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Show SALT LAKE ROUTE LIKED BY TOURISTS City Is Hula of Distinctive Transcontinental Transconti-nental Highways, Says Eastern Writer in American Motorist. Of the many western cities seeking to gain a place on the line of travel of tho ever-increasing horde of tourists who now journey from coast to coast by Automobile, Salt Lake City seems to be the most favored, according- to Albert Al-bert Wad dell, writing in the current issue of American Motorist, under rbe caption ' ' Mormonland as a Motor-land." Motor-land." Mr. Waddell recently explored the entire intermountaiu country by automobile auto-mobile for the purpose of gathering accurate ac-curate data concerning road conditions in that section, and, therefore, what he has to say is of considerable interest to motorists contemplating a transcontinental transcon-tinental tour during the coming summer, sum-mer, and at the same timo wishing to visit Utah's interesting metropolis and the great inland sea near by. "Almost all automobile routes of the transcontinental distinction lead into Salt Lake City." writes Mr. "Waddell. "The Lincoln highway comes through Wyoming, entering Utah through Kcno canyon, then continues on through Silver Sil-ver Creek and Parley's canyons, both of which are scenic routes. The road of the Lincoln highway in Utah is very good, although it goes through a mountainous moun-tainous country. "The Midland Trail comes into Utah nt a point near Grand Junction, Colo. The interesting feature of this route is the wilduess of the country, which sometimes causes hardships to the inexperienced inex-perienced tourist. However, this does not include the entire road, for after leaving Price, Utah, the route is more or less in a settled country, and the roads are favorable. "The Pike's Peak Ocean-to-Occan highway enters the state, coming into the much-advertised Uinta basin. This road leads into Salt Lake through Pro-vo Pro-vo canyon, one of the most beautiful canyons in the state, and then up the Utah valley. "Roads from the northwest. Oregon and Washington, enter tho state near tftrevell, Idaho, and come through a very beautiful dry farming country until un-til they reach Tremonton and Brigham Citv; thence via Ogden to Salt Lake Citv. ' 1 All the roads mentioned are reasonably reason-ably good: the best at this time is the one to Yellowstone. For east and west the Lincoln highway is best into the state. However, the Lincoln highway west from Salt Lake is not very favorable favor-able on all points, and needs some repair. re-pair. ' ? |