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In the amazing Humboldt Redwoods. To be paved with concrete.

Identifier: californiahighwa01blow (find matches)
Title: California highways; a descriptive record of road development by the state and by such counties as have paved highways
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Blow, Ben, 1868-
Subjects: Roads
Publisher: San Francisco
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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erry Bridge 269 ( XVI ) List of Illustrations FACINGPAGE Nicolaus Bridge 270 Between Live Oak and Pennington 271 On the State Highway 274 Sutter Buttes 275 Highway and Orange Groves 276 Tulare County Sign 277 Along Kaweah River 280 • Old Road and New Highway 281 Yolo Causeway 282 In Capay Valley 283 Concrete Trestles 286 Heavy Road Tonnage 287 LIST OF MAPS PAGE Highway System of Bureau of Highways 18 San Juan Routing 82 Zaca Canyon Routing 83 Alameda 134-135 Contra Costa 140—141 Fresno 146-147 Kern 152-153 KIngs 158-159 Los Angeles 164-165 Marin 170-171 Merced 176-177 Monterey 182-183 Napa ......... 188-189 Orange 194-195 Riverside 200-201 Sacramento 206-207 ( xvn ) List of Maps PAOE San Bernardino • . 212-213 San Francisco 218-219 San Joaquin 224-225 San Mateo 230-231 Santa Barbara 236-237 Santa Clara 242-243 Santa Cruz 248-249 Solano 254-255 Sonoma 260-261 Stanislaus 266-267 Sutter 272-273 Tulare 278-279 Yolo 284-285 Paved Highway map of California Insert, back cover ( xviii )
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In the amazing Humboldt Redwoods. To be paved withconcrete. CHAPTER I THE THREE STATE HIGHWAY BOND ISSUES Whenever engineers discuss road building or automobileowners talk of touring over smooth highways theCalifornia state road system is almost invariably mentioned,for California, with its rugged topography, its thousand-mile stretch of coast line, and its hundreds of miles from eastto west, has set the pace in highway construction for olderand more thickly settled and far richer states. Three State Highway bond issues, aggregating $73,000,-000, have been passed by the people of California, the first,for $18,000,000, in 1910 by 12,786 votes, fourteen of Cali-fornias fifty-eight counties being opposed; the second, for$15,000,000, in 1916 by a plurality of 405,132, not a singlecounty going against the bonds; while the third, passed onJuly 1, 1919, was for $40,000,000, the vote being 196,084 forto 27,992 against. Under the first bond issue a trunk line system was pro-posed with two maincaliforniahighwa01blow

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