Semi-weekly herald., 1917-09-03
EXCHANGE NOTES.

The Spanish Trail Highway asso-
citation, recently organized at Alamo
sa. has scored its first hit. While
the deliberations Of the association
at the San Luis valley metropolis
were still under way, a telegram was
sent to the state highway commits
sion requesting $4,000 for immedi-
ate use on the La Veta Pass road
The commissioner, L. J. Ehrhart,
wires the association that resolu-
ton favoring $4,000 for this purpose
was introduced in the highway com
mission, and will undoubtedly pass.
Each and every owner of a motor
car, hotel and garage owner, are
especially interested in good roads.
Roads that can be travelled rain or
shine, hard surfaced and free from
ruts, are the demand of the travel
ing autoist, and he absolutely will
not visit sections that have dirt
roads-that is, in any great number.
With the multitude of tourist attrac-
tons in the San Juan country, with
one Of the great transcontinental
highways making part of the route
thru here, and with natural good road
material lying adjacent to every
roadway, it only remains for enough
of our citizens To make up their
minds that we shall have good, per-
=. .-~. --ads and we shall get them.
aH mental matter.
Next Monday wirit1
in the San Juan region. The Olds-
mabile club of Denver expects to ar
rive here with 30 cars loaded with
their members, bound for the Mesa
Verde National park. Arrangements
are being made to get number of
Durango people To take their cars
and meet the visitors on the Flo
rida mesa. The exact time when the
party will arrive is not known, pu.
the Exchange will be in touch with
Pagosa people and know when they
leave that point. Our local people
who will go on this trip should see
the Exchange secretary or phone to
him so good showing can be made.
The strangers would be shown Du-
range and taken up the Animas
valley for a brief run if our people
will take interest and turn out.
A certain Denver paper is hound
ing the members of the Colorado
State Highway commission because
more money is not being spent on
roads Immediately adjacent to Den
yer. Travellers over the 20-foot
boulevards of northern Colorado,
which are hard surfaced and well
constructed, wonder how anyone
could possibly howl bad roads up
there. Everywhere, over mountains
and across the plains, the same good
roads are found around Denver
! Their mountain boulevards are not
only wide but they are protected by
large stone posts thru which inch
steel cables are stretched. Every eff.
fort has been made to assure comfort
and safety on those northern Colo
rado roads. And yet Denver, as rep
resented (or perhaps misrepresented,
thru one Of its dailies yells for NOR,
money for more roads. Down il
southern Colorado, the state ha.
roads that are too narrow and tina
pass thru the most beautiful scent,
part Of the mountains. The peopl,
Of this section have recently bandet
themselves together in a big goo,
roads organization that il pledge,
to represent them in road matters
Our roads are not only narrow bu
they are too few and far between
but we do not believe that beratinI
the State Highway commission
the way to help matters. We be
} lieve that the first move on roa
, building should come from US an
. it will SO come, but it would be In
teresting to know what proportio
of the state road money Denver ha
received in the past az compare
, with the southern counties Of Colt
: rado. This information may BE- ha
and probably will be, by the Spar
7 ish Trail Highway assoeiatioa.
Denver shnRRina" IL loah uenHy