The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1915-06-23
ROADS REPORTS
Mountain States Telephone Company
to Furnish Daily Reports

to Furnish Daily Reports
Denver.-Authentic daily reports on
conditions of all automobile roads in
the state of Colorado are to be made
for the benefit of autoists, by The
Mountain States Telephone Company,
through the employment of a sys-
tematic and unique block system now
being established. By applying to any
of the several hundred stations
throughout the state, it will be an easy
matter for auto travellers to know. to
a reasonable certainty, just what kind
Of roads they are liable to run into.
The first steps in this direction were
made in Denver this week, when rep
sentatives from Colorado Springs, Pu-
eblo, Delta, Glenwood Springs, Grand
Junction, Central City, Idaho Springs,
Fort Collins, Boulder, Sterling and
other towns and cities of the state
were brought together at the call Of
the Good Roads Association, assisted
by the State Highway Commission, the
State Association Of County Commits
sioners and the engineers of the tele
phone company.
W. f. Brown, division general man
ager of the telephone company, out
lined a system of disseminating gen
eral and authentic information regard
ing the condition Of roads, proposed to
be inaugurated by the telephone com
pany.
my company has completed ar
rangements for ascertaining and dis
lseminating reports Of road conditions
Throughout the state" said Brown,
pretty much the same as the gov
ernmcnt gives out forecasts Of the
weather, except that ours is an es-
tablished fact and not a prognostics-
tion. Between the hours Of five and
six o'clock each evening our exchange
operators in every town in the state
will telephone into the main Office in
Denver a report Of any abnormal con-
dition of roads radiating from their
respective exchange. II the roads are
normal no reports will be required.
"These reports, which will come from
each Of the sixty-three counties in the
state of Colorado. will be tabulated.
and in turn will be transmitted TO all
motor clubs, garages and other points
where general information is usually
to be had. Probably cards will be
printed eventually and posted the same
as weather reports are issued today.
Probably the most valuable feature
of these reports will be the issuance Of
good roads map which is now in the
hands Of the printers. These maps will
show the complete state highway sys-
TEN, as indicated on a map prepared
by the engineer Of the State Highway
Commission. The telephone company's
map will show, by separate colors,
whether the road in any particular
section is macadamized, rock ballasted,
graveled, improved or unimproyed.
These maps will also be divided into
blocks, arranged with respect to the
facilities Of the telephone company in
different sections of the state.
Reports will include information as
to rains, slightly muddy, heavy, mud,
bridges or culverts out, roads freshly
graveled, deep sand, road gangs at
work, etc"
The various good roads associations
Of the state have taken the matter up
favorably and the county commission
ers Of each county will act in conjunc-
tion with the telephone company in OBJ
tanning the information desired. 1t
means a broad campaign for better
roads.