The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-06-21
lRx J. G. RIcE.l
Chattanooga. Tenn,


One OF the bes. samples of good road
building in the southern states has
been placed en- exhibition here during
the present year. Ths new roadway
connects the city ot Chattanooga with
Signal mountain. or Walden's ridge.
noted summer resort of the Cumoer-
lanc mountains. 1t is a Tart OF a COM
prehensive system of good roads In
Hamilton county. Visitors to the Con-
vederate reunion. May 27-2s. will be
charmed with a trip TO this historic
height over one of the best and most
picturesque roads IN the southern
states.
The building OF this road was due to
the energr and enterprise OF a local
capitalist. FIR. C. E. James. Mr.. James
ana his associates bought a consider
able tract of land on Signal mountain.
which includes sigma. Point an emil
nence overhanging Ire torenous and
tumultuos channel. or nerrosvs. of the
Tennessee river. A modern hotel has
been erected at Sigma Point 1t Is
handsomely appointed hotel. built OF
tie best pink sandstone from the
native mountains, surrounded by for
est trees and supplied by chemically
pure mountain wafer
Signal mountain lies north of Chat
tanoooga some six miles 1t Is T. spur
of the Cumher1ands, has an average
altitude OF 1000 feet above sea level
fs approximately one -.un1rec miles In
length and has an average width Oh
ten miles. The top OF tie. mountain
Is a practically level plateau. COW
cred by forest trees. with here and
there a comfortable mountain home.
On that part Of the mountain nearest
Chattanooga there has been for many
years a colony OF summer residents. "a
few hotels and cottages for rent and
through t.ere the people of most of
the southern ccnters havs become
more or less familiar with the noun
tain.
The Signal Mountain Road.
In traversing the distance from the
base to the summit of the mountain
the Signal mountain road reaches ar
altitude of approximately $500 feet
above sea level. The heaviest grade
of the road. however. 10 but per cent
An automobile nay be driven with al
sa1e.y from the business districts 0!
~
road ir thirty minutes. Before thu
road was built 1t required more tnaI
an hour to go from the city to thu
same point on the mountain in a motor
car. over q rough ard. at points. dan
gsrous road.
A movement Is now heralded to ex
tend this road north to fntersect
state highwav under courst OF con
struction from Nashville to Bristol
and thence through Kentucky t
Louisville This extension woul
shorten the distance between Chatta
nooga and Louisville about 100 mile
over any steam road. A companio
project is to interest the natione
government In the construction OF
road from Fort Oglethorpe. At Chicka
manga. to Atlanta. to uIite the Fol
Oglethorpe brigade post with Fort Nc
Pherson. The carrying oct of thes
projects would give the country an au
tomobile highway from Louisville +,
tlanta. through Chattanooga. 1t
one of the possibilities OF the future.
The Signal mountain road Is Pre-
nounced, by all road experts who hay
examined 1t, as triumph in ros
building and civil engineering. I'll
road winds by easy grades iD the sic
and benches OF the mountain to
GROWING BLUM. This browning biuff
about PIC feet high from base to sun
NIT. bare Of foliage. and 1ising perpe1
dicularly from the bench of the mouI
tain. The face OK this clif glistel
in the sunlight. and on a fair day
visible for miles around. MIR. w.
James, the civil engineer IN charge