Evening star., 1922-03-26
LINCOLN HIGHWAY MECCA
: FOR MOTORISTS THIS YEAR
Thousands Are Expected to Tour the
United States on Its $500 Miles
Of Improved Roadway.

, pat-olled by state constabulary on
motor vehicles.
Ohio finished 26.3 miles on her cal
mile section of the route in 1921. The
cost of this work. which was
largely vitrified brick pavement on
/. concrete base. totals Sl.027.000. or
an average cost per mile of $4,000.
! his work closed all remaining gaps
In Il hard surfaced road from the
Pennsylvania state line to Mansfield
liz miles-and did away for 1922
travel with the troublesome detours
which were encountered so frequently
in eastern Ohio last year. Work will
! be under WA! in 1922 between Mans
field and Bucyrus and between Bucy-
rus and Upper S'ndusky No con-
struction is planned this year west
Of Upper Sandusky. While 40 miles
OF old macadam there is not in the
best of condition. ii can be Travelled
! in all weather. State Highway
Director Herrick plans on the com
pletion of the Lincoln Highway
! tenanr" cost on 81 miles of the route
, in 1921 Was s14$.e04. or an average
of S1.0I3 per mile.
Indiana built slightly over 90 miles
of concrete on the lincoln Highway
in 1921. at a cost of s;S2.5SO. or an
average Of S31.410 per mile. Main
tenance on the b lance of the route
II: miles-amounted to $4,000. or
$3.50 per mile. Those sections of the
Lincoln Highway in Indiana which
. are not yet paved are. in the main.
. high grade well-maihtained grave.
which. to the tourist. are a delight to
drive but which. to the state. in
view of the heavy traffic on the route.
present a burdensome maintenanc e
expense. 1t is expected that an ad
ditional long mileage of concrete
pavement will be completed west OF
South Bend this year. Good detour
roads will be provided either north
or south of the Lincoln way.
Illinois.
illinois had brought the Lincoln
way-1I0.6 miles across the state
very near to completion by the end
i of 1920 Only a few short gaps be-
tween Chicago and the Mississippi
river remained to be built in 1921.
. These. totaling twenty-one and one
, tenth miles. were finished last year
at cost of s605.94O. or an average
for 1S-foot pavement of s28,117 per
mile. This work left only twenty
| miles of the Lincoln highway in Illi-
nois unpaved. the stretch between
! grareled highway. This section will
be under construction this year and
it is suggested that travel across
Illinois detour from the Lincoln high
way at Chicago Heights or Joliet
! north through the western outskirts
of Chicago to Aurora or Wheaton.
from either of which points a con-
tinuouS concrete pavement extends
to the Mississippi river.
The maintenance on the pa"ed Lin
coin highway in Illinois last year was
negligible. but s12,S43 was expended
on keeping up the unpaved sections.
Iowa forged ahead of every other
state traversed by the Lincoln high
way in 1921 in the amount she eX-
pended on the improvement of her
section -379 miles = between the
Mississippi and the Missouri rivers.
For the first time a state west of the
Mississippi expended more in any one
year for Lincoln way improvement
than the wealthy states of the east.
Iowa completed sixtyfour miles of
Lincoln way improvement last year
at a cost of $1.S6S.374. The mainte-
nance on the unpaved sections of the
route cost the state sl6S.637 Over
s2.O00.000 on the Lincoln highway in
Iowa in one year! Who can say that
state is not pulling out of the mud
which so long distinguished her? II