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Federal Road Fund Will Aid T. R. 1. HighwayHighway and the Yellowstone Trail '■ and a score of others, u federal fund of $64,533,019 has also been approv-1 ed by the bureau of public .roads of (the United States Department of Agriculture, to be expended on fromla There is every indication that a undoubtedly the most important pro-u trans-mountain highway through the ject is the construction of the trans-Lo *'^ac'er National Park will be con- mountain road across the Continental |e structed within the near future. This Divide. At present the east and west r is the only remaining unfinished link sides of the park are divided as if js of the Theodore Roosevelt Interna- a high board fence separated the two tional Highway which runs from , sides, with only loop-holes for trails ,s Portland. Maine, to Portland. Ore- preceptible. Motorists to t)\.e park is gon. This indication of contemplat- are not inclined to visit both sides, ed construction comes from a recent since the only means of transporta-n announcement by Secretary of the ting automobiles is to ship them by Interior Payne, that this is one of railroad from one side to the other, c the most important projects from a unless a long detour is made. Of the y transportation standpoint now before new road construction projects in all e that department, is the statement is- the parks this is probably the most n sued by A. W. Tracy, general secre- important; it is the great lacking link . tary of the Theodore Roosevelt In- in the park to park highway.” r ternational Highway Association. Should this construction be takenI o assist in improving organized up this spring, it would mean the highways across the United States, connecting up of the only unfinished jsucli as the Theodore Roosevelt In- link in the Theodore Roosevelt In-' | ternational Highway, the Lincoln ternational Highway, considered oneof the most important highways in the United States. At present it is necessary for tourists to have their cars freighted from Glacier to Bel-den, Montana, a distance of fifty-two miles, while the tourists them-9,000 to 10,000 miles of marked selves make the short trip on horse-trails which now crisscross the coun- back, try. This mileage includes 885 projects which form links in one or the other of the twenty-four marked trails which have been laid out by-private enterprise.A considerable portion of this vast amount of money will be spent on the Theodore Roosevelt International Highway, especially in the western states, according to a recent announcement by the United States Depart- j ment of Agriculture. Every auto-mobilist is familiar with these in portant highways which, for the most part, are well built and maintained so that driving over them is a joy and comfort, but to embrace those highways in the federal system of trans-continental roads, it may be I . necessary to make some •hauges i.i 1 the routes before they receive the . approval of the federal government and are apporitioned federal aid. As I the Theodore Roosevelt International highway stands today, it lias the ap- ( proval of the Department of Public j Roads and federal aid is being cm- ( ployed as far as states facilities will ( permit construction.The fact that federal aid is being ] applied in the western states to a 11 greater extent than in the eastern j states is due to the fact that trails in the eastern states had been al-| ready improved to a larger extent , before the routes were selected. This j is not true in the western section of [ the country where long stretches of g the selected roads were still in an b unimproved condition when they * c were designated.Regarding the important eonnec- n tion through the Roosevelt Pass, Secretary of the Interior Payne expressed the need of this construction as follows:From a transportation standpoint,
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Wolf Point Herald
Wolf Point, Montana, US
Thu, Feb 03, 1921
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