Show blazing of the arrowhead trail tra 1 by douglas white at lat la t the arrowhead trail is an fact and ts existence ii mill ill become more important as each of its seven sections are brought into that conil conation tion possible ble under up to date methods of load building however as it stands today this new h b ishway be tween the and the sea sei se i corn com pares favorably in condition with many american roadways upon which much more money has bas been expended and which have been maintained for a much longer period I 1 know that th at it will seem strange to some people to hear a line of real enthusiastic boost coming corning from a ail lail road official in favor of a perfect alghn highway ay especially when that hat high way inay parallels the lines of the railroad that provides the pay check I 1 let et such is the case aud not only do I 1 speak for myself but for every other official of the salt lake route when I 1 say build good roads and lots of them to one of our officials in particular may be given the distinction of being the railroad father ot of the ear car liest movement for better highways it was nas back several years when in winter the illinois I 1 firmer irmer had hard work to even drive a light wagon to say nothing of a loaded one over the abominable roads toads ot of his state fred A wann was then the gen i eral freight agent of the chicago alton system and was approached by a committee ot of men ambitious for better roads who told him of certain materials which if brought from a neighboring state and applied to their highways would greatly im prove them the cost of tran tation as scheduled in the alton s freight tariffs prohibited the use of this material and these people ap pealed to mr wann for a rate that would allow its use on their roads not only ans the freight reduced but brought to a figure barely cover ing cost of handling and thus wa was 1 nd tid the foundation of a good roads movement which first brought relief to the illinois farmer shortly after in a meeting of railroad at chicago the present general traffic manager of the salt lake route was called bv by hia colleagues for en cou raging good roads and to this call I 1 he be replied well you fel lows can have any kind of highways along your lines th it may please you but the alon wants good roads and lots of them for my experience teaches me that good roads road aid the farmer and anything that helps the farmer builds up traffic long ago mr air wann warin saw sav his ideas of good roads echoed by the wisest of traffic officials and he is 19 today if possible a more earnest booster booter for good roods than when he insisted iss isted illinois to build her first miles of really realty unable highways from another angle the salt lake route has as a corporation been a consistent good roads booster tor for during the last five yeara years senator darks clarks railroad has paid towards good roads in its tributary country by taxation and voluntary sub subscript scrip uon tion upward of a million and a half dollars therefore it is not to be wonder ed at that the dark clark railroad is found strongly encouraging the es of the arrowhead trail a the shortest and best highway be tween salt lake and southern call cali tornia much conversation has been had on the subject of this direct high way and a heap of work has been done by mr C H billow a in ms S active western god d roads p aneer and motor enthusiast behind mr bigelow s work came in association knon ae ao the arrowhead trails as 4 organized at the city 1 re hands in ban san bern ardino county alifornia ali forma it was at redlands that the first ocean to ocean highway had its birth in an I 1 is as he opening of the bait salt I 1 ale ake to bouty southern ern california direct highway meant a great deal to san Bern bernardino arlino county that city waa a natural eniti A point for the new highway once hunched liun ched the movement found heaps hea ps of encourage ment and mr bigelow 9 nork aias as adopted as a foundation for the locating of a permanent highway on friday juh jull 21 a scout car driven by mr bigelk w and furn dished jointly by the goodrich and companie 3 left red lands to log the new highway and finally decide upon its location this scout also carried R a cil I 1 expert C C lanne lamie of the godrich ch corn com pany I 1 was fortunately selected to accompany the car as a represent alive of the association s executive committee they say a man is naver too old to learn and this whirl from southern california to salt lake certainly has given me a new now idea of road possibilities in our in ter mountain country of course I 1 knew what utah had done with her magnificent highway irom from salt lake to the rio virgin but of other sec see eions along the route I 1 had many serious doubts but they are all gone now and I 1 know how easy it is for a careful driver with a well aured up cai to make the trip eve even under present I 1 condition first of all came a drive of miles partly over california state highways and partly over a ban bernardino county highway that is now being specially ape cully improved as a link in the arrowhead trill trail this brought the scout cir t ta amboy am boy from which ron dou I 1 the road swing erectly north through in an hi tone mountain pis use ugal I 1 1 I 1 I 1 pathfinder fremont on his filst journey to the here an old time govern ment road built on haid mountain hale ind and still in splendid repair fiill be put back in commission and lead the trail to a point three miles past ot of belbo au station on oil the silt lake route from belbo the scout car bowled along over a good desert road thit that will need I 1 tut ut little work or expense to make it a country boulevard to the south end of the dry lake near the california evada nevada state line over sixteen miles of this dry lake the studebaker six with tp t p up and a big load aboard turned up a fitt mile clip and then rolled over a splendid road through jean and god springs to I 1 losvegas las as vegas nev ev mites miles irom from los angeles from las vegas to st thorna thomas nev clarl clark county has built a good roid road pacing passing through some beautiful scenery differing entirely irom from any thing else in the inter mountain country crossing the rio virgin at st th mas the elecie i route fol lo 10 s sa a well nell kept road to bunkerville Bun kerville nev where it again crosses the rio virgin and strikes out oer a little corner of alizna anz ina here some so me work is required it at various points but so well has this section been kept up by joseph reber supervisor of this district that but few hundred dollars will be required to render it comfortably passable for all classes cassea of cars climbing up among the beaver dam darn mountains the route crosses the utah state line at the commit of beaver pass in the midst of a wealth of desert and mountain from I 1 ere the going is easy over oer o er s the twenty nine n ine miles beleen the state line ind st george and al though the road can for little mon ey be placed in excellent condition utah s high highway iNay commission has al ready planned the in of the state s I 1 ishway over this of the A bowhead trail mojave bounty arizona will likewise improve its thus thug removing any possible touring difficulties from f born this stretch of highway that links st george with st thomas from st george northward north wari the trail follows utah s excellent high way along the base of the M V thatch range through the beautiful cities and bebide beside the apts of erli and central utah salt lake looms as a magnificent ter minal for this eighn highway ay that is destin ed to place the attractions and pos ties of utah before thou thousands ands of tourists who might without it never see the real beehive state projected branches of the arrow head trail will lead the traveler to the scenic wonder of little zion ion in I 1 the mountain resorts of utah while already constructed will afford access to all the cities of the state one special feature ot of the arrow head trail lies in the fact that it fol lows high altitudes through the des ert country and yet crosses the mountain ranges at the lowest alti tude of any transcontinental highway this means practically an all the veal round route between salt lake and southern california I 1 must confess that I 1 started from the ruthland a doubting thomas as to many of the arrowhead trill trail s possibilities but mv my arrival in salt lake found me convinced of it its thorough practicability and filled with surprise sui prise at the present condi tion of the entire route utah s people mut natural 13 be come every one of them boosters fir fr this new direct scenic big highway hay to the pacific and I 1 am glad to be able to predict that the arrowhead trail has come to stay as one of the important factors in western t travel ravel and western vestern progress salt la lake e tribune |