California highways; a descriptive record of road development by the state and by such counties as have paved highways . Once each year stage coaches and Cowboys travel the roadsof Looking south on the Carmel-San Simeon route of theState Highway. Monterey County road system of their own to which they have added eachyear an appreciable mileage until, in 1919, eighty-one milesof paved highway already laid down marks the contributionof this county to the good-roads mileage of the state. The men responsible for the bond issue above mentionedwere the members of the 1915 Board of Supervis
California highways; a descriptive record of road development by the state and by such counties as have paved highways . Once each year stage coaches and Cowboys travel the roadsof Looking south on the Carmel-San Simeon route of theState Highway. Monterey County road system of their own to which they have added eachyear an appreciable mileage until, in 1919, eighty-one milesof paved highway already laid down marks the contributionof this county to the good-roads mileage of the state. The men responsible for the bond issue above mentionedwere the members of the 1915 Board of Supervisors, L. D. Roberts, Monterey; Harvey Abbott, Salinas; , San Lucas; Jefferson Mann, Watsonville; and PaulTalbot, King City, who added to the duties imposed uponthem by law, the additional burden of campaigning for goodroads, which was considerably more of a job in 1914 and 1915than at the present time and in the accustomed manner ofthe good roads booster they stumped the county back andforth, finally securing the approval of the voters of thecounty for their plan. With comparatively little money attheir disposal (the greater part of the money raised underthe bond issu
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