Semi-weekly herald., 1917-11-15

almost universal practice of the lack
of elevation of the right side of the
road where curve is made. In
digression from the subject of roads.
Mr.. Clay mentioned what he thought
was a drawback to the development
of this country. Among many of the
/ people with whom he has talked in
his trip during the past few days he
found what seemed to him to be
spirit of discouragement. This was
due, he thought, to the fact that our
transportation facilities are not what
they should be. He said that with
out any thought of idle boosting, he
wished to state unhesitatingly that
the San Juan basin has more natural
resources than any other area of
equal size in the Rocky Mountain re-
gion, but that we should not hope to
have it further developed by waiting
for others to come in and do it for
VS.. He thinks that the others will
come in when they find that We have
a right spirit in the matter ourselves,
and added further that the Exchange
vas doing very remarkable work
along that very line. Relief will
come sooner than we anticipate, he
said in conclusion.
For several days the Exchange
has been showing NJ. b. Hereby over
the basin. This gentleman, to gather
from the remarks he made, is repre-
senting big capital that is looking
over this part of the country with
view to investing large amount
Of money with which to further de-
selop it. He was the next speaker.
Mr.. Hereby:
"There is no other place in this
country that needs standard gauge
road, laid with s5-pound rails, with
IS few curves as possible, as does
ibis section" were the opening words
f Mr.. Hereby. He said he had been
old of the wonderful climate of our
country, and came out to see it-and
aRAAiiu NiAt Representations w MN llttu
been correct. He had heard of our
beautiful scenery, and that the eli
max of his ambition in that line had
been reached that very day, when
he saw the Mesa Verde national
park. He had heard of the people
Who lived here, and he declared that
he half had not been told. Our citi-
zens, he declared, were of the very
highest type of Americans. Our
wagon and auto roads were fairly
GOOD, he thought, in spite of the few
bad places near the city caused by
the excessive traffic and the dry
weather. "All roads lead to Rome"
and all good roads lead to Durango
he said. He stated very clearly that
the people whom he represents are
not asking our people to put up bon
uses, but they are contemplating the
building of n railroad out of the bas-
in, possibly through Pennington to
Gallup to connect with the Santa Fe.
He is ready to leave to make his re-
port. The nation has been crying
for more food production, he stated
and the government is wanting
means to secure the enormous
amount Of foodstuff that is produced
and can be produced in this section
But he warned US that if we are to
expect aid from outside capital that
we must not allow ourselves to go
into another frenzy of wild specula-
ton on land values because of the |
prospective railroad building and de-
velopment. AS soon as we undertake |
to place fictitious values on our
property we cannot hope to long re
tain the help which will otherwise |
come to us. Mr.. Hereby had made |
the trip from Gallup via Pennington /
to Durango. He took the stage be. |
tween the first two mentioned points,
and paid sixty dollars for the trip. |
But he is still trying to figure out |
why he should have been asked to
pay that sum for the privilege OF |
walking a great part of the way. He
hoped the trip would bring results.
concluded his remarks by saying that
he was proud to have been the guest
of so enterprising an organization
as the Durango Exchange, which
he thin'Js may come on ac-
count of the patriotic desire to get
our products out to the markets of
the world, where they are sorely
needed.
The toastmaster called upon John
L. Mcneil for a short talk, but Mr.
McNaiI had mt emma nrenarad In