St. Louis Globe-Democrat from St. Louis, Missouri • 46

One could not From popular make and up in 28 St. Louis Daily Globe-Democrat, Sunday Morning, October 81, 1926. Says U.S. 61 Will Be Opened by August 1 Continued from First Page. road every day and traffio should have trouble traveling where the bus line does.

"From the Lincoln County line at Big Creek the detour is over narrow gravel to Moscow Mills, which stretch is regularly maintained by state maintenance forces at all times. "At Moscow Mills the road joins the regularly marked United States road No. 61 and thence follows over the old gravel road to Troy, regularly maintained by state maintenance forces. "From Troy to Eolla, a distance of nineteen and one-half miles, regularly marked U. S.

R. No. 61, passes over an old toll road of semirock and gravel construction. are places where deep ruts occur in periods of excessive raintall, but there is a small amount of roek and gravel under the mud, which at an earlier period was graded over old rock and gravel. "There are also times in periods of excessive rainfall when this stretch of road is slick, due to this mud over old rock and gravel, but the mud is never deep enough to mire a car or stop traffic.

Creek Overflows. "Immediately north of Troy, between. the grade crossing of the short line railroad and Cuivre River Bridge stage on Cuivre River rises over this bottom too deep to ford with 8 and traffie at such periods is held, up twenty-four to forty-eight hours until flood waters recede. "Inquiry can always be made at the Troy garages, Jones Hotel or office of Troy Free Press as to the condition of this high water before leaving Troy. "There are two regular maintenance patrol crews working between Troy and Eolia, assuring traffic of regular state maintenance.

"From Eolla through Louisiana to Frankford the state maintenance forces are regularly maintaining the old gravel toll road, on which there are no toll charges a detour, the County Court of Pike County having abandoned a this road as a toll road In June. Under Construction. "This detour at this date is over gravel for its entire length, except one and one-half miles, which will be all fully surfaced with gravel by November 10. "The regular location of U. S.

Highway No. 61, from Eolia to Frankford, is all under construction concrete slab. except nine and one-haff miles in Bowling Green and north to McCune Station. Owing to right-of-way trouble in Bowling Green, -the State Highway Commission has not been able to let a contract to fill in this gap. Eolia to Bowling Green the contractor has completed about onehalf the mileage to date and will compelled to shut down for the winter on account of cold weather about November 10.

This will leave the portion next to Eolia for next spring. contractor expects to carry on what grading operations weather conditions will permit during the winter; as he has poured slab on practically all of the completed grading and a large portion of grading still remains uncompleted. "The detour over old gravel toll road from Eolia through Louisiana to Frankford should satisfactorily carry all of the traffic for the next nine months. 80 Per Cent Completed. "From McCune Station to Frankford on the new location of U.

S. Highway No. 61 the contractor har about 60 per cent of the grading completed and all bridges and culverts built. This will be concreted early next year. We are trying to carry the Frankford to New London traffic along with our construction instead of over long round about detours over impassable roads.

All of the concrete from New London south to Pike County line at Spencer Creek has been poured and the traffic is traveling those portions which make contact with the old gravel road until the entire stretch to Frankford can be completed. "The paving outfit moved on October to Frankford and started pavIng north to join the completed work at Spencer Creek bridge. "There is a stretch of 3000 feet where the traffic is carried along the side of the slab on a narrow one way strip of gravel with watchmen to direct traffic until slab is cured. "This stretch is being poured with an admixture of calcium chloride using a richer mix than regularly used and opening to traffic up to 10,000 pounds in seven to nine days. Open Road November 10.

"The pouring of the 3000 foot stretch should be completed Monday evening and opened to traffic on the morning of November 10, after which time we can easily handle all traffic over this route without a long detour over any dirt roads. "The large fill immediately south of New London has been graveled and four miles detour cut out October 21, so that traffic can easily pass over this 2000 foot stretch which has been extremely bad during the past period of excessive rainfall. "New London to Hannibal, over regular marked route U. S. Highway No.

61, all gravel and well maintained, can be traveled every day if the year. "Hannibal to Palmyra is concrete and carrying traffic every day despite weather conditions. "Palmyra to Taylor and the Junetion of road to Quincy, with the exception of two and one-halt miles south of the Taylor road, is gravel and can be traveled entire year. 2 Regularly Patroled. the two and one-half miles stretch south of Taylor, traffic traveled this stretch every day during the late period of mired or pulled through.

