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Show Convicts Struggle for Lead in Road Building Prisoners from California's two state Institutions have entered a race believed to be unique in the annals of road-building history. Under the direction di-rection of the California state highway high-way commission, the convict camp from San Quentin is pitted against the camp from Folsom prison in a competition to be first to complete state roads Into Yosemlte National park. San' Quentin camp Is seeking to finish fin-ish the last seven miles of new state highway leading into Yosemite in Merced canyon. The Folsom gang Is now completing grading of eight miles of state highway In the Kern river canyon. The rival camps present the unique spectacle of state prisoners enthusiastically enthusi-astically vying withteach other to unlock un-lock the world famous Yosemlte valley val-ley to motorists by a water-level highway high-way that, it Is believed, can be traversed trav-ersed at all seasons of the year. Convict labor on highways- h;is been In successful operation In California for some years. |