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Federal Road Fund Will Aid T. R. I. Highway:ia There is every indication that a undoubtedly the most important pro-Ll_ j trans-mountain highway through the ject is the construction of the trans-to Glacier National Park will be con- mountain road across the Continental Instructed within the near future. This Divide. At present the east and west r is the only remaining unfinished link aides of the park are divided as if js of the Theodore Roosevelt Interna- a high board fence separated the two tiona] Highway whieh runs from sides, with only loop-holes for trails es Portland, Maine, to Portland. Ore- preceptible. Motorists to the park js 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, 56 the most important projects from a'unless a long detour is made. Of the jy transportation standpoint now before new road construction projects in all Je that department, is the statement is- the parks this is probably the most .n sued by A. W. Tracy, general seore- important; it is the great lacking link s tary of the Theodore Roosevelt In- in the park to park highway.”ternational Highway Association. Should this construction be takenTo assist in improving organized up this spring, it would mean theirhighways across the United States, connecting up of the only unfinished such as the Theodore Roosevelt In- link in the Theodore Roosevelt International Highway, the Lincoln ternational Highway, considered one Highway and the Yellowstone Trail of the most important highways in and a score of others, a federal fund the United States. At present it is of $64,1)33,019 has also been approv- necessary for tourists to have their ed by the bureau of public .roads of cars freighted from Glacier to Bel-the United States Department of Agriculture, to be expended on from 9,000 to 10,000 miles of marked trails which now crisscross the country. This mileage includes 883 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 theden, Montana, a distance of fifty-two miles, while the tourists themselves make the short trip on horseback.p Theodore Roosevelt International ( Highway, especially in the westernstates, according to a recent announ- ^ . cement by the United States Depart-^ ment of Agriculture. Every auto- (e m obi list is familiar with these in , portant highways which, for the most ‘ p part, are well built and maintained a so that driving over them is a joy Iand comfort, but to embrace those highways in the federal system ofI trans-continental roads, it may be pnecessary to make some •banges i.i ' t| the routes before they receive the .f ' approval of the federal government and are apportioned federal aid. As ^ the Theodore Roosevelt International . highway stands today, it has the ap-, proval of the Department of Public ^ , Roads and federal aid is being on.- ^, ployed as far as states facilities will permit construction.The fact that federal aid is being g ; applied in the western states to a g [ greater extent than in the eastern . suites is due to the fact that trails in the eastern states had been already improved to a larger extent ^ before the routes were selected. This p, j is not true in the western section of the country where long stretches of SN the selected roads were still in an a[ unimproved condition when they10, were designated. ^Regarding the important connec- gftion through the Roosevelt Pass, Sec- tj, retary 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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