Show PLAN HIGHWAY THROUGH THE DAllES IN OREGON Portland Enthusiasts Believe They Can Secure Northern Route to Coast What will supply a westernmost link linkin in iii one o of the transcontinental highway routes Is about to tobe be constructed in Oregon Oregon Ore Ore- gon bon ulon along the south bunk of or the Columbia river The proposed construction of this road Is of ot Interest especially In Jim connection connection tion with the demand for federal aid In highway construction which Is particularly particularly Insistent In the northwest Under any plan of ot federal aid Involving tho the construction of ofa u a system of ot national highways high high- ways was It Is entirely probable that the time route loute through Montana and Idaho and thence to the coast via Ia central Oregon on would eventually be Included Portland Is setting set- set ting ling out with the determination to make muke this probability a certainty by demonstrating demonstrating demon demon- the value of The rhe Dalles route Indications arc that work on tho the new no I road will be he begun lIn at al once and that it may be completed within twelve t months The distance from rein Portland to The rime Dalles Dailes C CIs Is nearly ono hundred miles mlle Beside Besida makIn making mak mak- In Ing I n t lie new nc short through line IIno from cast st to west vest through Montana and Uld Idaho this road will provide a practical route from rom Portland to San Francisco via Time The Dalles Bend Silver Lake and I Lako- Lako ko- ko view Ore and anti Alturas and anti Sacramento Cal At present It Is necessary ary to ship h by li boat t between Portland and rind The Dalles Daile In order to make tho the central Orf Oregon on trip News New comes that as a result rl of or the time recent tour of ot Inspection by State Highway Highway High High- w way Rob Roberts o of Washing Washing- ton tOil recommendation will b be made to the thc next neot tate state Ip legislature that an appropriation I tion lion of OO bu hu made to build this highWay high high- n Way Wa across tho time C Cascade cade mountains |