ITEMS OF INTEREST June 8, 1907 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

A long step toward the establishment of a broad boulevard extending from Boston to the White Mountains will be taken during the present year, in the construction of the so-called "Merrimack Valley trunk line," a highway authorized by the last session of the New Hampshire Legislature. This line, which will be a wide macadamized road extending from the Massachusetts State line at the southerly end of the city of Nashua, to the northerly end of the city of Laconia, on Lake Winnipesaukee, will be constructed jointly by the State and by the towns and cities through which it will pass. At its southern extremity it will connect with the Massachusetts State highway in Tyngsboro. The entire length of the trunk line will be approximately seventy miles. It will pass through the cities of Nashua, Manchester, Concord, Franklin, and Laconia and the towns of Merrimac, Bedford, Hooksett, Pembroke, Boscawen, Tilton, and Belmont.

Thirty thousand acres of choice public lands embraced in the Huntley irrigation project will be allotted at Billings, Mont., in June. The land is located about twelve miles east of Billings, and is crossed by the Northern Pacific and the Burlington railroad systems. The Government has built a highway parallel to the railroad, affording a direct line of travel up and down the valley, and at short distances along the railways has laid out town sites, so located that no farm is more than two and a half miles from a shipping point. The farms are small—forty and eighty acres.

The Governor of New York has won in his contest with the politicians through his appeal to public sentiment. Of the whole list of measures proposed in his initial message the Massachusetts ballot will be the only one to fail. These measures include the Public Utilities Bill, the bill ordering a recount of the ballots cast at the last election in New York city for the present mayor, the Reapportionment Bill. Corrupt Practices Bill, Municipal Court Bill for New York City, Child Labor Bill, National Guard Investigation, and the Omnibus Investigation Bill.

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