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Show Llfffi HIGHWAY C01IT10UTLI0 Great Transcontinental Automobile Au-tomobile Road Is Now Declared De-clared Ready for Travel. IMPROVEMENT COSTLY Roads West of Salt Lake Are at Present Real Problem Prob-lem to Association. i . letter recently reached the officos of the Lincoln Highway assooiatlon from a motorist contemplating tho transcontinental trans-continental drive during the coming yctir, and asking advance road information. infor-mation. As tho letter is similar to thouNRiuIs regularly received by tho association, as-sociation, indicating a certain misconception miscon-ception on tho part of tho writers and of a goodly part of the public generally, as to what tho Lincoln highway is and the purpose and activities of tho Li a-, coin Highway association, the answer is of interest. The questioner above referred to writes, ''How much of the Lincoln highway is finished? How much will be finished for tho 1917 season. How much is hard surfaced ? How much work aro you going to do next year I" Answers to Questions. j The Lincoln Highway association cannot answer all of these questions as cucinctly us they are asked. They aro rntiroly too speculative in character. Much depends upon what the questioner's question-er's idea of a completed Lincoln highway high-way would be. .Does he expect a broad, hard-surfaced, well-kept, perfectly-marked perfectly-marked and well-policed boulevard from New York City to San Francisco, a distance dis-tance of 3300 miles? If so, he will be j eadly disappointed. It may be . many years before any approach to such perfected per-fected rnodway will bo realized. But tho Lincoln highway is a real traversable road for its entire length, and can be traveled in comfort in fair weather. It is hard surfaced through the east, but it is quite impractical to build or to expect a brick or concrete road across the wide, scarcely populated tretches of tho west. The road is lriarked and can be easily followed. Lo- cal endeavor keeps it up to the best standard possible all along the wav. -Approximately $5.000, Q(K) was spent in improving tho road in 1916. And three fHrs ago there was no through, eon-Vtcd eon-Vtcd transcontinental highway. Plan of Building. The Lincoln association is not building build-ing the Lincoln highway. Tho communities com-munities along the wav, aided by the patriotically inclined American public, j who recognize the economic importance of the great road, and are willing to assist, particularly in the far west, where local means are quite inadequate, are responsible for the actual physical betterment of the highwav. The Lincoln Lin-coln highway will bo completed as they determine to build it it will be completed com-pleted when thov see fit to finish it. The Lincoln Highway association works to tho single purpose of aiding in every way possible in the cdneavor to hasten and build efficiently and permanently all sections of the route. It acts as a clearing house for this national endeavor. en-deavor. The American motorist can do no more to aid in the promotion of the good roads cause than by giving his moral support to the Lincoln Highway association in this work. Any attempt the Lincoln Highway association as-sociation may make in the way of actual ac-tual road construction will be west of the Missouri river, particularly between Salt Lake City, Ctah, and Reno, Nev., where the long mileage and sparse population pop-ulation make tho road problem serious. Tho association is endeavoring to finance this most necessary niece of construction and feels confident that the ever-increasing interest in the Lincoln Lin-coln way and its satisfactory progress will eventually create the national sentiment sen-timent needed to provide the necessary funds. |