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Show CADILLAC IAYS OUT r A TOURHROADWAY Makes Notable Run, San . Diego to Washington, Over Southern Route. Laying out the ronte of the ne-w Southern National highway, from San Diego, CaJ., to "Washington, a Cadillac Ei.ht recently achieved the distinction of making the 3500 miles in twenty-six days. The expedition was planned and executed exe-cuted bv the Cabrillo Commercial club of San Dieeo, for a preliminary survey or pathfinding tour, over a transcontinental transcon-tinental route which will be open to motor touring all the year round. When the new highway is realized, it will traverse eight states southern California, Cali-fornia, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia, with a gulf division proposed pro-posed through southern Texas, Louisiana, Louisi-ana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina. San Diego will be the western terminus and Washington, D. C., the eastern. Wilbur Hall, a magazine writer who jriade the trip in the route-finding Cad-TTIae, Cad-TTIae, savs that if the good roads move ment which is now sweeping the south continues to gather impetus it is only a question of months when the bad stretches will be surfaced. The new highway gives tourists a chance to visit the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, traverses trav-erses stretches of desert, the interesting interest-ing copper country of Arizona, and takes them through the real south. However, desert running is made easy for motor cars, especially between the Imperial valley of California and the Colorado river. Here engineers have devised a double plank trail for automobiles, auto-mobiles, so that the motorist glides smoothly over sands that baffle pedestrians pedes-trians and burros. In spite of the fact that the route-makers route-makers encountered a week or ten days of rain, the Cadillac made the record time of twenty-six days for the 3500 miles. Those who made the trip were B. H. Burrell, engineer in the federal bureau of roads; W. B. Gross of San Diego; B. H. Taylor, who drove the car; Wilbur Hall and Colonel Dell M. Potter Pot-ter of Clifton, Ariz., president of the Southern National Highway association. This is the second pathfinding tour in which a Cadillac Eight has recently figured, fig-ured, the other one having been the run from Chicago to Miami over the proposed pro-posed Dixie highway. |