The Detroit times., 1912-03-22
HIGHWAY ACROSS U. S. is
RAPIDLY MATERIAlIlING
Missouri Old Trail Association
Is Moving Spirit in
Enterprise

No. March 22'-fhei
the National Old Trails Road conven
tion is called in Kansas City April Is
the first step toward securing Ma
tional Highway will have been taken.
The convention has been called %
the Missouri Old Trail Road associa'
lrtion and practically all OF the state
through which IL is planned the high
way shall pass will have delegates
/ present
Thomas w. Wildly OF the Depar'-
ment of Good Roads at Washington.
/ %. c., has logged a circuitous route
across the continent that will include
almost every city of importance from
New York 10 San Francisco. Starting
az New York the highway will 20
westward passing through Philadel-
phia. Baltimore, Washington. Wheel.
ing. Columbus, Indianapolis, Terre
Haute. ST. Louis. Kansas City, En-
poria. la Junta. Albuquerque, Phoenix,
Los Angeles and San Francisco. From
there a northern route will be taken
through Sacramento. then on a loop
through Salt Lake City, Omaha. Des
Moines. Davenport. Chicago, South
Bend. Cleveland. Buffalo. Rochester.
Utica and back 10 New York City.
At the Kansas City convention
plans will be considered and formula
cd for the making and marking Of "A
permanent road across the continent
following. as near as practicable and
upon selection at this convention, the
route OF the Cumberland Pike. the
Boon's Lick Road. the Santa Fe Trail
and Sunset Route
Has Mapped the Route.
Mr.. Wildly has just written waiter
Williams. OF Columbia. president OF
Missouri Oil Trails Road association,
about his tour. which was completed IN
100 DAYS. He also sent a map or hrs
route. AS Mr. Wildly says, the tour
not only includes most of the import
ant sightseeing regions. but also
keeps to historic paths. The seHtf
path of the route over which MT.
Wildly started, begins at New fork.
follows the Braddock road, the Cum
berland Pike and the National HIGH
way. through Philadelphia. Baltimore
Washington, Columbus and indian
apoHs TO ST. Louis. From St LOUIS IL
follows the cross-state highway
through Columbia and then goes
through 10 Sante Fe. New Mexico oy
the Boones Lick Road and the santa
Fe trail. From there ii follows the
line of march of Gen. Kearney's ARM
into California. passing through the
wonders OF the southwest, the lndlan
pueblos and Grand Canyon.
From San Francisco Mr.. Wildly TOT
lowed a northern route, which ne cans
The Pioneer Highway This Is MID
dle-west route which. he says, re-
spects tradition" Ii follows the patps
trodden by buffalo and Indian, oy
Jesuits and New England mission
aries. by Oregon trailers and Forty
miners BY Mormons and by home-seek-
ers of the Prairie schooners. rms
route goes through Reno, Salt Lake
CITY. CHEYENNE. WYOMING Omaha
Des Mofnes. Chicago. Cleveland. Mag
ara Falls. Buffalo. Rochester and Al
bany back TO New York City.
OF First Importance.
"Transcontinental highways are oil
first inheritance" Mr. Willy says
ANY scheme for state highways
which does not form n direct link IN
the transcontinental chain must nbc
secondary. Time enough for these
Others when the great transcontinent-
al highways. forming the longes,
and most wonderful sightseeing high.
ways known shall be an accomplished
fact
Mr.. Wildly charted two feasible
transcontinental routes which he
SAYS are scenic highways that-1affofa
the tourist opportunity of seeing Am
erica from the road. Returning east.
ward the road was through Imperial
Valley. along the ella River. past the
petrified Forests. Painted Deserts. the
Cliff Dwellings. the Moqui Indian
Snake Dancers Reservation, Sunset
Mountains land. lava beds and Grand
CANYON of Arizona. One may see the
Sky Village of Acme and Enchanted
Mesa. the Spanish Inscription Rock
Jslets and Luguna pueblos and the In
dian pueblos of Zunni identified with
the tabled Seven Cities OF Cibola.