Show C. C TYNG URGES U. U S. S TO VAST SUM Continued From Flom Pa Page e. e 1 would also benefit kansas and Te ToU transcontinental trl roa roul roal ls are arc The These o three at least should have hM vital though wo we Interstate road In c every er er one through h connecting it Il north south cast state tale Rn and W west with Its Us neighboring stat stai t. A. A Arc re T K In the Present t not suggest that I 1 need war demonstrated the value of or the tho au au- au in modern warfare and nd the iho undoubtedly sees that war department Is a n. mil mil mU- the he con construction truc lon of oC good roads necessity I been Though h millions of or dollars dollar have o spent in n states l bor bordering tho the oceans In those having ha supposedly n I navigable ble of oC floods and md for Cor the tho prevention rivers livers to alit aid supposedly most of oC the tho money mone It re- re states those thoo the commerce of ot true that In the tho intermountain from moneys 8 derided de de- and arl arid 1 states aside their thol lived II from Crom national parks s within bOl holders borders er which moneys monc's have havo been spent In bull building ln roa roads s to these government ro reserved resor and owned Inn lands s not 1 1 hasI has I I been spent in the tho only way In which their commerce might ht be bc improved that I is is for Cor goo good roads An Important point that affects these arid arid and in- in stales states Is that thal the Iho government government govern govern- o orn rn- rn ment owns enormous areas of oC the public pub pub- lic ie fc domain from flom which the states st de- de de derive rl rive 11 o no taxes Further the tho states are aro put to tho the cost of oC policing these areas without compensation About 70 per Ilor percent percent cent of or lh the entire area of oC Utah 13 h owned lJ by tho iho government go and n I understand understand un un- oven o a lar larger er amount I is owned b by It In Arizona Arlon and an New Mexico Ai is Aia isa a n. matter ot of equity where tho gown govern ment owns own so much of or the public domain do do- main It should help in er e every wa way that would improve o the tho land Jand There Thoro seems scorns to lo be a disposition in tn Con Congress ress toward giving federal al aid for forI I good g roads provided pro an nn equal amount is contributed b by the tho state stales I wish to point out that a bill of oC this character would never ne aid the Intermountain and arid states slates because their income Is in insufficient insufficient In- In sufficient to take care of or tho the needs s of ot the people in the populated parts anI and because tho the climate and tho the s soil oll are arc unsuitable un un- un- un suitable for tor settlement and cultivation The Ther Therefore as there thero arc are no voters In these sections section It would be bo difficult to toI I get any state stale legislature to lo appropriate ate mone money because votes would not be created b by so o doing The Tune roads should be bo under the di direct direct di- di supervision super of oC tho the war wal department or a federal highway hwa commission and should be RO so constructed as aJ to be bc of or and to promote the commercial commercial com com- mercial development de of oC the country Military toads Ilond Are re J CD Nothing can enn be of greater Importance t tance to an arm army In the field than the tho roads over Ocr which It must pass and upon upon upon up up- on which Its quartermasters quartermaster's department department depart depart- ment must defend deCem Highways arc of still greater Importance In the economic econom econom- ic Ie development of or the country Tho The federal government could not embark on an enterprise that would meet with greater approval al from all sections than tho the building of or permanent national highways That tho the plan 0 of gaining federal aid niclas as outlined above c Is 15 feasible I am thoroughly convinced con nn and that wo we can cnn obtain tremendous Influence neo to back It is Js indicated by tho the answers already ready received re rc to letters In which I have outlined outlined out out- lined m my l Idea lea amon among others from front Henry B B. JO Joy president of oC the Packard Motor Car company compan and of ot the iho Lincoln Lincoln Lin Lin- coln Highway association These ex extracts extracts extracts ex- ex tracts I take lake from Mr 11 Joys Joy's letter Jetter to lo lome tom m tic me- I The Lincoln a way is only one ono of oC what must bo be probably three as you OU suggest suggest sug sug- I gest s ultimate transcontinental probable probable proba proba- ble concrete hl highways highway's hwa's There I Is li doubtless doubt- doubt less Jess oss no human humana a way to lo procure the j building of or these roads toads unless the national national