The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1913-04-01
GOOD ROADS CON-
vfNTION JUNE II-I3

Adviees 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, 12, and 13
are the days selected for the fourth
annual meeting this year at Boise. At
the Pocatello meeting Humboldt coun-
ty was represented by Hon. C. f. Hav-
land
President J. A. Hendrickson, of Lo-
gan, has called a meeting of the ex-
eeutive committee for Boise on April
Is, which will be attended by Presi-
dent Hendrickson and Secretary o. j.
Stilwell, and to which the members of
all committees will be invited, at
which time the program will be round
ed into shape, and an aggressive pub
licity campaign for the coming con-
vention will be inaugurated.
Many new features are contemplat-
ed for the meeting this year, which is
expected to be greater in every re-
spect than the one held at Logan when
there were 365 delegates registered
one for each day in the year. Efforts
are already being made to procure the
government s good road exhibit, and
speakers of national reputation.
Nearly every county in Utah, and
scattering counties in all other states
/ encourage financially the attendance
at these conventions of the members
of their board of county commission
ers, and it is fully expected this year
that special train win be arranged
to carry the delegates from Utah and
south Idaho to the convention.
The chairman of the board of
county commissioners in everv county
in the states of idaho, Utah, Montana,
Colorado, Wyoming and Nevada will
this year be urged to attend the con-
vention and to furnish a written re-
port of the road work and experience
in road making in his county to be
published in book form after the ad-
journment of the convention.
The object of the Inter Mountain
Good Roads association as set out in
its constitution is "primarilv 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 associations; 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 tnd informa-
tion among the road commissioners of
the various states that will aid in the
construction of the best highways at
the lowest cost; to aid in the estab-
lishment of Interstate highways in
the west and between the capitals and
principal cities thereof the promo
tion and location of proper routes for
national highways from coast to coast
and from the Grand Canyon of the
Colorado to the Yellowstone National
park to endeavor by every legitimate
means to induce the national govern
ment and states to aid in the construc
tion of highways over and through
the vast plains and canyons of
the Rocky mountain region by the
appropriation and proceeds of public
lands, or by other direct appropria-
tions or legislation.
Three annual meetings of the asso-
citation have been held since its or
ganization in Salt Lake City in 1910,
at Ogden, Poeatello and Logan; at the
meeting at Boise this year one of the
principal questions to be solved is the
financing of the association and the
employment of a salaried secretary to
further the work of education at
all times and arranging for the annual
conventions.
The organization has a president
and secretary and treasurer, and the
chairman of the board of county com
missioners in every county of the var
ious states is a vice-president of the
association; the chairman of the exc
cutive committees in the various states
form an executive board who outline
the work of the association and choose
a successor to the elected officers in
the event of a vacancy, subject to the
approval of the next annual conven-
tion.
The makeup of the conventions of
the association consists of all officers
and all members who have joined the
association and are paying the men,
bership fee; in addition to this COVER
nors are authorized to appoint twenty
delegates, and all mayors, chairmen of
boards, commercial clubs, good roads
associations and kindred organizations
are authorized to appoint five dele
gates each. The organization has
three classes of membership, regular,
contributing and sustaining.
The Inter Mountain Good Roads as
sociation is one of the liveliest in the
country At it's meeting last year
in addition to the many government
features, men of prominence came
out from the east to attend; A. G..
Batehelder, chairman of the executive
board of the American Automobile as
sociation made it the occasion for his
general western visit in an official
capacity. Jesse Taylor, editor of Bet
ter Roads, at Youngstown, Ohio, came
out to attend it and such interest was
manifested at the meetings of the
association that members and dele
gates were loath to leave after three
days of three sessions per day. The
organization is said to have given
more publicity to the good roads cause
than any other like organization in
the country of the same age.