bunch foregather-
ed at Albuquerque last week and
enthused according to program.
( President Twitchell. Of the New
I Mexico Good Roads Association,
made the keynote address, and if
you know Ralph Emerson Twitchell
you know he can make speech and
! one chat sets you on fire. He is
an orator. He believes in good
roads and he knows howtotell why.
! Francis E. Lester, ofMesilla, a lso
spoke, as did Roy Bedichek. of Dem
! ing. both of them in the boosting
lass. Others Joined in the halle
lujah chorus. Governor Mcdonald
! said he liked good roads and was
glad to noe the enthusiasm there
rampant. He declared he was doing
I all in his power to aid in the con-
struCtion of good roads in the state.
! He spoke for thirty minutes or more
I and made plea for harmony among
county officials and declared that
/ ne believed enough men could be
found with the interest of their
| communities and the state at heart
/ who would supervise road building
without pay. He praised State Engi
neer J. a French and served notice
ON those who. thought they had
grievances against the engineer tha-
. they could get no satisfaction out
of him by filing complaints against
that official. for he would stand
. - .,L 9t, .Egf h..
might do.
So. then. State Engineer French
has carte blanche to do as he pleas
IS. so ar as the Governor is con-
cerned. This may be all right. We
nope it is
Anyway, we are all for good
roads
Resolutions were passed and the
movement received an enthusiastic
BOOST at the convention.
1t might be intimated that just a
tinge OF dislord was apparent. Good
roads are all right, but it depends
in measure where those good
roads are to be located We
are all willing to expend as much
money as possible on the roads OF
the state. but we have our own
counties to take care of before We
feel like dumping cur road money
into a fund for one big trunk line
several hundred miles from us. Nc
one can be consistently blamed foI
feeling that they sIould have the
benefit of the money to be expended
Tor roads as close to them as pcs
siOle-that the Otero, Chaves. Dona
Ana county road money should be
put on the roads in those counties
until. at least, they have a system
of roads over which the taxpayers
can haul wagon. Then, possibly
ii will be ample time to think about
giving some money to the roads in
the northern part Of the state.
And right here ii might be tim.
idly mentioned that Otero Count!
nas record In road building whicL
has not been dupliCatcd-not even
approached-by any county in III,
state Of the same taxable valuation
In the past four years this count.
has expended sj6.000.O0 on he.
roads
/. DO YOU get that?
ivy -otA lubuHdhu tpilhlh
. She has done this quietly. In c
business-like way. and has some
. thing TO show for IL besides hot al.
and resolutions.
While some OF the neigh borinf
. counties have been telling wha
, wonders they were to perform
what a gigantic boost meeting the
had held. what encouraging. uplif.
1 ing speeches were made In the
glorious cause OF good roads. Otert
county has built one Of the mos
, picturesque roads in the country-j
: mountain road that cost like thC
devil but which opens up q splend
, Id country and is unsurpassed fol
scenic granduer.
. II has made boulevard from Tu
, larosa TO Alamogordo. over whici
, the motor cars can bowl at TOT
/ speed and never give a Jolt TO Ia
, occupants.
: II has purchased a road engine
y and soon will have additiona
stretches OF real roads. and n new
mountain road Is In contemplation
Short pieces OF old roads hav,
been rebuilt. connecting links the!
may be called. and taken all In all
, the result OF he expenditure 4
clearly visible To those who know
the road conditions before the worl
I was Instituted.
: No one is able to give the exac
! amount. but II IL estimated by tn,
county treasurer that fully $4,000
has been turned into the CANINE
Real fund In addition TO the t56. 90
expended at home.
Otero county has done this.
II wasn't supposed II was neces
!. sary to advertise what marvels v