The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-01-20
Grady County Metropolis Has Prominent
Place on Proposed Line Direct
From Norman
COLONEL HARVEY TELLS
OF TRAILS PROGRESS
Inspection Of All Routes Will Be Made in
June and Decision Of Findings An
nOunced al Amarillo

Chickasha appears on the new Ozark
Trail map just issued by Col. W. II
Harvey, together with a statement set
ting forth a change in the route where
by the road will be brought from Nor
man to Chickasha. A committee OF
Chiekasha men conferred with Col
Harvey some time ago in regard tc
the new route and assured him of the
cooperation Of this city in his plans
This committee was composed of Ed
Burton, Jonas Cook. c. M Hollings
worth and j. E. Schow. COLI Harvey's
statement is as follows:
A situation has arisen in Oklahoma
City, making doubtful the completion
OF the roads in that county by June
next, ready to receive the various
roads that had been planned to center
there, making that city a common
point. The doubt is 50 cerious it has
become necessary to route other roads
that win compete with Oklahoma City
for our main line from ST. Louis to
New Mexico.
l therefore, called meetings of the
leading influential citizens, both north
and south Of Oklahoma county, who
expressed themselves as glad to have
the opportunity of securing our road,
and | have routed road north Of Ok
lahoma county via Guthrie and Geary,
that will be twenty-five miles shorter
ftcm Tulsa to Amarillo than any 9th
er road heretofore routed, and will
cross the South Canadian river over
the low bridge at Bridgeport Also
south road via Shawnee, Norman and
Chickasha, that will cross the high
bridge over the South Canadian at
Norman The routes via Oklahoma
City have no bridge over the South
Canadian, and the two new routes,
each take care of this difficulty.
The trouble in Oklahoma county
arose out Of a proposed bond issue for
one million dollars, promoted by the
cement interests, for cement con
crete paving to cost $4,000 per mile
which if put down on new grades,
would go to pieces in from three to
five years. This divided the people
of Oklahoma county into two hostile
camps, and pending settlement of that
question nothing was being done.
Hence my action. Oklahoma City now
being on a competing line, have NOV
ed my headquarters to Tulsa, a COM
mon point. My address will be the
Tulsa Chamber of Commerce. wish
to say that in all the trouble in Okla
homa county, Floyd Thompson, chair
man of the Ozark Trails committee,
has proven himself to be a gentleman
and a splendid and incorruptible man.
Hard Surfacing.
We have heretofore, made plain in
our literature the kind of hard sur
face we deemed practical and desira-
BILE to put on the roads competing for
our main line, st. Louis to New Mex
leo. We have advised the use Of ma
tive material, most convenient, with
many fills, more or less settling for
the next five years, some as -iuch as
eight or ten inches, making it imprac-
tical to get value received or benefi-
cial results by putting on cement con-
crete paving that would soon go to
pieces, leaving the people bonded and
a damage to the good roads movement
There are long stretches Of roads
in Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico,
where sand and clay is their best
proposition. 1t is now definitely
known that sand and clay properly
mixed makes a good hard surface road
mudless and dustless, that is highly
satisfactory except on roads where
the traffic is unusually heavy.
Hard gravel with clay as a binder,