The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-12
{. N. HASKELL
PLANS HIGHWAY
ASMONUMENT
FORMER GOVERNOR PLANS TO
LEAVE MONUMENT TO HIS
NAME BY GIFT OF HIGHWAY
TRAvERSlNG HILLS.

good road building throughout Okla
homa and leave monument to his
name through the means of splen-
did highway through Eastern Okla
homa, traversing the Cherokee hills
and connecting the jefferson high
way with the Arkansas line. j.
Berry King, president of the Table
quah Commercial club, of Tahlequah,
Oklahoma, received the following let
ter from Governor Haskell today:
The Waldorf Astoria,
New York, July 6, 1916.
Mr. j. Berry King,
President Tahlequah Commercial
club,
Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
Dear Sir:
Having the blessings of kind
providence after much hard work, we
have prospered beyond our needs.
AS you know our habits are simple
and we would live plain even if we
had a hundred million. Whatever
we have we made in Oklahoma and
want Oklahoma to have the bene-
fit of what we can spare. | believe
good roads benefit more people who
need help than anything else, hence
want to build as much good road
each year hereafter as our surplus
will pay for. Solely to repay past
kindness to me, Mr.. Hastings has
urged me to consider the line east
and west through Cherokee and Wage
ner counties, as this would cross the
proposed jefferson highway and the
second year could be extended into
Adair county. | am thinking this
over now and hope to take it up af-
ter hot weather is over
Sincerely,
c. N. HASKELL.
There has always been a friendly
feeling between Governor Haskell
and Cherokee county. The North
eastern State Normal school at
Tahlequah was the only state edu-
cational school which the executive
requested the state legislature to 10
cate at the first session after state
hood In appreciation of the location
of the normal school in the old capi-
tai of the Cherokees, Cherokee and
Adair counties have always supper
ted Mr. Haskell in his political am
| billions.
For several summers the governor
and his family have camped near
Tahlequah on the Illinois river and
there is a permanent camp located
there known as Camp Haskell. He
formerly started to build an interur-
ban line connecting Muskogee with
the beautiful playground of eastern
Oklahoma, and which stopped at Ft.
Gibson for lack of funds, but since
the governor has been blessed with
much money, he is now determined
the form of a splendid highway over
which the farmers can convey their
crops to market, and the pleasure
seekers can speed in a few hours
from Muskogee, Tulsa and other
cities of Oklahoma across to the
! Illinois and Barron Fork rivers.
This highway will put Muskogee and
other cities in direct communication
with the Sequoyah, Wauhillau and
other clubs, the Boy Scouts, Y. NJ. c..
A., Camp Fire, and various other
camps and private reserves in the
Cherokee hills.
In an interview today, Mr.. King an
nounced that the citizens of Chero-
kee county would gladly welcome
such a philanthropic presentation
of Governor Haskell's generous
proposition and he has wired asking
if a day in the near future can be
set for good road meeting of both
Wagner and Cherokee counties at
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Hubert, at which time Governor
Haskell will be requested to come
and present in person his intentions
Mr. King says that the plan, as out
lined throuch Congressman Hastings,
will mean that Governor Haskell will
build this road solely out of his own
Ca, -totv ntt<ft. fffNta
will be expected or exacted from any
of the citizens affected by it. 1t is
very probable that work will be be
gun in the early fall and the road
completed in time for the summer
travel to the pleasure resorts next