The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-04-06

or all concerned. l sincerely hope
hat the Highway Commission will re-
consider its program in this part
If the state this year.
State Can Get Cheap Money
Asked whether he favored the
flOtatiOn of a bond issue TO build
Schnitzler said he did. 'We can
get money in Wall Street for pub
lie improvements as low as four
per cent" said Mr.. SchnitZler. "H
we do not avail ourselves of this
others will. The gasoline tax would
pay the interest and amortization
without increasing the taxes and we
would have the advantage of good
roads in our lifetime. Money is no
good unless it is working and gives
service to the people. We could put
the dollars lying idle in Wall street
to work here in Montana and bring
prosperity and pleasure to its in
habitants. ! think we should be all
prOgressives and make life fuller
and more happy for the people here
now if we can" concluded the
Roosevelt Senator.
Senator Taylor Wires from Big Falls
Senator Chas. E. Taylor wiring
from Big Falls, Mimi, where he is
now numbering talks as follows:
Progress does not mean standing
still, it is expressed in terms of
building up the community and
state. l am in favor Of using east
ern money for developing the west
J especially our own state of Mon
tana. We can get this eastern
money at an extremely low rate Of
interest and can have the payment
spread over on to the next gener-
alton. 1t will mean no increase OF
taxes while giving the people who
live here now the advantages Of
modern civilization. Up here in
Minnesota they have good roads
everywhere. 1t is a shame that our
people in Montana have to put up
with what they have"
WHAT GREER SAYS
Atty. T. w. Greer, Chairman of the
Regina Mexico trail and leading good
roads booster of northeastern Mon
tana says:
"The question of road building anC
road improvement is one of the big
gest problems to confront the people
of Montana today.
"No one will question but what th'
progress of a community IS largel!
judged by the condition of its roads
little careful thought will make
equally apparent that the condition
of the roads of community is one o
the great contributing factors to it
progress and prosperity. 1t is not on
ly criterion by which the communi
ty's progress can be judged but it
also the cause for community prOgres
and advancement; this being true n
one will dispute that at this season @
the year when road work can be don
it is proper to give serious considers
ton to the question of what we, in tn
state of Montana, are going to d.
Are we going to sit idly by with
patchwork program that will remoN
from the present generation all hoI
of seeing in this, the third large
state in the Union, the state pOssessE
of more complete and varied natur
resources than any other, a real higl
way system connecting the differel
# points of Importance within the state
II Are we going to be satisfied with Il
J. building of a little patch of six
+ seven miles of road last year on OF
\, end of our principle route and Il
a building of similar mileage this We;
{ on the other end of the same route
re Attitude of Sheridan County PeOpl'
id "What are we of Sheridan Coun
I'd going to do about it? What is goiT
Is to be our attitude? Far be it fro
h me to seek to bring sectionalism i
n to this question, far be it from me
ne attempt to claim special favor for o.
n county or our community, in fact
m is in protest against favoritism for
ey prejudice against ANY community
I'd locality and in an effort to suggest
" remedy therefor that l make the su
as gestions that will be hereinaft
nd found. 1t is because / can see no los
he cal reason why, if there were only
is be IA miles of road constructed
re 1927 and 1928 on the route betwe
Is. Culbertson and Scobey, there shoU
re be seven miles constructed out of Cl
of bertson and seven miles construct
r" at the other end out of Scobey and n
I'M one scraper full of dirt moved
Sheridan countyl / do not want ar
cd one to get the idea that / am CO
IS tending that that IA miles of 70
of should have been built out of Plent
nd wood, to take that position and a
IS. for that would have been as illogi,
$" as to apportion the work the was
he has been done. But last year afi
ed the Culbertson road had been let / Z
nle peared before the engineer Of |
an highway commission and called his
If tention to this situation that on
BE- route from Culbertson to Scobey af
! a the Culbertson hill was climbed thI
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