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, 1915. Rock Creek is met, and thence to Pallett Creek, from which point to Palmdale for eighteen miles the construction would meet with no unusual interference.

It is said that no roadway in Southern California offers to the tourist or to the resident more wonderful scenery. Traversing stretches of wild and rugged splendor melting into wonderful vistas of verdant valleys through which numerous streams purl and gurgle their way, the completion of the road means the opening of one of the most pretentious highways in the State. The Foothill boulevard to Azusa will lead the traveler to the proposed route, which will open one of Nature's treasure houses, with its glories of rugged mountains and blissful valleys, its cooling, limpid streams finding their source in the picturesque waterfalls above which baptize with feathery mist the woodwardias and ferns growing beside their hurried course down the canyon's side.

From Azusa to Palmdale, a distance of seventy miles, will be opened a heretofore untraveled path.

While much can be said of the natural beauty to be opened by this route, it is equally true that the commercial feature: of the project are important. For fifteen years the people of Antelope Valley have been struggling to get a road through this section of the country. An unlimited water supply, great fertility and abundant productiveness are making a road each year a more imperative necessity, and the people are behind the proposition to-day with earnestness.

A Legislative Committee, Chandler, Rush, Cogswell and Cuck, has investigated the proposed highway, relative to an appropriation for the construction thereof. The committee as a body has made no recommendation.

The report of the civil engineer who made the survey of the road describes it as a most feasible route. The most arduous feature of the project is the building of the bridge previously described at Iron Fork. From Pallett Creek to Palmdale, a distance of eighteen miles, there are no serious obstructions to be met, and to go back to Azusa, the beginning of the road, there is already six miles of road graded and in excellent condition that may well serve as a start to one of the most notable routes ever contemplated for the San Gabriel Valley. The Associated Chamber of Commerce of the San Gabriel Valley, representing $5,000,000 and many hundreds of people, are pressing with all possible zeal this project which would open to the tourist, to the resident, to the automobile enthusiast seeking new sensations from the wonders that nature offers in this virginal fertility and freshness, a path that will also offer to the tillers of the soil a worthy means of conveying his products to a market.

The people of the eastern part of the valley are working and hoping that after fifteen years of effort the road of their dreams and labors may be realized.



A Building Contractor of Newark, N. J. Went automobiling one fine autumn day

On the Boston Post road. As he neared New Rochelle,

He side-swiped another car coming like h&#11835;

(Or he may have been side-swiped&mdash;you never can tell.)

Be that as it may, the result was no joke,

For the force of the impact took out every spoke

From our hero's front wheel, while the rim and the tire

Rolled on like the 20th Century Flier;&mdash;

And propelled by the force of its former momentum,

Bumped another machine in the headlights and bent 'em.

As well as the hood, radiator and pump&mdash;

(Which in view of the damage was some healthy bump.)

But such was the impact, and such the resistance,

The tire rebounded a wonderful distance.

In fact, it rolled back to its previous station.

To the Building Contractor's great mystification.

The shoe was uninjured&mdash;the rim was unbent.

It fitted the spare&mdash;and onward he went.

Incredulous reader, the moral's a cinch:

Use tires that never give out in a pinch.