Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-22 | Page 32 | Fisher Pass Road near Completion

FISHER PASS ROAD NEAR COMPLETION Goodyear Section of Lincoln Highway Also an Important Improvement in Transcontinental Route. Through the improvement now boin? msbed to completion in l.shc'r pa?s nnd upon the Goodyear section of the Lincoln Lin-coln highway in Utah, the great transcontinental trans-continental route is for the first time being made available to cross country motor freight traffic. The desert section of the Lincoln highway to the west of Salt Lake City has always been the one great barrier to throughhound, overland travel. JJt has been the stumbling block in the path of all who have attempted to travel it since the ilays of the pioneer. Because of it, commercial traffic has been held entirely impractical. This condition is being forever eliminated elimi-nated through the building of the Goodyear Good-year section across the lower arm of the Salt Lake desert and the opening up of Fisher pass, connecting Orr ' ranch and Rush valley. Work is rapidlv nearing completion upon both of these scot ions. The possibilities of increased travel resulting from these improvements have been graphically illustrated bv the rapid trip made by the two huge automobile trucks of the Goodyear Tire & Rubtvr I company upon their coast-to-coat trip, j in n ego! i:it ing the territory from ;ilt j Luke ( ity to the Pacif;-' coast, np-m r. prenrrariL'ed iclicibik Previous to t h undertaking of this work, the nunc would ha o ben im passable to t ius ty:e of motor vehicle ' ' The improvement of the Utah section of tiie Lincoln highway eliminates the Ihst. remaining natural barrier iu the ih of trail -continental travel.