Page:The Tourist's California by Wood, Ruth Kedzie.djvu/37

 GENERAL INFORMATION 19 launched as a national project and provides for a motor-thoroughfare from New York to San Francisco, with a branch from Colorado through New Mexico and Arizona to Los Angeles. Many of the roads which are constituent parts of this Ocean to Ocean Highway have already been marked with the large letter L on a tri-colour sign-board which is the emblem of the continental trail. The Pacific Boulevard now under way will form a continuous motor route from the Mexican to the Canadian border, via San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, Portland, and Seattle. Already there are hundreds of miles of oiled and macadamised roads in both upper and lower Cali- fornia. The Southern California Automobile As- sociation, with headquarters at Los Angeles, has installed emergency telephones on main highways and has, with the co-operation of other clubs and patriotic societies, erected mission bell sign-posts along the Camino Real, the " Highway of the King," which was first charted by the Spanish mis- sionaries on their journey from San Diego to San Francisco, along the sea-cliffs and among the hills of the Coast Range. In building the Owens River aqueduct, the Los Angelans opened up a good road across the desert from Mt. Whitney. Motor-cars climb the trail up Mt. Wilson, and encroach upon the silences of the range beyond Riverside and Redlands. A