California highways; a descriptive record of road development by the state and by such counties as have paved highways . ns, almost inthe twinkling of an eye, from a trickling rivulet to a roaringmountain torrent which carries all before it and subsides asquickly as it rose. Where the old road had many steep grades and sharppitches of twelve and fourteen per cent the new road has amaximum grade of six per cent, easily climbed in high byany automobile and safe and comfortable to travel evenwhen the snow, upon rare occasion, blankets the higherreaches toward Lebec. From one and be
California highways; a descriptive record of road development by the state and by such counties as have paved highways . ns, almost inthe twinkling of an eye, from a trickling rivulet to a roaringmountain torrent which carries all before it and subsides asquickly as it rose. Where the old road had many steep grades and sharppitches of twelve and fourteen per cent the new road has amaximum grade of six per cent, easily climbed in high byany automobile and safe and comfortable to travel evenwhen the snow, upon rare occasion, blankets the higherreaches toward Lebec. From one and beyond Lebec to Los Angeles,the route lay in Division VII of the State Highway, and inChapter XV a glimpse may be had of the joys that fell to theshare of Division Engineer Clark, whose job it was to beginwhere Mr. Woodson left off and build a mile-saving road thatwould connect the vast reaches of the San Joaquin andSacramento valleys with the wonderland of paved highwayslying south of the Tehachapi. That the engineers of the two divisions succeeded goeswithout saying, and the Tejon-Castaic Ridge route today, to [90]. g -5 i s
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