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Show UTAH'S ROADS AND SCENERY ARE PRAISED BY AUTOISTS FINE RIDE OVER MIDLAND TRAILHERE Highway Compares Favor-W Favor-W ably With That Through Older States. TOURISTS ENTERTAINED TODAY BT SALT LAKE They Float This Afternoon in Lake and Attend Banquet Ban-quet Tonight Facts About the Automobile Tour Tour from Indianapolis. Ind., to Pacific coast, to demonstrate the value of a coast to coast highway and to proraots greater interest in indiaoa built automobile. Tour ia promoted and backed by I '.-nana Automobile Manufacturer!' association. Twentv-two cars, carrying many of the ce'ebritie of the sutomobile Bad good rosds world, were entered, eighteen of them resching Salt Lske. Distance to be covered by tour about ilOnu niilee. Greater number of t'.M--t" will return bj indil nlual routee or by train. Duration of tour, including stop-oierr. stop-oierr. aud side trip to places of a --enir or historic interest, forty-two W !. Value of car entering tour, $53, Number, af perion in the party, ixtv-flv . Will spend four dsv in Utsh. Will spend two dar'i in Salt Lake. Detipite announcement is made that Malt Lake is certain to be on the transcontinental route. Members of ths ocean to ocean highway tour who have come from Indianapolis on their way to the Pacific Pa-cific coast to demonstrate the value of an ocean to ocean highway ars spend ins a busy dsy In this city aad will remain until tomorrow, when they will continue their journey from the brine of the Great Salt lake to the brio of the. Pacific ocean The tourists were ths special guests st cn organ recital at tha tabernacle this morning, at which Prof. J. J. Mc-Clellan Mc-Clellan gave a special program. A delegation of the autoiats went to Ogden this morning to confer with good roads enthusiast in that city and to discuss highway conditions and routines, and will return in time to accompany ac-company the others to Ssltsir Beacb this afternoon. The party will board a Saltsir train at 4:15 o'clock and will go at once to the water, and will then be Riven a short time to view the resort. The banquet to be given through the co-operation of the Commercial club and tho I'tah Midland Trail asaocia tion will begin at 7:15 o'clock. Glen Miller will be toasttnaster, and ths siakers will be Governor Spry, Mayor Park, Dr. E. D. Woodruff, president of the Commercial club; William McK. White, chairman of the tour, and Charles A. hook waiter, former mayor Sof Indianapolis, the official orator oi the part v. The autoists are delighted with the scenery of Utah, and say that with . I the exception of one stretch of "adobe I mud" on each side of Price the roads ' are as fine as they bsve encountered, reminding them of the Indisr.s turn pikes. Utah Beads Ars Praised. With the improvement of theae hsd plaeea, and with some improvements in the Price canyon road, tbey aav thai I'tah will have as good roada, on the average, aa any part of the weatern country. Thev will compare favorably with the )vchv--v. in msnv of the t older and more thoroughly settled sec-tions sec-tions of the east. W. S. Gilbreath of Indianapolis ssvs that the western trip ha appealed to him with remarkable force. Member of the party aay that Bait Lake City will anureoly be on the great transcontinental highway. They are all deeply Interested in the matter of the choice of the highway, but their purpose Is not to make that definite choice at this tlss Find Keen Interest. There Is no possible chance of the definite route of the highway being selected se-lected until the men who are most deeply interested In the Lincoln memortsl ocean to ocean highway have Investigated the proposed routes from every viewpoint. The most Important considerations srs the feasibility of the proposed route snd the accessibility of the principal points of Intereet. The member of the party exprers amase merit at the degree of hearty Intereet that la being ahown In the great highway project all along the route. In every community, la every villase and every city the people are aa enthusiastic about it as the tourists could wish, and far more ro than they expected. "There la nothing In Europe that approaches ap-proaches the