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Show MEM III ' Log and Locate New ' Route to Southern ') California. f HOLD MEETING mj Are Assured of From Members of S((, Highway Commission, With a view of logging ar,j tf.. ly establishing an automobile rou-e . Salt Lake to southern California'," ty representing the Arrowhead' t.' association arrived in Salt Uit ' terday morning. The nnrb. 1 j '! lands Cal. l,f?t Frid'av'To,, Ir sumed exactly fifty-four hour, i,Y mg tho drive to Salt Lake Tkl, 1 by way of St. George and l -J thusiastic over their trip In the party were Douglas Whit- M dnstnal agent for the Salt m, ' C. H Bigelow field se.Tot,-. Arrowhead Trail association in, . tor C. Lamb, road and loiin , for the Goodrich Tire compilnv t ' egahon of Salt Lakers, headed V-Manderfield V-Manderfield of the Salt Lake R I the party near the foot of the rrj and escorted them into Salt Lak Finds Best Trail. For the past year the citizens c I Bernardino county, California V been seeking a short and ,L , route between Salt Lake and 0 . California, such route to he ',,'-' I along the line of least resistance tf-less tf-less of the communities thronc'h V it would pass. Mr. Bigelow las ' several trips over the various n(.T routes and has now located the V head trail, which he believes i!i 1" time become the most popular r" between Salt Lake and southern , fornia. It comes through St fic'i i Utah, and follows the state from that point to Salt Lake (in ' , The visiting party declares thi', , but little work to be done to in-v! feasibility of tho route. There ij -tically no work in Utah, as the--,' highway from Salt Lake to St. ft , ! is considered the best long strep-'' ' road in the state. There remain; i five miles of road to bo built 0 i the twenty -five miles betweeo George and the Utah-Arizona state .' The visitors got busy as soon as : i arrived in the city and held a t ; tation with the state highway tor. -. sion and were practically promised Utah would do its share toward,,; that the road from St. George to state line was built at onee or near future. Work to Be Done. There remains a few miles of c 1 to be done in Arizona and in Ne.. which Clark county is building it present time. As soon as Assert-were Assert-were received that Utah would d-part d-part the visitors announced ther it :( at once go after Arizona and fee-: its small share of the work was ; pleted. The movement to open this router inated in San Bernardino couch, fornia, and the Arrowhead Trail, 1 ' sociation was formed a short time i. : to push the route through. Vj ; sociation is composed of some cf wealthiest and most influential tit:--: of that part of California and the :-t who made n-- the party declared t:-' would see tii;,. the route was thort-,: y established. When completed it-' give Salt Lake one more outlet to ' 1 coast and should do its share toward i -tracting tourists through this cm. |