Tombstone epitaph., 1915-01-31
the best authorities in the west on des

he best authorities in the west on des- .rt roads.
 In order to seize upon the national and twist it toward San Di- Diego when il leaves Wanna. the San | Diego people have been obliged to re sort to some extraordinary and freak | road building This is the sand hills l route by which they hope to eliminate the Mountain Wash route to Los An gel
 These sand hills are enormous heaps of drifting sand that have been shifting to and fro for centuries. The shifting sands obliterate roads as fast as they are built The proposal is to make solid roadbed of wooden blanks, fas- tened together at the ends. In other words. the traffic ovcr this part of the desert between Yuma |. nd Holtvillc will cross big raft for about five miles Lieut.. Gov. Eshleman has promised to boost through the legislature an appro- priation of s2O0. 900 for the construc ton of this raft road.
 In the meantime. realizing the neces- sity of immediate action. the San Diego business men. under the leadership of Col. Ed s Fletcher. have guaranteed the lumber bills and the blanks have been ordered In order to insure the building of this section of the San Di- ! ego-Yuma road. the promoters have 1 proposed appealing to the legislature. ! to congress and to Imp rial county for au appropriation of S2OO. 900 IL is evi- dent that San Diego will get that sand hills road built and paid for somehow or other
 We started from San Diego over the Campo road to replace or reinforce the
 state highway which is 10 be built. Tn,
 trip is sufficient to convince any one
 that the state highway commission
 gave Los Angeles the worst of it ir
 routing a state boulevard over this
 route. It is not a poor road; it is ar
 excellent road all the way from Sar
 Diego to Fl Centro The Apperson Si,
 in which we rode never went into low
 speed once during the whole trip. and :
 less powerful car could have made tho
 trip without difficulty or danger
 One of the reasons assigned for re
 building this road into state boule
 ward IS that 1t Is too dangerous for or
 dinary travel. Mir. Hanshue told III,
 that in one of the Phoenix races his au
 tomobile lighting system went out O
 commission at San Diego, and he mad
 the whole trip over the mountain TO a, at racing speed at night; this would in
 dicate that it is not very terrible.
 The road was built by San Dieg county and is in excellent condition. seems ra'' tough that Los Angele should go withou, e..., road while tn state highway money goes to reinforc road that is already amply sufficien
 for all needs.
 | However. the die is cast and the stat = bou levard is already under construc
 ton. 1t will follow the present high
 way from the Imperial valley entranc to a point about ten miles east of Gam y DO From this point it will branch O Q to Descanso, thence through Alpine. I f Cajon. La Mesa and into San Dieg, Q This will give San Diego two ends c | the ocean-to- ocean borderland rout, ! Tn other words, the highway will | - picked up at Yuma, carried to Fl Ger E tro over the proposed sand hills roa' - From Fl Centro this highway will |
 conn ected with the new state highws. , Due to their enterprise. it is certai that San Diego will succeed in brin |. ing one end of the Ocean-to-Ocea Borderiand Route into that city. remains to be seen whe ther Los Angel ,, will stir up enough action to bring a h other fork of the terminus here
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