The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-03-30
LIE vIcToRY HIcHwAY


other transcontinental highway
movement in the past. The Victory
HighwayGs the only transcontinental
motor highway which passes through
Denver. Denver will be a stopping
point for tourists on their way from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, as we'll as
the objective OF "stub tours" into
Colorado, with the establishment of
the new motor route across the coun-
try.
Denver newspapers are leading en-
thusiastic cooperation to the pro
ject. In the Rocky Mountain News
of February "a, there appears the
following editorial on the Victory
Highway:
"The highway situation in north
ern Colorado is not different from
the steam railroad situation. Denver
is left off the map. The chief city
between the river and the coast, a
distance half the breadth of the con-
tinent, is neither on a national high
way nor on a transcontinentaI route.
1t Is a Stub city so far as these are
concerned.
''It is seriously proposed to build
what would be known as a Victory
Highway from coast to coast, and a
fine beginning has been made with
the project from both ends. If it is
successful, Denver will be on the
direct route. This is worth while to
a city that is accepted all over the
nation as the head center of-the
e. -
traffic, the city that is recognized as
the gateway to the, National Park
chain.
''The Victory Highway would be
worth a great deal in a business way,
much more in time than as a tourist
thread And Denver is very much
in need of a regular meal ticket as
we'll as the dessert that comes from
the other.
'In addition to the local stand
point the Victory Highway project is
worthy of support and commendatiOn
as a national undertaking Sacred
Way.
"Those who have been pushing the
highway from the Pacific and the At
lantic coasts have the invaluable ac
compartment of imagination and the
energy that generally goes with the
other. Colossal statues, one at the
Golden Gate, the other at the east
ern end of the highway, to the mem
ory of the heroes who died in the
war, would be followed with state
and county monuments at boundary
lines. Counties would be able to
honor their individual dead in this
manner The highway from begin
ming to end would be an everlasting
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were not Of the war, of what part the
United States played in the Great
Adventure and the effect American
participation had upon subsequent
history. The American people are in
need of such reminder already;
they are inclined to forget the
pledges given at the time; they need
some token to keep them from fall
ing back into the rut. Are we not
forgetting, are some of US in our re-
actions not willing to forget, the
idealism that burst upon the land in
the spring of 1917 and that radiated,
with force never yet put behind
radio message from man-cOnstruct
ed station, to the ends of the earth
a human wave? The monumental
highway will serve as a memory bind
er to the whole nation.
'New land. new communities, new
ideas-will be brought into communion
with the Halfway House of Denver,
when it is connected with the main
highway. The road would go
through the Great Divide into new
fields. Not much is required in
Colorado highway construction to
make the national plan effective. A
little bit of concentrated energy on
the part of Denver citizens would be
sufficient And Denver must not
scatter its shot; it must not be
boosting'-what a hateful word
every selfish and half baked highway
scheme that comes along; there are
too many highways being built on
paper.
room for the Lincoln Highway and
the Victory Highway without crowd
ing. In Colorado and the Rocky
Mountain region surely there IS room
enough and scenic glory enough for
both roads"
The line of the Victory Highway
from Reno, Nevada, to the California
line is to be paved with concrete in
1922.
10000
The Victory Highway in Colorado
passes directly by the grave of Will
liam F. Cody, Buffalo Bill.
10000
Cliff dwellings, similar to those of
southwestern Colorado and north
western Mexico, have been discover
ed on the line of the Victory High
way in northwestern Colorado.
10000
The only dinosaur quarry il. the
world. where prehistoric monsters
are being dug out of the solid rock is