The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-09-03
cRoss-coNTINENT HIGHWAY.

cooperation DetWceH tDc Ndthoh"
Government aud the States in the max
| ing Of good roads; and he was certain
" most persistent aud strennou:
worker in this cause. There are Other
proposals for roads Of various kind:
from the "Appian Way as wal
memorial from Washington TO Gettys
burg, and other special schemes OF
roadmaking have been proposed AL
these appear to have led to the COM
prehensive idea of transcontinental
road, and this in turn has branched
out into a good many connected prof.
Gets.
Senator Cullom of Illinois introduced
on August 10th bill providing for toll
roads in various directions, all lead.
ing to Washington, the National Gov
ernment. He proposes good road to
Portland, Maine; Others TO Buffalo
New York; Seattle, Washington; San
Francisco, San Diego, Austin. Texas,
and Miami, Florida. He proposes to
call these the Washington National
highway, Roosevelt National highway,
Lincoln National highway, Jefferson
National highway, Grant National
highway, Monroe National highway,
and Lee National highway, in the Sc
quence named.
1t seems to us, however, that this
scatters too much, and has no regard
to any idea of recognition of the pio-
necr routes of the country, and the
highways through which migration
pushed its way. If we are to have Ma
tional highways at all, il seems to us
that they should have some regard to
the historic movements Of the people
in opening the different regions TO
civilization. SO considered. that form
of National highways would be not
only of the highest possible service to
the people, but would be historical re-
minders of the movements of the pio.
neers.
Such highways would by no means
center in Washington, which is com.
paratively a mistletoe growth There
would naturally be the highways from
Boston west and north. There would
be continuation of the west-running
road from Boston TO Albany, along the
Mohawk Valley, and west into Ohio.
There would be another close to the
and Virginia line (the
Washington highway to Pitts.
burg; thence west through Ohoi
to Cincinnati and st. Louis: the Bos,
ton road continuing on through North.
ern Ohio and Indiana to Chicago From
st, Louis there should be n National
highway substantially OH the line of the
great Lewis and Clark exploration up
the Missouri and down the Columbia
to Portland (the Jefferson high
way). A branch from this ought
TO strike off up the Platte through
South Pass, and following the old Ore.
gou emigrants' trail go down the Snake
River and across through the vicinity
of Baker City to the Columbia, and
thence down that river on the old route
to Portland. Another should strike
southwestwardly from the South Pass
to Salt Lake, coming down Emigration
or Parley's Canyon, and branching
again at Salt Lake. one branch going
west along the south shore of the lake,
down the Humboldt River in Nevada.
and across the Sierras TO California.
Another branch from this city should
90 south on the old Southern Califor.
MIA trail TO Los Angeles, Another road
should follow substantially from Kan
sas City, branching off from the Lewis
and Clark trail at that point running
to Santa Fe, thence through Arizona
TO San Diego. The great Southern
road should leave the ocean at Savan-
nah, Georgia. and run west through
Georgia, Alabams, and Mississippi, to
New Orleans. Another north of that
should leave the Atlantic coast run.
ming westward through North Carolina
and Tennessee to the Mississippi River,
thence continuing through Arkansas
and down through Texas to the Mex
ican border, with branch line to Santa
Fe. There should be north of this last
named road another through Virginia
and across the Allegheny mountains
into Kentucky. following the old Boone
trail to frankfort and to Cincinnati.
These roads would form network
of splendid highways throughout the
United States, and would, at the same
time, convey TO every one traversing
them. or seeing them charted, dis
tinct and clear idea of the movements
OF the pioneers of America from the
first. Links in between, such as from
New York and Albany, from the Vir-
ginia road to Pittsburgh, from Ciucin-
natl to Chicago, from San Froncisco TO
Los Angeles, from Portland to Seattle,
from Salt Lake to Butte and Helena.
and from Denver TO Cheyenne and
Kansas City to Denver, should also be
built.
The trouble with Senator Cullom s
bill is. that it undertakes to mako an
artificial hub of the highway move,
ment at Washington, where it by no
means belongs, 1t is true that con.
Meeting link from Washington to Phil.
adelphia and New York. and another