California highways; a descriptive record of road development by the state and by such counties as have paved highways (1920) (14595107688)

Highway map of the County of Sonoma, California: The highway shown along the coast is to be surfaced with local materials under the Sonoma County bonding plan. This stretch of road, with Marin and Mendocino Counties coast road development, will form a link in a San Francisco to Oregon coast road. Highways shown are under construction in 1919. The main trunk line of the State Highway is to be completed or under contract shortly after the end of 1919. The stretch from Sonoma to Santa Rosa, paved in part by the county, forms part of the 1919 State Highway bond issue plan as does the paving of the link from Napa reaching Petaluma Creek popularly known as the Black Point Cut-off.
Identifier: californiahighwa00blow (find matches)
Title: California highways; a descriptive record of road development by the state and by such counties as have paved highways
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Blow, Ben, 1868-
Subjects: Roads
Publisher: San Francisco
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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issue was unsuccessfullyattempted, since which time the Board of Supervisors, madeup of O. N. Charles, Cazadero, chairman; J. H. Weise, GlenEllen; H. F. Doss, Petaluma; William Cunningham, Wind-sor; and A. D. Goddard, Healdsburg, has built thirty-fivemiles of asphaltic macadam road out of annual county fundsat a cost of something like $3,500 a mile, not thinking for onemoment that these roads were permanent but striving to dothe best they could with limited funds. In so far as type of road is concerned it may be said thatthe adopted plan follows closely the recommendation of thegovernment engineer, concrete road being specified for thosethickly settled sections around Petaluma, Santa Rosa, andSebastopol where a heavy traffic exists. This traffic aroundPetaluma consists largely of eggs being hauled to market,Petaluma being the egg-producing center of the PacificCoast, although fruits of various kinds, berries, and othersoil products are produced in considerable quantity. (>59) (260)
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HIGHWAY MAP OF THE C O U NTVS O NOMA CALIFORNIA SCALE The highway shown along the coast is to be surfaced with local materials under the SonomaCounty bonding plan. This stretch of road, with Marin and Mendocino counties coast roaddevelopment, will form a link in a San Francisco to Oregon coast road. Highways shown areunder construction in ipip.

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