magnificence and grandeur of your western scenery," said -C. A. Branston. guest of the Hay nee group, riding In car No. 11. "Price canyon cannot can-not be duplicated In all the world." Klwood Hayne. who contests with the Apperson the dlattnctlon of being the orlslnator of the "horseless carriage." the first automobile. s another enthusiast for western scenery- Me say that It should be commercialised and made to yield a crop of dollars for every resident In the scenic states. First "Horseless Carriage." Or the development of hie Idea for a self propelled vehicle, Mr. Hayne said: "I conceived the idea of a Isorselesa ; carriage about twenty-five years ago. I was ensaged In gas land enterprises and did a great deal of driving. 1 knew that If such an Idea could be developed, it would btinv the people closer together and help unify the country as do other influence could do. I experimented with my Idea until I caused to be built the first self propelled carriaae, which la now In the Smithsonian lnsnrutlon at Wash ington. It bears the following Inscription: Inscrip-tion: " 'Ossollne Automobile, built by Klwood Kl-wood Haynes. In Kokomo, Ind.. 1 893-1S94. 893-1S94. Successful trial trip made at a speed of six or seven miles per hour, July 4, 1S94. Gift of El wood Haynes. li10. 2M3t.' "An effect of the grsat tutomoMli highway will be to bring ths wealthy people of he east to he western atates to see ths scenery snd to spend their summers In your mountains. They will nee the wonderful opportunities for Industrial Indus-trial development snd will Invest thslr caplts) In your enterprises A great deal of money will be distributed, but that will be -the smallest part of ths Influence thst will bs exerted. First View of Lake. "When I conceived the Ides of ths horseless carriage I hsd Ides of ths development It would undergo. I did not dream that It would link oceans snd bring all the people together as It has done. "When ws first came Into the stats ths rosds wars pretty bed. The desert 'dobs Is extremely dry snd ths wheels cut deep gutters, the bottoms of which are filled with dry dust to s depth of from three to ten Inches. Thers are small slave-' tions snd depreaslon In these gutters whlh the driver cannot see, end s speed of ten miles sn hour Is extremely trying on both drivers snd machines. Theae mads are more or less prevalent from 'iran-1 Junction to Price. "From ten miles this side of Pries to Salt Lak we encountered some of this. The canyon roads, however, are ramark-ably ramark-ably good. Thst through Price canyon la the basis for s wonderful highway. "Before we reached Provo we encountered encoun-tered reslty fine roada that reminded us of the Indians turnpikes. The road from 'ajnnz ill? to Salt Lake la all that rrtnM be desired. "The first view of the Ureal Salt lske is one of the prettiest things w havs encountered, and should be known th world over." The tourists, who number fifty, speeded up before reaching Provo yesterday afternoon, after-noon, and from that city to Salt Lake, arriving ar-riving here ahead of time Reception plans sll along the Midland trail wars frustrated to a large degree by heavy rains making ths arrival In moat of ths towns late. As they entered the south gates of the city. Twelfth South snd Stats streets, a torrent of rain fell and thsy "opened up" and made a run for shelter at headquarters at the Hotel Utah. Consequently Con-sequently no part of the local reception program waa carried out. Consideration waa shown for the travel worn visitors last night and all entertainment enter-tainment was deferred until today. Delegation Goes to Ogden. While there win not be time for the entire party to visit Ogden to participate in the entertainment planned for them by tha Weber club snd Ogden autoists. a delegation del-egation left for that city this morning. It was sent through the efforts of Salt Lake Midland trail boosters. The party Included W. McWhlte. lour chairman: C. G. Kloher. president of the Uncoln High-nay High-nay oocition. C A. Bookwslter. SX- (Continued oa psge 7.) f UTAH'S ROADS (Continued from page 1 j mayor ef Indianapolis, and A. I West-gard, West-gard, official pathfinder of the Arr.erlren Automobile esaoeistlon. They