The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-01-28
Sunrise And
Sunset TraiI'
Will be Paved

Orlando, Jan. 26.-Mr. Chas. E.
Hill, secretary Of the Florida State
Automobile Association, has just re-
turned from trip over the Sunset
and Sunrise Trail and. made the fol.
lowing statement to a Sentinel re-
porter yesterday:
THE first cross-state highway that
will be completed across South Flor
ida will be the route from Melbourne
via st. Cloud, Kissimmee, Haines
City, Auburndale, Lakeland to Tam
pa. The Florida State Automobile
Association has named this route the
Sunrise and Sunset Trail and it is
planned to mark this road from coast
to coast.
Bonds for $275,OOO we're voted Sep
TENDER Is in Osceola county for hard
surfacing forty miles of this road, and
these bonds were sold last Saturday
to the Peninsular Engineering and
Constructing Co., of Tampa, Fla. The
price paid for the bonds was 81. The
contract for building the road was
let to the same company. s. N. Corn
wall is manager Of the company and
c. E. Carlson is secretary and treas
urer. They will commence construc-
ton on the contract at once and they
are prepared to finish 1000 yards Of
surface per day after the grading and
base is built.
1t is expected that a force of county
convicts will be put on this job with
in thirty days when the grade work
on the Observation-Disclosures stretch
is done. The state road department
will also try to furnish a force Of
state convicts for work on this job.
"The Florida State Automobile AS
sociation will urge the state board Of
institutions to furnish convicts for
this work at the earliest possible date
and if these state convicts can be had
the road can be finished by early fall.
"This road is to be nine feet Of
bituminous concrete Topeka Mix"
with a. A 1-2 foot shoulder on each side
of rock and shell surface. There is
to be base Of limestone and she'll
with minimum thickness Of inches
after being rolled to compression.
There is to be curbing of No. l
pecky cypress. The bituminous con-
crete surface Is to be 2 inches thick.
''The importance of this road to
Orlando" said Mr.. Hill, Cannot be
overestimated. Thousands Of tourists
come and go between the Northern
states and South Florida via the cen
trail part of the state through Orlan'
do. Tourists who 60 down the East
Coast from Jacksonville will come
back to Melbourne and then cross
over to Tampa, Clearwater and st.
Petersburg and then come back
through Orlando. The mileage be-
tween Tampa and the East Coast will
be shortened 1853 miles by this route.
The distance between Orlando and
Melbourne and points south of there
on the East Coast will shortened lit
miles by this route. The distance
from Orlando to Palm Beach over
this new route will be about 100
miles or about hours drive for an
automobile passenger buses will
that automobile passenger buses will
be put on this route from Orlando
to Palm Beach and that a regular
freight carrying auto truck line will
also be established between Orlando
and Miami and between Orlando and
Tampa and between Tampa and MI
ami.
"It is almost certainty that the
u. s. Government will put into ser.
vice auto trucks over this route be-
tween Orlando and Miami for parcels
post service"
Mr.. Hill predicted that real devel-
opment for South Florida will begin
when this cross-state highway is COM
pleted.
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