The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-07-25
WISCONSIN BUILDS GOOD ROADS

In sensible editorial contrasting the Missouri and Wisconsin
plans with reference road building the St Louis Post-D
patch offers suggestions that applicable Oklahoma 10
Missouri After noting the fact that while the Missouri egisa
wrangng the question whether that state shall
have disconnected hogepodge Of dirt and clay bound gravel
roads state highway system OF hafdsuiaced roads, Wcon
rushing through the biggest ardroad program her his
tory" the Post-Dispatch continues
Wconns program includes $50 miles concrete road 5000
cuyerts bridges 1000 miles OF gravel roads accommodate
travel while the hard roads being made and 200 miles OF
earth oadhe first step towards hard paving There 25OO
employed on the work
Wisconsin regards the gravel road as mere temporary
makeshit while the hard permanent roads being
built and the earth road beginning OF road making nothing
Its experience has shown that the gravel road does not
for arm-to-market traffic Two originally good
gravel roads, used mainly by farmers for marketing and the
other passenger traffic detours while the trunk road
is being Constructed examples in point With the roads
being paroed constantly by the best expert maintenance force
they do support the traffic but rapidly becoming rough
and impossible
Wisconsin found that any kind road except the hard
surfaced solid permanent road makehif and that the hard
represents economyeconomy Of transportation and
maintenance at isn't question of debating whether not we
shall pay $4,000 $4,000 mile for links OF trunk highway
system the way the Wisconsin authorities the road
situation "We get the traffic through For the traffic in
any bigger than all the petty economics that have hand
capped the world since time began.
interviewing A. X Iirst Wisconsins highway engineer
and the leading expert road building in the west the Chicago
Tribune giving an outline of this years program says Mr. s
emphatic his demand for immediate action roads every
where the basis Of economic value and peme Wei
quote the Irst interview because his statement good
roads and wsconsins work is clear brief forceu
CLOSE observation Of the building OF American traffic has
convinced that long everybody producing these roads
getting only fair profit can't pay much for them be
how fast may there is American state
that produce the highway system ought to have
ought have it. and three years
drop dead loss in highway improvement program So
Wisconsin paying the price We are building almost
three times many miles this year did last year and twice
many did in any year history because people
need the employment and because convinced that mat
how fast 60 produce the roads last as
we actually need them o carry the states business
"Our work is confined to the few miles of
facing alone We building something like 1000 miles Of other
simply because furnish money and mechanical
equipment enough build roads fast enough
commodate traffic of the state Our little job right includes
Of 2S0 miles of 5000 culve and 600
bridges building of 1000 miles of gravel road grading of 220O
miles Of earth road and patrol maintenance Of $500 miles OF state
system In all about 25000 engaged in the work.
The of 81 500000O00 being expended elsewhere this
wear to take rapidly growing traffic Is Missouri be
wholly of this good roads path of progress?
Missours road bond money wasted disconnected dirt
gravel aybound gravel (whatever that @ roads if do
begin Immediately highway system of hard roads with
the ultimate objective of completing thorough system Of
hardroads and hadsuracng all roads Missouri will be Of
running We shall have system of roads and in little
while roads Stunned by visitors and tourists and the moving
population other Missouri will folly
1t will stick the mud and ste in the dustt conspicuous
backwoods, backward unproeresve state the union; the
end the OF least prosperity Because state prosper
under the costliest conditions OF transportation.