| Show Ford To RC R Reproduce rods c cC Historic Roads At At California Exposition Fourteen historic travel routes which once played Important roles In the history of civilization will willbe willbe be reproduced in iii Roads of the Pacific as part of the Ford Exposition Exposition Exposition Ex Ex- Ex- Ex position at the California Pacific International Exposition opening in San Diego May Combined foot sections of each road will make a 0 continuous route more than half a mile in length along the slope of the picturesque picturesque picturesque pic pic- hill which lies east of the theFord theFord Ford Building at the California worlds world's fair The terrain of each section will ba be landscaped to suggest suggest sug sug- gest rest the country in which the road I runs Visitors to the exhibit will be motored over the complete route In new Ford V V 8 8 cars The object of the Roads of the Pacific exhibit will be to represent represent represent sent the most interesting roads from each of the major mayor countries whose shores are arc bordering bordering- on tl the e Pacific Ocean Counties represented represent represent- ed will include the United States Canada Alaska Mexico Panama Peru Australia New Zealand Japan Japan Ja Ja- Ja- Ja pan and China Among the historically famous roads represented will be the Santa Santa San San- ta Fe Trail and the Oregon Trail rich in the tradition of the Old West and md once the principal routes of prairie schooners Pony Express riders and gold seekers A famous California road El Camino Real the first route of white men up the Pacific Coast will be he part of the exhibit The Yuma Road featured featured featured fea fea- by its planking for the shifting shifting shifting shift shift- ing sands of the Colorado Desert will be included in this section of roads Canada is represented by the Highway much of which was cut from solid rock by Royal Engineers in 1862 The Richardson Highway originally originally originally a a. winter vinter sled clog trail between between between be be- tween Valdez and Fairbanks and now a modern highway is the Alaska exhibit I A road which is said to have been paved with the bones of men menis menis menis is the old Gold Road across the Isthmus of Panama Over it passed passed pass pass- ed eel the wealth of ot the Incas and from a point along its course Balboa Balboa Balboa Bal Bal- boa first glimpsed the Pacific Two other ancient South American American American Amer Amer- ican roads which will be he part of the exhibit are the old Spanish Road used first by the ancie ancient t I Toltec race to bring fabulously I Irich rich silver ore from the Sierra I Madre to what is now Mexico City City and and the Inca Highway part of an old system of several thousand thousand thousand and miles which ran from Quito Ecuador into Peru and Chile over snow-clad snow mountains through solid solid solid sol sol- sol sol- id rock across ss mighty rivers and andover andover andover over ravines of unbelievable depth A comparatively modern highway highway highway high high- way to be represented is the spectacular spectacular spectacular spec spec- motor route of the Philipine Philipine Philipine Phil- Phil Islands the road of miles from Manila to Baguio lone one of the most popular summer I resorts in the Orient Australia is represented by the Ballarat road paved with solid blocks of stone and now known as the Western Vestern Highway Featured for New Zealand is the Great North Road built as a n. military route by the British at the time of the Maori War in 1840 The Far East is represented bythe bythe by bythe the Road and the Summer Summer Summer Sum Sum- mer Palace Road The Tile Road was constructed during the feudal period in Japan under the l about 1650 and the Summer Summer Summer Sum Sum- mer Palace road the rou route te from Peking Manchu capital of China to the Summer Palaces of the Emperor Emperor Emperor Em Em- KAng Hsi Isi about 1709 Both arc are modern automobile roads today today today to to- day but will be constructed at theFord theFord the theFord Ford exhibit as they were in the days of the and the |
