The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-18
THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY.
While Many Miles Have Been CON-
plsted, Much Work Remains 70
Be Done.

Offices of the Lincoln Highway
Association from a motorist con,
templating the transcontinenta
drive during the coming year anc
asking advance road information.
AS the letter is similar to thous-
ands regularly received by the
Association, indicating a certain
misconception on the part of the
writer's and of a goodly part OF
public generally, as to what the
Lincoln Highway is and the pur-
pose and activities of the Lincoln
Highway Association, the answer
is of interest.
The questioner above referred
TO writes, How much of the
Lincoln Highway is finished
How much will be finished for
the 1917 season? How much is
hard surface? How much work
are you going to do next year,"
The Lincoln Highway Associa-
ton cannot answer all these
questions as succinctly as they
are asked. They are entirely too
speculative in character. Much
depends upon what the question
er's idea of a completed Lincoln
Highway would be. Does he ex-
pect 2 broad, hard surfaced, well
kept, perfectly marked and well
proliced boulevard from New
Yory City to San Francisco, a
distance of 5000 miles? If so he
will be sadly disappointed. 1t
may be many years before any
approach to such perfected road
way will be realized.
But the Lincoln Highway is q
real traversable road for its en-
tire length and can be travelled
in comfort in fair weather. It's
hard surface through the east,
but it is quite impractical to
build or to expect a brick or con-
crete road across the wide,
sparsely populated stretches of
the west. The road is marked
and can be easily followed.
Local endeavor keeps it up to
the best standard possible all
along the way. Approximately
$5, 900, 900 was spent in improv-
ing the road in 1916. And three
years ago there was no through,
connected transcontinetal High
way.
The Lincoln Association is not
building the Lincoln Highway.
The communities along the way,
aid by the patriotically inclined
American public who recognize
the economic Importance of the
great road and are willing to as
sist, particularly in the far west
where local means are quite in
adequate, are responsible for the
actual physical betterment of
the Highway. The Lincoln High
way will be completed as they de-
termine to build tit will be
completed when they see fit to
finish it. The Lincoln Highway
Association works to the single
purpose of aiding in every way
possible in the endeavor to hasten
and build efficiently and perman-
emily all sections of the route.
1t acts as a great clearing house
for this national endeavor. The
American motorist can do no
more to aid in the promotion of
the good roads cause than by
giving his moral and financial
support to the Lincoln Highway
Association in this work.
Any attempt the Lincoln High
way Association may make in
the way of actual road construc-
ton will be west of the Missouri
River, particularly between Salt
Lake City, Utah and Reno Ne
vada, where the long mileage
and sparse population make the
road problem one absolutely be-
yond the utmost endeavor of the
local committee.
The Association is endeavoring
to finance this most necessary
piece of construction and feels
confident that the ever.increas-
ing interest in the Lincoln Way
and it's satisfactory progress will
eventually create the national
sentiment needed to provide the