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Show OPINIONS ON THE AUTO ROAD Local automobile enthusiasts and boosrers for the transcontinental highway high-way are disturbed over the reports published in Salt Lake to the effect that the Oniaha and Wyoming boosters, boost-ers, who passed Sunday in Ogdeu as the guests of the Weber cMib officials, offi-cials, Tiave openly advocated a southern south-ern route around the lake and the suggestion that the highway he named "The Omaha-Salt Lake Pioneer Trial." "1' don't believe that Mr Frederick-son Frederick-son personally advocated anything of the kind," said Secretary I. I Reynolds Rey-nolds todaj, -as he Is thoroughly alive to the objectionable features of a route south of the lak The Almighty, Al-mighty, however, selected a lnrge portion por-tion of the route across the continent and even Salt Iake and Mr Frcd-erlckson Frcd-erlckson will find themselves up against it when It comes to stealing Ogden's place on the highway map. ' M S. Browning statel th.it the southern route would be the most Im practicable thing Imaginable "Think of running an automobile touring into the state from the east and after watering hlin at the Salt Lake head him out across the Grat Salt Lake desert vi Ith no more idea of lltah and its wonderful resources to th"e Ts'th than can be seen on a short run southwest from Salt Lake City," said Mr. Browning "We are going to discuss this matter with Governor Gov-ernor Spry and the officials of the Salt Lake publicity bureau and find out, if' possible, who's running this Mate Salt Lake or the people as a whole." David Mattson Is of the opinion that the travel will oontually follow three different routes Into Utah, one over the Union Pacific through Wyoming, another by way of Denver and Grand Junction and the third b way of tho Moffat route and the Green River bridge at Jensen. "There Is no doubt In my mind," said Mr Mattson. "that the Moffat road will come down Weber canyon A transcontinental road cannot well adopt a hither grade than two percent per-cent and the Union Pacific Is now trying to reduce its line to one per cent through the mountains. There Is. I am told, a grade of I per cent In Provo canyon; at least they can barely bare-ly haul a train of empties up to He-ber He-ber at present, and Parley's canyon Is also too steep for an overland route Weber canyon remains the only water level route through the mountains and It Is there that the Moffat road will eventually enter the Salt Lake valley. "Thf Moffat road auto route will probably go through Jensen, Vernal, Moffat, Fort Duchesne, Roosevelt, My-ton. My-ton. Theodore, down Indian canyon and parallel the Rio Grande line to Spanish Fork, Springvllle, Provo and Salt Lake. A route westward south of the lake is ridiculous to think of from a general viewpoint of the slate." |