The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-03-02
ME- ER|D|AN ROAD
MEET IN DUNCAN
To BOOM ACTION
Hutson Calls Meeting to Try for
Plans to Remedy Stretch of High
way Near Agwam; Says It's
One of Worst.

l.. c. Hutson leaves today for Dun
can whore he will attend a meet
ing of committees from towns OF
the Meridian highway between E
Reno and Bowie, Tex, with a view
TO formulating some plan whereby
roads can be put in such condition
that the Meridian highway through
Grady county can be put on the Of
cial route in time to catch the sum
mer tourist business.
Some time ago Mr.. Hutson was
appointed by the Meridian highway
officials as chairman of the orgnmi
zation for the stretch of country
represented between El Reno and
Bowie. The meeting at Duncan to
day is in response to call from
Mr.. Hutson for a conference.
There's sand bed down here
between Chicklsha and Rush Springs
that it seems is known from here
to Canada" said Mr. Hutson. Its
that stretch of road around the Ag-
awam school house. Grady county
officials have spent considerable
money working on rolds in the
south end of the county and these
roads are in pretty good condition.
Also, the north end of the Meridian
highway in Grady county is in fair
shape. AS good, take it as the
average stretch of this highway
What we've got to do now is to get
thnt piece of road around the Aga
awm school house in such condition
that the Meridian highway officials
will mark the road for travel through
this country this summer,
There will be literally thousands
of northern tourists coming through
Oklahoma soon. The advance guard
81 already coming and they are 60
ing to lie thicker as the weather
warns. At the present they are
being directed to go by way of Ho-
bart and Anadarko, as the officials,
it seems, warn them to keep away
frmo this sand bed around Agawam.
If we had that piece of road in shape
| have assurance from the officials
that the road would be marked
this county for this seasons
traffic.
Thousands of northern people are
going to see the oil fields of Texas
and southwestern Oklahoma this
summer and they are going to make
those trips in cars. AT present, if
they are going to Ft. Worth, the
chances are that they are being
routed by way of Oklahoma City,
thence south. If they are going to
Wichita Falls and Burkburnett,
chances are that they are being
routed into Texas west of here With
the Meridian road in shape through
the entire county, all this northern
traffic would be routed through
Chickasha.
The time is coming when this
road must be put in shape. The
Canadian river bridge between Min
co and Union City is now practically
assured this year. That's going to
bring a great volume of traffic this
way and It's up to us to have the
road through this county in cores
ponding shape. There is now an
outlet south into Texas nt the Ter
raj toll bridge across Red river.
ITS impossible for me to say
what plans will be perfected for the
building Of this necessary road
That is one of the chief reasons
for calling the meeting at Duncan
today. 1t does seem a shame that
right here in Grady county the wrost
strip of road in this great national
highway from Winnepeg to the Mex
ican border can be found.
They are hard surfacing parts of
the Meridian highway in Iowa and
Kansas. It's permanent road and
an important one. We cannot af-
ford to have the stretch of road
from El Reno south to be routed
another way than through Chicka-
sha.'