THE 1KKIGATION AGE. 



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and Scott as president and secretary. Committee meetings 

 are held, the newspapers keep pushing the matter, the state 

 engineers of Kansas and Colorado cooperate, the good 

 roads office at Washington, and D. W. King, of Maitland, 

 Missouri, creator of the famous King road drag, are con- 

 stant correspondents, and the road is actually building, 

 day by day. 



It is the firm belief of many good road advocates that 

 farmers will not participate in a good roads movement. 

 The Trail-builders found this a mistake. In the Hutchin- 

 son conference half the delegates were real farmers. The 

 farmers of Kansas and of Colorado, in the wonderful 

 Arkansas valley, are finding out the value of good roads. 

 Of course, the motorists are for the road because it makes 

 a swift ; short-cut to Colorado and down the valley. 



The road is built, then, up the Arkansas valley, the 

 most fertile section in all the West, with its seven beet 

 sugar mills, its more than a half million acres of irrigated 

 lands, its alfalfa, beets, trucks, melons, wheat, and corn, 

 and fruit. It is, too, a great advertisement for the valley, 

 incidentally. 



The New Santa Fe Trail is linked closely with the 

 work of the great development of the West and the 

 Arkansas valley, that will culminate September 26-30 in 

 the greatest event of the West and the valley the 

 eighteenth National Irrigation Congress, to be held in the 

 city of Pueblo, the capital of the Arkansas valley, this 

 year. 



Most of the Trail-builders, especially in western 

 Kansas and in the Colorado valley, are leading proponents 

 of the work of the congress. President Faxon is secretary 

 of the board of control of the congress. W. M. Wiley, of 

 Holly, Colorado, a member of the Colorado state highway 

 commission, is an active member of the board of control. 

 The destiny of the highway, of the Arkansas valley it 

 traverses, and of the great irrigation congress, the most 

 important gathering ever held in the valley, is one and the 

 same. 



And it all spells the great development that is on in 

 the heart of the Middle West today. 



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 transmission machinery can be used. 



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The Little Roadster is a practical 

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