The Nome daily nugget., 1915-04-02

Washington on the road activities of the Pacific Coast asserts that in ad- dition to the great Canadian automobile highway now in course of construction which Vancouver is the western ter minus the Pacific Coast highway ex- tending from San Diego to Alaska via Vancouver Is being linked up and by the end of 1915 motorists will be able to make the trip from Southern Calf ornia to British Columbia over a hard surfaced road The route will include the principle cities on the Coast and will afford one of the most attractive motor trips of the continent.
 There has been great activity in road building in California Oregon and Washington and several thousand miles of fine roads have been added to the highways In those States in recent years" says the report. This activity has been encouraged and is largely due 10 the increasing interest in motoring and the great number of automobiles in use on the Coast Various sections of the Pacific Coast highway have been linked up in the States mentioned and it is now possible to make a trip by motor for most of the distance from san Diego to Seattle.
 Approximately $7,000 900 was spont on road building in British Columbia in 1913. and every settled section of the Province is being provided with good roads. As practically all the original transportation routes in this district were from east to west, especial atten ton is now being given to the building ot north and south lines of both high ways and railroads. The purpose is to open up lines of coastwise communi- cation connecting the main arteries of traffic extending from the eastern and central provinces to the Pacific Coast This is especially true of motor roads and at the present rate of progress in
 
 soon be provided with highways suit able for motor traffic from the border of the United States to Yukon Terri tory
 That portion of the British Columbia section of the Pacific highway from Vancouver to Elaine. Wash, was re- toJ, visions in the Province are being con nected. A great many British Columbia residents go to California each year, considerable number of them sending their motor cars by boat or train. For several years various sections of good motor roads along the coast have been in use, but only within the last few years has there been concerted effort to connect the completed divisions. making one continuous highway through the Pacific Coast States and British Columbia. The plan of the Pacific Coast High M4y Commission, which initiated and has been the moving factor in the con stiuetion of motor trail along the Pa eifc Coast. is ultimately to include Yu- L.n Territory and Alaska in the route Great progress has been made this year in road building in the Yukon, among the most important stretches of which is the overland road between
  Dawson and Whitehorsc, on which grades are being reduced, sharp curves eliminated, and fills and surfacing ad- ded One of the most important im- provements on the road near Dawson is tho strengthening of the highway on the east side of the Ogilvie River, where the road was destroyed by, dredges last year. The old roadway followed tortuous course which made travel dangerous. especially automobile traffic, becouse of the steep grades and enrves. The plan of the Yukon Terri- torial Government is to improve tho existing roads. establishing a system connecting with routes through British Columbia and the new roads being built in Alaska, extending the outo- mobile route from the mi-tropical re- gions of the coast to the land of the midnight sun Tho Engineers detailed by the Alas kan Road Commission to survey the proposed Government highway from Skagway to the summit of the White Pass have completed the work and are now preparing maps and data for the route. The road is to connect at the international boundry line at the sum- init of the pass with the Canadian sys- tenn of roads reaching to the Atlin sec- tion and the Yukon as far north as Dawson. The road from Skagway to