| OCR Text |
Show GOOD ROADS IN NORTHWEST Washington State Alive to the Importance Im-portance of Having Serviceable Service-able Highways. The northwest is alive to the value of good roads. In a recent Issue of the Seattle (Wash.) Intelligencer the statement is made that before the summer is over Seattle and Tacoma will be connected by a first-class macadamized ma-cadamized highway. In King county, of which Seattle is the seat, there will be $320,000 available, Including state aid, for road improvement this year. Much of this will be spent on a trunk line destined to connect Seattle Seat-tle and Everett. From Everett to Tacoma an Improved road is a matter mat-ter of the near future. This road work -Is part of a general plan to build a trunk line from the northern to the southern boundary of Washington, which in turn will become part of a highway from the Great Lakes to the ocean, through the northern tier ol state, and this will connect with another an-other trunk line from British Columbia down the coast to Mexico a dream of that wide-awake country that Is certain to be realized In the next few years. i |
