Gunnison news-champion., 1915-10-22
Three Hundred Fifty Monhose and
I C,mnison F oks Celebrate on Blue Mesa
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BY G. o. kunze we're the foundation
and they were so good thai the bones
were picked clean. Mentrose folks
had brought lots of fruit and sand
witches and Gannison folks cake and p,e
and there were pickles and salads and
''hxins" galore.
just rs dinner Was over in came
Congressman Edward T. Taylor and
party who had heard Of the celebration
at Gienwood Springs and came over to
see the fun. Mr. Taylor ~ss called on
for q speech and responded in the force
ful and happy manner for which he is
noted. Especially did he promise to do
all in his power to induce congress to
set aside the beauty spot on which they
were gathered rs q park. q little nat
ionsl playground for the two communi-
ties. He declared that the two count
les Of hontrose and Gunnison had q
great deal to be proud Of in the putting
through of this end of the Rainbow
Route as well rs in the immediate finish
ing of . half way house, and spoke of
the infiuence of the road IN binding
communities together. developing their
latent resources and very likely in re-
ducing railroad rates and bringing bet
ter service.
There were number Of local speakers
introduced by Chairman W. A. Gillaspey
who ss county commissioner has taken
. keen interest in keeping and improv-
ing this end of the great highway
through Gunnison county. Mr.. Gillas-
year between Cebolla and Sspinero,
that fixes one of the worst stretches of
the route and makes possible good time
all along the trip west.
Judge Z. N. Nourse, president of the
Chamber of Commerce at Gunnison as
the first speaker welcomed the crowd
in happy terms. He was followed by
Mr.. Schuyler, Secretary of the Mon
trose commercial body who replied to
the welcome and read a rousing letter
from Tony Mcneil. who was unable to
be president.
Mrs. Geo. Eastman of Gunnison,
president of the Women's Good Roads
club here, made a few well chosen re-
marks, ending with the promise to in
terest the W. r. C. members in both
communities to secure a fine flag for
the new road house
! Senator Schermerhorn of Montrose
presented some new ideas, and suggest
ed that this meeting would induce both
communities to not only come half way
but all the way 30 that back and forth
visits at celebrations and shows would
be common.
Judge Clifford H. Stone of Gunnison
made a good talk, bringing out several
new features of the meet and its mean
ing 10 both Montrose and Gunnison.
He IVES followed by J. X. Mesh, who
suggested some of the possible improve
ments yet TO be made on these good
roads.
A striking feature of the gathering
WAS the interest everybody showed in
good roads and the intelligent discussion
of what constitutes q good highway.
How our ideas have changed in three
or four years. The roads that we
thought good in 1910 would not be toll
Grated now even by a community far
off from the main Travelled routes.
This Blue mesa road from Sapinero to
Montrose was built under the direction
of Nicholas krohn of Montrose, an ex-
pert road man. The curves are built
right so that one setting of auto steer
ing gear makes the complete sweep of
the turn. So many road curves are a
patched up series of different sized
circles. Mr.. Krohn is now building an
extension of the Rainbow Route through
the Paradox country, and the Utah
folks are planning to engage him to
engineer their connection west to Salt
Lake City by route which will cut the
desert entirely.
A great deal of credit must be handed
Mr.. Gillsspey and his road overseer,
r. V. Berry, for the care put upon this
/ long stretch of mesa road this summer
Dozens of herds of sheep have scram-
bled along it and ratified rocks into the
canon. but Mr.. Berry has been indefatig-
able in keeping them raked out and in
watching the gullys and mud holes so
that the road is smooth as q floor To
be sure it will cost thousands of dollars
to widen the built up canon sections,
to cut off the sharp curves, and per
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