. Review of reviews and world's work . COMPLETED AND PROJECTED ROADS CONNECTING NATIONAL FORESTS IN THE WEST as sunny skies and higher altitude and clearer,cooler air, with ruins older than anything inEurope or Egypt, according to Archaeology,by 8000 years? The Good Roads Association of Oklahoma,Texas, Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisianahad already l^een organized in iqoq, whenMr. Yoakum took his Farmers Union repre-sentatives east to see examples of good road building. Incidentally, it may be asked—What is the railways interest in good roads?Will not good roads gridironing the South-west in eve
. Review of reviews and world's work . COMPLETED AND PROJECTED ROADS CONNECTING NATIONAL FORESTS IN THE WEST as sunny skies and higher altitude and clearer,cooler air, with ruins older than anything inEurope or Egypt, according to Archaeology,by 8000 years? The Good Roads Association of Oklahoma,Texas, Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisianahad already l^een organized in iqoq, whenMr. Yoakum took his Farmers Union repre-sentatives east to see examples of good road building. Incidentally, it may be asked—What is the railways interest in good roads?Will not good roads gridironing the South-west in every direction decrease passenger andfreight traflfic? For instance, some friends ofmine the other day made quicker, easier limethrough a more picturesque country than therailroad traverses, by motor from Albuquer-que to Santa Fe, than I made by train. Wont NEW SCENIC HIGHWA FS IN THE SOUTHWEST 195. THE SCENIC HIGHWAY FROM SANTA FE. ENTERING PECOS the public highways e\-angel work againstrailroad totals in the long run? Quite thecontrary, when you examine the facts of thecase. Nothing ever helped the cause of goodroads more than the frightful glut of crops in1907. Why was there a glut? Because thefarmers were rushing their crops to marketbefore the fall rains, while the roads were roads had been guaranteed good all theyear round, the farmers could have held backcrops for better prices, and the big trafficwould have been distributed over all the yearand railroad men would not have been soworked off their feet that they literally couldnot afford to dismiss incompetents. Self in-terest, and not philanthropy, is the primarymotive behind the railroads backing the goodroads movement in the Southwest. But the Farmers Union was not enough forthe Southwest. The States of Texas, NewMexico, Colorado, and Wyoming came to-gether in a scheme to construct a great scenichighway—a Camin
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