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Show PERMANENT ROAD SIGNS FOR THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY Salt Lake City, Utah. Practically all preparations are complete tor the sign-posting of the Lincoln Highway between Salt Lake City and Ely', Nevada, Ne-vada, by the Automobile Club of Southern California. With the returu last week of the club scout car, the crew of which has been inspecting the sections of the Lincoln Highway lying west of Salt Lake, orders were at once issued for approximately 100 enameled metal signs and posts which are to be used over 293 miles of the route' between Salt Lake and Ely, where the connection is made with the famous Midland Trail, leading directly di-rectly 'into Southern California by way of Tononah and Big Pine. j The Midland Trail has already I been thoroughly sign-posted by the Automobile Club of Southern California Cali-fornia and with the completion of the marking of the stretch of Lincoln Lin-coln Highway between Ely and Salt Lake City there will be a sign-posted highway862 miles in length leading from the latter city directly into Los Angeles and connecting with the great Southern California system of boulevards. The scout car has returned to Los Angeles with an optimistic report of the highway conditions. Each sign to be placed will be of heavy enameled metal erected on a 12-foot metal post, carrying mileage directions and the insignia of the Lincoln Highway. No longer will that portion of the route between Salt Lake and Ely be known as the "lonesome road." for these signs will greet the motorist at every turn. The Midland Trail, which will be traveled from Ely into Southern California Cal-ifornia through the Owens River Valley, is-one of the scenic routes of the west, and its all-the-year-round excellence provides a tour of national nation-al importance. President Fred L. Baker of the Automobile Club of Southern California Cali-fornia has issued the following statement state-ment in regard to tne work: "In accordance ac-cordance with the general policy of the organization, the Automobile Club has undertaken the sign-posting of the Lincoln Highway in the interest of trans-continental motoring motor-ing in order to stimulate the 'Seeing America First' movement. Whatever the cost of such an undertaking, it is insignificant in comparison to the amount of good accomplished." |
