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Show 00 HARD SURFACE ROADS OUT OF OGDEN A dispatch from San Francisco re-J re-J ports the launching of a campaign to ! build an automobile highway from Ball Lake City tp Reno', Nevada, and from Reno to San Francisco, the movement having been started by Adolph Mack, chairman of the high-v.a high-v.a department ol the San Francisco chamber of commerce, and L. A. Nares. an original director of the federal fed-eral highway commission. Those who have piven study to the subject declare the best route for a hard surface road to the coast would I be from Ogden north of ihe lake and event uall the zoverrlment , as a war measure will construct ihe road. One (object to be attained in going north of the lake is to parallel the railroad !and thus make available for the auto 'travel the Hid to be obtained from !the railroad in case of accident, Eventually, In connection "iih the ' arsenal, there will be three hard surface sur-face roads constructed. One to the ! northwest, one directly west and the j third to the southwest. Thi ; will be for ihe purpose of adding to the tran---'portation facilities in a manner to al-'low al-'low ot a quick transfer ol" war materials mate-rials to the coast and guard against I any one artery breakinc down under 1st rain. In the world war, one of the (biggest aids to the French forces was I the excellent road system of the coun I try. In fact Verdun was saved by !rhe roads which permitted heavy truck travel from fifty miles back up I to tho citadel. |