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Show Pathfinders Who Are Blazing Way for Ihird Transcontinental Automobile Route Left to Eight Charles A. Eogers, Denver Molor Club; B. A. Mayo, Mechanician ;B. S. McGlynn, Moline, 111., Dispatch; W. A. Peck, Driver, Western Sales Manager for the Midland Motor Company. Blazing the way for a third transcontinental trans-continental automobile' route that will put Salt Lake and the scenery of Utah on the touring map. also paving the way for a reliability- contest of national-importance across tho country ,to the Pan-a Pan-a in a -Pacific exposition in 19'jo, a party of enthusiastic motorists will arrive in this city from the cast this or Friday morning, bound for San Francisco. The party is headed by W. A. Peck pf Moline. who is driving the Midland forty. He carries letters of commendation commenda-tion from Governors Dencen of .Illinois and Shafrolh of Colorado to Governor Hiram Johnson of California and from the officials of the Denver Motor club, the chamber of commerce. Hie Denver Retail association, the state highway commission and similar organizations to the officials of the Panama-Pacific exposition ex-position and similar authorities in California. Cal-ifornia. The other moinbers of the party arc James L. Gartland of the Motor Mo-tor Field and the University of Denver, Den-ver, who is securing route and road information; in-formation; Charles A. Rogers, representing repre-senting the Denver Motor club; Fred A. Baker, representing the Colorado commercial organizations, and B. A. Mayo of Moline, mechanician. Not only will the traveling distance .by road be greatly reduced, but the actual time record. will also be lowered. According to tho schedule, the ,252S miles from Moline. 111., .from which" the party started, to San Francisco will hi? made in 132 running hours or eleven davs, at the rate' of about nineteen miles an hour, including both mountain and plain going. The 1023 miles across Illinois. Jowa, Nebraska and Colorado was covered in thirty-four hours, or at a rate slightly above thirty miles au hour. The route of tin's party is novel. Instead In-stead of taking the long Wyoming' detour de-tour on the north or the Arizona, and New Mexico trail Ip tho south, this party headed directly into the heart of the Bockics. Leaving Denver, the route led through Turkoy Creek canyon lo Morrison, and thence along the Platte through Baileys, Webster, Jefferson. Como, Fair play, Buena Vista, Leadville. Malta- and thenco over Tennessee pass, dropping down to Red Cliff, Gilnitm, Minturn. Gvpsum, Dotsero, Shoshone. New CastleSilt, Antlers. Rifle, Grand Valley. Do Bequc, Palisade, Fruita, Grand Junction and thenco to Salt Lake Citv. - Leaving the Mormon capital, the party will proceed around the southern end of the lake to Ely, Nev. Othor principal points ,to be touched are Reno. Nov.; Truckee. Lake Tahoe, Sacramou-to, Sacramou-to, Oakland and San Francisco, from which point a 'run to Los Angeles will bo made, A more leisurely return will bo made after the coast country is-toured. is-toured. Complete road directions will be kept and maps made for the guidance of fu-Hire fu-Hire parties making the transcontinental transcontinen-tal triptf |