Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-11-12
PERSISTENCE WINS

Persistence wins in the long run is evil
denced by what is now occurring in theway
of road and bridge building in this part OF
the state. Frank French made many trips to
Helena to urge upon the State Highway
commission the absolute necessity OF get
ting some road work done in this county He
has also stressed the Importance OF letting
this work be lone by local farmers who need
the work at this time. Together with numer-
Gus others he has clamored for action on the
Culbertson bridge. Most of these things
looked like nebulous phantasies and not
things that we could expect in the immedi-
ate future.
1t is only a few short weeks ago when
Frank French and Carl Hansen, two OF our
county commissioners appeared before the
Highway Commission at Helena and renew
ed their requests for road work in this coun-
ty as well as early action on the bridge at
Culbertson. These two men plead that the
work should be given to our farmers instead
of to some outside contractor, who would
hire his own friends to do the work. This
existence has been crowned with success.
hen these W men came home they car
cd with them the assurance of the Highway
commission that surveying the new federal
state highway into P~lentywood from near
Reserve would be lone at once so that work
could progress on it next spring, and that
such work would be done by local farmers
and laborers. They were also given assur-
ance of engineers being put to work in the
matter of the Culbertson bridge, and told
further that that this work would be given,
as far as possible, to people in Eastern Mon
tana.
The engineers are at work on the Gull
bertson bridge site, and other engineers are
at work on the highway into Plentywood,
and are now very close to Antelope. Further
than this, grading and hauling of gravel is
being done on the Highway in the vicinity
of Froid, and this work is being done by far
mers in the vicinity. About 50 trucks are be-
ing used and employment is being given to
local people in preference to outsiders.
Some fanatics circulated a story that
this Helena trip of Messrs. Hansen and
French was only a drinking orgy but that has
turned out to be merely another falsehood
nailed to the cross.
We are proud Of what these men &C.
complished, as we know what this work will
eventually mean when the road to Culbert-
son as we'll as the Missouri bridge there is
opened for travel. Instead of twenty thous-
and people crossing the river on the north
and south route to the Black Hills region or
into our territory, in one year; instead Of a
thousand tourist cars annually passing thru
Plentywood and Sheridan county on this
north and south route it will mean a least a
hundred thousand crossing the bridge and
most of them will go through this county.
With return Of good times and crops,
these tourists will tell the world about what
a wonderful country this section really is.
We will all reap large benefits from this road
and bridge.
We owe much of this to our County
Commissioners who took it upon themselves
to go to Helena for one last try for this re-
lief to our difficult situation both as to roads
and work for our farmer folks.
TILE IOR MIST RE DONE