California highways; a descriptive record of road development by the state and by such counties as have paved highways . ompanying map the roadsystem laid down ties all of the different towns of the countytogether and connects each one of them with the StateHighway which serves the communities in the southern partof the Salinas Valley so satisfactorily that the road needs ofthis section exist in only small degree, owing to the fact thatthe valley toward the San Luis Obispo county line is sonarrow as to need practically only one road. From south tonorth the State Highway practically divides the
California highways; a descriptive record of road development by the state and by such counties as have paved highways . ompanying map the roadsystem laid down ties all of the different towns of the countytogether and connects each one of them with the StateHighway which serves the communities in the southern partof the Salinas Valley so satisfactorily that the road needs ofthis section exist in only small degree, owing to the fact thatthe valley toward the San Luis Obispo county line is sonarrow as to need practically only one road. From south tonorth the State Highway practically divides the county inits northern stretch, from Salinas to the San Benito countyline climbing over the San Juan grade, which it may be saidin passing, is a totally new road, the old San Juan grade, nowabandoned to coyotes and jack rabbits, being formerly aterror of steep pitches and grades. The most important stretches of county road so far laiddown are those extending from Salinas to Monterey, a dis-tance of twenty miles and that from Salinas to Watsonville,sixteen miles in length, the sixteen mile stretch of road from [184]. b
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