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one would pay $1000 or more; life membership $100 or more; ten year membership $25; two year membership $10; one year membership $5.00. The seven counties in Texas, and Curray and Roosevelt counties in New Mexico, raised the sum of $10,000 to log the route and erect sign posts with proper "OT" lettering and colors (White and Green) and markings of the distance of each town along the route. Tulia's Ozark Trails monument was erected between March and August of 1920. There were nineteen monuments of the substantial size, of large proportions and constructed of concrete. Each county along the route (Collingsworth, Childress, Hall, Briscoe, Swisher, Castro, Parmer) raised one-ninth of this $10,000 amount; of this amount raised, twenty percent went to the parent organization in Arkansas; ten percent remained in each county and seventy percent used for the erection of the Ozark Trail pyramids along the route. |
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The history of OT is largely a history of men with vision made practical by constant work without thought of remuneration. Their development at the particularly timely period of their flowering was a monumental achievement of far reaching influence, but the volunteer method of their development borders on the miraculous. As to what individuals shared in the good roads work here outline, Mr. J. E. Swepston (OT president) said' 'Multiplied hundreds of unknown names of men deserve their names to be scrolled in the good roads 'Hall of Fame' for their untiring efforts in helping promote OT. Some of the names are C. L. Cooper, Foster Kious, J. M. Simpson, Dennis Zimmermann, J. E. Swepston (elected president of OT 1920) James Frye, Sheriff R. G. Porter, Mack Crawford, Jim Clayton, John Emmitt, |  |
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