na na- I government go grants H Us its aid and support or take over O the direct supervision super super- vision Islon of the work through tho ho war ar 1 de de- de I I had not supposed that the tho time had conic como when It was becoming I apparent to lo the American people peo that mone money so 50 expended cd was a good Invest Sl ment nil Region H on should I oh non TJan nonA A prudently prudentI formulated plan hy fly Salt Lake Lal Denver Den and Cheyenne and a all II that loll reg-loll of oC the tho United States Slates ou ought ht to be carefully drafted It if you ou have o any ny idea of laying aln before Congress such a project I It Is a a. large e plan and should have the tho thou thoughtful consideration of lh the I best beet brains I should hope that the governors and representatives of ill all the arid acid slates would bo be eo so thoroughly thorough thorough- h- h ly lr solid BoUd on tho plan that there would bo be no debating of oC It but that tho the universal uni- uni I ersal versal etude attitude of oC that great country full lIl of or Wonderful scenery and of oC interest inter Intel est NIt to all the world would be heartily for the Plan because it was wise and practicable a a. good In for or the people of or tho the U United States to make which I T personally thoroughly believe c It would be Beyond doubt a n vast number of or millions millions mil mil- lions of ot dollar would be bo a spent b by American In the United halted States Instead Rd of ot i in III Europe If IC f such roads roads w were re built an i tho the country opened to such zur-h travel cl Hotels would t lS spring up tip throughout the tho Gardon garden spots spols in these regions A largo market for agricultural ul tural produce would bo be afforded locally local local- J ly along alone o routes and the benefits would bo be too numerous to be enumerated I Form WIre Investment In Prom From m my acquaintance with the p peo- peo opIa o- o pie pIa or of Arizona a New cw Mexico Molo Nevada Ne Utah T m w Wyoming y Idaho Washington Oregon and d California I f fool ol that an nn Intelligent plan for the tile ment of such h a n. thing as 88 you OU suggest would wO be 1 universally indorsed and I 1 believe c that such a n. project would attract at at- t tract general Int interest and 1 support In I states cast a t or of th tiro tho Il Sr i Rocky Hock mountains Our riVers and S harbors harbor have lwe been bOin constructed con con- d deepened Improved Proved an and main- main tallied tho the P Panama canal has been and I L believe c Ve that no thing for tor wh which government gO funds have tt boon been asIn as- as pendent ha has a or would ac- ac accomplish se 80 gO godl as as' as Permanently Permanent Permanent- ly Jy constructed main highways out the tho United States rim In m my opinion tho tiro three cast east and West vest roads road that thai would Provo prove of or the greatest mil military lary an and commercial value val vol ue e nn and 1 would d benefit the rhe greatest num- num ho her V or of western Ie il would start at thin tho 8 river points at the following First First l From Minneapolis and SL St Ia Paul ul westward through P rouKh Aberdeen D D. D S X N. D D. Miles City Butte But e Mont thence to Seattle and Ta coma ooma and an Tacoma Ta- Ta Second Second From Prom From Davenport DI la In to Des Dos Moines Joines Omaha O Ogden en- en Ieno Saco s-nl s ac- ac c and O Oakland Third Teti west to Fort oit irk 4 Oklahoma Amarillo Tex City and Santa Fe thence X N M M. to Williams Ariz an and Angela to Lo 10 Los For practicable abe r reasons these roads I should follow tollow or be n near ar iho llio ran railways wa I particularly through h tho ho arid and and mountainous country Millions upon millions of ot dollars ollars have o oo been heen spent annually by our people In ht traveling n abroad and I 1 to may fay ay that SO II per r cent cant of or Americans who ho can up l knowingly o of oc t the Iho Mall aU l the he Champs do ll tier del Linden and the Iho Prudo Prado havo o not heard of th the Devils Devil's Tower on n tho the Belle DelIo Fourche donot do donot not know where tho Great Grent OS- OS I ert lies Hew nor could they thoy the line great s falls taUt rih These Icat military commercial rs would bring within easy emy pleasurable reach tho great national par parks Mice Yellowstone Rainier and raid Yosemite the Sequoia forest of oC giant trees trois the gorgeous or indescribable Canon Canyon Canyon Can Can- yon on of or the Colorado lions lion's canyon anda and nid nida lIlla I a hUn hundred other r romantic inexpressibly bly beautiful places generally unknown j I to our people The They would would attract tract to j I the wt western country a u ne cr ending never j I dream of oC gold besides developing our i country to an unprecedented de degree ree I j venture