Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-06-30
Schedule Of State Auto Roads.

citation has prepared preliminary
schedule of automobile roads through
the state. These roads will be
marked, each with it's peculiar sign
SO plain that the tourist will have to
make no stops nor ask questions.
The work OF marking these roads
has already begun and the whole
series of routes will be marked with
in very short time. What it will
mean to the state in the future is sug-
gested by the profitable returns that
are being received in other states hav-
ing good summer resorts and other
attractions for the tourist. Some
states are receiving an annual income
of millions OF dollars.
1t is admitted that for automobile
tourists Wisconsin has the advantage
in roads at the present time and con-
ditions permitting immeasurably bet
ter roads in the future than any
summer tourist business.
There are vast numbers in the mid
die West whose touring is limited by
the condition of the highways or their
that the benefits of this traffic are
limited to those traversing the re-
giOns of the state that are possessed
of the greater attractions, and that to
an extent is true, but they are divided
also with the intervening territory, and
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the attention of the state as whole.
With through highways well marked
and improved and the facts published
throughout the middle West, there is
good reason to believe that there will
be an immense automobile traffic
throughout large portion of the state
and that it will bring to the state
millions of dollars every year in the
future.
The following are the marked trails
of the state:
Yellow Trail-Chicago to Minneap-
oils, via Kenosha, Racine, Milwaukee,
Fond du Lac, Oshkosh, Waupaca, Ste
vens Point, Marshfield, Abbotsford,
Stanley, Chippewa Falls, Eau Claire,
Menomonie and Hudson.
Red Cross Milwaukee to La
Crosse, via WATERFOWL, Madison, Bara-
boo, Reedsburg, Elroy, Kendall and
Cashton.
Red Circle Route-Baraboo (Qeav-
ing Red Cross route) to Eagle River,
via Kilbourn, Necedah, Grand Rapids,
Wausau, Merritt, Tomahawk and
Rhinelander.
White Circle Route-Appleton to
Ashland, via Shawano, Wittenberg,
Birnawood, Wausau, Abbotsford, Med
ford, Westboro, Ogema, Prentice,
Phillips, Park Falls, Butternut, Gid
den and Mellen.
Yellow Circle Route-Green Bay to
Minneapolis, via Shawano, Phlox, An
tigo, Rhinelander, Prentice, Lady
smith, Barron Turtle Lake, Clear
Lake, New Richmond and Hudson.
White Diamond Route-Appleton to
Pembine, via Green Bay, Oconto, Pesh-
tigo, Marinette, Wausaukee and AM
berg (To be extended to Florence.)
Yellow Diamond Route-Oconto to
Eagle River, via Lena, Surfing, Noun
tain, Lakewood, Soperton, Wabeno,
Laona, Crandon, Hiles and Three
Lakes
Red Diamond Route - Chippewa
Falls to Superior, via Cameron, Rice
Lake, Spooner Gordon, Scion Springs,
Bennett and Hawthorne.
White Square Route-Rice Lake to
Bayfield,, via Earl, Hayward, Drum
mond Mason, Ashland (three miles,,
Washburn and Bayfield,
Red Square Route Stanley to
Ladysmith land beyond). via Boyd,
Cornell 1.-TWO miles west), and Hol-
combe.
Yellow Square Route-Langlade to
Medford, via Amigo and Merrill-(ul-
timately Marinette to Chippewa Falls.)