, 1919-11-20
County Good Road
Assn. Organized
Recommendations Made to State High
way Superintendent as to Dispo-
sitiOn of the Road Funds.

l.. NJ. Conness of Encampment. rep
~rescnting the Platte Valley in the di-
rectorate of the Carbon County Good
Roads Association, and who attended
last Saturdays meeting in Rawlins as
a delegate from this section, hands us
the following report of the proceed
ing of the meeting, which should be of
great interest to all who are interested
in the good roads movement, and which
we are glad TO publish in full:
"As director OF the Carbon County
Good Roads Association, representing
the Platte Valley. / wish to report to
our people on the meeting with Mr..
McCalman of the State Highway Com
mission in Rawlins. and its results:
"On Saturday the Good Roads AS
ISOLATION was organized at a meeting
which filled every chair in he large
rooms of the Elks Club in Rawlins
with a bunch of live wires and friends
of good roads which it did ones heart
good TO see and be among. They or
ganized with w. w. Daley as chair
man and j. W. Wisda as secretary,
and then spent the day in a discussion
OF the road problem in Carbon county
II the ap~portionment of the available
money from the state bond issue-
1872 900 for Carbon cOunty-to the
FuEIpuS DdTts VI tIt tbuilly. II Sllpulu
be understood that the final allotment
Of this fund rests with the State High
way Commission. and that we were
only asked to advise. them as to how
and where the people of the county
wished the money used.
Very strong opposition was at once
shown to spending too large a part of
the money on the Lincoln Highway.
While all believed that it should receive
a just proportion, yet there are so many
miles of main road III the county which
are absolutely necessary to its people
and taxpayers in order that they may
a the railroad and the county seat
al Rawlins, that il is necessary to cut
down the allotment Of the Lincoln High
way to about one-fifth of the total. to
which will be added AN equal amount
of federal funds. and this was recon-
mended to be spent on the worst stretch
of the Highway. which is in the neigh
borhood of Carbon.
1.-THE people of Medicine Bow also
asked for and obtained an amount for
"a roa north to Shirley and the county
line, and Elk Mountain and Hanna re
ceived approval of request TO take care
of the road east from Hanna TO Elk
Mountain and through to the Albany
county line. Baggs and Dixon asked
and received approval of their request
for aid in making their present road to
Rawlins II good auto rond instead of
the champion auto spring and axle
smasher of the state.
There was in evidence all the time
the intense desire of the people of each
section to have at least one good road
to travel over, and as the whole amount
was to small to do the amount of work
needed. it was expected that ii would
be difficult to allot it to the satisfac-
ton of all. In fact, that was impossible,
and the remarkable feature of the dis
cussion was the good feeling and mu-
tual consideration show by all those
present to the claims from other sec
lions of the country.
with regard to the Rocky Mountain
Highway. from North Park through
Encampment, Saratoga, Walcott and
Rawlins, it was realized that the worst
part of the roa ut present is that
north from Rawlins. 1t was "A question
whether to follow the present o to
Lander or whether there was not a
good route available which would run