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Show SILT LIKE ILL BE STATION ON Hipil City to Be Recognized as Division Point on Trans-Continental Trans-Continental Air Post Route. CHEYENNE ON EAST; RENO ON THE WEST Project to Mark Beginning of New Era in Overland Mail Service; Wilson Honored in Name. Salt Lake is to be one of the divisior points on a great transcontinental aerh highway, to be used in the transport: T tion of mail by airplane from the lantic to the Pacific coast. This is the important information just received here, which marks the uekl"rming of a new era in transcontinento' . raru3 portation. It is within the m' ernorv cf some of the oldest pioneers jW-heiZX tll0 la3t spike was driven that marker cmn pletion of the first transconti iental ran road to the Pacific. . That w " flrst great step in the conquerin,c. an(J deve opment of the great, untamec f wgst Now the present generation is to g see ,&. stallation and operation of th-or p wonder Df wonders, a transcontinental tn; ngnway 0 the air. 1 Assurance of the instaUat hol0n and op. eration of the transcontlnentauai. 'maii route from New York to Sa . j,Yanclsc0 is assured In the near,futur according to Information received hercW ' action of the directors of the ParM;mapaclflc exposition in turning over to&ja. th Pacific Aero club in San Francisco S! , Lhe half-million-dollar tract of land knoijtt wn M tng Marina, which is to be used a.'Ss. )lQ pa clfic coast terminal and l.mdin.njSH grminds of the great transcontinental acr'feu.li highway. high-way. Announcement of the trarSisCr ' 0f the terminal ground to the Aer3SL clu) has just been made by Lowell E. llgg riY secretary of the club. Ty" Named After President. i In connection with this announcemeS .t comes the further information that theMLi air highway is to be permanently known i&Sw as the Woodrow Wilson aerial highwya, and wdll run as the bird flies from Now York to San Francisco, with division points at Cleveland. Toledo, Chicago, Cheyenne, Salt Lake and Reno. The aerial mail route will be about 3000 miles in length, and it is estimated that with the use of relay machines from division points the trip will be accomplished accom-plished across the continent in not more than thirty hours, or possibly twenty-four hours, thus enabling the delivery of mall across the continent in practically a day. It is planned, it Is stated, to use the aerial highway for mail delivery at first, but it is Intimated that in Rme it may be used for other purposes. That, in time, it may come to be used for passengers Is not considered Improbable. Already aerial mail routes have been established between Washington. D. C, Philadelphia and New York, and those are to be in operation within a few weeks. It Is said. Just how soon the transcontinental transconti-nental highway will be put Into operation is not Intimated in the information relative rela-tive to the scheme that comes from the Aero club of the Pacific, which is back of the great transcontinental project. Aero Club Active. It Is announced there, however, that the Pacific Aero club has been working quietly and energetically upon the transcontinental trans-continental plan for a long time and has demonstrated the feasibility of air routes in the far west. It has now become known that the recent record-breaking flight over the Tehachapl from Ran Diego to San Franclsoo made by Miss Catherine Stinson. the daring young avlalrix. was planned and made at the behest of the Pacific Aero club for the express purpose of demonstrating to Doubting Thomases that aerial route In the far west are feasible, just as feasible as they are in the cast, where, they are to be put in operation soon. Secretary Hardy of the Aero club ha this to say of the young woman's flight: This feat, by a mere girl, convinced those who may have entertained doubts as to the feasibility of permanent per-manent aerial routes on the PadflC coast that this suction of the country coun-try offers splendid opportunities fur SALT LUKE WILL BE AERIAL POST PDIHT (Continued from Page One.) commercial flying. Miss Stinson's flight was planned weeks ahead, without publicity, by the Pacific Aero club officials. Its success virtually vir-tually meant that our dream of transcontinental trans-continental air routes would come true. Aviators Available. It is pointed out by S-ecretary Hardy that after the war hundreds of American aviators, who have had experience at the front and at American aviation fields, will bo employed along the Wood-row Wood-row Wilson aerial route across the continent. con-tinent. It is from this source that the club expects to get the large number of men and machines that will be engaged in the great work that it is planned to build up. In the meantime, it is expected that the government will do with the transcontinental trans-continental highway as it has done with the routes of the east give such aviators and machines as can be spared from war work for use In the handling of the mails over the air routes. It is stated that at the division points along the great transcontinental aerial highway there will have to be large landing fields and all equipment necessary neces-sary for the repair, equipment and handling han-dling of a large number of planes. These points are to be the big relay points, where fresh machines and fresh men will relieve those who have completed their division of the route. As a result the division points will become important centers in postal and commercial aviation, avia-tion, It Is declared. Salt Lake, it Is said, has ample facilities facili-ties for providing the necessary landing field and other requisites. It Is surrounded sur-rounded by ample stretches of level lands, suitable as landing and starting fields, which could be put in shape for use at little expense. |