The mainexcessive without being patrols on this department stretch assuring conkeeps regular tinuous traffic. "From Taylor to Canton through La Grange is fully comroad. and represents one of the pleted, all gravel highest types of gravel road that can be constructed. "This road is constructed of the famous La Grange gravel taken from the one state-owned pit at La Granite, mile off the highway, where over 400,000 cubic yards have been loaded and to pointe in Northern Missourl. There still remains over twice this amount of material for road surfacing.

portion of the pit where the gravel has been excavated repcoall lake over 50 feet deep at ita deepest point, with clear cold water in the hottest weather. Stock Lake. "The, State Game and Fish Department. through the courtesy of the Game Fish Commissioner, Kelth MCCAROSANd District Deputy Piper, this lake with bass and crapple, and when the supply of gravel 18 exhausted in about five years this of land. representing acres, tract, which belongs to the State of Missouri, can be thrown open to the public, and will then constitute one of the best fishing and bathing spots in North Missouri.

"From Canton north to point five miles south of Wayland, United States Highway No. 61 18 under contract for construction with A gravel surface of La Grange gravel in two contracts. The Hannibal Construction Company has nine miles in two sections, which 18 about 50 per cent graded, and will be fully surfaced and completed about July 1, 1927. P. O' Reilly Co.

about five and one-half miles hinder construction, which Includes a large bridge over Honey Creek. This stretch 1s fully graded for 90 per cent of Its length and the bridge 50 per cent complete. Excessive rainfall has interfered very much with placing surfacing material, which is to be La Grange gravel, as the Missippi River bottom is gumbo, which becomes impassable under excessive rainfall. Five Miles of Gravel. "From the north end of section under O'Reilly to Wayland there 14 five miles of La Grange gravel surfacing, laid In 1925, and an excellent road.

"From Canton north during the construction of the fourteen and one-half-mile gap, which when completed will make a continuous hard-surfaced road from Hannibal to Keokuk, except two miles noted south of Taylor, the traffic is being carried over A long detouring traversing narrow county roads and all dirt, which in wet weather become practically Impassable. "This detour is dragged regularly when weather conditions permit by team patrols, and with several days wind and sunshine is fairly passable to light traffic. "From Wayland to Alexandria at the Des Molnes River levee 18 a gravel constructed of La Grange gravel and passable at all times. It was completed in the late fall of 1924. "From the Des Molnes River levee to the bridge over the Des Moines River or Iowa line the surfacing 18 an 18-foot concrete slab constructed in 1923.

"The north end of the Des Molnes River Bridge 1s the city limits of Keokuk, the center of the river being the state line between Missouri and Iowa. Bridge Over River. bridge is the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Bridge, with roadway for a one-way traffic built along the sides 80 that the movement of trains does not interfere with tramc. There are no toll charges on this bridge, and by the first day of August, 1927, the citizens cf St. Louis can make the drive Keokuk, at any time and be assured that despite weather conditions they can see one of the largest hvdro-electric power plants in the Middle West.

"A new bridge over the Des Moines River at St. Francisville, six miles north of Weyland, is being promoted at this time, and a county bond issue is being voted on Iowa side to help finance this project, which will give north connections to Fort Madison, Burlington, Iowa City, Cedar Rapids, St. Paul and Minneapolis. an early day in the embryonic of good roads this United States Highway No. 61 was named and so marked the Scenic Highway and, when constructed by the Missouri State Highway Commission, besides being a high type 'Will Complete Airline June 1' ---Piepmeier Continued from First Page.

losses. Weather Delays Work. truly farm-to-market roads, but also form 8 part of a state-wide system which will, when completed, be one of the most comprehensive state road systems in the United States. "Every county in the state now has hard-surfaced roads, and the completed, sections are being linked such manner as to insure the early completion of all-weather roads across the state in several different directions. "The money which will be spent for roads on the state road system from now will begin to make a much better showing, 88 the pensive sections and bridges are now about completed.

The work from now on will be mostly hard-surfacing and improving sections of road which are now in reasonably good condition. It 1s expected, therefore, that within the next year or two there will be several continuous hard-surfaced roads entirely across the state east and west and north and south. "The department plans to spend about $13,000,000 in 1927. of this amount $5,000,000 will be from the sale of road bonds, which will complete the $60,000,000 program. All of the bond money will soon be under contract and the work will be completed and paid for early next spring.

About $7,000,000 or $8,000,000 worth of work that should have been completed this year, will be carried over to 1927, due to the bad weather conditions which we have had during the montha of September and October. The weather' durthe last two months has almost prohibited road improvement. Many contractors have laid less pavement during last two months than during one. week In July. The continuous weatner has disorganized the contractors' forces and will result, in many cases, in heavy financial "Full plans were made to get all of the pavement laid on the Kansas -St.

