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 18 THE TOURIST'S NORTHWEST

Cabs and Street Cars. Electric and horse-drawn vehicles are for hire by the course and by time in all the cities of the Northwest. Electric rail transportation, both urban and suburban, is carried to a high degree of efficiency. Aside from many miles of street car lines in Portland, there are cars running into the country in seven directions. Seattle's 250 miles of street car tracks transport resident and visitor to the city's generous limit and beyond. Spokane's street car mileage totals 137, and suburban lines make easy of access a great number of delightful resorts. The jitney automobile, whose enterprise has seriously affected the profits and equanimity of chartered transportation companies, continues to thrive in the Northwest, and gives a cheap, rapid, convenient, and, withal, democratic service to all classes of people.

Motorways. The great transcontinental automobile road of the United States, the Lincoln Highway, extends 3384 miles from Forty-second street, New York, to Lincoln Park, San Francisco. The official emblem of the Highway is a large letter on a tricolor sign-board. Lateral roads join the highroad from the north and south. One which branches from the main artery of motor travel 200 miles east of Ogden, strikes toward Boise, Idaho, and continues over the trail of the Oregon pioneers through Baker City, Ore., beyond the Snake River, and down the valley of the Columbia to Portland. The same route followed from Boise turns northward at Walla