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 December, 1913.

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��motoring devotee. The peninsula abounds in rare views of verdant fields, torrential glacial streams, towering firs and rugged mountain peaks. Its fame is little known now, but with the opening of good roads that section of the State is destined to draw hundreds of touring parties each year.

Automobiles have been driven from Seattle to Lake Crescent by way of Ta- coma, Olympia and Shelton, but the jour- ney's pleasures are somewhat minimized by the rough condition of the highway in places and by steep grades. Those who have made the trip, however, are loud in their praises of the grandeur of the country, and hail with great delight the progress that is being made by the State Highway Commissioner's office and the crew of Clallam County.

A number of automobile owners have shipped their machines by boat to Port Townsend, and toured from that city to Port Angeles, and thence to Lake Cres- cent. Out of Port Angeles the highway is in fairly good shape for about six miles, and then comes a long stretch of roadway of boulevard smoothness.

It passes through fertile valleys and giant forests to the mighty valleys and giant forests to the mighty Elwha River. After crossing the raging stream, the highway ascends the slopes of the Olym-

��pics to Lake Crescent. From this point the road continues in a westerly direction to Beaver, and thence south through Jef- ferson and Chehalic Counties to Olympia — the State capital.

When the routes now under construc- tion are completed, automobilists will not have to depend upon boat service, but will be able to motor from Seattle to the mountain fastness over splendid thor- oughfares.

The new routes are expected to be of inestimable value in developing the ex- tensive resources of the peninsula coun- ties, which are now practically without vehicular communiaction with the coun- try on the eastern shores of Puget Sound. The peninsula contains vast areas of tim- ber land and thousands of acres that are admirably suited to agricultural and dairying purposes.

Over the Siskyou Mountains

The contract for the construction of the Siskiyou Mountain section of the Pacific Highway has been awarded. The work included in the contract, which was awarded, will be grading of the road be- tween the California line and Medford, a distance of 13 miles, and it will also be macadamized.

The work included in the Central Point

��project will be the paving of three miles of road; bids for this work were rejected. The following is the engineer's estimate for quantities on the Siskiyou road: 134,- 428 cubic yards of earth excavation; 21.- 804 cubic yards loose rock, 43,412 cubic yards solid rock; 13,913 square rods clearing and grubbing; 4,036 lineal feet 12-inch corrugated iron pipe; 40 lineal feet 180 inch corrugated iron pipe; 576 lineal feet 24-inch corrugated iron pipe; 593 cubic yards concrete, class A; 89 cubic yards concrete, class C; 70,000 pounds reinforced steel 15 Z S

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)unty has many good roads, but it needs and wants more. Roughly estimated, there has been spent much more than $1,000,000 on roads in the county within the last fifteen years, and while some of this has gone for repairs, the bulk of it was for pushing the nose of better transportation into country that be- fore was isolated at least part of the year.

There are 3,000 miles of roads in the county, and most of them are in good con- dition, either naturally or through the work of man. The same figures will ap- ply, only to a much lesser extent, in Har- ney and Grant Counties, adjoining Baker County.

The two bordering counties are as anx-

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