Semi-weekly herald., 1916-04-13
ARRANGING FOR THE
HIGHWAY CELEBRATION

tor club to John Ewing, Jr., mayor
of Del Norte, and chairman of the
committee on highway celebration,
Mr.. Ewing writes very interest
ing letter which we are quite sure
that all motorists and good roads adj
vocates will desire to read.
The letter published below, pur-
ports to be only suggestive plan
from Del Norte and the San Luis
valley and invites suggestions from
the San Juan people as to the best
way to celebrate the opening of the
San Luis valley-San Juan highway,
which is destined to become one of
the most popular of the transcon-
tinental highways.
1t is suggested that every person
interested should study carefully the
suggestions made in the letter and
come to the Motor club meeting to-
night prepared to offer suggestions
that the Motor club may be able
to get the consensus of opinion of
our people and then make sugges-
tons to the San Luis valley people
thru the Del Norte commercial club.
Mr.. |. j. Bradford, Secy.
The Durango Motor Club,
Durango, Colorado.
Dear Sir;
Your hearty letter of the 1st in
regard to the highway celebration is
much appreciated by us. We are
glad to know that you have live
bunch in your community.
We have heard from enough towns
interested to know that practically
every town will participate from Pu-
eblo to Durango. The idea is tax
ing everywhere and If present in
dications are any criterion this will
be the biggest thing in southwestern
Colorado this year.
Now, we have tentative plans only
at present, and will outline them as
briefly as we can, and then ask you
to suggest anything that looks good
to you, so that together we may
work out the best thing to do for
all concerned.
We have written to Pagosa, Bay
field, Aztec, Pennington, Mancos
and Dolores that we would like very
much to have tkem with us. We
wish you would write them anything
you think best and take charge of
everything on that side of the divide
and interest any others whom you
know to be likely to come in. How
about Silverton? We would like very
much to have Silverton interested.
We have written the governor and
several other state officials, have
also written the senator's and CON
gressmen, and we think it would be
a good idea for you to write them
too, urging their attendance.
We have written every town on this
side to and including Pueblo and all
heard from are very enthusiastic.
We have discussed the barbecue
proposition somewhat, but are inclin-
ed at present to think that it will
be pretty heavy thing to carry out
up on top of the divide. We think
that if the governor will come he
should make the principal talk, but
we want it short, of course, and 9TH
er visitors could make short talks.
We have also thought of inviting
Hon. Alva Adams of Pueblo to make
the principal address, as he is an old
timer in this country and well known
over this part of the state. We un-
derstand Durango has good band,
and we would like some music. 1t
has also been suggested that we
might have a small ceremony of
joining the waters of the Rio Grande
and San Juan on the divide by bring
ing water from both streams and
have some young lady chrsren the
road. We think that people from
your side could leave Pagosa early
in the morning and drive to the sum-
NIT and have several hours, a bas-
ket dinner, etc. We would have the
brakes of every car tested here in
the morning, and would provide
guards at short intervals from the
foot of the hill to the top, and in the
morning would permit no teams or
cars to start down the divide on
either side, SO that the road would
be clear, and in the afternoon per
NIT no teams or cars to start up un-
til all had driven down. We be-
lieve that careful attention to these
details would add much to the pleas
ure and enjoyment of all concerned.
As to advertising, we expect to
have page in the May Red Book
and get all the publicity we can from
Pueblo, Colorado Springs and Denver
papers, and also reach as far as we
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