The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-04-07
DANIEL BOONE TRAIL
From, Thursdays Daily,

ed at the meeting OF the ManKat0 Au
tomobile club in the city hall build
ing last evening. The meeting wal
primarily for the purpose of consid.
ering the Daniel Boone trail 1t wa!
a very representative gathering. The
sentiment in favor of the development
of that proposed highway from Can
ada to the Gulf of Mexico through the
central part of the United States was
very strong. There was no division.
Ben Bangerter presented his resig-
nation as secretary of the club. There
was a great deal of discussion, many
nominations were made and many
destinations followed, and at length f.
F. Soaring was unanimously elected
over his own protest Mr.. Soaring is
also secretary of the Mankato Com
mercial club. He consented at length
TO try the additional secretaryship for
one year Mr.. Bangerter resigned on
account of the heavy pressure of other
work.
A motion by John H. Hohmann was
passed fixing the compensation of the
secretary at 25 cents for the collec-
ton of each annual membership fee
collected by him by mail, and so cents
for each fee that he has to go after.
The annual fee is So.
Another matter to which consider
able attention was given at the meer-
ing was that Of enforcement of the
traffic laws. Mr.. Holman brought
up this subject and others who spoke
along the same line we're Frank E.
Browder, Ole Nelson and John B.
Richards. 1t was the unanimous sem
timent of the club that the autoists
and other people, too, should do all
in their power to prevent accidents,
and see that the traffic regulations
were properly enforced. Autos should
not exceed the speed laws and pedes-
trians should not cross the streets in
the main part of the city diagonally,
but should use the regular crossings.
Secretary Bangerter read COM
munication from T. M. Johnson, secre-
tary of the St. Paul Automobile club,
offering to the Mankato club the priv
ileges of the st. Paul clubs quarters
at White Bear, and also the use of
the maps and other information that
the st. Paul club had on hand at the
st. Paul hotel.
Daniel Boone Trail.
Most of the evening was devoted to
a discussion of the Daniel Boone trail
There was universal feeling that this
trail would be a great success, bring
ing business through this part of the
country, and that it would make Man
kato more important than ever be-
fore.
The route of this trail has already
been determined from the twin cities,
through Shakopee, Jordan, Belle
PLANE, st. Peter, Mankato, Good
Thunder, Sterling, Amboy, Winnebago,
Blue Earth, Fort Dodge and Des
Moines. 1t is to go through st. Louis
and south to the gulf
The gathering was one, that repre-
sented the interested communities in
this part of the country remarkably
well. There were about forty pres
ent. ]. B. McHose of Boone, Iowa.
president of the Daniel Boone trail
and Mayor John F. Ford of Fort
Dodge, Iowa, vice president for that
state, both remarked on the repre-
sentative character of the gathering.
Both were much surprised to see that
the project of the trail was taken up
with so much energy.
So Those who were present and spoke
included Joseph J. Moriarty, mayor of
Shakopee; Joseph Ring of Shakopee;
A. L. Potts, councilman of st. Peter;
County Commissioner o. X. Olson; S.
M. Mcdonald, of Blue Earth; Frank
H. Griffin of Coed Thunder former
editor and now postmaster; 'Aleck'
Eckles of Winnebago, president of the
Winnebago Automobile club; Fred
Schwartz of Amboy; Frank Simon of
Mapleton; George Keith of Sterling
and ]. w. Ries of lie Sueur, president
OF the LIE Sueur Automobile club.
The discussion brought out what
was revelation to many of the Man
kato autoists, as we'll as to others,
and that. was the great progress that
had been made in getting the trail
constructed In Scott and Nicollet
counties the work is about done.
lie Sueur county has gotten start
ed. Much has been done in Blue
Earth county. The trail is about COM
plete from Mankato all the way to
LIE Sueur. 1t is south of Mankato in
Blue Earth county that most of the
work in this county is yet to be done
on the trail, and Commissioner Olson
said last night the whole stretch
through this county would be done as
far as grading and travelling were
concerned, after about two years. Far
Their south, in Faribault county, there
is much yet to be done, but the au-
thorities are getting busy Through
Iowa there is not great deal yet to
do, according to what was brought out
last evening.
Route of Scenic Highway.
Much of the Daniel Boone trail runs
along the route of what was to be
the Scenic highway Quite a number
of the speakers last evening poked
fun at the general government for not
coming forward with the expected
help, and remarks were. made that II
the local and state authorities had
not waited for the general government
to help, the Scenic highway work
would have progressed much faster
than it did Even as it was much
progress had been made, and it was
well for the Daniel Boone trail prof.
ect. 1t was brought out that HenDe-
pin had just made quite a bond issue
for the Identification of the Daniel
Boone trail to the Bloomington bridge
and farther.
The Daniel Boone trail, as brought
out by Mr.. Holman, is to be in this