LINCOLN HIGHWAY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16348, 4 February 1924, Page 11

LINCOLN HIGHWAY.

THF "IDEAL SECTION." The. route of the Lincoln Highway was laid out in 1.913 and extends from Time.; Square. New York City, to Lincoln Park, Sim Francisco. Its total length of '6Zi>\ miles is not over 10 per cent, more from coast to coast than the trans-Continen-tal air line. Not only was the Lincoln Highway one of the pioneer trans-Continental roads to be charted for tourist travel, bill it. is to-day one of the best maintained coast-to-coast roads. Daring the ten years the Lincoln Highway litis existed, almost' doliurs has been spent by the National Government and local government units on (he imororcment cf thi.* route. In, the State of Indiana there has recently been completed a portion of the Lincoln Highway that bus become nationally known as the "Ideal Section." generally conceded to he the finest and most beautiful road in the United Slates. The ideal section paving is 40 feet wide on a 100-foot right-of-way, and 10 inches thick, E 0 pounds of reinforcing sled, being imbedded in every ICJ square feet. Th| State is paying, as its share of the Ideal Section cost, only ihe amount it would pay for the usual (State specification, i.e., 33,C00 dollars per mile. The county financed the cost of the bridges and culverts, and the Lincoln Highway Association provided, funds to meet the balance of the cost of the work. Leading engineers have expressed the belief that the 40-foot paving laid on the Ideal Section of the Lincoln Highway will carry the traffic for which it was designed for an indefinite number of years Without the slightest damage lb the roadway. The actual cost of the paving was 62,000 dollars per mile.