The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-12-13

of the year of motor travel, ant
more northern people will visit the
famous Gulf coast resorts this win
ter than ever before as the result
of the great publicity given these
north and south summer and winter
health giving recreational, CONNER
cial, industrial and pleasure fields.
Some Big Road Projects
Montana has built and is building
miles and miles of United States stan
dard hard surfaced highways, the
| Birdseye Pass over the mountains in
central Wyoming is to be abandoned
with the opening of the new half mil
lion dollar Wind River canon high
way south of ~Thermopolis in Deem
Der; Colorado has built her great
highway system and a large part of
the eleven hundred miles of the Gla-
cier to Gulf in the state of Texas is
a paved highway costing up to thirty
five thousand dollars a mile. The
Wind iver canyon highway is "a per
cen granite grading with three tun-
nels, bored eight hundred and thirty
two feet through solid granite at en-
ormous cost and making it possible
to pass through the mountains at any
season of the year.
Road building stands close to the
top of the list of big business in the
United States and the latest estimates
compiled by the United States bureau
of public roads, shows that during
1928 approximately 10000 miles of
surfaced highways will be completed.
At the beginning of this year there
were about four hundred thousand
miles of improved surfaced highways
in the United States and at the pres
ent rate of progress this mileage will
be doubled in ten years, and to illus
trate the pressing need for and con
omy to be gained from the construc-
ton of good roads, it is only neces-
sary to cite the tremendous growth
and increased use of the motor We
hicles on the highways. Thirteen
million vehicles in 1928 compared
with 1,711,339 in 1914. The records
show that there is now more than
one motor vehicle for every ten per-
sons in the United States and that
with just a little crowding the whole
population could be taken for a motor !
ride at one time.
son to prosperity" should be the
of every citizen of every state
.traversed by the Glacier to Gulf
in following the eastern
slope of the Rocky mountains, for it
is n of the best countries on earth,
clear skies, bright sunshine 800
days in the year, and pure water;
the home Of health, wealth and hap
with more advantages and
less disadvantages than any other
like area in the known world, and
every human requirement
either for food or wear from the
corn, sugar beets, furs and
wool of the northland to the rice,
cane, citrus fruits, silk and cotton of
The southland, with all of the miner
ais, coal, oil natural gas, water and
power posterity may demand
this vast empire.
Montana's mountain parks are a
summer paradise endowed by the
Creator with every agricultural pos
and natural resource, and
Down by the deep sounding sea, South
Texas offers a winter playground be-
yond the frost line, home of the grape
and infinite potentialities.
Commercial, social and economic
development demand good highways,
in the matter of agriculture,
is the prime industry of the
world, good roads are so essential to
is development that the whole sys-
EN- would collapse without them, for
hey not only increase the demand
and the value of the land itself,
tut the actual quality and quantity of
he farm products, for it is a we'll
,nown truth that where great high
Ways are to be found there too are
ound the scientific type of farmer,
Who is able to cope intelligently with
onditions in the growing and mar
,eting of farm crops.
The Glacier to Gulf Motorway will
Ielp to develop a better home life,
specially of the rural communities,
ecause it will bring its enriching
nd refining influence to these homes
nd families which would otherwise
isolated. 1t will help to reduce
he wear and tear both on the motor
ehicle and on the occupants, and
make possible the hauling of much
loads; it will bring almost
immediate service of the physician
nd a hundred and one modern con-
.eniences to put shock absorbers into
be stark harshness of life.