Evening star., 1928-12-16
$35 100000 MORE IS VOTED
FOR WEST VIRGINIA ROADS
State Has Just Spent $5O,0O0,0OO, and Hopes
to Make Hig ghways Best In
the Country.
West Virginia knows her roads.

West Virginia knows her roads.
Aroused from her lethargy and smart
ing under the criticism that its high
ways we're the worlds worst. the peo-
pie eight years ago voted $4,000, 600
bond issue, expended the money in
the development of a great road sys-
tenn, and then last month, by a ma
iority of 4 to /, voted $35 100000 more
of bonds for the continuance of road
building.
Already commanding attention OF
tourists with its fine system OF ROADS,
II is claimed that with the expenditure
of the new bond issue the Little Noun
tain States roads, instead OF being the
worlds worst, will be among the
worlds best, making the State, so ricnly
endowed in diversified SCENIC beauty,
one of the most popular OF the states
of the Union with tourists.
MANY Tourists Expected.
So great will be the influx Of tourists,
in the opinion of Albert Snedeker, pres
ident of the West Virginia Good Roads
Association, an organization OF Leading
West Virginians. which conducted an
intensive campaign of education that
nut over the last bond issue, that this
tourist business will become the State
greatest industry. A survey conducted
by the West Virginia State Road Com
mission less than three months ago
showed that already 25 per cent OF the
automobiles travelling the roads OF this
State are from other States.
President Snedeker points out that
although West Virginia has been build
ing State roads for only six years, 1t
has already surpassed other States
which have been building them for
MANY wears. that the benefits already
derived from these roads are beyond
estimate. and that as a result OF the
roads completed and those yet to be
built the State will make more prog
ress in the next 10 years than 1t mas
made in the past so.
So great was the faith of the West
Virginia Good Roads Association in the
people of the State that they issued
before the election a challenge TO all
the other States voting on bond issues
for the honor of polling the biggest
proportionate majority for ratification.
West Virginia came out with nylng
colors, winning easily. The bond issues
lost in Colorado and Pennsylvania ana
won in Iowa, Missouri and LOUISIANA,
but not by the overwhelming ma1orities
that swept West Virginia, where the
vote was 360,579 for to 92,905 against.
Contest Is Inaugurated.
In order to give zest to the campaign
and stir the workers to greater efforts
contest was inaugurated among the So
counties of the State for the biggest
proportionate majorities. and IN this
contest Mingo County came out on top
with vote of 81 to l., the total being
5,547 for to 200 against. Calhoun
County was second, II to l, with a
total of 1878 to 203. Mcdowell was
third, Is to /, the total being 14,l4l to
904.
In view of the generally admitted
fact that good roads mean develop
ment and progress West Virginia asks
, the world to please take notice to the
progressive spirit Of the mountaineer,
which was expressed in the following
telegram sent by President Snedeker of
! the West Virginia Good Roads Associa-
ton to the associations in other States
making drives for bond issues:
The West Virginia Good Roads As
ISOLATION, one of the greatest organiza-
tions of its kind in the most progressive
oGdCe III Ine Union, nereDy cnallengeS
your association and similar organiza-
tions in other States voting on bond
Issue proposals November to prove that
ours is the greatest good roads organ
ization, and that West Virginia Is the
most progressive State and will roll up
larger proportionate majority for its
roads bond issue than any other State
voting on bond issues"
The challenge was accepted by the
other States voting on bond issues.
Association Regarded Efficient.
It is declared the West Virginia Good
Roads Association was the most per-
/ feet and efficient State organization
ever formed in the State, doing Its
work so well, In fact, that there have
been demands that 1t continue In exist
, ence and work for the interests of the
! whole State In other ways. Officials OF
J the association feel there is a great
: need for 1t and it will continue to func-
ton for at least another year. Facing
| in the beginning Of the campaign Sec
| tional and county charges Of favoritisnl
! in the expenditure of the previous bond
issue. opposition Of many Of the elec-