Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1922-03-03
THE
BUILDING OF
BIG HIGHWAYS
The Tourist Crop" Is the
Best One For the Farmers
and the Community in
General.
(From Thursdays Daily


A very prominent farmer o. Greene
county. one who is interested in the
material development of Greene
county, this morning presented an
article from the Ozark Countryman
farm journal published at Spring
field, Missouri, in which is outlined
what is regarded as the very best
retrospective crop" the citizens OF
this section should consider. This
farmer said that everything
thought contained in the article,
could be well applied to this sec
ton. We believe he is right. Hc
said he wanted the article publish
ed in The Daily Press and The Tri-
Weekly Soliphone. We are glad
to publish it and hope that every
enterprising farmer in Greene coun-
ty will read it and ponder it, con-
slider it as the farmer asking for
it's publication is considering it.
The article shows just what it
means for community to have
good roads; the great value the
highways are to a community, espe-
cially when the Federal government
offers to bear great portion OF
the financial burden in building
those roads. Upon the recommends
tion of the farmer presenting the
article in question from the columns
of the Ozark Countryman,' we are
publishing the same in full. Read
every word of it;
"In speaking of the future de-
velopment of the Ozark Country
there is one crop which so far has
never been mentioned seriously in
the Ozark Countryman.. That is
the tourist crop" which when
properly cultivated, yields large
cash income from a reasonably small
investment, and once carefully start
ed is sure to yield bountifully from
year to year. In fact it is per-
ennial. AS an example of what
the tourist crop may yield to a
country, the city of Denver is boast
ing that during the month of Au-
gust. 1921, tourists of Colorado in
Denver spent $35,000,000, where
seven years ago, tourists had spent
only about $5,000,000 in the same
month. In fact, this amounted to
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entire stale, and compared with
their alfalfa and irrigated crops, it
was one of the largest crops of the
season.
THE thing which has brought this
about is good roads and advertising
If it were possible for tourists to
come from st. Louis to Springfield
and from Kansas City to Joplin over
good permanent roads and then
make belt line tour of the Ozark
Country between Joplin and Spring
field, circling south around and
along the White river, the OZARK
Country would have more tourists
than the state of Colorado, and
while many of them would stay
but a few days, they would bring
about some wonderful changes IN
this country of ours. We have
never cultivated our tourist crop in
spite of the fact that we have near
ly 100000 city people within {
days drive on a good road, of oul
beautiful hills and sparkling streams
people eager for a cheap and en-
joyable holiday in the country suel
as a drive through this region wouit
give them. So long as we do not
have good roads, however, connect
ing the Ozark Country with these
large cities, the doors are practical
ly closed and locked, and the few
who do venture down here viii
turn in an adverse report to Their
friends and neighbors back home
"All these are facts which SHOULD
be kept in mind by those who arr
opposing the building of big trunl
roads which make travel and cas-,
communication with the rest of th'
world DOSSible ~