The diamond drill., 1919-06-14

Highway extended as outlined. pro-
vided OF course, that the counties to
the west Of Chippewa will take 1t up
In the spirit outlined. and will you
aud your organization be willing to
Join in campaign TO bring about
such an end?
Turning your attention again to the
map Of this peninsula you note that
the route along Lake Michigan is a
natural one and one that has many
advantages which the other has not
and that a system of we'll located
north-and-south connecting lines
would make one line feeder for the
other and give every corner OF Clover
land fine service. The route runs
west through Mackinaw, Schoolcraft,
Delta and Menominee to the wiscon-
sin line at Marinette and northwest
from Spaulding through the Menom-
inee valley to the Wisconsin line at
AASA "Sou' AAAo houbc has Nhc duNdh-
tage OF connection through wiscon-
sin with the great Mississippi valley,
with Milwaukee and Chicago. 1t has
no provoking ferry transfer with it's
exorbitant charge such as handicaps
you at st. Ignace. II | may digress
for moment, that ferry charge at st.
Ignace is crime against Cloverland
that everyone should denounce.
For your information let me say
that just across the line from Iron
county lies the great inland lake sec
ton of Wisconsin. in Forest and Villas
counties, Wis. Iron county is bonding
this year so as to make available
500 900 to be spent on the roads of
the county. a large portion OF that
sum to be spent in making connections
with the Wisconsin trunk lines in the
two counties mentioned. and open up
TO Cloverland that great playground.
1t is the fishing and hunting grounds
OF Chicago and Milwaukee people. The
thousands or lakes are dotted along
their shores with summer cottages,
and the railroads run special trains
to accommodate the summer visitors
to this section.
With the opening OF these connect
ing links these thousands of summer
visitors will have close connection
with Cloverland's road system and
much traffic will be diverted north to
the copper country and east to the
500, thereby.
l wouldn't have you think for 9
minute that fail 10 appreciate
the 500 and its wonderful advantages
/ do appreciate them and IL Is for
that reason that / plead for a broad
view OF this trunk line question. II
is such localism as Is evidenced in
the rerouting of the Roosevelt High
way which causes friction and Local
jealousies. The people OF the PENN
sula can do much for one another and
bring far more return to each com.
munity if they all join in 2 campaign
OF composite road development and
advertising Each will profit by the
work OF every other unit while, II we
set out to play a lone hand the gam,
will naturally change to one in which
the effort will be to checkmate tn,
fellow who seeks to take an unfair ad
vantage.
| agree with you when you say tina
the saving Of few hours time ism
the prime consideration with tn,
traveller along the route. find il
practice that the chief concern Is t,
get over the roads with as little in
convenience as possible and for thu
life OF me / can't figure out how yol
are going to send the traveller rejoic
ing along the Roosevelt Highway IA
amended" for many years to come
My reasons must be apparent to yo'
when you consider the route in detail
and its present condition. For tina
reason / cannot commend the goo,
judgment OF the committee in charge
But, whatever may be our individual
opinions of the judgment OF this com
mittee, the fact remains that we mus
get tourists to Cloverland before W
can profit by their coming and our ef
forts should be to plan that the great
est return may be had from our ef
fort. As George Newett has so wei
expressed II in Iron Ore, II we sc
them here and they get a taste OF on
roads they viii want 10 drive on then
ALI OF tLem--and Il doesn't make $
much difference in that case whethe
we are on the trail or not Our tasi