Show r Automobile Highway Is la Most Unusual in World Monroe onroe county of ot which K Key 1 West Fla is the principal center of population population lation has bas just voted a bond Issue for tor the construction of what willbe willbe will willbe be perhaps the most unusual automo automo- automobile automobile bile highway y la In the world The money will be spent for tor roads and bridges from Key West to the main maln land The proposition had bad received the en en- enthusiastic n. n moral backing backlog of tile the Atlantic Atlantic At At- lantic Coast Highway association which Is III urging the completion of a continuous route between Maine and Key West and skirting the Atlantic forthe forthe for forthe the greater part of ot the way The new auto road when completed will be the longest and probably the Uie only extensive Automobile road over the sea In the world At times the motorist will be almost If It dot actually out of sight of ut land lie He will have the Gulf of Mexico o on the Uie one hand band and aDd the tile Atlantic ocean on the other The scenery Is extremely extreme extreme- ly picturesque The keys kes have been een compared to the South Sea Islands The They are masses muses of ot bright green ver verdure ver- ver verdure dure and und contain m many coconut groves The shoals along the route I reflect every color of the rainbow from the masses musses of ot the pink and and white coral the white marl and the brown land and green sen seaweed Weed 1 on the bottom I There ure are Immense numbers of ot sea seabirds birds brown birds brown pelicans herons frigate i birds and others and many kinds of ot Ish Ii The gap between the mainland and Key I West IVest was bridged by Henry M. M Flugler's Flagler's 1 Florida l liast st Coast railroad In 1012 1912 The distance between Homestead Homestead Home Home- stead stand In la southern Florida at which the railroad oversea extension begins and Key West Is II 13 miles tulles Of Ot this distance the railroad runs o l over r deep deepwater deepwater deepwater water for tor 13 IS miles the concrete piers In several s places rising out of ot water 30 no feet deep though the average a depth crossed by the viaducts and steel trestles Is considerably less A large part of ot the distances beh between be be- i h tween t een the various keys kes or Islands that form a chain between Key West and i the mainland of Fiorina consist of at which have been tilled filled in with embankments along the time railroad t of ot way The shoals In the case of ot the auto route would probably be crossed by bridges although the automobile road not obliged to take so direct a route as the railroad can use the keys to u a greater extent of ot the route will lie In Dade count county of ot which Miami Is the principal prin cipal center of ot population The FloeIda Florida Flor Floe ida Mainland Key West auto road will form an extension of ot the Dixie highway o leading from front Waycross Ga Oa down the east coast of ot Florida through Jacksonville St. St t. t Augustine Ormond West Palm Beach and ami Miami to Royal Hoal Palm State park a distance of ot miles milts With completion through to Key West iVest the distance from Waycross Way Way- cross to Key West Vest will be 17 miles or 1723 miles by auto road from flom New NewYork NewYork NewYork York to Key ley West |