The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1940-09-12
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PRAISES
COUNTY FOR 0ILING HIGHWAY
Methods Of Oiling More
OF 81. Xdvier Rood
Are Discussed

OF St. Xuvier Road
Are Discussed
At their regular Monday noon
meeting, the directors of the
Big Horn county Chamber OF
Commerce passed a resolution
commencing the county COM
missioners and the county sur
veyor for the oiling of three
miles of highway along the St.
Xavier road and the Hardin
City limits.
The resolution is as follows:
Resolution
1.-The following resolution was
of the Board of Directors of the
Big Horn County Chamber Of
Commerce, and that a copy be
mailed to the Board of County
Commissioners of Big Horn
County, Montana, and to the
County Surveyor, and that a
copy be published in the Hardin
Tribune Herald.
WHEREAS: The Board of
County Commissioners of Big
Horn County, Montana, togeth-
er with the County Surveyor,
have completed a new road &C
ross the west side of the cor
porate limits of the City of
Hardin, being approximately
one mile in length, and the
same kind of road with oil
black top has also been compile
ted two miles south from the
southwest corner of the said
city limits on the st. Xavier
road; the working having been
done with county equipment
and county labor; and
WHEREAS: the above said
road facilitates the hauling of
sugar beets in a more direct
route to the factory, as well as
making travel for the public in
general more satisfactory in
every respect;
THEREFOR; BE 1T RE-
SOLVED: that the said Board
of County Commissioners and
the County Surveyor, be COM
mended for having completed
an excellent job of road build
ing, which will merit the ap-
probation of the entire COM
munity, and thereby showing
: that a good road can be con-
structed by county labor and
/ equipment at a moderate cost to
the taxpayers, and that the
County Commissioners be urged
/ to continue this good work as
ranidJV &C p0SSih1a
:, adopted this 9th day of Sep
TENDER, 1910.
big Horn County Chamber
of Commerce,
"By o. E. Anderson,
President.
ATTEST:
carl Rankin, Secretary"
The directors discussed the
ACCESSIBILITY of attempting to
persuade local land owners and
other persons and agencies to
assist the commissioners to
build the black-top road south
toward st. Xavier by matching
dollar for dollar the cost of this
construction to the county.
County labor and county equip
AiiC11o "oulu Uc uScu LII Illc WOTk.
1t was agreed that, according to
the excellent showing made so
!, far by the county, much money
. could be saved and this much
needed road could be built.
:. Also brought out at the meet
, ing vas the Importance of send
> ing delegates to the meeting of
the National Association of Rec
lamation, to be held at Great
, Falls on September "a, Is and
i 26. This community will be rep
: resented, it was stated. The
: meeting will be open, and any,
one interested may attend.
t Present were o. E. Anderson,
!. president; Carl Rankin, secre-
tary and A. M. Chilly, P. D.
5 Thomson, H. W. Bunston, H. D.
= Kenyon, w. H. Kelley, George
T W. Gustafson, C. S. Elder, and
Louis Nybo, directors. Carl Mel
t ster, superintendent and man.
!, ager of the Big Horn County
u Electric Cooperative, was a
guest.