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Show ROUTES ACROSS THE CHIBT IRE MAPPED i Transcontinental Inquiries received" by the A. A. A. Touring Board indicate indi-cate that many of those who have in' mind a journey to the Pacific Coast in 1015 will journey westward over pue route and retufa by. a different Jitinerary. While 1914 will see a greater great-er number of cross-countrv travelers than In 1913, the total In 1915 prom-; Ises to be surprisingly numerous and warrants Chairman Frank X Mudd of the(Tourlng Board to predict that -American' mier-stute' travel rrom this-tlnfe this-tlnfe "on" 'will count largely in vacation vaca-tion periods of many people who have been-in the habit of wearing out tires on foreign highways. Jn . preparing for a comprehensive transcontinental service, the touring department of the national organization organiza-tion of automoblllsts has added to Its material until there are now available avail-able three complete routes with' 'a. fourth to be added in the Spring -of 1915. Of these, the Overland Trail is for. about 95 per cent of the wav.fbe 'route' of the-Lincoln Highway, -which will, attract-a large amount of - the' crosn-coUntry travel. - The fourth new route will start east from' Los -Anseles and is by flattie-1 PjjfiBj8jBBjBBjBBBjBBj(j - i-L'l1 longest of the cross-country lines, be-! ing via Yuma, Pliqenix, El Paso, Fort Worth, Dallas, Texarkana. Little Rock, Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville, j Asheville, Greensboro, Richmond,! Washington, Baltimore, and . Philadel-1 phia. to New York. This transconti- i nental route will be available through-, out the year:. .Mexyrlittle difficulty1 .was experienced. JiuJ.ts framing, as i long stretches of good natural roads .were found In Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. In'-fac.t, the one great; problem of the A.'. A pathfinder j: was to select the 'one best way" from , the number of options' offered at sev-f eral points,- notably east of Phoenix. ' For the first time the Southwestern t and Gulf states' "will -be placed 'on a, "through line across lower Arizona, H New Mexico, and upper Texas :H The pioneer big route between Chi- ;jB cago and the Pacific coast was the Wt "Trail to Sunset This quickly made Ifl clear that for, thoxSau Franciscp and H San Diego exhibitions in 1915 there 'aB would be rt. ;great " call for other nC routes, reaching the -Pacific North-west North-west as well as central and southern ! . E ' Galifornia. It was therefore decided ; by the A. A. A. in the early summer ' m. of 1912 to undertake the mapping of ;E three complete lines; in one season. 'H Storting in June the northern route i u through Albany. Buffalo, Cleveland, j; Chicago. St Paul, Minneapolis, Fargo, f f Bismarck, Butte, Missoula, and Spo- & kane to Seattle was covered. The I r. "Northwest Trail" was the first to f g give details across the contiuent by i the ioprthern route, .and to supply spe- 7 Qific Information,' including mileages, for reaching Yellowstone Park from j jj the north or Glacier Park from the-, : south. Equally complete note? were I, then taken from Seattle through la- j , I coma. Portland', and' Sacramento, lo 1 15 'San Francisco.- j. SJL Immediately afterward, the Over- ifeff , land Trail was traveled from San j: Fl Francisco through Sacramento. Car- .IE son .City,. Reno. Ogden, Cheyenne, ;1 Omaha. Chicago, uevnaud. iirie, tS Jamestown, Elmira. Binghamton, and -El Kingston to New York. 11 The third line was laid down to Los fe Angeles via Philadelphia, Harrlsburg. 11 Pittsburg, Columbus. Indianapolis, St. M Louis, Kansas City, Denver, Salt Lake : l City, Ely, and.Goldfield. No date fl has been set the publication of l rthese-notes. duoVjnincipally to road conditions . in. western Colorado anc1 :l eastern Utah. " 1 J 1 |