The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1917-07-26
EVERGREEN HIGHWAY PARTY
GUESTS OF COMMERCIAL
CLUB WEDNESDAY
In Brief After Luncheon Speeches Pathnders Outlined OBJ
jests and Attainments of Association Departed for
New Meadows in Afternoon

and what it has become from the
standpoint Of commercial value to the
cities and communities through which
Ii passes. He said auto tourists travel
must be regarded In the same class
from the standpoint of commercial
benefit as is the business of the min
ing men, the stock raisers and the
farmers. He said IL is not a business
that will benefit the merchants and
hotelkeepers only, but 1t will benefit
the farmers and the stock raisers and
the communities through which these
highways must pass must regard them
selves as especially fortunate.
Mr.. Elrod's description Of the scenic
beauty over the route so far Travelled
was most interesting and clearly In
dicated the poetic temperament OF the
man and established his love of ma
| ture, beyond peradventure.
l. M. Howell. who is secretary of
state at the Washington capital,is one of
| the best known men In the northwest,
| in fact is so prominent figure In his
own state that he has been reelected
! for the past twelve years to the same
| Office without serious opposition.
1 Among other things Mr.. Howell said
when called upon by President Ander-
! son, was that sfor years the various
sections Of the northwest have beer
acting singly in their. efforts to attract
people and capital to 1t for the develop
ment and exploitation of its vast re
sources. But of recent months the
spirit of cooperation has grown at q
marvellous rate, and today we fine
/ Washington, Oregon and the provinces
/, of British Columbia bound together
by the strong ties of mutual interest
in this project of establishing an in
ternational highway, from the country
of our friends and neighbors on ths
4 north TO the extreme southland ant
then up the Atlantic coast to the far
Il thest northeast point Of our country
and we hope to enlist every c0mmunit,
and state on the proposed line Of rout'
in the same vast cooperative scheme
The wonderful little animal, "the g0os
roads bug" has made this plan no
only feasible but imperative at thi
time The demand is for good roads
and to get good roads we must hav,
the strongest cooperation by those VIII,
are being benefited
Ben It. Hill, president of the Ever
green Highway association, was tn
last of the party called upon, and tn
! hour of departure drawing nigh, b
! spoke briefly but to the point. MI
Hill is good roads enthusiast of tn
, first water, and he fully appreciate
any community work that follow
along the line Of road development, an
spoke in a most fiattering manner 0
our recent bond election and the spiri
of progress shown by our citizens Il
| voting bonds for the great state high
, way from the north to the south, b
an almost unanimous voice of the dis
} trict taxpayers. He said our wor
j was at once carried to the outside an
! was known of all good roads advocate
throughout the Inland Empire. "Bu
: for the fact that the north and sout
J state highway has been assured as ia
I as Grangeville by the generous actio
: of your citizens, this pathfinders part
E would probably never have come you
D way: certainly they would not ha
! you had the proposition up and hav
. voted it down, for that would hav
i blocked the highway and we woul
! have had no assured route to hav
recommended for national acceptance
Mr. Hill told of the royal receptio
1 given them In the British Columbi
3 cities and the support which had bee
! given to the enterprise in that couI
y Try, as well as along IDe eIIlfe fOuu
Z He said an all-year highway from th
!. international line on the north to tn
|. Mexican line on the south appeals mo:
! forcibly to all parties concerned, an
that those points which are given a
! opportunity to enter into the plaT
: OF the organization and become ben
i ficiaries of the great results shoul
4 consider themselves most fortunate, IL
4 deed, and should take hold with ala
= rity and whole heartedness.
Mr.. Hill believes that the meeting (
o the Interstate Highway association
I which is to be held at Lewiston tn
= fall, will have In its councils and d
) lfberations the greatest good roads al
4 vocates in the United States and wi
\ be productive OF an enthusiasm thi
4 will be irresistible and will radia
9 to every section Of the northwest.
3 M Reese Hattabaugh was called u
q ON by President Anderson to make r
: sp0nse to the remarks and expressi6
I, of good fellowship and appreciation
o hospitality extended by our citizen
q ON the part of the visitors, and did