Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-12-29

alton must be to lend its aid and sup
port to the counties o. local highway
districts which must furnish the bulk
of the funds ret. uired IN this construc-
tton. This phase of the work Is not
less important than that of dealing
with the state legislature, but consid-
Grafton Of how the localities will fur
nish their portion of the funds and in
what amounts they will furnish them
must of necessity receive considera-
ton after the state has been induced
to act.
NEED OF COOPERATION.
$50, briefly, our work is to induce
the state to provide it's portion of high
way money; second, to induce the
local authorities to provide their por-
lions. The federal government has al
ready provided it's funds but they
cannot be available until the state and
the several localities have acted.
II have received a number of more
less anxious Inquiries from various
sections as to details of location and
construction. People are apprehensive
lest the work should not be done in the
way in which they conceive that 1t
ought to be done. These inquiries
general letter and I depend upon the
vice presidents in each county to make
the issues with which we can deal
clear to the people. 1t is foolish and
futile at this time to discuss details of
how we will spend our money. The
job which first confronts us and which
Is going to exhaust our very energy,
Is to get the money to spend.
Impress upon your people the fact
that these highways must be built
by cooperation of the federal govern
ment, the state of Idaho and the
counties or local highway districts.
When each of these bodies has pro-
vided the necessary money for the
construction of any link in the high
way, then they must all come to an
agreement as to the details Of con-
struction and all must be willing to
approve the plan to the extent of put
ting their money into it before any
work can be initiated by the state
or federal government. This Is suffi-
cient assurance to every locality that
it's interests and desires will be given
reasonable consideration in any plan
which is finally executed. Tt state
and the federal government cannot
spend the money provided BY the
counties and the local highway dis
tricts without the consent of the local
/; liberties. This assures conferences
with the local authorities and a recog-
milton of reasonable local needs and
requirements. Nothing moro than this
is necessary or could be expected.
INITIAL WORK DONE.
80 I most earnestly urge that as
vice presidents of this association for
your county you impress upon the
people the fact that their interests
have to be considered and that detailed
plans or surveys now made are
wholly tentative and that in allowing
themselves to be distressed or diverted
by these matters of detail they are
weakening the whole plan of this as
ISOLATION and imperiling the common
work in which all the counties and
all the localities are interested.
Please also impress upon your peo-
Pile the fact that we cannot expect to
carry through our plans however
broad and beneficient they may ap-
pear. without opposition and that every
disagreement In the localities
or between different local
tiles, will be use1 by whatever opposi-
on arises.
Already through the organization
of this association and the hearty CO.
operation of the state highway COM
much initial work has been
DONE This association and the state
highway commission have agreed upon
broad general plans of highway con-
struction and the state highway COM
mission is, as we are advised, pre-
pared to recommend tn the legislature
a general, broad. comprehensive plan
of highway construction such as this
association and other like bodies in the
state may approve and support.
Our work now Is to hold our peo-
pie together and to prevent similar
like question and misun ierstandings
from faing injected into our legisla-
tive program"
w. r. Palmer is Boise visitor from