the opinion that thal IH lma toads roads bull built by tho the government o would give i an impetus to till this western estern country country coun coun- lr try that hint In In Us Its effect would be he as far far- reaching as FI was was wat the Iho building of or tint ih lh Union Patine railroad The l co coast t suites states l' l especially j California have ha tal taken takena on a d deep CI Interest t I In he he building of or good oo rO roads and have o I spent hundreds of oC thousands of oC dollars dol i lars in advertising ad their resources and attractions The They have havo spent much time iliac energy and mom money y In aW awakening I Interest in n hood good ro roads In states slates bordering bordering border border- ing inS them on the th cast east so that we 1 today find that lint tho the entire mountain Intel wet w cst Is almost t solidly 11 united untied In Iii the further furtherance ance anco of ot the ho Idea of oC building good permanent per per- p permanent r- r manent road roads YC 0 o- o olne the lne Lain country are arc restricted in our ambitions am am- not Hal only onto by the lack of oC P 1 ion tion and mono money but b by tho time enormous stretches of oC barren desert and nil mountain mountain moun moun- tain country separating u ua us front from our I neighbors elsh cast east and west Thin The people of tho the east cast and the west who ho nIl are disjoined from Crom us must remember ro- ro member that the tho fertile and populated areas of or the west aro are generally In tho ho valleys s running north and south and that to link our cities anti and 1 towns to we must buli roads running running run run- ning north an and south and not cast and west hest Private energy n and mone money will do much In opening and making roads passable but it IC build tho the wa ways s 's so urgently lI needed eded to link tho the great n middle w west st with tho thu Pacific slope It therefore becomes necessary to lo look for other methods to got get ct roads built across such Ruch stat states os as Montana Idaho Wyoming Utah Colorado Nevada Nc New ew Mexico and antI Arizona and possibly oth oth- others ers cri If It tho they arc aro to bo be built in this hits senon sen- sen on oration Uon and that is at Ito Iho of or the f federal government o The Pacific slope is IJ to today a shut shul off oct by uy about 1600 miles lathes of ot poor roads passing passIng pass pass- In Ing through states stales which owing to th their lack Jack of or population and fo Co Immense Im Im- mense menso areas of or mountainous and barren barion bar bar- l' l ion ren n lands cannot within this generation genera genera- tion lion build th the roads loads necessary to attract at- at j at tract the Iho Il ii of oC I the tho middle west middle west I and of or the Mississippi the valley valley lime greatest untouched and unexploited reservoir of oC well to tourists In lu th the world who owing to their climatic I i conditions would woul tra travel l westward both winter l' l and summer had hall thc they the roads ronda i Therefore IC if the people Po ot of the Pacific Pacific slope would expend bend a L t lithe of oC the I l mone money o and It energy they now Invest incest In ill advertising Hd and In endeavoring nd to 0 ht have I 1 us of the thc intermountain wc wet west t Improve our roads upon a a. well concentrated ement movement to urge UlIe upon their I representatives tho necessity lly of ur these roads road we should accomplish t In Ina Ina ina a a short time what it will tako years INCUS nt to do under present Mo May wo we not hope that tho tha com commercial commer- commer cial organization of or California Wash 1 hIngton h- h ington n- n and Oregon will HI to tho the facts faits and grasp today at the psychological psycho psycho- logical los time tho opportunity to urge a meeting of or delegates ates from tram tho the Interested Interest Interest- ed eel states to arouse an enthusiasm sm lint I will cause those da roads roads to be bo built i In lie tho ho transition from a war to a i pence b basis b sis thousands of ot men will win bs be thrown it t t of oC employment and work vork should hould be provided ro l for thc thelI ii to say em nothing of ot our returning ol soldiers I Ml I am ant not of ot tho the opinion th that bo for some somo time line to cone come everybody and consequently l today Is tho the time for the na 1 as aswell well as county comit governments io to lo Less talk talI about tho the tiding Jobs for our heroes herons action Is what we need aced lo 15 Lets Let's get set bus busy It t Hi When hen tires wear weal unevenly that tho the rubber remainder 19 to ro absorb shocks tho ho wheel when are very vary cr likely to bo broken applies to tho the bottom of or tb the knuckle ln In In fact rapid akin 1 of or the whole chassis Js may bj bo bf |