Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-08-31 | Page 20 | Westgaard is for the Midland Trail

HO IS FOR TIE MM TRAIL Note3 Automobile Pathfinder Says That Route Is an Established Es-tablished Fact. "Utah should not worry about keeping keep-ing the Midland trail. Any agitation to cut out the state from tho trail comos from unreliable sources. I consider tho trail an established fact. However, it has only been a few months 6inco I came over the route as a pionoor and ono. could not expect to do a great doal with wild country in that time. When the trail is as old as some of these other routes it will bo a pretty healthy infant." This is the declaration of A, L, Westgaard, vice president and pathfinder or the National Highway association, who arrivod in Salt Lake last evening on hiB way back from the western coast, where he wont as pathfinder path-finder for the Indiana automobile manufacturers. man-ufacturers. He did not accompany the Sarty to Los Angoles, but loft it at an Francisco, going into central Oregon Ore-gon and Washington and taking tho northern route back to Salt Lako. lie logged connections of tho roads to tho northwest with the Midland and Overland Over-land trails into this oity. "Utah roads not only comparo favorably fa-vorably with tho roads of other wost-orn wost-orn states, but they are bettor than any of the states except Nevada, and the Creator made the roads good down there," said tho faraouB automobili3t in discussing his trip from the northwest. "In the irrigated sections I found good roads, but other placos. most of them, were not much moro than paths with deep gullies worn in them." Mr. Westgaard, his wife and driver, Ralph Perkins of San Francisco, arrived ar-rived from Ogdon about 5 o'clock yesterday yes-terday afternoon. Last night Mr, and Mrs. Westgaard wore ontortained at dinner din-ner at the home of David Mattson, secretary sec-retary of state and acting governor. Thoy aro on their way southeast, and after going through Denver will make for Florida, where they will stay a short time before taking up tho last log of their journey to Now York City. Mr. Westgaard plans to leave Tuesday morning, going into Colorado through Provo, Colton and Vernal into Meeker. This route is a new ono to tho pathfinder path-finder and ho intends to make a careful inspection of the country. He will bo acoompanied as far as Glonwood SpringB, Colo., by Acting Govornor Mattson, Jesse D. Jewkes, state treasurer, treas-urer, ana E. R. Morgan, state engineer.