Show OFFICIAL EXECUTIVE P. G. S. E. N. P. r J. D. V EUGENE FRED D. R. ROBERT Salt M. M. W. T. THOMAS BYRON Big INTER-MOUNTAIN GOOD ROAD'S Nevada E. R. Pocatello Second Annual Meeting of The INTERMOUNTAIN GOOD ROADS June Roads For Good Dear At a meeting of the Utah Good Roads with representatives from Idaho and and held at Salt Lake January it was resolved to form an Inter-Mountain Good Roads fixing the place of meeting at GOOD ROADS from Page for and for The place of meeting for the year 1912 to be fixed at the meeting held at It Avas also resolved to invite all States and Territories between the Pacific Coast and the eastern line of the Rocky Mountains to participate in and unite with the In conformity with these the first annual meeting of the Inter-Mountain Good Roads Association was held at September 23 and the second meeting will be held at Pocatello on Friday and June and and The states of Utah and Wyoming have thus far identified themselves with the movement by sending delegates to the meeting of the The subjects to be discussed at the Pocatello meeting will be the ways and means of securing action by the National Government in constructing and maintaining national especially the procuring of Congress to appropriate to each inter-mountain state a million acres of the public lands to be used exclusively for the purpose of building good roads in the ways and means of instituting interstate highways between the state capitals of all western the procuring of more adequate suitable and systematic laws from the various state legislatures and the U. S. Congress with relation to public the ways and means of securing better construction and maintenance of county and city the establishment of state and local good roads the enactment of better laws as to the conduct of motor vehicles and other in every subject concerning good roads that has special applicability to the topographical climatic and commercial interests of the western In connection with the Second Annual meeting of the in Pocatello in June there will be practical demonstrations of the building of good We expect to have with us representatives of the division of Public Roads of the Department of Agriculture at D. C. and other eminent authorities of the Good and speakers on every phase Roads question will be in an attractive program of entertainment is being including a trip to the famous Ross Fork sand road which in process of being macadamized at that It is also contemplated to set aside one day as automobile on which there will be a and it is planned to have the largest assemblage of automobiles ever gathered in The governors of and senators and congressmen from the states interested have been invited to Participate in and address the It is conceded that nothing so retards the Progress and social well being of the people ot tn western states as does the lack of proper facilities tor k transportation on our public and therefore the devising of ways and means for the improvement of our roads and streets is of transcendent importance to every professional and business man in this As you are well it is impossible for the western states to be adequately represented at any eastern Good Roads but it is not only but vitally necessary that full delegations be sent to the second annual convention at Pocatello this and you are therefore urged to appoint the delegates assigned you without Appointment of The respective governors of the states interested are entitled to appoint twenty Commissioners of each county in said Mayors of incorporated cities or each automobile five each Good Roads District or and each Chamber of Commerce or Commercial Tou are urged at your earliest convenience to select that number of delegates to which your office entitles which is certifying your action on the enclosed blank and forwarding the same to Secretary of the Association at Idaho so that programs and other literature may be forwarded to prospective delegates from time to Very E. R. Governor William President of the State Highway Secretary of the State Highway Commission and State accompanied by Warden Arthur Pratt of the State Prison of will make a trip to the camp of the Colorado State Camps of Convicts who are employed on the roads of that I The object of the trip is to make observations as to sanitation and other features of ance connected with the employment of convicts on State On April a meeting of the State Committee of the Inter-Mountain Good Roads Association together with the Utah State Highway members of several County and other prominent citizens of the met and began active preparations for the Inter-Mountain Good Roads Convention to be held in June 24 next-Credentials are being sent out to the various delegates to each the task of J the next issue of the Good Roads abstract of the Laws of the five states we will give an Inter-Mountain Good Roads embraced with the |