The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-12-13

Our Association is financed BY an
annual membership fee of i've dollars,
This covers our expense 81 promotion
our officers charge nothing for their
services What We do Is a contrlou
tion to this cause
Al present our Association f. en-
gagged IN promoting IT'S main line from
ST. Louis TO New Mexico In the mean
time We expect our members and
friends 10 continue heir work or our
other roads and proposed roads thai
viii be benefited by this main line,
bringing. as IT Will into our country
trans continental travel and a sem'
trans continental travel II Is for tue
benefit Of all that the main line y
being built and to which We are now
giving special attention
For the construction Of our roads we
must rely on two sources Of financing
one Is voluntary contributions OF labor
and money The other is money raised
by taxation for roads and bridge the
expenditure OF Which is directed BY
state. county. and TOWNSHIP officers.
We seek to unite these two ources Of
revenue on our proposed roads N
asking the people contributing and NE
/ officers controlling tax money 20 give
first attention TO our proposed main
| line and its important feeders. Ne do
SO with confidence that our reason
therefor will be appreciated The
roads referred to will bring rs an IN
nux Of new citizens and wealth for 3
wide territory through which these
roads pass. thus giving Us additional
assistance IN building more quickly
the ether roads
Another reason Is this On our
proposed roads there Is now an oppor
tuuity to get one good hard surfaced
road and when that is built Tire peo
pie to the right and left OF Il viii come
on the road and see II and see IT.
advantages and, soon they win AL
want such a road Onr road viii thu
become the promoter, 'he mother q
many roads Il is Therefore imporan
and for the public good that we re
ceive the assistance Of all ! think al
broad minded men viii recognize tb'
Importance of this road 70 each slat
through which it passes.
How to Construct.
As to hoN We Wlsn our roads made
we covered this subject fully IN al
article that vas printed recently 9
connection with d map OF Tie con
peting roads for our main line bt
tween ST Louis aud Ne& MeXica. Any
one who has not seen it can gel
s copy by addressing either Of on
branch Offices at Springfield Mo
Tulsa. or oklahoma CITY, Okla. G
Amarillo, Texas Call on OF addre-
Ozark Trail Headquarters al eilhf
of these places In addition to wai
= il there said wish TO say that lli
= top concrete eulyerts are not desire
They are dangerous TO both lie an
property on account Of lacf
strength. Everything considered ye
9 cannot risk the chances Of constWe
J. ing hem correctly one near Well
ton. Okla. on the central route b
= tween Tulsa and Oklahoma City hi
! already broken in The tops 70 500
eulverts should have at least e
. decree curve and the grade should
level over the top With the dirt 50
Q facing not less than SIX inches thic
y Reinforcement is desirable, place
y near the bottom edge Of the concfe
Y where. il broken, the initial cra'
= begins.
a Economy Of Construction.
v How to conserve time and money
re tire construction of roads Is an imp'
S. tant question fer sou 70 consider a.
n should have the attention Of this 60
~ yention
q E,rayagance and inellicency
p which roads cost more than th
'e should sometimes from fifty to o
hundred per cent more than OBJ
OF should cost discourages road $50
se and results IN The money used bull
ry ing less road than II should build
~ the construction Of common go
le enterprise the man or men In char
TO- and those assisting should want
NJ give the very best possible resOl
" A principle is involved
no Each local organization, oversee
y and commissioners should culigs
70 onf r. more .ractical men to dir
~ road construction men who Will m
y ter all details and who know the val
pf Of time Thus organized road wC
ol viii cost far less than the average e
in the past
OF In the previous printed article
he ferred to we have defined the differ
nd kinds Of hard suriAcng that will
IN swer our requirements, varying
les cost from sl00 to $500 per mile
nd find however, in few instances q
iiN sections oi lUdu contemplate N'
Id surface Of cement concrete or one
est the proposed substitutes for eoner'
all Of which Is very expensive e
ag ing. it is claimed, from $1,000
~ $1,000 per mile necessitaiing la
'pi bond issues, which including inter
,r0 on the bonds, will mike the c
iau dnuhls the figures given
his II the work proposed would pr
The permanent lasting for fifty to
ire hundred years it would be pfohta
the to do this. But il 1t should last 0