Show CARBON AND EMERY ARE UP IN ARMS Declare Utah h Automo Automobile Automobile Association Advises Tourists to Travel Pikes Peak Highway Boycott Boycott Aimed at Salt SnIt Luke Lake Wholesalers Charging that double discrimination tion has been worked against them first because they allege tourists have been advised by the Utah Automobile Automobile Au Au- association against travelIng traveling traveling travel travel- Ing through that section of th the state and second because It Is fa claimed they have not received highway highway highway high high- way appropriations commensurate with the taxes paid and the extent exten of their traffic citizens of oC Carbon Carbo and Emery counties are planning re re- conditions are remedied they declare they will cut off oll al all trade with Salt Lake A petition setting forth the reputed ed injustices and caling on citizens citizen of the two counties to commit themselves themselves themselves them them- selves to the boycott pledge has been bee circulated recently and has attracted many signatures The communication tion calls cans on citizens to sever trade trad relations with Salt Lake unless a change comes about by September 1 1 The first charge that the Utah Automobile Automobile Au Au- i association was diverting tourist travel from Crom Carbon and Emery Emery Emery Em Em- ery counties was understood to b be aimed principally at T T. De Witt Fos Fos- ter secretary of oC the association H He denied It yesterday Following Is the pledge Whereas it has been brought t to the of oC the business Interests and the citizens of oC Carbon and Emery Emery Emery Em Em- ery counties that the Utah Automobile Automobile Automobile Automo Automo- bile association through its Salt Sal Lake office has has been been advising tourists tourIsts tourIsts tour tour- and other travelers going east a t that the the condition of oC the r roads ads through Carbon and Emery cou counties Ues' Ues on the Midland trail Is such that 1 It Itis itis is almost Impossible to travel the said road between Castle Gate an anGrand and Grand Junction via Price and Green River and that said association has been giving information and maps routing travelers via reservation points and the Pikes Peak highway through Utah to Rifle Colo and Whereas the facts as to the condition conditi con con- n of oC the two roads roads mentioned are such that it takes from om one to two days longer to to travel travel by bY bYthe the route r recommended commended by the said automobile automobile au au- au- au association than than if it does over the Midland l trail vi via Price and Green River and find from 1 Information obtained front people t traveling lv both routes routes-it routes it Is believed j that the Midland Midland Mid Mid- land trail i is a a b boulevard le ard compared with the Pikes Pike Peak e k route a and Whereas tor for many years ears the eastern section section of of Utah has paid to the state highway c col commission u fission vas vast sums of money n ney irons from taxation on tor tor the the Uie i jose of building ding and nd n maintaining state i t hi highways h and that have qi even n in return ha has be been n empty promises premises and pre election ass assurances as as- as- as s rances that we Would v uld receive our just proportion of the thet money that t we ve have po poured red int Into their tr treasury n ury and that thal after having g appropriated f for r rth construction n of a road toad down n ice Price river leading leading di directly directly dl- dl r c y Into into into Price e River valley and ni after after af nf- af- af t ter ter r the the people ople of at Car Carbon Carbon on county h having having hav hav- V- V ing ye year r fter f after year declared a G Good od Roads day suspending all business and donating nil all labor necessary to ton n 11 this road l receiving g very little lit Ut- lit little tle help from the state e except c pt t the they e L y use or of convict moor laDOr on about two i in nines n niles lles o of this this read d during the the sea season on of 1917 the tho state highway commission commission commis commis- sion lilon has seen fit fit without l consulting with the Carbon county authorities ab abandon for Cor reas reasons unknown to said tr road goad ad expending money on the Willow Creek road between Cast CastleGate Castle CastleGate e I Gate and nd Colton making It t necessary to trav l a td distance l e 0 of miles further f aver a a road which is Js no part of the Midland tra trail lan and which which road Is of very little use to the f greater ate POl portion of Carbon and Emery countIe countie coun- coun tIe tle now therefore 1 Do De It r resolved solved that w we the un undersigned undersigned un- un n- n business men and citizens of or of Carbon Carbo and Emery mery o n J s having hav having hav- hav vi v- v i i ing g felt Celt Jt it to be bo our patriotic duty to 1 purchase Utah manufactured goods gooda of ot Utah vh Wholesalers l salers and Jobbers feel el that the tho discrimination tl n nand and und un unjust unjust unjust un- un just treatment that wo we have r reedy reedy- c lv- lv d rd d at the hands of the state stat officials officials and nd commercial organizations In Salt Lake Luke City is Intolerable and believing believing believing ing that our first duty Is to our home community have resolved and ed d ours ourselves and io do hereby pledge ourselves that unless such discrimination nation atlon and and unjust treatment Imm immo j lately cease w we will withdraw all patron patronage p from Sal Salt La Lake Lako City City Signed J J. J W. W Hammond Hammond Arthur Ar- Ar Art Ar- Ar t thur lur J J. J Lee JLee Bk ji Randolph Gomer Gome P. P Peacock L L A. A McGee committee e. e We the business men and citizens clU- clU zens ens of Carbon and Emery counties hereby pled pledge go ourselves to to put the foregoing resolutions Into into effect unless mi- mi less ess tho the abuses set forth Corth are corrected correct- correct ed d within ten days after August 21 1919 j u |