East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-08-30
81 MILLIONS FOR TOURISTS; LET THE PRODUCER
HOOP 1T

vr>HERE the in which the
state highway commissioners treat the Professionalism
Day road projects of economic Importance
The people of Umata county who know something about
vde $4,000 for it. Grant county people also included the road
in their bond ISSUE The forestry department represented by
men who conditions has offered spend $4,000 on the
to get money possible Former members OF
the state highway commission thought well enough OF the road
that they included in the list of state highways
But the present highway cannot see the
have expended the tourist road system and they
want for The same purpose They don't see the
businessmen the Grant county road they both unwise
and strangely Inconsistent They intimate that the Pendeon
good But they thought enough of Grant county to build the
John Day highway whereby those people travel to Port
land If it wasworth while to do that why not worth while
to help those people reach their natural trading point which
banking Pendeton They buy flour and other supplies here
when they here But owing the lack of good road
they ship most Of their by parcels post They carry
banking with bankers whom they seldom The banks of
Pendeton and Pilot Rock carry about half the banking bu
commissioners think they are not entitled
their stock be driven out the hoof The chief
reason those people have nothing but cattle at present na
they have transportation There land out there ON which
good crops have been raised But there get
wheat to market There land adapted to daryng and to
other forms of diversified farming But in the absence of trans
growing is losing game days The catteman cannot
make enough out of cattle to his taxes and interest
business the southwark that has to live and
keep his family in isolation from the comforts and
If the highway commissioners wise they would aid these
people instead of ndugng jibes at their There
lacking in transportation All this northwest country was that
and would be that yet if empire builders
the position that country should not have
tation until is first settled and provided with picture the
atre and pipe organ in every other block.
The highway commission is making mistake Tourist roads
fine and like them. But after spending 81 millions
time that little consideration be given to
nomc roads The tourist not the only entitled to aen
on The farmer and sockmen and their wives and children
human beings also They don't need tourists roads badly
They haven't much for touring They need roads
which they haul butter and and other
and which they obtain flour without having to-
ship it by mail.
The highway commission has been right in giving chief aen
main state highways but there in all things and
il time attention paid to regional roads of
butter The commission cannot continue for
spend millions tourist roads while holding that the
farmer and the stockman can hoof it.
If there virtue in the voter straight theory the
try should be in wonderful shape The people did that
years ago this county and elsewhere but lot those who
did so have been kicking themselves since.
Tomorrow the last day of time dust off the
Roundup hat