Pueblo chieftain., 1921-09-18
GAM BACK FROM
ROAD MEET Hello
At KANSAS CITY
National Road Building Cam
paisn Backed By U. S.
Seems Certain

G. L. L. Gam Of Pueblo. chairman of
the good roads committee of the Com
merce club and member Of the state
highway advisory board, has just re-
! turned from Kansas City. Mo-, where
he attended a meeting of the National
Old Trails association. At the meeting
one of the most discussed subjects was
the gigantic road building scheme OF
a.. the. United States government. bill
providing for which is in congress at
/ the present time.
The following article appearing in
the Kansas City Star relative to the
convention gives some idea Of how
much interest this subject occasioned
| at the meeting:
Early opening in the United States
of road building era without preced-
ent in this or any other country was
| predicted by speakers at the meeting OF
the National Old Trails Road associa-
| ton at the Hotel Baltimore today.
The meeting was attended by almost
two hundred delegates representing
most of the twelve states through
which the Old Trails road passes from
Washington. d. c., to Los Angeles.
| The biggest promise of nation wide
road building on huge scale came in
the discussion sby Judge J: NJ. Lowe
| Of Kansas City, president of the asso-
citation. of bill. drafts of which al
ready have passed both branches of
congress and now Is in conference COM
| mittee.
The bill provides for building 176 900
miles of highways in the country. one
half the expense to be paid by the fed
eral government. Three -sevenths. or
1000 miles. of these roads are to be
known as interstate Highways. and up
on those a maximum of so per cent OF
the federal funds may be concentrated.
This measure. which Judge Lowe pre-
dicted would be passed within few
weeks after congress reconvenes, will
! ~ will NJ
road in Missouri, of which 3.os1 miles
will be primary or interstate highways.
Total mileage in Kansas, under the bill
will be 7.s4O miles. of which $3.50 miles
will be of interstate importance. PRO
vided.' Judge Lowe warned. Kansas
elects a sensible. progressive legtsla-
ture" that will make It possible for the
state rather than the counties to ham
die road building funds.
Col. f. W. Stephens Of Columbia.
president OF the association In Missouri.
declared the organization ought to
erect a monument 'one hundred feet
high here In Kansas City to Judge
Lowe, the greatest pioneer In the coun-
try in hard road building"
Judge Lowe replied the best monu-
mcnt he could desire would be COM
piction Of the Old Trails road. This. It
was predicted. would be done In the
next few years. The road now IL hard
surfaced from Washington to St. Louis.
in Indiana. Half the distance across
Missouri IL hard surfaced. and good
stretches Of the road are built or un-
der contract In Arizona. New Mexico
and California.
Colonel Stephens called on the asso-
ciation to take the lead in making tho
Old Trails n primary road across Mis-
| souri, on the ground that II was the
road of history. agriculture. beauty.
patriotism and direct route from the
two principal cities. Kansas City and
St Louis" He announced that money
for bridge across the Missouri river
at Boonviilc had bccn raised and that
construction would begin in a few
weeks.
| NJ. a. o'Donneil. jackson ecunty rep
rescntative in the Missouri legislature
said the now state road law had bccu
better received by people Of tho sfatc
than any other recent important lcgis-
\ latk,r.