The Cordova daily times., 1921-08-23
CREATPACIFIC HIGHWAY SOON
 BE DEDICATED
By Associated Press)

Pacific Highway, which runs from Vancouver, B. C., across Washington Oregon and California to Tia Juana, Lower California, will be dedicated formally here on the border line be- tween Canada and the United States, September 6.
 Dedication of the road will be part of the ceremonies making completion of the Peace Portal. a huge arch built across the highway here to mark the passing of more than 100 years of peace between Canada and the United States, France and the and the United States and state and highway officials are expected to attend.
 While work is not completed on the Pacific Highway, it is believed that by 1925 every foot of the road will be covered by paving. If the work is completed at that time, the highway will be the first transcon- tinental highway to be paved it's en- tire length. Work on the road has been under way since 1910. when an improved road the length of the coast was ad- vocated and good roads workers in duced the legislatures of the three seaboard states to unite on program. The highway route was marked and 1t was agreed that each state should improve the part within it's bound aries as rapidly as possible.
 A course 1,767 miles in length was outlined for the main road and when this summers paving is completed. about 1,412 miles of the road will he hard surfaced Tn California SS3 miles of the highway have been paved, in Oregon the total is PISS, Washington 2S7,5 and in British Col umbia 22.7.
 With completion of paving now un. der way, the highway will be paved from Blaine to Bellingham in Wash ington state. Just south of Boiling ham there is an unpaved section, and then paving is again found. It con tinues through Seattle. Tacoma, | Olympia, Centralia and Chehalis, and ends south of that town. It be- gins again north of Vancouver, Wash. 1 ington and continues to the Colum, bia river. In Oregon paving begins at the interstate bridge at Vancouver Wash and extends south through Portland Salem and Albany. Be. tween Albany and Eugene there will remain an unpayed section after this years Improvement Is completed. Be, tween Eugene and Roseburg another section remains without permanent hard surface These two gaps are all that Oregon must close up in 1922 and 1923.
 l In California from the state line south to Bedding the pavement will ITemain to be placed after this year It is now being paved from Bedding to Red Bluff. From Red Bluff south through Oroville. Sacramento Stockton, Merced, Madeira, Fresno Bakersfield. Los Angeles and San Diego, to Tia Juana, paving, with ex' captions not worth mentioning. has already been laid.
 The main Pacific Highway passes through the capitals of all three oi the coast states and through the leading cities with the exception oi San Francisco in California and Spo kane in Washington. Typical seen cry of the coast lays on each side of the highway in changing pano rama In it's course the road passes from sea level to an altitude Of 4.. 522 feet in it's pass over the Siskiy. lus, and then wends it's way back to l sea level at San Diego. It Is seldom out of sight of rugged mountains and goes within shadows of some of the largest peaks in the nation. From it roads lead to Rainier National Park in Washington, Crater Lake National Park in Oregon and Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks in California.