OCR Text |
Show SAN FRANCISCO IN THE TRAIL FIGHT San Francisco March 8 San Francisco Fran-cisco has finally thrown "its hat in the ring" and is determined to make a hard fight to win the main western terminus rights of the proposed ocean to ocean highway. Los Angeles has already worked up powerful sentniK nt for w hat is called tht National Old Trails road, which detourB through the southwest via Santa Fe and El Paso and enters Cal-Ifornla Cal-Ifornla by way of Yuma The local committee Is to fight lor what It will term the Argonaut trail, and accord ing to E. P Brinegar, president of the Pioneer Automobile company of this city, who Is to be chairman oi the body. It will exert its energ) among every Chamber of Commerce along this route and will also seek the indorsement of congress. Iu speaking of the fight for the i gonaut trail, Mr. Brinegar recently Bald: "It a vote of automobile owners ali over the United Stntes and particularly particu-larly east of the Rockies, could be I taken on the question the resuh would I be two to one In favor of San Fran Cisco. The Argonaut trail Is the cen tral route and the one that will gio the best approach to Ihe whole coast country. Moreover, it is the BCeniC route over the mountains and could easily be run so as to connect with the Lake Tahoe road, winding down through beautiful forests Into the fertile fer-tile Sacramento valley. "Fifty million dollars are likely to be spent on this gigantic piece of road building, some of which will undoubtedly undoubt-edly be furnished bv the federal government gov-ernment as part of Its aid to the gen oral good roads movement The re suiting hlghwaj would not be a one sided affair along the Mexican border, but a central route accessible from and giving access to thf north as well as the south. Portland. Spokane. Seattle and Tacoma have an interest in this as well as San Francisco." Throughout the east Interest in the project was never greater than it is at present, and the fact that subscriptions sub-scriptions to the fund are coming from the biggest companies in tiie automobile au-tomobile Industry is proof that the idea is considered to be practical and entirely possible or execution Since the Idea of an ocean to ocean high way was broached nearly every automobile au-tomobile manufacturer In America has given it close attention The best financial and business experts have examined It from every standpoint ami no sooner tia'i it received inetr indorsement than subscriptions began pouring in at a rapid rate. I The most recent subscription of note to the highway building fund ha: ! Just ben announced by President il D. Chapln of Detroit, who has pledged the support of his eomp?n by sub scribing 100,000. This contribution ! brings the total fund to date to over the $2,000,000 mark |