The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1930-01-31

Young, president; A. v. Appel
gren, vice-president; V. A. Lowell
treasurer; o. c. Heinze, j.. c. De
Wane, A. w. Huxsol, F. H. Liv
ingston, ]. R. Burgess, ]. F. Coof
and P. M. Krebsbach, directors
They gave themselves to this task
in the fullest measure OF disin
terested service and they T re
paid by the assurances Of theil
friends that what they did is ap,
preciated. The secretary attends
to routine details but the direct.
ors and committees do the real
work and as long as they func-
ton the club will be successful.
Some of the more important &C
| tivities Of the club in 1929 are
as follows:
In January the club took up
the matter of checking up on
Legislation at Helena concerning
special improvement district tax
alton. The various bills before
the legislature were examined,
with the result that in our opin-
ion they were framed in the in
terest OF the bonding companies.
The matter was Of special i'm
portance to the property-owners
of this city and had the legisla-
ton become law as first intro
duced. it would have saddled our
property-owners with a burden
for years to come. Suffice to say,
that the bill as passed met with
our approval and later a decision
of the Supreme Court embodied
all the clauses for which we
fought.
Early in 1929, a belated attempt
was made by certain ill-advised
interests to change the location
of the federal highway leading
from the bridge in course of cree
ton across the Missouri river near
this city. The basic idea Of the
federal bureau Of roads and the
Montana highway commission in
granting the petition for a bridge
across the Missouri river here was
to facilitate north and south trav-
ell and between Canada and the
United States.
After construction on the bridge
had begun and the highway route
laid out by federal and state en-
gineers, a determined effort was
made by these outside interests
to alter this highway route. A
bitter campaign was waged by
them, necessitating our making
trips to different parts of the
state for the retention Of the or
iginal plans of the highway auth
critics. In the end we were sue
cessful. Nothing beneficial to this
community has been handed to us
on a platter in road or bridge
matters, instead, strenuous efforts
/ nave DGGu 1AlpCl dI4fO4y hCSSoo0t
to win our detectives.
While on the subject of roads,
i will merely mention that after
arduous work by our president,
w. L. Young, a route between
Wolf Point and Scobey has lately
been designated as part Of the
seven per cent system Of federal
highways. The tremendous posi-
bilities of this realization of our
aims cannot be set forth in the
limited time at my disposal. This
designation of a seven per cent
federal highway also extends to
Circle from this city, connecting
the network of Canadian trunk
roads with the highway system
south of the Canadian boundary.
The work of 0uT president, W.
L. Young, in the matter of high
ways and other projects has been
so notable that 1 will recall to
you that in particular since 1926
he has been working whole-heart-
edly in the interests of this COM
munity. You may remember the
trouble encountered with the final
location of the bridge, passing
through the stages of the diver
sion of the present channel and
the Oswego site rumpus. If set
forth in detail, the number of alb
solutely necessary journeys made
by him to Washington, D. c.,
Kansas City, Helena and other
towns and cities would demon
strate the various obstacles to be
overcome and which we're over
come. When important decisions
affecting our interests were to be
made elsewhere, w. L. Young
managed to be there in person
and as every businessman knows
it is personal attention to bust
ness affairs that counts. Usually
we wait until a man is dead to
recall his good points so l decid-
ed this evening not to wait until
Bill had passed away to call at
tention to his good works.
One hundred and fifty hand.
some metal road markers were