Evening Star Newspaper, March 4, 1923, Page 68

COMPLETED LINCOLN HIGHWAY TO REPRESENT $70.000,000 1f the six or eight intrepid souls who undertook to cross the American Eontinent in a motor car in 1913 join the caravan of fifteen or twenty thou- sand cars which in 1 will flow | east and west along the Lincoln Highway between the two coasts, they can best appreciate the marvel- ous changes of ten year The fact is the whole ‘American roadbuilding on like a national scale is comprised within the past decade. Wheh the Lincoln highway in its larger sense grea: wmain line for a national high-way transpbrtation system was nothinz more than an ide: hope, 1913, 1any ridiculed the visionaries who' fcrtesaw the expenditure of 8o vast sum as $20,000,000 on the road | between New York and San Francisco Within & period of even twenty years. Vast improvement In Nine Years, In the ended with the ndvent over $47.000.000 had be, expende on the improve- e ot the Lincoln highway— zh at erage of $20,000 e mile to construct 0 miles of the route, or more than two-thirds of it he fact is, more than two-thirds of it has been built, if by “built” is ion and opening of for the traffic of history of nine of 19 vears anything | in | improvement between those two | points is to be accomplished in 1923, completing a paved road from the Pennsylvania state line to Mansfield. |Road conditions west of Mansfield are spotty and long sections of old |macadam_ are likely to be rather |rough during the season of 1923. Qhio spent $40,430 on the maintenance of 113 miles of the Lincoln_ way last veur. an average of $3 mile | mostly on”the old macadam sections. Indiana, The Hoosier program of Lincoln highway improvement has® been one of the most consistent of any of the states traversed by the route, with the result that the end of 1924 will | doubtless find the road |from Kort Wayne to Chicago. In 1922 Indiana built twenty-five miles of new -concrete pavement on | Lincoln highway at a total cost of $766,000. or an average of $30,6 mile, exclusive of the special lesson” project built by the Highway Association with funds con- tributed by the United States Rubber Company—the “ideal section” in Lake county The pavement of this model stretch of road was completed in 19 but many refinements rema to be accomplished in the spring. including the installation of the illumination landscaping of the right-of-way ovision of a 3 With th the ideal section in 1 . Indiana will have as a portion of her transstate road the finest and most modern sec- completed | the | Lincoln | pathway" for | completion of | THE Omaha to Cheyenne, Wyo., nearly 500 miles. Nebraska built’ 69.9 miles of Lincoln “way in 1922 at a cost of $527,000, the average cost per mile being $7,671.85. With the exception of 6 miles of paving in Douglas coun- ty (near Omaha) this was all 36-foot gravel. There is no pavement on the Lincoln highway in Nebraska beyond 60 miles west of Omaha, but the Platte river gravel makes a wonder- ful roadbed. Maintenance cost the state about $100,000 last year on 463.5 miles, an average cost of but $237.30 per mile. Wyoming. As in the past, Wyoming made splendid progress on her program of Lincoln way work In 1 The road is the most important in the state and pidly nearing conipletion. The 1y serious need for improvement re- tion immediate- ver. This project involves an entirely new location and a new bridge, together with an overs | head crossing of the Union Pacific railroad s will be undertaken in 11923, of $161,000, and when | completed will open the last link in a trans-Wyoming Lincoln high splendid boulevard for 460 miles Last year the state completed nty-four of high-grade vel surfacing, cost of §1 453.12, and 1 d the entire route across the state in lent condition ense of $77.860, or an aver- par mil Utah. The state of Utah tw is completing a SUNDAY very fine road from the Wyoming line | STAR, WASHIN into Salt Lake City. West of Salt Lake City it is doing nothing, all ef- forts being concentrated on the im- provement of a road leading south from the state capitol to the Arizora line. The south road providesa con- nection with Los Angeles through the heart of the Mojave desert. but s of no service to through traflic seeking northern California. The condition of the Lincoln highway in one county of western Utah is now the only remain- ing barrier to easy and certain pas- senger and freight trangport between the two coasts. The desert link in the Lincoln way, which the associa- tion has been endeavoring for ten Yyears to open, is still at the mercy of the elements.’ It must be remembered that the Salt Lake desert is not a vast area. It is but seventeen miles across the narrow arm traversed by the Lincoln way. Here was spent the $100,000 contributed by the associa- tion toward the construction of a graded and graveled passageway. The state, which spent the association's mon agreed in 1918 to complete this route and keep it open. It has not done s0. and without majntenance the expensive work accomplished is being rapldly destroyed by both traf- fic and the elements In favorable weather this link will be open during 1923. There is no other way west into northern California_ex pt the long detour north around Great Salt lake. through Brigham and which is extremely rou | The state has |ever on th. in | west from salt No new construction was accomplish- Fommme— e vy FTON, Show ville, | FMaining stretches to be constructed 1923—PART 3. them rough and disagreeable to drive, but none of them are impass- able or dangerous, and all of them are financed. D. MARCH 4, ed on the Lincoln highway during 1922. A few thousand dollars was ex- pended on the maintenance of road east of the capitol. Nevad Lincoln highway improvement the Sagebrush etate very satisfactorily. With the aid of funds contributed by the Lincoln Highway Association to assist the counties and the state in meeting federal ald, every Indication points to the completion of the route across Nevada by the end of 1924. Contracts now in force between the Lincoln Highway Association and the Nevada department of highways call for the completion of seventy-three miles of the route at a total estimated cost o1 3707,000 by the 1st of June, 1924. These contracts involve $52,000 of the association’s funds, this sum being held in escrow in Reno. Ailthough the Lincoln Highway Association has extended financial assistance to Ne- vada in the sum of $115,000, an amount which commands for the state |nance on 318 miles cost $187.612.583, from the federal Treasury ciose to|an average of $588.86 per mil half a million dollars.. 1 Improvement Table. Last year Nevada completed forty- ! eight miles on the Lincoln highway { Briefly summarized, the work ac-| at a cost of $435.17093. This woek |complished on the Lincoln wa included the completion of the moto- |13 &iven in the follow aD rious twelve miles of Fallon sink, in Churchill county, which eliminated the worst section in the state. The Mile- age. New tate construction. w Jerses. Pennsylvania . Ohio indiana linols the Califernia. California completed the grading of eighteen miles on the Lincoln way between Colfax and Auburn last year and accomplished about two miles of new paving work, including an o head railroad crossing near Oakland. In 1923 the route from Auburn to 24B.44 $4,678,04 Colfax will be paved with concrete Some paving may also be done east ipended on of Placerville, on the route south of |, i Lake Tahoe. Both of these sections |~ (%, (280 of the Lincoln way are on the Cali- Gravel fornis feacral mia systcm, and both will ultimately be paved to the Ne- vada line. Both routes are kept in very fair condition, pending perma- | nent improvement, and no difficulties need be anticipated by the through tourlst in the Slerras. ruc- tion on the Lincoln way cost Califor nia $68,520.50 last year and mainte- in s proceeding Lincoln way, “per " mi dn. build with that over four the omplished Tspes of new construc Permunent carth grade, Total . Without on the donbt 1 incoln luring 1923 and 1924 are of AUTO GLASS FOR WINDSHIELDS OR . Installed Whiie ¥ou Wat Taranto & Wasman _1017 NEW YORK AVE. N.W.° many $6,046,168.10 20,000.00 What kind of roads did the states and one- half million dollars spent last year on Lincoln way? The following table v indicates what the money in- n completed on the miles miles 4 miles former records. Even now hundreds are beginning to plan trips to the national parks and other points of interest in that great playground of America between the Rockies and the Sierras. What has $47,000,000 worth of work done to the Lincoln highway since 19132 The following table gives the answer.' It shows the mileage of each type of improvement now existing on the Lincoln high- way. The natural earth and gravel are, of course, largely west of Salt Lake City. After June 1 the 2,450 miles between New York city and Salt Lake City will be very largely in boulevard condition except in we! weather. Little wet weather will be encountered along the route between June 15 and October 15. Jlassification of types of road con- struction on the Lincoin highway ebruary 1, 1923 Concrete . Natural U3 | Paved city” streets, To HE visible evidence of the since the work of the Lin ion has seen th of hetween 7 oand 10 per 1otal distanc extension of over u longer the completed work. The states traversed by the léncoln high way built 235 miles of the route with | i of the federal government in this w costing in total $4 £I5011.71 n average of practicall $20.000 per mile. Maintenance on the! Miehway during 1922 cost S1. Tiinois. , that the total amount| Tilinois would Lincoln_highway on the bet ent of the state miles 1922 had it not bec for delays in securing the required right- of-way between Aurora and Plainfielc where the new pavement will jthe route considerably. This sectio d a short gap near New Lenox, to- | taling seventcen miles, are ail that main to be done. State Highway F gineer Older expresses the hope that ! this vear will see the completion of | the route, a remarkable accomplish- | n expended on the improvement of fment when it is remembered that in | the Lincoln highway: It was further 191\. there was not a mile of pave- | estimated that at Teast $20.000.000.00 | ment on the Lincoln highway | ; in 1li- | n hat \ amount equivalent | [ side of municipal limits. 