Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1917-09-28
THE JOSEPH
DOUMECQ ROAD
Will Make Outlet for Vast
Stock and Farming
Country.

The Joseph and Yellow Pine high
way districts across the river have re-
Gently consolidated and will henceforth
be known as the Joseph highway dis
trict. This in itself is of no particu-
lar significance except for the greater
and more important road plans that
this move presages.
Two small highway districts, each
too weak financially to accomplish the
main necessity for either one or both
of these districts that of building a
wagon road down to the river, have
united to accomplish this end which,
after all, is as much the problem and
necessity Of the one as of the other.
This of course was the main objective
and express purpose for uniting the
two districts.
OF course this is only the first step,
the greatest and all-important-that
Of fnancing-still remains, but with
the spirit with which these people are
entering upon this task leaves no
doubt at all of its accomplishment.
Lack Of funds, inability to get togeth-
er on location and the very heavy in
itial cost Of building this road have
all contributed towards holding back
this all-important and only lacking
necessity to open rich and great ag-
ricultural and stock raising country.
But the time has now arrived when
this road must be built or the country
instead Of progressing will retrograde
to the great detriment of the country
at large and in particular to the peo-
pie who have sought homes there and
have blazed the first trails of civiliza-
tion. Practically all this region is
settled up, schools and homes have
been built and a contented people
have overcome all the hardships Incl
: dent to pioneer life. But as a coun.
. try develops it's demands for transpor.
tation facilities increase, and the time
IS has now arrived when a good wagon
# road must be built to connect this
h. country with the distributing point Of
= the supplies going into that country
, and over which their products can bt
d transported to market. That the roaC
e will be built by these people down t.
the river, which is as far as they cal
"a legally use their own money for thi
purpose, there can be no doubt
: A meeting will be held at the ReeC
[ schoolhouse today for the purpose o
| deciding the amount for which bone
/ election will be called. But the mat
| ter of continuing this highway iron
/ the point where their construction
| must necessarily cease, being limite
1 ny law, Is dlbO W IcCclNC dIIClJlOh a
( this time.
| That the Cottonwood people will d
| all within their power to extend thi
! road up onto the Prairie goes withou
I saying, but just how this will be az
| complished we cannot say, for ou
I highway district would also be RI
! strained by law from expending publ
| funds outside Of our district. So jut
| at this time it would seem that th
| Plains people have turned the table
! on u.s. and instead of the real probleI
/ being to get road down to the rive
from these sections, it is to get an e'
tension of this road up onto the Pra
| rie But Cottonwood is equal to tt
/ task and this will be accomplished b
some means or other, even if it mu
come by private subscription.
BY all means our business me
should get behind this movemen
which means so much to the town al
the communities to be served by til
highway. w. B. II.