The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1947-07-31
Caravan Tour TO
ocus Support
For New Highway

kenneWick will become an
important junction on a ma
tional cross-country highway
If a proposal for a Lewis and
Clark Memorial Tourway be-
comes a fact.
To focus attention on the
proposal the Northwest Con-
servation league is sponsoring an
auto caravan tour to follow the
route from Seaside, Ore, to Mis-
soula, Mont, over the Lolo Trail.
A jeep, furnished by the Graves
Auto Service of KenneWick will
lead the caravan from here.
Arrangements are being made to
secure and Indian girl of the Sho-
shone tribe to serve in the capac-
ity of a modern Sacajawea.
Another plan calls for the
gathering of waters from the
Pacific ocean to be carried on the
tour, placed in sealed containers
and floated down the Missouri
river. An attempt will be made
to find the containers at st.
Louis, Mo-, starting point of the
famed Lewis and Clark expeli-
ton.
The tour will start from Seaside
on the morning of August 6. Fol-
lowing a luncheon in Portland
the group will continue to Bonne-
vile dam. On the 7th the tour
will follow the North Bank route
to SacajaWea park where a
meeting and program will be held
that evening.
On the 9th the caravan will con-
tinue to Pierce, Idaho, where
the operations of the Potlacth
Lumber company will be visited.
The night of the 9th will be spent
at Powell Ranger station on the
old Lolo trail. An open air meet
ing will be held on the 10th at
the summit of Lolo pass.
On Monday and Tuesday
sessions of the League will be held
at the University of Montana at
Missoula. DR.. L. I. HeWes, Chief
of the Western Headquarters OF
the Public Roads administration,
will take part in the program.
Forestry departments of Idaho
and Montana are cooperating in
the tour and program. Cara
vanners will be accommodated at
Powell Ranger station. However,
many plan to take sleeping bags
for out door camping.
At a meeting of the Lewis and
Clark chapter of the league in
Pasco Monday night plans for the
tour were completed. Chambers
of Commerce along the route are
cooperating and urging fullest
possible participation.
It was pointed out that any
persons wishing to make the trip
who are unable to 60 the entire
distance, should be urged to 60
as far as their time will permit.
Full information may be secured
from Mrs. Margaret Thompson,
secretary of the league, or Hill
Williams, of Pasco, chapter presi-
dent.
At the Monday meeting the
chapter endorsed the following
resolution which describes the
aims of the highway plan:
Whereas the path of the Lewis
and Clark Expedition because
of its central location, its splendid
scenery, and its superlative his
torical value to this nation, makes
| it national choice as a trunk
tourist route into the Pacific
Northwest and
Whereas the tourway type OF
road-since it aims to make
accessible the best scenery in the
country it traverses- would in
sure the highest development OF
those national values and en-
courage inclusion of the most in
teresting spots associated with
the Lewis and Clark Expedition,
Be it resolved that the North
west Conservation League urge
public roads officials to make
plans for a Lewis and Clark tour
way to cross Montana and Idaho
via Lo1o Pass to Lewiston, follow
from there the return route, OF
the Expedition to the mouth OF
the Walla Walla river, thence
northward to include the site OF
the famous encampment made on
the westward journey at the
confluence of the Snake and
Columbia and the reconnaissance
of William Clark to the mouth OF
the Yakima and thence down the
north bank of the Columbia over
the route used by the Expedition
on their return journey in 1906.
a location which has splendid adj
vantages for highway purposes.
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