Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1914-06-12
THE NATIONAL TRAIL
Kansas City Sends Representa-
tive Of Inspection Over
Northern Route.

Wednesday tn e Inspector
from Kansas City, selected to
carefully go over the route be-
tween st. Louis and Kansas City
known as the Northern Route,
was joined by a large delegation.
from this city in charge of high
way commissioner 0. G. Dameron
at Dewitt and the road inspected
between that town and Moberly.
There were a number from Sails
bury and Brunswick in the
escort of the Kansas City in
spector, as we'll as from the
country around this city, prac-
tically all having automobiles
responding to Dameron's call
for representatives. 1t is flatter-
ing to US to know that the re-
port Of the inspector on the
road from Dewitt to Moberly
viii be all in its favor, and there
will be no stretching of the i'm
imagination on the part of off
cials when they describe its
excellent condition, natural and
acquired. The Kansas City
inspector was strong in his
views Of this route, not only be-
cause of the natural lay of the
land over which the road passes,
but in the fact that the Missouri
river is crossed on fine bridge
instead of by ferry, and that the
interest in the road bed is great
enough to insure its being kept
in good order so that travel by
automobile from the metropolis
of the east to the Panama Expo
sition in 1915 will be the easiest.
1t is this great idea which is in
spring the interest in the various
routes thru the United States.
for while the route used to get
to the exposition is important
for that event, it is more impor-
tant in that it will be the perma-
nent route for all time for trave-
lers overland in other than
railroad trains, and that the
travel by automobile is greatly
on the increase, everyone knows.
The Lincoln route, proposed to
run thru Iowa, will undoubtedly
be a competitor with this route,
but easily vanquished, and we
can felicitate ourselves on the
great probability of the Nationa
Trail being selected very near tc
us, if not thru the city, for il
will either come this way or &c
over the Sante Fe trail and cross
the river at Glasgow and will be
near enough to reach easily wher
we start for the Pacific.
Mr.. Minor, in company with
another gentleman whose name
we did not learn and their wives,
composed the inspection part in
a Jack Rabbit car in which they
had travelled thus far from Sar
Francisco as well as over severa
routes proposed and Mr.. Minor
was the representative of the
Touring Information Bureau Of
Kansas City:
The plan he had was to have
each city or town thru which the
trail he was undertaking to es-
tablish would pass, contribute Sc
much to the cost of locating the
route, and for every dollar the
city or town subscribed, a book
showing the route by maps, the
facilities for travellers possessed
. by each in the way of hotels,
garages and any other which
could be printed on one page Of
the book.
The guide will not be a log Of
the route nor viii it contain ads
or useless matter, but simply
maps showing the way and in
formation about the towns and
cities along the route, and will
be much simpler and cheaper
than any other book of the kind
x,nt o.sf fnv. tho ,9oo nf fOurictc