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Show ROAD PROSPECTS VERY MNG WASHINGTON, D r Before the nd of the coming year, and in time for next winter southerly motor ex-odus. ex-odus. the A. A A touring board pre- diets that there will be available north-and north-and south trunk roads extending from St John, N. B., to Miami. Kla., and from Victoria. B. C . to San Diego. Cal. Besides these two coast highways, at lease two, and perhaps three, other longltlldal routes will be available practically from tho Dominion of Canada Can-ada to the winter resorts of the south. The most recent information on the ktl an Lie highway comes from New' Brunswick, where Minister of Public Wotks Veniot In St. John at the annual an-nual mooting of the provincial automobile automo-bile association assured those present that the St John St. Stephen road soon would receive substantial attention, as a result of applying federal funds ap-l proprlated by the Dominion parlla-j ment Canada some months ago having! voted $20,000,000 in road aid to the provinces. Maine is now at work, 1 thanks to the energies ot the Maine, Automobile association, on the Portland-Calais thoroughfare reaching to! 'he St Croix river, which spearates ' the two countries. Both the New j Brunswick and Maine associations are affiliated with the A A A., which, in view of the forthcoming in eased in ternatlonal interchange of motor travelers trav-elers with the "maritime provinces," will urge them to adopt the traffic rule! of "turn to the rlghL" On break in the Atlantic highway which has been a touring discouragement discourage-ment for years finally has received long-needed consideration, Virginia having expended a generous quantity of her federal aid money, along with other funds, on the several stretches between Alexandria and Fredericks burg, which in the past quickly be-cimc be-cimc impassable in wet weather periods. peri-ods. When Georgia has made it possi-1 ble for the traveler to go from Savan I nah to Jacksonville via Brunswick, instead in-stead of the round about Augusta Bacon-Waycross route, then the long' lino of road from St. John to Miami will deserve its name of the Atlantic highway. Along the Pacific highway the prospects pros-pects are encouraging. Victoria offers i some excellent road with scenic em bcllishment8 on Vancouver island, while the Automobile Club of Western Washington is co-operating with the ! state highway department, in bringing about the early completion of the few missing links between Seattle and the Oregon line. The Oregon Motor association asso-ciation is doing similar work in that state, while in California the route is already contracted for and partially built north of San Francisco, with the southerly stretch already In existence. The California State Automobile association, asso-ciation, through its good roads department, depart-ment, has been incessant in its labors for the Pacific highway. Between the two coasts, the Jeffer 1 son highva, from Winnipeg to New' Orleans, the Dixie highway, from Sault Ste Marie and Cincinnati to Miami, and the .Mississippi Valley highwaj from Duluth to New Orleans, are all gradually being pieced together, in' some states by federal aid and state' money and in others through the issu- ing of county bonds. These big roads, as well as the prln clpal transcontinental hiehuas, say the A: a a officers, should the fed-' oral built and federally maintained, as is sea forth in the so-called Town-1 send bill, now pending in congress and! calling for action in the recular s-Bion s-Bion which bouan on the first da) of this month. |