The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1915-09-30

Trunk Highways Are In Excellent
Condition This Autumn Due to Work
Done During the Past Spring and
Summer. .
Reports which have reached me
show that fall touring is more popular
than ever this year." says Frank X
Of the touring board of the American
Automobile association. This is &C
conntable for by the fact that the
trunk roads are In as good or better
condition than i'll any other season
particularly as the principal road work
IN progress in the spring and summer
Is largely completed,
in the west the Golden Belt route.
which extends from Kansas City
through Topeka, Abilene and Oakley,
and on to Denver. has been put In ex
cellent condition, and, as the shortest
route between Kansas City and Den
YER it is being Travelled more than
ever before. The most important sin
gle Improvement In the northwest has
been the elimination Of the steepest
grades, and also the rough road that
formerly existed through Snoqualmie
pass in the Cascade mountains.
by the reduction of this grade and
the Improvement Of the surface trips
between Spokane, Seattle and Portland
can be made with great deal less
trouble than heretofore and without
the danger of breakage that formerly
existed ON the Snoqualmie pass line.
The wonderful scenic route along
the Columbia river from Portland to
the Dalles also Is under way and can
be considered as complete for the heavy
travel to the Pacific coast in 1915. This
road avoids such grades as exist Oh
Snoqualinie pass by following along
side the picturesque Columbia river.
Tourists running west from Albu
GEerque this fall have complete
Choice of two routes the balance of
the way to southern California. For
merry practically all the travel used
the trail to Sunset route from Albu
querque through Phoenix and Yuma
to San Diego and Los Angeles. But
work done during the last year has
opened up and made practically safe
the upper and shorter line from Albn
qIe.aue through Holbrook and Flag
staff, crossing the Colorado river mt
the Needles. and thence almost direct
west into San Bernardino and Los An
geles- a much shorter route than the
trail to Sunset Tourists making the
round trip between Albuquerque and
southern California during the winter
months may with advantage go on one
Of these routes and return ON the other
Recent developments on the route
| from Roanoke, Va, through Bristol
and Knoxville to Chattanooga give the
assurance that this line will be open to
| through travel with few handicaps, be
| ginning i'm 1915. When entirely com.
| plete and as connections are supplied
| from Chattanooga through Brming.
ham to New Orleans, this will make
| the shortest and most strategic route
between New York, Philadelphia and
| New Orleans. Great improvements are
being made. particularly by the coun
ties on that part Of the route between
Bristol and Chattanooga.
"Travel from the central states to
the Georgia and Florida east coast
usually comes down from indianapolis
/ to Louisville, Nashville. Chattanooga
/ and thence from Atlanta. either to An
1 gusta and Savannah. or to Macon. Val
dosta and Jacksonville. While there
are some rough stretches. particularly
I. on the Louisville and Nashville pike
this route is being used more thar
/ ever before and will within the mex,
two or three years carry an amount 81
travel comparable with that between
the north and south seahoard states