Show salt la lake ke people are coming fu 1 om ing to life tile grand junction salt lake lop log of the tile midland trail trall lias has been blazed after af ter a two weeks battle with rain min and a nd snow and what was still worse lack of roads the tile grand junction bunch of boosters boasters bo helped by price and fiovo delivered A L gaard safe and sound here yesterday os af afternoon tor noon whon when tho the automobile to clubs headquarters reached the journey hud had ended as far as gra grand nd junction price and nud provo were concerned concern and tho the first party of to reach silt salt lake like ver this route were ready for thu dinner them at tho the commercial Commo roial club tho the stoby of tho the trip was a story of hardship which however lio appeared as play pla to tho the crowd of determined men who sot set out to blazo blaze an automobile tn trail 11 from grand junction to salt lake for two weeks men prominent in business circles in that town have built bridges dug ditches piled rocks und and shoveled miles of hillsides that the representative of tho tile american automobile association might get lot through at Pric otho citizens went nant to tho the rescue and from there to colton worked shoulder to shoulder with tho the colorado Colom doL to help tho the cause along a cause which they intend to push until a greater part of tho the transcontinental travel parses through their section of tho the C when ho he arrived in the city mr declared that never in in his years of work at had ho lie found a bunch of men so determined is those who accompanied him on this trip lie ile deviated that the tile men of grand junction and price deserved all litnor hi nor due in making the t trip rip for without them ho lie would have been helpless now that the trail has been blazed mr sas he hopes it will bo be improved until automobilists recognize its worth and value us as a transcontinental trans continental route while whilo mr would not aay say it was advisable to send tourists over this route at tho the present time bet et with a little money judiciously spent it would make a magnificent ent road for automobiles he ile dec declaimed declai ed that he lie believed that this would bo be done in the near future because the class of men who accompanied him were of the kind who accomplished I 1 asbed things salt lake tribune sunday nov 10 when the carbon county boosters arrive arrived d in salt lake sunday they found very little interest being taken in the movement recently started at gra grand nd junction lo 10 create a sentiment tending to have the trans con tin auto highway laid out so as to run through grand junction green kiver river price provo and salt lake practically all the business men have heard of the highway and some of them had heard vaguely of the midland trail but everybody appeared to be waiting for somebody else to start something and here is where the carbon county bunch got busy they held a caucus monday morning and detailed the members of tho the party to interview certain mem members hers of the commercial club and point out to them the great advantage the highway would be to the 4 A towns and counties it traversed by dinner timo time practically every man of influence in ill tho tile commercial club vas talking midland trail mid when tho the club was convened in special session monday night a resolution endorsing tho the price canyon route was passed with a whoop with not a dissenting senti nir vote lova N harmon senator iverson and others of the cairon county delegation were asked to address tho the commercial club and they did their work so well that carbon county now has a it reputation among salt lake business men for doing things sad to relate the graveyard grave yard business men of provo failed to realize the tile importance of this movement and that town was not represented at tho the big gathering there were fourteen in the itlie carbon county delegation when the grand junction boost tho midland trail passed through price tuesday afternoon on their way homo home from salt lake they stopped off the train hero here long enough to give throe three cheers and a tiger for fr price tho the biggest little city on eaith |