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Show &bL MANY WILL DRIVE ON PACIFIC ROAD What sort of roads are encountered in touring from New York to California? Cali-fornia? This question, so frequently asked, usually is answered in glittering generalities, gen-eralities, or according to the viewpoints view-points of the tourist. In an effort to get at the real facts for motorists contemplating a transcontinental trans-continental jaunt, the Automobile Club of Southern California has prepared pre-pared data on the national old trails from Los Angeles to New York city. As this is one of the favorite crosscountry cross-country routes, it may be considered fairly typical of long-distance touring. In traveling the 3.1S6 miles from Atlantic to Pacific coasts, the motorist will go nearly half way on pavement. This will be of various sorts, including includ-ing brick, oil and macadam, a-nd will total 1,450 miles of the journey. Those preferring gravel surface road to pavement pave-ment will find 1.C07 miles of this type of highway, including light and heavy graveling. Dirt surface road, including includ-ing some sanded, totals 729 miles. Second in importance to the transcontinental trans-continental motorists are the mountains moun-tains to be crossed. The highest of these on the national old trails is Eaton Ea-ton pass, on the Colorado-New Mexico Mexi-co line, an elevation of 7,888 feet. Other high points on the long trail include in-clude the Grand canyon in Arizona-, 7,150 feet, and Cajon pass, California, 4,250 feet. The highest altitude In the East is Cumberland summit in Maryland with an altitude of only 2,825 feet. Transcontinental travel ha increased in-creased so rapidly during the past few years that ample provision is made for the comfort of motorists. There are filling stations, garages, eating houses, hotels, tourist camps and similar conveniences con-veniences at short intervals for the entire distance across the continent. The only transcontinental road that is practically all paved is the Pacific highway extending from Vancouver through the states of Washington, Oregon and California to the Mexican j line, a distance of more than 1,500 miles. This traverses some of the finest scenery in the world. |