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Show I ; BUILD BRIDGES QN4UX0.R0ADS. M j 1 i "The agitation to win 2. transconti- H I nental highway route has already H ! started In southern California and it H i Is now up to the people along tho ccn- H 1 tral and northern routea to start the M I good work," said C A Gilbert. H "Great work is being done along H the southern route and there is ev- H ery reason to believe that the ocean to ocean highway will ho a road far w, . aboT tlie average when tho heavy sj travel of 1915 Btarts Hlf "But we must remember that all B; "Who motor to the fair will not want Hf to follow the southern route. Some B- will come one way and return an- H' other. Other motorists In the north- B era part of tho country will find it H , too far out of their way to come H south. But It Is not a question of W which route the people follow; there Hr will bo enough motorists following the W main highways to satisfy the boosters H, for all the roads. W "We want thousands to motor to K J the fair in 1915. Wo want tho annual American Automobile association's tour of that year to bo the greatest turnout of motor cars this country has ever aeon. The United States" Tire company will post the road from the -Attanttc-ttr-tho-Paclficp so- ifc'will bo easy for the novice to follow the right highway. "But this road posting Is the smallest small-est part, of the great work. Every stato should Join In. The transcontinental transconti-nental highway should be Improved, bridges should be built and the different dif-ferent states Bhould do everything necessary to Increase the motor travel. trav-el. The thousands who come west by rail will spend practically nothing aJong the routo. The thousands who motor will live on the way. they will spend their money in all the towns of all the suites through which they pasB. Tho more peoplo who motor across the more money will be spent "It seems to me that the peoplo of the coast should organize." |