The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1920-02-20
ROOSEVELT HIGHWAY
ALONG high Line"
Northern Montana Association Meet.
ing in Great Falls Plans Immed-
late Action in Matter.

Working to bring about the location
of the Theodore Roosevelt memorial
highway through Montana so that it
will pass through the towns Of the
Great Northern railways main line,
enter Glacier park from the east and
be carried through the Theodore
Roosevelt pass, says the Great Falls
Tribune, delegates from the northern
Montana good roads association have
been comforting in this city for two
days and laying plans for their future
activity in the premises. They have
taken this action now in order that
the road may be properly routed and
gotten on the maps of the national as
ISOLATION which is directing the effort
to complete the Theodore Roosevelt
memorial highway from Portland Me-,
to Portland, Ore.
Closely linked with the effort for
the Roosevelt highway is the move
ment which is bringing into existence
the Northern Montana Development
association and the officers of that
body are leading the work for the
highway location through the towns
along the High Line" with a view
to establishing it through Roosevelt
Pass in the Rocky mountains in Gla-
cier park.
Crosses the Continent.
The Theodore Roosevelt memorial
highway will be a trans-continental
highway extending from Portland, Me-,
on the Atlantic coast to Portland, Ore,
on the Pacific coast and touching many
important points on the continent. 1t
passes directly across the New Eng
land states from Portland to Burling-
ton, VT. Then it swings abruptly
north to the international boundary
and continues westerly south of the
line through New York state to Roch-
ester, Niagara Falls and west to Port
Huron and Flint, Mich, continuing
then swinging %northerly to Mackinaw
and Escanaba from where it marks a
direct route to Duluth.
From Duluth the highway leads to
Cass Lake, Crookston, Grand Forks
and Devils Lake to Minot and crosses
the line into Montana at Buford.
The plan is to carry it west through
the state at almost a straight line to
Glacier national park and thence into
Kalispell, swinging somewhat to the
south from there and then to Spokane,
again passing south through Walla
Walla, WASH, to Pendleton and to
Portland, Ore, it's western terminus.
The meeting of the, delegates here
for the road association meeting
brought together C. R. Hauke of Chi
nook, the president, and l.. E. Jones
of Glasgow, the secretary, and in adj
dition to these were A. Doe of Harlem,
c. F. Brown of Galata, A. M. Foor of
Wolf Point and F. L. Sherman of
Glasgow and with them, O. S. Warden,
president of the Great Falls CONNER
cial club and Scott Leavitt, the secre-
tary. The meeting decided that no
time should be lost in getting active
to bear on positively fixing the
of the road and that it would
be to the best interests of all to have
it pass along the High Line" of the
Great Northern. Scott Leavitt will
go to Duluth to attend a meeting of
the delegates interested in the Roose-
welt memorial highway as a represen-
tative of the Northern Montana De-
velopment association. The local CON-
mercial club directors have voted to
grant him leave of absence for the
journey.