Show state and federal men in blazing the trail into new and unexplored country the motor car is one of the greatest factors of the present day and there is ly little territory in the united states that has not been ferreted out by motor car much of it exceedingly difficult tor the of any means ot transport the work is still going on in all parts ot the country but is ot particular interest in connection with the zion canyon district which will be made into a national park in the near future preliminaries ot the project are now under way and federal and state officials are to inaugurate an expedition into this interesting country from los angeles within the next few days the first essential Is the projecting and early establishment of roads in order to accomplish which a great deal ot careful planning must be done in order to assist in bringing this about in the best possible manner the officials have prevailed upon capt owen R bird ot the united states army to accompany the expedition tion with a view to taking advantage of his extensive experience with the army in france in the organization and general propagation ot motor transport in all its branches captain bird expresses himself as very enthusiastic over the whole project and points out that the blazing ot this trail will be one of the biggest undertakings on the map largely because of the fact that the country to be as an initial proposition Is filled with many difficult objectives to try the pioneer in this field of opening up a very rugged territory within the next few days captain bird will leave los angeles with bis party tor the exploration and will be joined at st george utah by mr bigelow assistant state engineer of utah and road engineer of the bbate and then proceed with mr bigelow out over the zion country with the federal officials appointed to carry on the work salt lake herald |