Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-09-06
COAST
ROUTE MARKED
Complete Road uneS Char.
tered From New York
10 Seattle
Expedition Afouses Interest
For Good Roads 10 Many
States

The first complete road route be-
tween New York city and the Pacific
northwest has just been completed
by the arrival in Seattle of A. l..
Westgard, official A. A. A. represent
tative, who left New York on July IL
for the purpose Of charting a com
plete transcontinental route via Buff
falo, Chicago, Milwaukee, st. Paul,
Minneapolis, Bismarck, N. d. Miles
City, Billings, Livingston, Butte, Mis-
soula, Mont, and Spokane Wash.
Between New York and North Da-
kota the schedule laid out in advance
was easily kept; but owing to a
cloudburst and heavy rain there was
a delay of over a week along the
Yellowstone river in Montana, which
made 1t impossible for the expedi.
ton to reach the Anaconda good
roads convention.
However, some Of the stretches
that we're covered with difficulty have
already been slated for improvement;
and good roads interest has been
aroused through Montana.
What the Trip Achieved.
One excellent result Of this trip,
which appropriately was made with
a Pathfinder car, will be a complete
log with odometer distances, all land
marks and other necessary informa-
ton, through to Yellowstone National
park, and also the Glacier National
park.
The transcontinental route passed
through Livingston, Mont; but upon
his arrival there Mr.. Westgard went
down to Gardiner, the northern en-.
trance to the park, in order to sc.
complete detail. Similarly on arrival
at Kalispell he made a northward
detour to Glacier National park, TAX.
ing equally complete notes. and, or
course, this also makes a complete
route, connecting Yellowstone and
Glacier National parks.
Though the route lay over some
rough country, good time was made
through northern Idaho to Spokane,
and from Spokane to Seattle, run
ming through S%noqualmie pass on the
direct route. 1t is not expected, how
ever, that travel generally will SO
through Snoqualmie pass, except dur.
ing midsummer, and a safer way
now being figured out to connect from
! Spokane to the Columbia river and
Portland, where nj branch will be
| connected north to Tacoma, Seattle,
and Vancouver, and another extended
| south toward San Francisco.
Expedition Starts South.
After a short rest at Seattle the
expedition started south to take com
plete directions and landmarks for a
| strip may over the "Pacifc high
way" through Portland, Salem, AL
bany, and Medford, Ore; Yreka, Red
ding, Merrysville Sacramento, and
Stockton, CAL, to Oakland and San
Francisco. While the Pacific high
way has been travelled by a number
of ars up to this time, full data over
the route has not been available.
Upon arrival at San Francisco Mr.
Westgard will start east on the sec
ond leg of his triple transcontinenta'
tour, running through Reno, Ogden
Cor Salt Lake city,, Laramie, and
| Cheyenne to Omaha, thence over the
upper route through Iowa to Chicago
From Chicago he will retrace thai
part of the going trip as far as Buff
falo and Geneva, thence down
through the lake deg;on of centra;
New York to Binghamton, the Cat
skill mountains, and the Hudson
river.
1t is expected the transcontinenta|
pathfinder will be able to start west
ON the third leg of the triple tour
about the third week in September.
Aside from compiling complete data
for the guidance of a large number
Of tourists who will travel n OF
more of thee routes this expedition.
is notable for. the good roads enthu
siasm aroused in many quarters. Fol
much of his route west of the Mis-
souri, river pilots were supplied by
A. A. A. CLUBS, good roads associa
tons, boards of trade and public spir
| tied citizens who have been interest
ed in seeing the best route selected
and brought out as the three new
ones will be, on the line of the
Trail to Sunset" published by the
!! A. A. A. in the fall Of 1911.