Louis road, U. 8. 40, this season, but weather conditions have made this Impossible and the pavement will not be completed until early next spring. Present indications are that the entire pavement and shoulders on U. S.

40 can be finished by June 1, 1927. There will, however, be provided during the winter months a gravel detour at points where there is no paVement and every possible provision will be made to take care of crossstate traffic. This la also true of U. S. 66, from St.

Louis to Springfield and Joplin. While this road is not completed, the soil conditions on most of it permits trattic to use It any day in the year without encountering mud. The road from St. Louis south to Memphis, U. 61, 18 also an all- road, and many a portions of it are finished.

the northern part of the State it la not possible to make all-weather roads as can be done In the Ozark territory. The roads in the northern of surfacing, it will still retain of the scenic features from whence it drew this early name. "As this highway is to be marked Inited States Highway No. 61 from the Canadian border line to New Orleans on the gulf, and at this time 18 thoroughly marked across Missouri, It is destined to be one of the main arteries of north and south traffic through the Middle West. "By the end of 1928, It 18 no prophecy to state, this highway will be hard surfaced from the Iowa line to the Arkansas line, with St.

Louis the central point." New Hupp Sport Roadster 0. NEW HUPMOBILE SIX ROADSTER THE new automatically Hupmoblle from Six the sport driver's Weber and Automobile in St. Louis. The new model was the Jefferson Memorial in Forest Park, of the company, at the wheel, and is pany's showroom the northeast streets. The top of the roadster is black vides a number of options.

The top canvas boot with straps, it may be entirely curtain only may be removed to bring communication with the front seat bows and a nickeled top brace. brown, the lighter shade, below, being shade above being Boone brown. side, is provided in the rear deck and of the driver's seat. The price of the Louis, part of the State must be completely graded and hard-surfaced before there 18 any possible chance of using them at all. seasons of the year.

Maintain All Roads. "Constant maintenance which 18 provided on all state roads, however, keeps the ordinary earth being roads in reasonably good condition. While they get muddy, the bad mud holes are repaired or eliminated, and In this way it is possible for traffic to use even the dirt roads under normal weather conditions. It 18 only after continuous rain or heavy snow that the earth roads become impassable. a result of the road improvement which has been done thus far In Missouri, traffic has materially Increased.

During several days of last August a traffic count WAS taken on a number of the state roads in various parta of the state. The volume of traffic was, in many CARES, surprising. Roads that 8 of few years ago carried only two or is three hundred vehicles daily, are on now carrying from one to three It thousand vehicles dally. In number of Instances, a traffic count has shown that volume and weight of traffic are In excess of the amount 18 for which the type of road was selected and designed. "In general, le conceded that gravel roads 'with careful and intensive maintenance can carry traffic to the amount of about 1000 vehicles day.

When the traffic exall ceeds 1000 vehicles a day on a gravel road, it is necessary and more nomical to apply some surface treatment of bituminous material to prevent the gravel from constantly beIng displaced, and to suppress the dust nuisance, or to bulld high type pavement such as concrete. of "The completion of the entire state road system of 7640 miles will provide a more general distribution no of the traffic over the various state routes. This will. in a measure, releve many of the roads which are now burdened with a concentration of traffic." Improvements ents Special Fall Showing We invite the public to view our special fall showing of Dodge Brothers Motor Cars featuring two of the most important improvements ever made in this dependable and long-lived product Week of November 1st Open evenings Associate Dealers: TATE MOTOR COMPANY INC Associate Dealers J. W.

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DoDGe BROTHERS MOTOR CARS 3,500,000 Tourists Use Michigan State Parks During 1926 All Records Broken in History, Says P. J. Hoffmaster. Superintendent of State Parka P. J.

of Michigan has notifled Secretary H. J. Gray of the Michigan Tourist and Resort Association that all state park records of Michigan were shattered during 1026 season when 3.500,000 tourists made use of these preserves. This WAS the largest patronage in the history of the state. Hoffmaster also pointe Aret out that Michigan WAS the place establish the state park, having taken over Mackinac Island from the United States Government by act of Congress In 1885.

There WAS no other Michigan state park until 1919, when the State Park Commission was organized and in 1920 there were over eighteen or nineteen state parka. Of the forty-eight states. forty-three have state and Michigan is in second place to New York, which has sixty -four state parks. Michigan in 1926 had seven in operation. In 1924 Michigan had Atty-three state parka.

Hoffmaster also stated that Washington. D. figures are that less than of the nation's population ever gets to the national parks of the country and that in 1926 that percentage of the population visited Michigan parks, according to the register entries of the park. H. J.

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