Yellowstone monitor., 1915-04-01
ADDRESS OF JOHN ORCHARD
BEFORE THE CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE, MARCH 23rd.

Mr.. President, Members OF CnaHDei
of Commerce and Citizens.
1t gives me great pleaurse to acknoWl-
edge the honor that is mine tonight
in being one of your guests to this
splendid banquet and gathering.
My close association with several
of your citizens, whilst they were with
us in our city Of Dickinson, and my
meeting with several of Glendive's
boosters at Bismarck on March 8th,
makes me almost feel as if belonged
to you and your body.
/ have pleasure in bringing the
greetings Of the Dickinson CONNER
cial Club, as also those from the Presi-
dent of the National Parks Highway
Association, Of which I am the Secre-
tary.
The cities that can boast of live
Chamber of Commerce such as you
have in this city, has an organization
that means three things; First, Com
munity interest, in which the citizens
can voice their needs and their as
pirations. Second, It becomes the
right arm of the City Council, who
from it's deliberations can find out
just what the people as a whole want
apart from any biased ward or dis
trict ambitions, and Third because it
becomes the initiative in larger COM
mercial enterprise, watching closely
the city's expenditures, taxes, growth,
as the main trunk line to civic pros
perity. o.
My topic tonight is that of the Ma
tional Parks Highway, but inasmuch
as this is linked to a still larger move
ment it will be necessary that should
first speak of The National Highway
with headquarters at Washington, d.
G.
This is the parent Association for
Systemizing National Highways, and
for the past five years they have made
such strides that today scarce a state
or county of the U. S. but has had
careful oversight and being we'll scrut-
inized and mapped out.
It has system of fifty thousand
miles, covering main lines, trunk lines,
and link lines. east, west, north and
south, diagonally and with feeders for
every county and state, SO that this
continent is girded from center to
It's six main highways are east and
west from Coast to Coast, and nass.s'ssss
and south from Canada to the gulf.
The Northern route leaving New York
goes direct to Seattle, the central from
to San Francisco, and the
third from Jacksonville to San Diego.
These routes take in the northern,
central and southern states. It's north
and south line takes in the Atlantic,
and the Pacific routes. The
trunk and the link lines are the great
collateral feeders from centers into
the main highway.
This National Association has for its
Board, the Governors of the several
States of the Union. and cooperating
with them is a Commissioners Board
who by virtue Of their office are the
Trustees of the Association. "A third
body is that of the association of civil
representing the technical
side Of their operations.
Highway No. l from New York to
Seattle is the one that we are now
interested in, inasmuch AS
It is the Northern route direct to the
coast and has not q. single break all
along the line. It is marked from
start to finish. No. 2 as the Red Trail,
blazed so clearly that night or day is
equally pleasurable throughout the
thirty-two miles of travel.
This highway traverses the states
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