Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-05-26

Two seven-passenger touring cars
carrying a party Of officials of the
National Parks highway are sched-
uled to reach Boomers Ferry, Idaho,
June 80 and to hold big meeting
of citizens interested in the mainte-
nance and advertising of the auto
mobile road which passes through
this city en- route from the Great
Lakes to Puget Sound. The meeting
here will take place at noon.
The party comprises officers of
the highway association and others
interested in the work. They are
making an official tour of the route,
rousing the people TO the necessity
of maintaining their route and show
ing colored lantern slides picturing
the road conditions and scenic at
fractions of the country which the
highway traverses. The party is
headed by Frank w. Guilbert, of
Spokane, secretary of the National
Parks Highway association, and Law
renee H. Brown also of Spokane,
secretary of the Washington State
Good Roads association.
Before leaving Chicago on the
western trip Mr.. Guilbert and Mr..
Brown showed their pictures at meet
ings of the association of commerce,
automobile trade association, Ham
ilton club and other organizations.
At the beginning of the trip Mr..
Guilbert explained that the party
would stop at SO cities and towns in
the states of Wisconsin, Minnesota,
North Dakota, Montana, Idaho and
Washington, showing the pictures
and emphasizing the value of good
roads at each place. "One of the
principal objects of the tour" said
Mr.. Guilbert, lis to log the entire
route and to prepare accurate maps
for the guidance of motorists who
wish to travel over the highway.
1--WE also shall emphasize as we
go along the supreme necessity of
maintaining every foot of the high
way in first class condition. When
good roads are built the work IS
half Bookkeeping them up COM
pletes the job.
when we reach Seattle we shall
have crossed three mountain ranges
the Rockies, Bitter Roots and Cas-
cades-and visited three national
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Glacier and
Rainier. The mountains of the north
west once were considered insur-
mountable obstacles TO transconti-
mental automobiling. Intelligent CO.
operation has beaten down the bar
rier and now the motorist finds
safe and comfortable roads through
the passes.
Our party is carrying no cumber-
some load of emergency tools ano
ropes, nor are we hampered with
a camp outfit. Each noon we shall
have lunch in a restaurant, each nigh
sleep in hotel. 1t is not ever
necessary to carry water, as streams
are plentiful along the way.
1T is not to be supposed that thu
building of a highway from thu
Great Lakes to Puget Sound was thu
work of a single year. They hav'
|, been at it for years all along tn
line, but the California exposition
and the great summer AUTOMOBILE
travel of 1915 aroused the peopl
! to the value of a good highway int
, the summer playground of the North
: west.
: THE possibilities of this route a
/ an enormous feeder of tourist trav
ell to the northwest will be realize'
fully when I state that last year
: according to the records of the Spo
5 kane headquarters of the Washington
State Good Roads association, 800
. automobiles made the trip over a
least the greater portion of the Ma
tional Parks highway. This yea
expect to see the number great
{ increased, and the extent to whic
this travel grows depends upon tn
:. amount of intelligent, organized ei
$ fort which the communities alon
: the route put into its exploitation
There is no question about tni