Show MIDLAND 11 n TRAIL LOCAL lucal wa WILL TV LL i s CU A nf WORK WURA A D V MORE MEMBERS ER WANTED WAN INN E 4 D in union there is strength I 1 this sentiment was expressed in different but emphatic terms by L antles secretary of the midland trail association last friday night urging at a meeting in city hall that tho the price local of the organization be revived and plans made for another year of work by local enghu 1 abts for the midland trail several 1 1 local men who are interested in good roads and in bringing heavy tourist travel through price and carbon county responded to tho the call und dis I 1 cussed the matter the need of the price local to back up tho the work of tho the county commissioners sion cirs and to urge more interest in the movement in behalf of tourist travel was dwelt upon and the splendid work accomplished last var was often referred to mr antlej predicted federal aid for roads at an early date but urged that there be no slacking in local work he ile frankly stated that he honestly believed that every man who contributed 2 last year had made a good investment and had received big returns on it both from the dollar kept at homo for furthering the plans of the price organization and from the dollar sent to national headquarters he ile pointed out that the very fact that men in other towns knew that people here were working to put roads in good shape encouraged them and kept them at work just us as the fact that the others were working kept up the movement here in this little fact lay a large share of the wor h of the combination into a large organization covering all tho the towns traversed by the route mr ant antles les told of tle fast time made by between denver and salt lake and predicted that 25 hours for the trip would be easily made during the coming season that the midland trail will be t the he favorite route for transcontinental travelers during the coming years was freely predicted because of the excellence of the roads since the work put upon them in the past year and that to be done this year and because of the beautiful scenery in contrast to tho the barren country through which other routes go the secretary of the organization with other is to start soon on an auto trip to washington D 0 expecting to speak to t the people of SOO towns telling them of the glories of the midland aral and backing up his statements with screen pictures of scenes along the route the value of the worked wor if tle association to home WAS wix not nol forgotten it being pointed out that local drivers can now go many places from which they were formerly barred after a thorough discussion it w was wis is i doted to continue in office tho the old president and secretary of the local organization A W horsley is president ident and G E nelms 1 tary on motion of C R marcusen Marcu stiD G E nelms A G gutheil and H W cooper were named as a membership committee to solicit renewals of membership and new members A thorough canvass of the community is to be made las friday strong was formed at helper with win frost as president and J tom fitch pitch as secretary about 25 13 members planked down their 11 two wo wheels at once and GO 50 had signed and paid before night and the 16 fiat is rapidly growing the greatest of enthusiasm waa shown in the afternoon 14 castle gate onto boosters went down to helper to meet mr merrill engineer of tho the trail who accompanied mr antles antle on this trip and an organization was quickly formed general superintendent thompson of the utah fuel company as chosen president and dr secretary tho the member ship committee consists of levi davis chairman of the town board wm littlejohn little john superintendent of the mines at castle gato gate and wm win edmunds outside foreman all are strong boosters and vow that the castle gate local will bo be one of the ile most P active tive on the whole midland trail all oi of carbon county promises a a busy summer to aee see that local auto ests and tourists have the best possible highways |