Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1912-11-21 | Page 1 | To Ask Legislature for Fund to Improve Old Pioneer Trail

To Ask Legislature For Fund to Improve Old Pioneer Trail General Board of Mutual Im Improvement 1111 provement Association Is Back of Plan PHE next session of ot the Utah THE 1 legislature will be he asked for tor an appropriation to cover er expenses of oC surveying ln and marking time the old Pioneer trail into Salt SaIt La Lake e rose reso resolutions to this thiM effect having been heen passed b by the time general g board of oC the tho Mutual Improvement associations yesterday J afternoon Investigation o of the time proposition has been heen eon conducted by members of oC the time board during the time last few fc I weeks llo Boy Scouts organizations organizations' have hae alrea already been heen over a a. largo large Part Hart of 01 tho the ol old route mute that was traveled tra by tho time pioneers In IS 1817 17 and succeeding years Th Tho trail tran In Utah Is 18 more than one hun hundred miles In length Th The route which tho time Mutual Improvement Im mm- provement board Ee seeks to have havo Im Improved ira ira- proved and marked nu comes Into Utah along along- th the present line hue of tho the Union Pacific raIlroad from rein Wyoming Wyoming Wyo ming mingo down Echo and antI Weber eber canyons can can- yoris 3 to thence up East Bast canyon over 01 Di Dig Big mountain to Mountain Dell Dc and an Parleys Parley's canyon anyon over o Little mountain Into Emigration lion tion ion canyon canon un und to Salt Lake JaJe ending end end- tug ing nt sit Pioneer park In the general gen gen- general Cn- Cn eral plan which will bo be outlined by bya b a special committee of the board ld to the thc legislature the state tuto will bo ho asked ell to tuno survey the thic old route and amid put It In shape as a part of or the tue tran transcontinental automobile route marking with ii monuments mp- mp cial points of ot Interest The rhe route westward to California Califor Callor- nia which may be recommended Is IR the tIme old ohl d n route around tho south Mouth cn end cud of or Great Salt alt lake c while the time Barrett route northwest to Oregon Oregon Ore Ore- gon son will al nh also o be he considered All Jl branches of oC time the M. M I I. I A. A will take talce part hart In the time movement to get ct favorable action on the matter In Inthe th time the legislature