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Show H fc IMPORTANCE OF ARROWHEAD TRAIL C. H. Bigelow Points Out it- Importance Im-portance aa a National Highway. ESSENTIAL FACTOR IN DEVELOPMENT OF WEST Shortest Auto Route from California to the Fast Great Convenience to Stock Interests (ioverament Reclamation Rec-lamation Projects Need This Road. By C. H. BKIELOW. Self determination has become, in the last three years, one of the most useful phrases in the English language. langu-age. Study of the possibilities of a through highway from the Idaho line to the Mexican border makes this phrase particularly applicable as applied to northern Utah. The Arrowhead trail, when first located, was intended to serve two purposes : I'irst t care for the tourist travel between Salt Lake City and l.os. Angeles; second to promqte the construction of a real highway between settlements along the Wasatch ranc The entrance of the United States into the war has. as a natural result, slowed down the heavier 'instruction a-long a-long this road, bul the promoters have utilized this time working out their plans to make of the Arrowhead Arrow-head trail the main artery of an in-termountain in-termountain system of highways located so as to meet the require- iments of the future as it is possible to forsec. Value of Feeder Lines. It is the purpose of this article ffl make plain to the people of Salt Lake the value of the various proposed pro-posed feeder lines of this highway: First in order we will consider from St. tieorge to Kingman, Ariz. The traveler from Arizona by auto must use the national old trails or ocean to ocean highway from Arizona to California. In an analysis an-alysis of the travel relations between be-tween Utah and Arizona we need but consider the national old trail. For example : Leaving any point in central or southern Arizona, it is necessary to attain the high plateau region of Arizona, thence northerly to within twenty miles of the Colorado river; south from Kingman to the Needles, connecting connect-ing at Bifinock siding with the Arrowhead trail highway of I,os Angeles. In other words, from Kingman to St George by way of the present road is approximately .125 miles by auto road. While it is possible to lay out a highway from Kingman to St. George of 170 miles in length, a journey from Phoenix to Kingman involves going go-ing to Present I and Ash Forks. Kingman ha- now under construction construct-ion a short line around the mountains, moun-tains, crofting the Bill Williams river to Phoenix, that will save practically eight) miles over the present route There will be suh-mitted suh-mitted to the present legislature in Arizona a bill appropriating a sufficient suf-ficient amount to construct a bridge across the Colorado river practically practical-ly due south f St. George. Road Value to Utah. Southern Arizona, because of the intense heal in the summer, offers little comfort to its citizens, and, while for nil months, of the year there is iv more perfect climate conditions in the world, the remaining re-maining three months finds a. hegira A of all who are able to travel to jL iimre salul mate Tin )l m,a1 migra'ion has for years been! f H l in the l'a ''11(1 northerly, because oi the .i I action of thej ocean, and will i ntinue and increase in-crease each yeai as the use of motor car becomes more general. I With a direct i id constructed, Utah can : I a very fair percent-) age of this busines The Kingman i to St. Ge rge roa'l will solve ihe ' problem. The fir-: rnajoi touring atirac ': lion encountered ill be the Zion l canyon, thence Cedar Breaks, Salt! I Lake City and to the more ambiti-J otts, the YolloAnp national park. Help Herd ntonL Then there business possibi- j lity to this ular line that isj almost limitlei its scope, namely, the utilization f i highway of this character foi interchange of (locks and h! Some seasons Arizona range k must be moved or perish fro'i ck of water and feed Not In I lently Utah, dur-1 ing these sea-c ran furnish the! relief demando Then again, dur- j ing severe wir in the north I thousands of j n and cattle may be moved to zona. Wc must' not forget that Salt River basin i watered from Roosevelt dam, is rapidly becoi a very rich and I populous counl and has become, one of the gr ;st producers of, feed and fofBg the west. Just a word this point