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Show 1IBUUID TMIL" GIVENJIG BOOST Salt Lake City Intends la Be on the Map in Transcontinental Trans-continental Travel. MEETING IS ARRANGED Next Monday at Grand Junc-' Junc-' lion, Colo., Plans Will Be Discussed. 1 Utuh and Colorado supporters of tho so-called "Midland trail" as tha first permanent transcontinental highway, apparently ap-parently intend to waste no precious moments In their endeavor to bring the project to a successful culmination. .V coinmllloc of live- boosters and Influential Influen-tial business men representing the cities through which the proposed highway will extend between Denver and Salt Lake, will meet at Grand Junction, Colo., next Monday night to perfect an organization In tho interest of tho extenslvo plan. The committee will bo mado up of ten men selected by the commercial orgst-nlza-tions and motor clubs of the principal cities along the "Midland trail" in the link from Denver to Ssilt Lake, and was cresitcd by resolution at. last Monday night's enthusiastic gathering of good roads backers and pathfinders sit tlic Commercial club, following sl rccoptlon lo A. L. Wcatgard, field representative sind chief pathfinder of the American Automobile association, who reached hcru SiUurdny afternoon after he and his party had traversed the projected course to this point. Two From Zion. Two members of the committee will represent this city, one to bo named by" Ihc Commercial club, and one by tho local automobile association. Tt Is understood un-derstood that S. D. Evans, chairman of the club's good rostd3 committee. V. "D. rilshel. secretary 01" tho Automobile Club uf Utah, or others equally active and capable In good roads and "pathfinder" doliigH here, will b drawn upon for this s;ervice. Denver will send two members:, Glonwood Springs one. Idaho Springs one. Grand Junction one and Provo and Pri;o each one. All these jippointmcnlu will bo made at onco. Just, what tho committee wilt decide lo do cannot br paid at this time. However, How-ever, the boosters from the cities affected af-fected and tile members of the visiting "pathfinder" iwirty talk freely of the project. One plan .apparently favored is to bring tho ".Midland trail" project under sin organization to be known as the Midland Trsi.il association. Each stato trsivorsod by the courso would maintain a stnto organization of the principal .hotly, .and each city through which the trail passed could likewise maintain its affiliated organization. or-ganization. Tentative Plan. Revenue received under the rules of each city's organization, it Is declared, would be divided, nart being devoted to the local organization, nart going to tho slato association, which. In turn, would apportion a certsi.it) amount of its revenue rev-enue to the "Midland Trail" association. It Is figured that if such a plan were properly worked out. an .annual income sufficient to be a. vital factor in . the maintenance of tlic route could eventually even-tually he made possible. However, tho final establishment of each link of the transcontinental route rests with the American Automobile association, as-sociation, which will tako Us action on reports, facts and figures and accom-psinylng accom-psinylng maps to be presented by Mr. Westgard. upon his return to he;idquar-ters. he;idquar-ters. The American Automobile association, asso-ciation, it is declared, is bai-kcd bv the Lulled States public roads office and the Automobile Manufacturers association. It aluo Is declared that already a fund of more than $10,000,000 hps bcn virtually virtu-ally made available for the establishment establish-ment of the "ocean to ocean" hlghwav.' The; aim. it is ulidei-stood. Is to make a similar amount available from tho combined com-bined states through which the route will pass. Salt Lake to Ely. Mr. "Wlcslgard. accompanied by '.Mr. Evans and Mr. Riahcl. yesterday went by l train to the Ncvadsi line, to inspct th" country through which it is probable a route out of Salt Lake to Ely, Xcy.. will be established to complete the line across I'tah. Tho party went to Investigate the csisilbMlty of tho so-called Dcop Creek route to Ely by way of Wcndover. and will return this morning. Edward J. Tetter, president of the Denver Chamber of Commerce: C. M. Klttridgc. assistant secretary; 1,. s. Cargo, representing the Denver Motor club, and others who ramc from Colorado Colo-rado and LTtah cllieu through which Mr "Westgard passed to Join in the reception recep-tion and meeting here Monday night, spent yesterday sis guests of the Commercial Com-mercial club, and took in tho sigh's of Hie city, although the transcontinental highway movement was at ail times the t.rlncloal subject of discussion with ihem. Mr. Vettor will leave- for Denver toduy. and will announce his committee appointments ap-pointments from thai city at once. Krcd C. Carstarphcn was appointed to rcDro-6ertt rcDro-6ertt Price, Utah, at the gatlierlng "Monday "Mon-day night. |