Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-07-21
FUNDS CAMPAIGN
OPENS HERE TODAY
RED Trail Boosters Will Try
n. Remission to Raise
Here.
NATIONAL HIGHWAY
STARTED IN THIS STATE
Commercial Club Will Assist Geo.
N. Ksnsingto1 to Raise
Funds.

campaign here today for the purpose
OF swelling the fund already started
for the erection Of bridge over the
Little Missouri at Medora. He will
be assisted by members OF the Bis
marck Commercial club and a mum
her OF others intsrested il the move
ment.
The almost unparalleled growth a
the Red Trail Movement, measured
by its seemingly insignificant begin
ming, is a chapter in cooperation ana
determination that will match with
anything organized for cooperative
purposes during the past decade.
In December Of last year the fac!
was impressed upon the western
world that the Little Missouri river
crossing at Medora, n. D., menacec
the traffic OF the tourists who follow
ed the Red Trail through North Da'
extent that it was imperative that
some immediate action be taken. This
was forced upon the Dickinson Com
mercial club for immediate consider.
alton. A committee vas appointed
to see what could be done in view
OF building a bridge or III preparing
some other way of crossing the Little
Missouri river.
In February OF this year a bunch
of auto boosters met with the FEEDER
ated Commercial clubs at Bismarck.
N. D., when this bridge matter came
under discussion. 1t was seen that
the county OF Billings, in which this
river is situated, waS tied hand and
foot, and that il anythin. was to be
done to pave the way for a satisfac-
tory crossing at Medora, it would
have to be done in the form of 4
bridge built Independently Of the
county Of Billings.
Originated at Bismarck.
1t was at this meeting at Bismarck
On February, 5, that the National
Parks 'Hishways association had It's
birth. The association knew Of the
work of the National Highways sys-
tenn. ard, because Of their early sur
yey for . northern route immediate
plans were laid to bring the RED
'Trail-whieh had been iblazed from
coast to coast by the Blazed Trail
association on the national survey
to the notice of the National System.
q The honorable L. 3. Hanna, COVER.
nor OF North Dakota, became deeply
interested in the plan OF building a
bridge over the Little Missouri river,
and immediately threw his efforts and
.sympathies into the scheme with his
usual business sagacity, volunteering
tbs services Of tho state engineer to
prepare plans and specifications for
this bridge. %%rG Ams&5& 4,
Correspondence began with Charles
II. Davis, president Of the National
System Of Highways, and with the "a
IN eye Of a frontiersman and a quick
bydin Of wireless telegraphy. he saw
tic possibilities Of their system align
ilyt itself with the Red Trail Highway
anda oRce became interested enough
to propose that the Red Trail become
tho 'Un cial route of tho National
Highways association. Overtures
wers then made to the Good Roads
association OF Spokane and the Auto
mbile a~ssciatin I Seattle, with 4 view
Of these bodies transferring their al
lesiance to I coast to coast route,
rather than tie themselves to that Of
a subsidiary route that was marked
only from Minneapolis to Terry.
Saw Advantage.
Through kilograms from the Ma
tional association and the presence
Of the president of the National
Parks Transcontinental Highways as
ISOLATION at a gathering OF these two
western bodies at Spokane in March.
these western boosters also saw the
advantage Of a 3,S00-mile roadbed,
which, without a break, would cover
the entire ccntlnen Mt, and speedily
adopted the Red Trail as the official
route. Thus the link that bound the
cas- to the west was forged in the
western city Of Dickinson, n. d., and
is new the highway par excellence.
Perfect Map. =.
A map just published under the
auspices of this highway is one Of the
most perfect maps ever received from
an engraver's hands. making a COM
plete guide for the autoists from the
Atlantic to the Pacific. This map
can be had by sending 10 cents in
stamps to the home office at Dickin-
son, N. D.
The actual result today of the ear-