Show MAINE PLANS BIG HIGHWAY SYSTEM AUGUSTA Tile 1 Highway Commissioner Commis- Commis loner abner Paul D. D Sargent In his rus annual re report report report re- re port calls call attention to the law passed by bythe bythe the he last lat which provides that after fter the payment of state aid the balance bal bal- ance nce of or the found may be expended in rebuilding g main Ins thoroughfares f o art o of through u r travel ravel in the tho state with the e object of a complete system of continuous contin contin- wins highways throughout the state From the 1908 1906 appropriation there will willbe be he available for this purpose from rom the 1909 appropriation and from rom the appropriation of or 1910 more than For this his construction a section of the Rockland and Bangor trunk line lino running Penobscot bay hits has been up ReI se- se I and the sum of has been apportioned d to be bo expended on it A survey and plan of fi five miles of t this ill road oad has lies boon been marl imide and it is expected t hat h I on t 8 wi will n he be teed pa early i iiiI in iii 1 I 91 0 f fot fi ir UK- UK li buil building of u a u hi bituminous ma ma- cadam roda Together r with this sir I will wll be e which was ra raft through tho the solicitation of David Tall Tail Tallor of or Rockland c C 5 orT T Two sections nl of the trunk line runni from y Poland I Spring to the h White c no I one mile ll In nI Poland ol n nn and n one mild Casco have been selected and and will wiIl be expended vl with a Ij lj amount amoun t to tobe be furnished by the last two w months n of erv party of surveyors I made a surveys i dj portion of the e trunk k lin line from r f NI dof Portland and it r I is kP P planned I to several ev ral sections of this thin UI 1910 There is a growing si in III sections of the state the future of ot the tourist and summer nier sort business depends largely upon upon- development of a n system of trunk I highways New Hampshire ha has hai air alra alre realized this and time tilt legislature at last session authorized tho th the state of for fOI the construct of or the three trunk lines running f fl ft the Massachusetts state line into Into white mountains At no very ery distant time the tho Ht state lt Maine will pass similar legislation It would seem that tha the trunk of or mt mr importance to the sUi state stale t e would start the New Hampshire line lino III at ry It extend to Bangor This Chic routt Is If miles in length and arid Indue all of the larger clUe cities 01 em the i- i stu A other trunk should start at Portland a Ii arun arun run to Bangor a length of about 2 3 m miles j Easily from Bangor a tru trunk k sh shot hJ extend to Ellsworth and Bar across the coast to Eastport and Cat aid This trunk would he about 17 ill mile length Other shorter trunk 1111 lines himie t branches t extending in all directions 1 contemplated I I IThe than The e 1 1160 1150 proposed miles s rY routes In lt length ni total ala and a d little it is mo map that they would fairly well m mt the needs of the state mutate In the declaration of th the New Yo Ye game same and poultry dealers that the th 41 vance in nod food prices Is flume dup solely to in t natural relations of supply and mcl d. there Is 11 only one error Instead of nural ni n n nural ural the tho adjective should hould be ural Indianapolis Indianapolis News Nw s |