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Show Government Investigating Investigat-ing Transcontinental Roads and Bridges Denver, March 2. Dr A. L-. Wesl-gard Wesl-gard of New York, a special agent of the United States department of agriculture, ag-riculture, will leave here tomorrow for the Pacific coast In a five-ton automobile au-tomobile truck, the first to attempt a trans-continental journey. Following his arrival at San Francisco, Fran-cisco, Dr Westward will start on a return trip to New York. He expects to finish his trip across the continent by August, The trip is for the purpose of investigating in-vestigating for the department o? agriculture ag-riculture the condition of roads and bridges on the trans-continental highways. high-ways. , The truck: will carry a load of three and a half tons, chiefly luniber for juse In building bridges, and in getting get-ting the automobile over bad stretches of road. Accompanying the doctor will be George McLean, chauffeur, and two . lcpresentatives of the company which manufactures the truck to be used. The distance to be cohered Is approx- , Imately 5000 miles. |