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Show - jrt iHOfBLlJ !ost Highways to Tap In-, In-, : accessible Portions of - ' Southern Utah. mportant Stretches on Arrowhead Ar-rowhead Route Now Un-i Un-i der Construction. .Included in the great highway-build-" ig plana of the state commission, ro- mtly authorized by vote of the legis- iture and for which money is to be ' jpiopriateJ both by the natioual and ito governments, are the "post : lads" projects, designed by Uncle : im to claim for civilization and prog-" prog-" s numerous inaccessible sections of ie great west. -Jinny of the post roads in Utah arc to j built during the present and suc-. suc-. fding seasons iu southern Utah, where Ijature was most lavish in placing her Varvelous mountain formations, inter-J inter-J cted with gigantic piles of sandstone J rering into the blue and deep gorges 'id canyons of marvelous beauty, of ff-inspiiing proportions. And over this land of wonder formations, boz- unless gorges and shadowy canyons, iture, iu her great beneficence, spread perpetual purple haze. Nature's Endowments. "JAnd hecause Nature endowed it with , mild climate, directed its streams lough mountain fissures of untold ipth, spread over its mesas and pia-u. pia-u. evergreen shrubbery, miles of pur-l pur-l sage and a wonderous wealth of Jld flowers, it is lovingly called iDixie Lund" by all residents of Utah ;id its fame and glory has . spread ii sross a continent. iiL And now the state and nation pro-iflu pro-iflu to make this ' ' Glory Land ' 1 a Jal Mecca lor thousands of tourists 'ho annually forsake the busy marts jp.tlie east and seek kuowledge, recro-a recro-a Ion and health iu the wide expanses "": '. the. marvelous west. Incorporated J .ithin the boundary lines of tho state ' Utah is more scenic grandeur than r S3 allotted by Na.ure to any other ; ate in the nation. It is varied in i'jiracter and beauty, but for years it' is been practically 'inaccessible to mo-( mo-( travelers. With the building and mpletion of the post roads it is not D much to predict that Utah will diate move real molor pleasure and 'Uppincss for (he eastern motor tour-,0L",s tour-,0L",s than any other wonder state of the . indrous west. ' The Tribune is indebted to C. H. flelow, who lays just claim to being ('father" of the Arrowhead trail vnUah's all-season road to southern vj hfurnia for a brief resume of road j ?rk now being prosecuted in that J rt of the great Beehive state. - Bigelow says: ! ; ''Construction "of a road from Cedar ( : ty to the crest of the Wasatch range ! I been authorized. Fifty thousand j liars will be expended on this road Uuig 1910, so vev CL.nt )x4uf, paid ! tthu federal government and 50 per iff' l7 the state. --'The nineteen miles to be built un-ry un-ry tins appropriation opens to travel lotlicr of Utah's scenic marvels and J westing, as it will, with tho Arrow-W Arrow-W trad at Cedar City, adds vet an-r:cr an-r:cr proof of the wisdom of this i: road-building program between ;i--lt Lake and St. George. Arrowhead Projects. ,f'"Worl! under way on the Arrowhead ul, or for which money is appropri-In appropri-In Utah, Levau to Scipio, -intv-ciglit miles; grading now under (J. fr .concrete base. Holden to rCv E1.0 !? be I'aved. Beaver county line ! ot. Ccorge. ninety miles: survey be-,1 be-,1 made and appropriation provides concrete base. Suitable bridge over r creek and new road across the ' fl Ind'ai reservation. In No--"mm -?'000 appropriated for a bridge ,f tno .Virgin river and surfaced road 'I 5 OnnnSallfornia.line- Iu California, ,, ju.juij tor roa(j lnlprovement between i'v"tow and Needles. f, A.'ma, $30,000 appropriated bridge over the Colorado river rT'-' between St. Georgo and King-Ariz., King-Ariz., and $50,000 tor improving , t roau from this bridge to connect St. George with the Arrowhead j'Np.rly 3000 cars were checked at L 'K'n river' crossing between a( Bunkervillo last vear, S' ating from touring bureau " at least S000 may be ' expected t jj rear. - v Laj',"'.nS t,,c scenic attractions ac- " I r, ' i - su' '1 connecting roads as M , tl,e CoJar breaks means that JilS,""1 year the automobile tourist '' U .end weeks inslead of days in |