Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . mmp^i. STATE EOADS AND IIIGUWAYS. 183 west end Oi Donner Ijake. Here it connects with the state road to LakeTahoe esta))lished hy legislative action in 1915. The same session ofthe legislature also declared the road from Emigrant Gap to Auburna state road, so that now the Emigrant (lap road really extends fromAuburn to Truckee over the route traversed by the old emigrant trail. The original p]migrant Gap state road was taken over by the state in1909. (Chap. 224-1909.) Most of th
Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . mmp^i. STATE EOADS AND IIIGUWAYS. 183 west end Oi Donner Ijake. Here it connects with the state road to LakeTahoe esta))lished hy legislative action in 1915. The same session ofthe legislature also declared the road from Emigrant Gap to Auburna state road, so that now the Emigrant (lap road really extends fromAuburn to Truckee over the route traversed by the old emigrant trail. The original p]migrant Gap state road was taken over by the state in1909. (Chap. 224-1909.) Most of the roadbed was built by the Genti-nlPacific Railroad to facilitate construction in that stuiiendous undei-t<ik-ing. After the railroad abandoned it, the county maintained it jjs acounty highway. The roadway was narrow with many steep and roek\stretches. The bridges were all wooden and badly dilapidated whenthe state to<^k it in charge. These have been mostly eliminated by theconstruction of concrete bridges and concrete or iron culverts, through-out the old Emigrant Gap road, and the same treatment is being appli
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