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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (July 14, 1912)
Omaha BUNDAl: PART FIVE GOOD ROADS PAGES ONE TO EIGHT PART FIVE AUTOMOBILES PAGES ONE TO EIGHT or f3 VI 1 ? ''VAT iw - SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. OMAIU, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 14, 1912. Omaha the Center of a Great Good VOL. XLII-NO. 4. System so vVL : II X:.; .. j3fw-?vaC Pi ,'i X AVj$ . mm y a fat" , r cSzzziday a Grading Caznp -JTtzks " 1 l W.,m.,..M -r-mi , 153- 1 "yaw yT ?SX2f Si 4 mm , , , H : s X j liiilliiiilii 1 -v " i fe'Jteaizty Spc on (hnler Street- 1 i 4 V "v!" I - tt "yntiy ti- j j IcxmeT' rating COu?&Z on xvzsi Dodge - Jooldzig irrest fpota Zittle JFappio Tl . .i.m m 'i . n Beautiful Drives and Perfed; Roads Converge at Omaha UTOISTS who go motoring in and about Omaha theeo warm summer evenings are probably without knowledge of the fact that they are tooling over a section of Nebraska that has more Improved rural roads than any other county in this state, and that it ranks high in (his regard among the counties of any state' in the union. Here and there the motor car may run into a bad stretch of road a part of the highway which is slated for improvement, but which has not yet received the attention of the county authorities, because these men have been buuy expending money in repairing and modeling other divisions of that particular road or in getting other highways in various parts of the county in shape for per fect travel. Taken together with the roads in and about Council Bluffs, the improved highways in Douglas county afford what 1b probably the larg est amount of excellent travel ground for farmers and motorists in this section of the west. Pottawattamie county, Iowa, has no paved roads, but the commissioners there have dragged, graded and turned the highways in much better manner than it has been possible to do in Douglas county, and for this reason the country roads of that county are very good, even though none of them have been improved through paving. 1 Bare figures probably will not impress the average man with the great amount of good roads there is in and about Omaha, but to give an illustration of one or two of the long stretches which may be trav eled in this community vWlll, without doubt, prove to the most sluggish mind the highway advantage of Douglas count and its neighbors. Less than three miles this side of Elkhorn the famous Dodge road . begins its course of brick and macadam. From this point the Dodge highway runs into the western limits of the city of Omaha. A motor ist could begin his trip at the western limit of the Dodge road, then (though he might go to Elkhorn, and even on to Fremont, and still be traveling cm a well-dragged highway, marked by sign posts and as thoroughly well kept as any highway in the whole state outside of Douglas county), and drive into Omaha, coursing through the city, crossing the Missouri river into Council Bluffs, where he would strike Broadway a pave:l road at the western limits of the city continuing ; his trip through Council Bluffs and driving out to Lake Manawa, the (Continued on Page Four.) BCESBmSSm 4A Well; pi 1 v'W ftiw 4 t JZKArdle Corner on West Dodge -FeoriaJjrm an am 4i -V