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Show MEMS RULE Automobile Tours 1 akc Place of T1ogc by j Train. Motor Traffic Double Annually An-nually on Lincoln I lighway. 8 A. BLM K N f , VI' Pr ? i d 1 1 1 of th; Lincoln H "J I1 "a A.'-,50',ldMon. r.OM-fii.'.t.J!l. til'-!"!' If.1'1 ""I I1' 1 "- "Mt-'' rv a novelty in tiil.t ."mn'rv, it la I"--, .,,n,- t.hp, nil". A iuir..r trip 'jT inil.-H no I'.nx-r '-rr.it. s .'"nm-iii. i nil.-.-.f-i.lir-'.'.;ty M-"' 1 ' - ;"' u'- l oii. n l...-lv U : ail-. V'. bo I"' ' "' f U'iiffi'- not. long .-ih'- v Il.r oraMonal ....... ,.f til' ,-,... ..r.. ft li 11 hi?1. ;it,. , ling burro, or Mi.' n;iir. in hi.-, s'.v.c :n-' h.j.diboard. hi..- Mm.; : x u a rn i " ! ' th tMiirl.H' ;i from !. i i ;.' (: t ion of I In I NU'I'I. 'I 1 1 i average A iii"n' .'i:i of tin 'i;iy. t urn.t in' I urn ll '.' In his 1 not or rn i" h'Ui nl,inn:u' his v.-fali-ui trip, and it " I', Mining mioiv U- MU'-iir ly iin- rule tor luiMiiff.M nni' io p.'M iui.l make lengthy I his In I r i i bv niol or on it h r;i'-t ;i :.-li'uu)o a s r.i i I . -on ih---i ion.s won Id allow i hi pa rt inil.i rlv in thr ra;-;t. 'I Ik olunni of b.urlsl tr.ni'l in aH parts of trio "'inti'-' i.H v.'ry difficult to rsti-tiiiiir, rsti-tiiiiir, hut tr.'il'fi'- on ill.' Lincoln bigii-v bigii-v a v, v'li'-r." it i.-i possi hie to obtain at man1 pointy i'iy ;iiruriilc statistics ii s to ltd olunn5, may ho cniiNidrrefJ as a ni'. ro or Ir.-; accurate incasuro of the traffic on all of our through routes. Both pinirni;rr ami fn'ighl. tins Invl ia 1 lien li-en i;i lug Willi tremendous, strides. Motor Traffic Doubles Annually. I'rom irtis until 1iHI traffic volume on Inn Lincoln highway, a- indicated by i aroful count at. points, all .o-ro.ss t ho . oun. Irv, never failed to double cedi yea In II'IV and l'.US. due to the uh'.', r;' en-r travel hv motor car wt; greatly our-tailp.l our-tailp.l ami the- (ravel of these two years Hosi-ly a pjirolniatei.l the olunie of I'.'tG, nhile'fhe motor truck travel on the route, pa rt ieularly in the east , w lie re it . used a a federal tra n.sporL route, in- , creased tremendously. j iturin IT'ID reports from all alone the lino and the. voliuuo of inn,uiri-s which lias I tee n rer-r ! ed at th'" nat iona I liead -ouartery of the Lincoln Ililn'.ay assoein-t assoein-t ion in J" tetroit tndica t c a not he-r dun hi ins of trie total traffic vol n no. As an i nst a u co of he den.it y of t! a f-f f-f lc volume on t lie Lincoln w a y in the east, Jt careful traffic census made on the Lincoln highway bridge over the Pansa ic river weat cf Jersey City by county officials of-ficials allowed t he pass: etc of 1 J .000 vehicles ve-hicles In a period of fifteen hours on .1 une 2'J last. Of these J 1,000 vehicles :;0ft were motor trucks and the ha lance passrnKor ears. This volume of travel is a pood Indication as to why the state of New Jersey is reconstructing the Lin-cioln Lin-cioln highway of the heaviest possible concrete at a cost close to $fi.",000 a mile. It Is difficult, at most, point.s to sift out I hrouh tra vol from t lie local or in t erst er-st a to traffic, but tho reports made from Isolated desert ranches in the far west, where every car passing must, stop for 'ooti. water or supplies, anrl where records rec-ords are taken indicating the state from which each car origi na t cs, can be taken as fairly accurate indications of tho volume vol-ume of long-distance travel. Hamilton Orr, I .incoln highway consul nt Orr's ranch near tho edsre of the desert des-ert in t cstern Tooele county, Utah, on t 1. 1-.,.). i h.C'i-.;n- i eM'.eeii i''iv'nr and Hi.- ' ; -...I - ea r ;on. n ports ' i ia t .;i , ;,(;. ,,;r -ed liN r.im h during May. :;. dur.nu .fun.-, dunu- July and !tll (Jurlng August. T 'ic ,i i ni.i u in ( y "f t hi - f ra rl m'ic;-iliat-d fpuii ponits ra -1 of (."tali or wej-.t of Nevada, ami was he-jded 'for the At lantle or ranific eoa.-ls. J''ie. ye,jrs ago twenty or Iwenty-fivr cars a month in the best season? w.ud have beeti unusual travel in this section, but continuous connecting highway improvement, im-provement, on A nvriea's fi rst. t ran scon t i-nental i-nental road penints an outb't for the av-ora-' Americans d.-ire for travel and exnlora t ion, and is aecoiinta ble for the tremendous increase in coa sL -1 u- eoa si di'ivinc |