The Sentinel=record., 1918-02-27
HOT SPRINGS IS
 ON TWO OF ROUTES
HOWEVER, A THIRD ONE OUT. LINED FOR BANKHEAO HIGH WAY WILL MISS OUR
 RESORT.
The Issue Will Be Decided at the Convention Which Is to Be Held in Little Rock.

Little Rock, Ark, Feb. 2G.--After a three weeks tour in the interest of
 the Bankhead National highway,
 travelling over three thousand miles. visiting sixty towns and cities in the state of Texas, Oklahoma and Ark
 anas, delivering over seventy five speeches and short talks on good
 roads and explaining the plans of lo- eating and building the Bankhead National highway to the various Chambers Of Commerce. Automobile good roads associations, Rotary, Lions
 and Kiwannis clubs Mr J. A. Roun-
 tree secretary of the United States Good Roads Association, and also Secretary of the BanW head National HlWhWay Association, has arrived in
 Little Rock for the purpose of clos ing all the detail arrangements for i the annual meeting of the United States Good Road Association. Bank head National Highway Association
 and United States Good Road Ex- hibit, that will convene in this city
 April 15 to 18th.
 Secretary Rountree was invited to visit Oklahoma, Texas and northern | Arkansas and inspect the proposed routes for tho Bankhead Highway through these three states The first proposed route is from Little Rock,
 Hot Springs, Hope TeXarkana, Ar
 kansas, to Sulphur Springs, Texas, | lGreenYille Dallas, Ft. Worth, Wealth
 erford to El Paso. This route has the endorsement of the State High way Department of Texas that Is | quite desirous that this highway shall l go over what is known as Federal
 and State Aid Road No 1 in Texas, | a distance of SS5 miles from Texar-
 kama to El Paso. The second pro posed route from Little Rock to Hot lSprings, Meua, Arkansas, to Smith vile, Oklahoma. Broken Bow, Ida 1 Belle, Ft. TONson, Durant, Ardmore
 Sulphur, Davis, Wynnewood, Lawton, l Oklahoma 10 Amarillo Texas sThs route has the endorsement of Cor. 1 Williams, is very desirous that the Bankheead Highway shall traverse
 that section ot the state The third proposed route is from Little Rock 1 to Boonville Ft smith. Ark. Shaw Inee, Seminole McAlester. WilburtOn l 10 Oklahoma City on To Amarillo Texas to El Paso This route has the 1 endorsement of the Oklahoma Cits 1 Chamber of Commerce and Postal I frrl, kl9yasoff,,, ton held meeting in Oklahoma City
 with over a thousand in attendance
 They decided to leave no stone un- turned 10 secure this highway They will bring 800 delegates to LiJle Rock on April l5th to boost flr this
 highway
 Secretary Rountree reports the
 greatest enthusiasm for the Bank
 head highway on all three of tue routes. The people in Texas, Okla
 homa and Arkansas are quite anxious
 to be a section of this great trans
 continental highway that starts at Washington City and passes through the states of Virginia North and South CanOltna. Georgia Alabama, Miss
 issippi, Tennessee on to Little RocN. They are pleased with the plans to build this the great post and military road under government control
 Secretary Rountree predicts that several thousand delegates alone Will be in attendance from he states of Texas. Oklahoma, and northern Ar kansas He also states that reports that have been received at the head quarters in Birmingham show that al unusually good crowd will come from all parts of the United States 10 take part in the great good roads gather- ing that will assemble in Little Rock the third week in April