The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-10-16
W|NONA GOOD
ROADS MEETING
BOOSTERS OF BLACK AND VEL
Low TRAIL HELD INTER-
ESTING SESSION
PROF. SOlBtRG ELECTED SECRETARY
OF Permanent Organization That Was
Formed-Many Well Known Men
on Program For Addresses

w TlOSidUH tor HuOTCSoCS
Prof. II. c. Solberg reported that the
convention held at Winona, October
and I was the most important roaC
convention that he has ever attended
Representatives were present from
five different states interested in the
Black and Yellow Trail. The Twir
Cities were represented by Governor
Eberhart, Senator Elwell, Father o.
the Minnesota good roads law anG
Allen ID. Albert of the Minneapolis
Tribune, all of whom delivered very
strong addresses endorsing the Black
and Yellow Trail as a national high
way. A representative of the National
Highway Association of New York
City was also present and addressed
the convention. Strong addresses
were delivered by prominent men rep
r~esenting the principal cities in Mime
sofa along the road west from Winona
including John d. Deets, former emf
grafton commissioner of South Da.
kota. This state was represented on
the program by Hon. e. c. Issenhuth
of Redfeld, Ben M. Wood, Of Rapid
iCty, and H. c. Solberg of Brookings.
The convention was organized by
the election of Hon. George p. Tawney
of Winona, as president and H. C. Sol
berg as secretary.
1t is very appropriate that this great
convention should be held in Winona,
for Winona is the pioneer county in
the northwest in concrete road con.
struction. Last year under the inspir.
alton Of DR.. Pritchard, they inaug.
urated a system Of concrete road con.
.struction under the Elwell law. About
IS miles of this road is completed. II
consists Of an s foot wide concrete
roadway with a 4 foot wide macadam
on each side. This macadam Is con.
structed of crushed rock; thus making
the total driveway 16 feet wide. This
road cost a little over seven thousand
two hundred ~(s7,2OO.OO) Dollars per
mile. They contemplate a total con.
struction Of 81 miles in the county OF
the same kind Of road at a total cost
of 1920, 100000.
The enthusiasm among the farmers
that live along the road that has been
constructed is simply remarkable. One
farmer stated that he paid $4,000
toward the construction Of this road
but he would not go back to the old
road for So, 900. 90 or for ten times what
he put into it. In two years from now
Winona county will have the finest
roads Of any county in the United
States west of Wayne county, Mich
This road will double the value of all
farms in Winona county that are with
in easy access to this highway.
The principal object OF this conven,
ton was to form an organization fol
the purpose OF looking after federal
aid for this entire Black and Yellow
Trail. To secure recognition for 1t
and to get this trail Incorporated intt
the system Of national highways thai
are 10Y being advocated by the Ma
tional Highway Association OF New
York City. The national highway as
sociation OF New York, is an organiza
ton that has for its object the con
struction of fifty thousand miles o
highways by the federal governme nt
The Panama canal is now about com
pleted. The federal government ha.
there a corps Of trained engineers. /
has an army of laborers. 1t has twelv.
million dollars worth of good machin
cry, The national highway associa
ton proposes that the government
take this entire force Of men and ma
chinery and set them to work at one,
on the construction Of a system O
national highways, that will be O
vastly nor benefit to the differen
states than the Panama canal will be
This plan is meeting with universe
approval over the entire United State,
and it seems now to be the one plal
most likely to be adopted by congress
as the most convenient. way OF solv
ing the good roads problem.
From the Winona Republican-Hera
we get the following:
THE benefits from the convention
which will be brought to a close to
night are simply incalculable. Ever
though the weather kept hundred,
away and the fact that a number o
the delegates in attendance at Detroi