The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-14

then an impossible trail was marked
out and organized for Improvement
Under present conditions the trip can
be made from Tulsa to Sloan Springs
with perfect safety in from six to
seven hours, and at the rate the work
is being pushed between Salina and
Sloan Springs it will be but few
months more until this trip can be
made in about five hours
During the year the Tulsa Ozark
outing Club has been organized for
the avowed purpose Of building a club
house and maintaining a permanent
fishing ground for Tulsa folks in the
beautiful Spavinaw hills. -n;pment Of
two thousand game fish has been Sc
cured from the government fish hatch
cry at Neosho, Mo, and planted In
this ideal trout stream near the site
of the new club house. This planting
will be cared for from time to time
by a man experienced in his work and
other paintings will follow as rapidly
as the fish can be supplied by the
hatchery
While the organization Of this club
is not the work of a highway depart
ment it has been made possible by the
opening of the Salina route.
1t so happens that none of the road
projects being handled under highway
associations reach us from the north
" south, but this fact has not left us
unmindfu of the Importance of such
connections. During the year much
work has been done in Okmulgee ana
Okfuskee counties and the results have
been very gratifying. In Washington
county, on the north of us, the same
condition prevails, and we are ap-
preaching the work of the new year
confident that we will close the 1918
campaign with the assurance of hard
surfaced road on the Kansas state
line south through Bartlesyille to
Tulsa and out via Okmulgee, Hen.
ryetta and Okemah.
Plans are also under way for the
construction of road from SkiatOok
to Pawhuska and from there west to
the Garfield county oil fields via Ponca
City. The portion of this road be
tween Tulsa and Skiatook is provided
for under our recent bond issue.
Locally the work Of the department
has eliminated in the issuance Of road
bonds in the sum of $1750,OOO for the
construction of one hundred miles OF
high.class hard.surfaced roads that
will connect the city of Tulsa with
every town in the country and put Us
in shape to meet at the county line
any such system planend by our
neighbors. We have made it year OF
educational and construction road pro
motion work that has for its ultimate
aim the building OF a system Of high
ways radiating out of Tulsa in suct
a way as to make us the hub of the
good roads system of the Middle West
during this coming generation.
An examination of the financial con
dltion of road funds Of Tulsa county
shows the following cash balance il
each of the separate 1undS ready lol
immediate use:
Township fund -----------$ 39,559.oS
County road maintenance
fund --- 45,4S5.3.
state highway construc-
tion fund - 2O,OOO.OC
County road construction
fund - 4O,OSO1!
County road and bridge
fund " 57,159.6'
Total ------s 2O2 2,2S47'
Special bond issue voted
for hard.surfaced roads l,75OOOO,O'
Grand total for all pur.
poses --------------,-S1, ,952, ,2S4.7
The total approved estimate for al
purposes in the road funds Of Tulsi
County for the fiscal year l9l7-l9l'