Semi-weekly herald., 1914-01-05
6 DAYS FROM DENVER TO
LOS ANGELES VIA DURANGO

The following special dispatch from
Pueblo to the Denver News indicates
that the Spanish Trail-Grand Canon
highway is being well advertised. The
statement, however, that the road will
touch at Taos, N. NJ, is evidently an
error as the route laid out runs from
ruello via Walsenburg to Alamosa
thence across the range to Pagosa
Springs, Durango and on to Califor-
MIA. The Durango board of trade
can feel we'll paid for the money
spent in promoting and organization
of this highway.
PUEBLO, Colo.-Pueblo to Los An
geles, by automobile in six daysl
Gcod roads enthusiasts and build
ers generally, highway commission
ers, archaeologists and motorists are
declaring that, in the Spanish Trail
highway, the problem of transcontin.
tai travel, so far as the West is con-
cerned, has been solved.
Numerous reasons are advanced
for this opinion.
Passing through many geological
archaeological and scenic wonders OF
the world, the Spanish Trail is con.
sidered to be destined to become the
national route out of Colorado to tn,
Pacific coast.
| AMI the Spanish Trail association
expects to bring $4,000 tourists tc
Colorado each year.
For Years efforts have been mad,
to locate the ideal route and passag,
| through the Rocky mountains to tn,
Ear west. The Spanish Trail offers
the finest climate all the year round
with travel by automobile possible a
almost any time, the lowest pass il
the Rockies and the most fascinating
historical and scenic attractions.
The road. which is now being bull
from both ends toward the middle
starts at Pueblo, negotiates La Vets
pass, touches the wonderful Mes;
Verda cliff dwellings, the home of tn,
Penitentes, the Grand Canon, lead,
over lofty natural bridges and dow
through fertile valleys to Los Angeles
and San Diego.
In all it is six-day trip by auto
and the government is so interested il
the project that engineers from
Washington have assisted in making
the surveys and it is expected tina
still more substantial aid will b,
forthcoming.
Impetus was given the big under
taking at coed roads meeting il
Pueblo and since that time there hai
not been time when work was no
in progress at some point along tn,
picturesque route. ]. II. jenkins
general secretary of the Pueblo Com
merce club, is president of the asso
citation and he has personally inspect
ed large portion of the road.
From the west the Los Angeles aut
omobile club with 10000 members il
pushing the work in this direction.
The road will touch at Toas, N. NJ.
the home Of the famous scout XII
Carson, Navajo Indian reservation
and Southern Ute Indian reservation
The national government at presen
is spending several thousand dollar
in building public roads in the ma
tional park, Mesa Verda, while at
fractions that have not been enumer
ated are the fertile valley of Sal
Luis, the rich mining district at Sai
Juan and the celebrated canons tina
lie in the southwest. 1t is propose,
that the highway will be ready 70
travel during the summer of 1914
The Trinchsra Estate company ha
donated the old d. & r. G. right-of
way through its estate to Costill
county, and an easement has been pro
cured from the Denver & Rio Grand
in Huerfano county for the old d.
r. G. right-of- way to the top of l.
lveta pass.
Highway Commissioner Ehrhar
and his board of advisers have gon
over the highway and pronounced
the most ideal highway across tn
state Of Colorado.