Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-04-11
TOURS ARE PLANNED
BY PARTIES FROM
CITY OF GOTHAM
Many Expect to Visit San Francisco
Worlds Fair by
a., Auto,
FOUR ROUTES ARE AVAILABLE
Inquiries Indicate Large Numbe:
Win Go or Return by Roads
Through Portland and Other
Northwestern Cities.

New York, April 13.-(Special.) i'm.
quiries received by the American Au.
tomobile association touring board in.
dicate that many of those who have in
mind a journey to the Pacific coast ia
1918 will journey westward over one
route and returned by different timer
airy. While 1914 will see a greater
number of cross country travellers than
in 1913, the total in 1915 promises to
be surprisingly large, and Chairman
Frank X. Mudd of the touring board
predicts that American interstate travel
from this time on will count largely
in vacation periods of many people who
have been in the habit of wearing out
tires on foreign highways.
In preparing for comprehensive
transcontinental service, the touring
department of the National organiza.
tion of automobilists has added to its
material until there are now availab!.
three complete routes, with fourth
to be added in the Spring of 1915. Oe
these, the Overland Trail, for about 9j
per cent of the way the route of the
Lincoln Highway, will attract large
amount of the cross.country travel.
Fourth Route Longest.
The fourth new route will start east
from Los Angeles, and is by far the
longest of the eross.eountry lines.
being via Yuma, Phoenix, Ell Paso,
Forth Worth, Dallas, Texarkana, Little
Rock, Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville,
Asheville, GreenborO, Richmond,
Washington, Baltimore and Philadel-
phia to New York. This tranconti.
nenal route will be availble through
out the year. Very little difficulty was
experienced in its framing, as long
stretches of good natural roads were
found in Arizona, New Mexico and
Texas. In fact the one great problem
of the A. A. A. pathfinder was to So.
lect the Gone best way" from the
number of options offered at several
points, notably east of Phoenix. For
the first time the southwestern and
Gldf states will be placed on a through
line across lower Arizona, New Mex
leo and upper Texas.
The pioneer big route between Chi
cago and the Pacific coast was the
Trail to Sunset" This quickly made
clear that for the San Francisco and
San Diego exhibitions in 1915 there
would be a great call for other routes,
reaching the Pacific northwest as well
as Central and Southern California. u
was therefore decided by the American
Automobile association in the early
summer Of 1912 to undertake the man
ping Of three complete lines in one sea
son.
Northern Route Covered.
Starting in June, the northern route
through Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland,
Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis, Fargo,
Bismarck, Butte, Missoula and Spokane
to Portland and Seattle was covered
The "Northwest Trail" was the first
to give details across the continent by
the northern route, and to supply spe-
cific information, including mileages,
for reaching Yellowstone park from
the Lorth or Glacier park from tho
south. Tqually complete notes were
then taken from Portland to Saeramen-
to aud San Francisco.
Immediately afterward the Overland
Trail was travelled from San Francisco
through Sacramento, Carson City, Reno,
Salt Lake City, Cheyenne, Omaha, Chi
eago, Cleveland, Erie, jamestown, Ell.
mira, Binghamton ard Kingston to
New York
The third line was laid down to Los
Angeles via Philadelphia, Harrisburg,
Pittsburg, Columbus, indianapolis, St.
Louis, Kansas City, Denver Salt Lake
City, Ely and Goldfield. No date has
been set for the publication of these
notes, due principally to road condi-
tions in western Colorado and east.
ern Utah, which will doubtedless be I'M
proved before the spring of 1915.
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