Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-09-05 | Page 21 | 'Fake" Maps Hurt Touring Travel

TIKE" MAPS HURT TOURING TRAVEL iian Francisco Paper Publishes Pub-lishes Map of Highway Which Is Wrong. HON ON SIDETRACK Vill Injure Transcontinental Transcontinen-tal Travel to Pacific Coast Next Season. The attention of The Tribune has eem called to a map published ho the an Francisco Examiner of the Lincoln ighwaT, which map. by the wnv, does ot anew Salt Lake as one of the cities & that much-advertised automobile ighwuj across the country. Salt Lakers should not in the least eeome disturbed orer the map. because ; is simply wronp. It may be the av the San Francisco automobile ed-.or, ed-.or, artist, or whoever is responsible xr the map, would like to have it go, ut up to this writing their wishes in le matter have not been taken into nsideration. The Lincoln highway asses through Salt Lake, and if at any me ihe Lincoln highway is so changed lat it does not pass through Salt Lake. ien the traveling motor public will ot use the Lincoln highway, because le autoists are going to come through alt Lake. This summer many tourists coming ora the west have been misled and ave taken what is known as the north ot the Great Salt lake route,"' istead of the Lincoln highway. It is it possible the same source "of in f oration or-ation that published a "fake" map f the Lincoln highway is resnon-ble resnon-ble for this misleading information. ? the person or persons responsible for steering'' these tourists wrong could -ear their pitiful tales of woe when iey finally do arrive at Salt Lake, key would "realize they have done more arm to transcontinental touring than ears of efforts on the part of othors in overcome. It is just such maps as lat published in the San Francisco xarainer that is going to keep thou-mds thou-mds of people out ot San Francisco axt year, because of the tales of ha d-:ip d-:ip spread broadcast by the thousands f tourists who have passed over that 3ute this year.