The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-28
BOULEVARD FROM BOSTON
 ID WHITE MOUNTAINS Seventy Miles of Automo- bile Road Along Merri-
 mack River.
A PICTURESQUE ROUTE
State and Towns to Jointly Pay to Construct and
 Maintain It.

NCAANotos A1st N1oy aOii 5 oAcP toward the establishment of broad boulevard extending from Boston to the White Mountains will be taken during the present year, in the con- struction of the so-called "Merrimac Valley Trunk Line" a highway au- thorized by the last session of the New Hampshire legislature. This line, which will he a wide macadamized road ex- ending from Massachusetts state line, at the southerly end of the city of Nashua, to the northerly end of the city of Laconia, on Lake Winnipesau- kee, will be constructed jointly by the state and by the towns and cities through which 1t will pass. On it's southern extremity it will connect with the Massachusetts state highway in Tyngsboro. The entire length of the trunk line will be approximately 70 miles, It will pass through the cities of Nashua. Manchester, Concord, Franklin, and Laconia, and the towns of Merrimac, Bedford, Tooksett, Penn broke, Boscawen, Triton and Belmont. The sum of $125,0O0 was appropriated by the legislature last winter to be ex- pended as state aid for the construc- I ton and maintenance of highways, and of this amount about 5000 will be used in the construction of the Merri- mac valley trunk line The remainder of the cost will be paid by the cities and towns through which the road will run. A considerable portion of the line will be composed of sections or road way already built and complying with the standards set for the new boule- ward These sections total about thirty I miles
 The boulevard. as It's name indicates, will be laid out for the great part of the route along the banks of the Mer- rimac river. From the state line in Nashua the road will follow the sweep ling curves of the broad, picturesque jri9er northward to Franklin, where at the meeting of the waters" made fan,- lous by Whittier in his poems the Pemi- gewesset and Winnipesaukee rivers ljoin and form the Merrimac. From that point to it's northerly terminus, in La Eccnia, the road will pass along the val Hey of the Winnipesaukee river past Lake Winnisequam, to the north ! . rf3t.. e -aL l Winnipesaukee summer resort, which is q part of the city of Laconia. Here, for tho present, the boulevard will end. But it is the ultimate plan of those in- Iterested in good roads in New Hamp- lshire, ard who so successfully urged to have the road extended to the White Mountains When this is done, the work will be taken up where the Mer- lrlmac valley trunk line ends, and the lroad will undoubtedly be continued
 northward to Plymouth From that
 town various routes to the White
 Mountains arc favored. but that most likely to be finally adopted would TUT through Woodstock, Franconia ant Bethlehem.
 The new boulevard would not only be Iof great benefit to persons living along its line, but will be particularly appre
 cated by the thousands of automobil- sts who visit the White Mountains ant Central New Hampshire every summer The Merrimac valley route is q favor lite one with the majority of these, ant the improving of the road way vii
 make their travels much more comfort liable and enoyable
 Under the present plan of giving
 state aid to towns and cities in thu matter of highways, the work of build ling d White Mountain or other new trunk line will be greatly facilitated for it will only be necessary to piect together the short stretches of maca ldam road which are constantly taking
 the place of the old dirt roads in al
 parts of the state. This year 164 town
 have applied for such state aid, and tn, work of highway improvement for thu
 present season is well under way.