Parowan Times | 1927-11-23 | Page 5 | Permanent Value in Tree-Shaded Highway

permanent value in tree trea shaded highway II if missouri has been the last state to build her sector of a national highway from the atlantic Pac itic she can be the firs to institute the refinement of shade trees along the highway an improvement that hint despite its youth is winning for ontario and que liec bee two of the canadian provinces the acclaim of every automobile tourist who visits them why not begin in missouri by shading the state lilg highway hway from st louis to kansas city it would make mahe blis missouri missour unique among the states traversed by tills this great national avenue we leave a profusion of trees adaptable to such use some of the old pike roads in the state were made beautiful in this way with elms oaks sycamores amores cottonwoods cotton woods blackberries box elders wild cherry persimmon sassafras walnut hickory butternut and sugar maples no one who has ever motored on these old highways in summer and known the grateful shade hade of their trees will ever forget them N indeed it Is this way that every highway in missouri lisso url can be made lovely and in a practical sense peculiar to the state the heat of the sun Is an abomination to every motorist who idio has a tire to change and how the shade of the roadside tree Is everywhere w sought for a noonday luncheon why not capitalize that well k known own fact and make Misso missouri url highways famous in ous for shade st louis rost post dis patch