The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-10-25
ROAD SITE VISITED
BY COMMITTEE
FINDS THE EXPENSE or BUILD
ING BRIDGE WILL BE MODERATE
-AsToRIA-sEAsrDE ROAD FINEST
I'm NORTHWEST.

II the plan Ii successfully carried out
which the Chamber Of Commerce has
now inaugurated and which II will Inn.
mediately take UP with The County
Court, Clatsop Beach will within few
years become famous throughout the
entire country a. possessing the best
ocean beach, straightaway automobile
course, In the entire northwest II not
In the entire United States.
II Ii the intention Of the plan that
has been. inangurated TO connect good
road from Warcnton with the beach
at Fort Stevens, then is miles further
On down at Seaside, put bridge across
th mouth Of the Necanicum. 20 that
automobilists may be able en- route
from Astoria to Seaside, To make lis
miles Of the journey on the beach, that
Is. the distance from Fort Stevens to
Seaside, passing Gearhart Park and all
Of the most desirable cottage Ioca-
tions.
Everyone who has 80 far considered
the subject Is most enthusiastic con-
cerning II. This plan works in most
admirably with the good road which the
Chamber Of Commerce in conjunction
with the Portland Automobile Club. is
planning to build through Multnomab.
Columbia. Clatsop and Tillamook coun-
ties all the way from Portland to Til
lamook. President Russell will soon have
raised $4,000 In Portland which will be
used for the paying Of one-third Of the
cost Of the construction Of the road
through Columbia County, that county
paying the other two-thirds, as per an
agreement which was reached with
County Judge Haitian when the good
roads committee Of the Chamber visited
st. Helens last August.
The york on that part Of the good
road from Seaside to the Tillamook
county line win begin next Monday. The
good roads from Tillamook to the Clat-
sop county line has already been COM
pleted, and with the completion Of the
road between Seaside and the end Of
the completed road from Tillamook,
automobiles may 60 all the way from
Seaside TO TilIamook. Automobiles
viii be able to make such trips from
Seaside To Tillamook next summer. And
by next summer the Chamber Of Com
mercc expects that 1t will be able with
the assistance Of the County Court to
have completed the connections which
will provide the Is miles ocean beach
road from Fort Stevens to Seaside.
The result Of this ocean beach road
will be that all Of the Portland auto
mobile speed races will BE held on Clat-
sop Beach. They will be held there be-
cause there is no better place than this
beach anywhere in America to hold them.
When the tide is low the beach ID SO
hard that horse galloping over it
scarcely makes footprints, and indeed
the reyerberations from his hoof-falls
can be heard many rods away, as If he
were galloping over an asphalted street.
When the tides are high Of course the
beach road cannot be used, and then the
county road which the Astoria automo-
bilists now use. and which is something
like a half-mile back from the coast,
can DO used. But as there is high
and low tide each day, any automo-
bilists who makes the round-trip from
Portland or Astoria to Seaside In one
day. will be able to take the beach drive
either going or coming And as the new
beach road will be connected up with
the town Of Seaside, the cottagers can
take their automobiles with them in the
summer knowing that they will have
the finest place in the world to use
them.
The completion Of the beach road will
lend an additional stimulus to the
efforts now most successfully being
made to build the good road all the way
from Portland through Astoria to Til
lamook.
The Astoria Chamber Of Commerce
IN the future is pledged to good roads
and it is entirely probable that more
good roads will be built in Clatsop|
county each year IN the future than in
any other county in the state if not
many times as much as any other
county will build.
The only thing that win hinder the
automobilists being able to ride from
Portland to Tillamook through Astoria