1 To that it was assumed ten years ago | Mg Tilinois built miles d complete the route—will neces- | oo nat Y00 o "0 ment v be invested in additional tm-| ¢ ¢74 655" an average of $28.26 ovement to open up a road sati “Yihe cost of of e for the traffic across eac tricted to the aved stre poor g v traflic. Main- of the route inauguration oln highway onstruction | cent of the ed the tion of highway in the world. It will | | set the pace for adequacy and perma- | nency along the route between Chi- | ago and New York for many years | . to _come. maintenance | GRT, gpent 5 %1 tenance of 141 miles of Lincoln h eleven ay last year, an average of $635 & mile. Much of this was spent on the lunpaved sections of the route. agure- igating some sixty miles. one-third of | “| which at least will be built this vear ¥ |to the same high standard. grealest automotive ever made is contained in the exhibit of the Star Car at our salesrooms. Do not fail to see it. adequate 90 on the main- ind longer milea | dsfl“’b Harper Motor Co. 1128-1130 Conn. Ave. have finished entirely across th last vear was $6,046,168, an anmount slightly less than the aver- of the past five vears. ? Cont $70,000,000. neeting of the of the Lincoln in EBONITE is marketed by the ¥ Bayerson. 0l Worls: Others have tried to imitate it. They are still trying. otal AU the recent 1 of direc way Association, it wa sted that by the end of thi king into consideration the \racts. oyer £30.000,000.00 will ha Thousands of bright motor- ists and truck operators have standardized on EBONITE after experimenting _with many other brands. Inves- tigate. It pays. Sold by reliable dealers in five-pound cans, and at ap- pointed service stations where vou sec the checker-hoard design pump. EBONITE (It's Shredded Oil) Peor Transmi is evident | Nation's Main ! tory status of uire a total ex- ARE NOW LOCATED IN THEIR NEW SALESROOM 1835 14th STREET miles ged $300 per mile. Towa. Towa took another long step tow five 'S. | the compietion of u proper road from | route can {the Mississibpi to the Missouri in | of 1 . 1 completing 49.8 miles, which in splen- Tided 14 miles of concrete paving. part of | The permanent ading of the Lin- that. Iticoln way for 380 mi & the without { state is very nearly accomplished and | ossibility real difficul- fonly a very inadequate road law in for the 1 ic of 19231 Towa prevents rapid pavement of the not for stubborn refusai | Lincoln way and of other important state to complete a short and | roads in the state. nt link. it is, the coming | The average cost of improvement have to take itS|per mile on the Lincoln highway in the short Utah;lowa last year was $16,118. The o | tire route is under state maintenance and the average cost per mile in 1922 | was §351.85. iprovem penditure the rate of five year, a sun '\va-l tures of ast tirst completion of the eseen about the end rse the route will be ndition for the greater distance 1 before 1ld he open tirety, of lons and Different! of one tniport t Utah. L.lnuln High- es traversed rest to motor- press In of the the- £t condition Nebraska. | Very little complaint can be irt of the union.|of the condition of the Association re- | way across Nebraska. ts of 1922 |miles of the Toute wi in rough | tatus of the route in each of | shape during 1922 but the state | briefly follow maintains those sections which have been adequately improved in excel- lent shape and in dry weather tour Jersey bu Jists of 1 ean anticipate a boule- | to the hig {vard from the Missouri river at! pavement 11 inches | . wide, necessitated | tremendon New ¥ made | coln high- | Some 15 or 20 All Models on Display The states, New New rxey. [ 7 w. tr der many points e of under- - stability, correspondingly high, 0.000 a mile. The cost of maintenance on the Lin- hizhway in New Jersey durin 2 was per mile. he road fect condition, Pennsylvania. completed oncrete construction on the | highway last year at a cost! average cost per require an in drains in o to and th been ng over 7.24 Pennsyl miles of new Li of ania £439.0 ress is its pr Lincoln highwa il phin and Pittsburgh with concret o amtenance on the old mac { very expensive, aver- | during 1922 on 320 miles of the | $9.86 per mile. an average | Lelow that of 1921 ! Ohio. relatively small ement was . Le Sieur Antoine da la Mothe Cadillac! nount of new | somplished on the | the MBuckeye state | some vears Ohio has | At the rate of about vear, but in 1922 con- but .13 miles of new pave- this being vitrified brick on a oncrete base and costing $372,718.49, average of $40,823.50 per mjle. new pavement rmpleted as largely Tficld, car. - For en proceeding oA Buick that i the Springtime In the sparkling beauty, in the lustrous coloring and in the zest that they bring to motoring, the Buick Sport Roadsters fit the spirit of springtime. It is fitting that the builders of the Cadillac should- pause today to com- memorate the birthday of Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, distinguished French soldier and explorer, from whom the Cadillac car takes its name. Born March 5, 1658, in the little vil- lage St. Nicholas de la Grave, of old France Cadillac is remembered as an intrepid adventurer and discoverer, as the founder of the City of Detroit [1701], and Governor of the great French territory of the Mississippi. pioneers, of leadership, of steadfast | purpose and of self-lm osed duty nobly accomplished. It is a name that signifies hlgh and outstanding achieve- ment. The builders of the Cadillac are frankly proud of this name. So far | as lies within their power it is thelri purpose to maintain in Cadillac, the | institution, the traits and standards so finely represented in Cadillac, the Man. 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