The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-01-01
BUILD ROADS IS
CH|CKASHA' 8 JOB
FOR COMING YEAR
Local Business Men Stress Road Pro-
gram AS Most important Activity
for Chckasha During 1920 and
Urge Action.
MANY FAVOR WORK ON
CEMENT ROAD AT ONCE
Point Out Value to City and Snow
How City Stands to Loose Thou
sands If Work Not Done;
Push Park Plan.


What's Chickasha to do in 1920 to
better her condition, makea bigger
and better town and a better place in
which to live?
That's the question that was pm
by representative of the Express
yesterday evening to "a number of To-
cal business and professional men.
Answer-"BuiId Roads,"
There were a number of answers
10 he question, but the majority was
Build roads,
It was pointed out that nothing
that il on the Chickasha calendar for
1920 is so important as me improve
mcnt of roads around Chickasha and
throughout Grady county The value
of good roads to a town was stressed
together with the fact that Grady
county roads can stand considerable
improvements.
The plan, favored by many would
be to see that every road leading in
every direction out Of Chickasha be
improved, not only improved but
made something to be proud OF. In
other words, made a real road. With
this done, local business men say con
tinue the work throughout the coun-
ty pushing the improvement first on
the important roads, preferably the
Meridian highway entering the ceun-
ty from Canadian county north OF
Minco at the proposed bridge across
the river and continuing south
through Grady by Rush Springs and
to the Stephens county line.
Cement Road Improvement.
While road work in general was
spoken of, there seemed TO be a ma
jority favoring immediate building OF
the muchtalked of road to the Ce-
ment oil field.
Most of the business men seen
placed the Cement road as above
everything else in Importance and
stated emphatically that unless Chick
asha builds that road and quits talk
ing about it, this city will lose liter
ally tens of thousands of dollars
through lack of trade and because
some other twon will step in and take
the play" away from Chickasha.
chickasha Logical Gateway.
1t was shown that Chickasha is the
logical gateway to the Cement-Cyrii
field. with the splendid railroad faci-
tiles possessed by Chickasha, it is
easier to get to the field from prac-
tically any important point in Okla
homa or in fact the entire. country
through Chickasha than in any other
way
The field, it was also shown, is no
longer an experiment. There is much
production at Cement, many tests are
going down and the PROJECT as
whole is now real oil field. The
time is here, business men declare
when the field demands that prompt
action be taken in the matter OF
connecting the field and Chickasha
bv good road with provisions to
keep good. There are, local mer
chants estimate, ten times the travel
over the Cement road that passes
over any other road in the county
That volume of traffic, it is pointed
out will double if the road is put
and kept in good condition
Carry Out Park Plan.
Another project that Chickasha
should carry out to completion is the
building of parks, business men state.
This. of course with the provision
that the attorney general passes ia
vorahly on the legality of the bond
issue that is now in his hands. In
this event, Chickasha will have 500,
600 with which to bull dparks. The
park boosters favor careful expendi-
ture of the funds that would be avail
able and the handling of the PROPOSE
tion in such a manner that the initial
Improvement will mean an expansion
If the system to include one of the
lest park systems in the state.
There is an immediate need il