I think it is about time I said something about the roads.  During the period I have been talking about, there were not very many paved roads in Enid.  Of course the 2 main roads that were paved were those going north and south and east and west through town.  They supplied the highway route through town.  I think I should say that during the period I have been talking about, the line extended to about 2 miles north of the square and about 3 miles south and about 3 miles west of the square.  Going east, it extended 6 miles.  During a large part of the rest of time I was in Enid, the roads were being torn up to build bridges preparatory to future paving and things were pretty much a mess up there every time you would go out.  As a matter of fact, we took shovels and boards and things like that in the car all of the time to dig ourselves out of mud holes.  There was one place down between Bison and Waukomis that I always suspected and I still think that this farmer that lived along there hauled water at night to fill up a low place in the road and he always kept his tractor out there in the front.  He would be looking at you when you got stuck.  He would come on down there and haul you out for $3.  I didn't see how the water could stay unless he hauled the water there to put in it.

By the time you had driven throughout the long day, say from 50 to 75 miles, you really had done a days work in driving.  There were no numbers for highways, either State or National.  A person had to know something about it or get some guidance and then watch for the signs that would say 16 miles pointing right to such and such a place & a fork in the road.  You had to really know which way to go.  Of course a lot of the time we couldn't follow the highway.  We had to follow the line road which in those days was built along country roads.