as to plans w ell undt ay for power development de-velopment alor he Colorado be-' tween Kanab pk and Grand j Wash, probah the first major (lower develop! it undertaken on i the Colorado, ahe development! of the power Aow surveyed on J this particular tch of the river calls for six KJoot dams with a 239,(X)f) break lepow er available at the minimunSiw of the stream j of 3500 second st, and with a regulated re-gulated flow offt.000 second feet 682,000 horseptr. These fignrcare based on pri-Ivate pri-Ivate surveys trrJhave been made with the idea ogerving the Santa IV railroad amine manufacturing of cyanamid fodie cheap produc- tion of ammonia phosphate. The j only plant of ipVirtancc engaged in the producing of cyanamid in ! the United Statjis at Niagara j Kails, which in 114 produced 64,-000 64,-000 tons with 4 continuous use I of 30.0100 horsolver. Figure the I possibliities of tlColorado power, in addition to th two uses of the power dcvelopmlt at this point, cheap electricitylill be available for Clark and Incoln counties, Nevada. WherJhere are well defined and sflrtjetl waterbearing lands, aggregatl over 200,000 acres. In additnito this use, power pow-er could be delivd over southern Utah at a figurutiat would make possihle a trenulous agricultural development ; all permit of rail road installation were the expense of securing gradiilts for steam operated op-erated roads for the consideration considera-tion of these line aito the more or less indefinite futre. It is the opinion op-inion of the wrier that this particular par-ticular installation if undertaken at once, will gowery far toward solving our prob-eh of surplus of labor which is jsj at present the most vital stili'4t before the i American people Much has beeiv ritten and many projects of water onservation are before the publics mg the Colorado, Colora-do, Rio Grande ;i I other streams of the arid west tfl tlievc the press ing condition. It! entirely probable proba-ble that this p(v ;r development will be undertaker ery soon. Many of the determina ns are already made and the pin of electrifying the Santa Fe anc! alt Lake Route has been worked i it. Agency of Vasillmployment. Analyze the effc of great power schemes and leCH w it affects labor: la-bor: It means d es, insulators, motors, cement i Ms, silk looms, insulation plant- uachine shops, and. in fact, whoo.'cr major pow er development undertaken the nerve system ot 4 United States. as represented let le manufacturing manufactur-ing interests, imtfl iately feels the results in almost:! ery line of industry. in-dustry. Let us now .n ltder the lines proposed from tl unction of the Arrowhead trai! n d the old trail to Porker, Blythcjjid the Imperial valley the same! lunate causes that bring abotn I vel out of Arizona Ar-izona during tli' s immer month., prevail in these l leys. In addition addi-tion to opening ujl iat agricultural wonderland tin n ptrial vatlej thus permitting 'mice of coastwise coast-wise points for t!i ravel from the north to Califonv we musi consider con-sider the future the section, traversed bv tin ( roposed road. The Parker di stu has I8O000 aires that may 'Irrigated from the Colorado; tli Biytlic valley 175,000 acres. 'I'J Imperial valley val-ley in the Unite, states 638.000 acres, of which ov .100,000 acres are now under divatiou. And when we draw cor usions relative leys, we must renienihei thai eleven crops of alfalfa per vcn .lie not uncommon, which, coupled uitlC early produce, cotton, etc. means1 ultimate density of population un ! known in any other agricultural section of America. Because the frontier, i r western states have, of necessity, been set tied from the east, transportation lines have been mostly east and west, and, as a result, comparative Iv few hesidents of the intcrmoun tain region have iven sufficient thought to the potential possibilities .mil needs existing between the Sierras and the Rockies. rVoSN North ami South S.rlt Lake is unquestlonabl) bene tited bv the main trunk highways from th east to the vest. but " time one of equal importano from a tourist standpoint and infinitely greater from an economii -vill be developed from the glaciei egioos of Alberta to the a tus roi CTed deserts of Mcxii o. Summed up, the Arrowhead trail i- the Appian vvav that hind- this empire together. If Salt Lake is to (Continued on page four.) |