left Salt Lake City at U o'clock, had lunch at the Weber club, where they met many prominent promi-nent rfllsena of the junction city. ar1 returned to Salt Lake ahortly after 2 o'clock. Leave Monday Morning. The tourists will leave the Hotel Utah at 7:10 o'eloek Monday mom inn Their western routs will be over the Mldlsn1 trail to Kearney's ranch. Ely. Ooldfleld. Tonopah, Lake Tahoa, Sacramento, and thence up the coast to San Francisco. Ths party Is scheduled to strive In San Francisco at t o'clock In tha aftemncn of July ST. Those of th party who plan an early return to Indianapolis will leave Lo Ancel by train August . srrivlnsT In their home city four days later. Though tired, dusty and hot when they arrived at the Hotel Utah yesterday afternoon every member of th party was enthualastlc and profuse In his praise of I'tsh hospitality OfHelsls of the psrty dselared that the cltlssns all along the route deserved great credit for the road work they have already done and -what thsy are fttlll doing. BV personnel of Party f Gov. William Spry yesterday welcomed th tourists for Utah at Spanish Pork. Mayor Park welcomed them Informally for th city at th Hotel Utah yesterday afternoon. The complete personnel of th party follow: Mention C. O. Fisher, president of the Indianapolis Motor 8peedway snd the Prest-O-LUe company. 6. A. Bookwslter. ea-mayor of Indianapolis; Captain Robert Tyndall. formerly of the army, end Henry (Heine) Scholler. driver. Flaher and Bookwalter represent the Uncoln Highway association, whoa transcontinental transconti-nental rock rosd project ths Indiana tourists tour-ists ars boosting Msrlon P W. Wllllsms. Postsl telegraph; tele-graph; A. 8 Blakely. the Indlanapolle Star; W McK White, tour chairman, and H. W. Nichols, drlvsr Msrlon T. O. (eager, winner 1911 Olld-den Olld-den tour, driver, and Captain J B. Dudley Dud-ley of the Hearst newspaper syndicate Pilot "tO" O Fred Smith, factory representative: rep-resentative: Charles Kent. Western Union; Edward McArdle. our photog-rspher. photog-rspher. snd Russell dear, driver. Hsynes Elwood Hsynes. known s fsther of th American autoinobll; C. A. Brenston, tour observer for Roval Automobile Auto-mobile club of Englsnd: Robert Crawford, Craw-ford, advertising manager Haynea company, com-pany, and R- L. Wagner, driver Haynee J W Morgan, field represen-tatlv represen-tatlv American Automobile association, promoter of original Ormond beach rc; T. L. Tincher, factory representative: representa-tive: Oeorge H. Btrout, sale managar Havne company, and J. w. Enders. driver. American D L Mabley. Prest-O-Llte company: B. L. Lewi. Indianapolis Vws. and Charlie Boyden. mechanical engineer American Motors company- American Ray Price, factory representative represen-tative for ths American: Dr C R. Strickland, tour surgeon, snd Edward Oouth. driver MacFarlan A Dixon, sales manager MacFarlan company. Chris Cox. msp-makar msp-makar for the Blue Book corporation. Fred Wallman. pra rpreentatlv Lincoln Lin-coln Highway- association and Indlana-to-PadfTc tour, and Albert Adam, dirt track exprt, driver. Anperaon Nelson McLaln. driver. W D Edenbum. assistant chsirman of tour, and Dr. J. C. Bexton. tour surgeon Apperson Max Winter, factory repre sentatlve. and J C Ramps! driver Henderson D. M Bell, business associate asso-ciate of Ray Harroun. inventor of the coal oil carbureter snd wlnnsr of the Indianapolis In-dianapolis 500-m!!e race In 1911. James Ror.de. Eleamann magneto expert, and k. Rav Harroun. driver a. Hendron R P Henderon. treasurer LfePaW of lour. dr1vr: Frank Stalev sruest. ani J W 8 Gllbreeth. Joint representative Wooeler Motor club and chamber of Commerce. Indianapolis Empire S M. Cooler, secretary Prst. O-Llte company. Harfoive Hyde, adxer-tlslng adxer-tlslng manager the Empire, and Joseph Moor, driver Pathfinder "41" W o 1,. Westward, touring raprntetlv the American Automobile association, Bruce Daniels, advertising manager Pathfinder company; com-pany; Reed Parker, th Chicago Tribune, and Robert Bptegel. weetern road racing vtran driver. Premier A L Wetard representative representa-tive the Amerlrsn Hlxhwav association, and "Speedwav" fincan. driver Premier Pilot car. Ray MacN'amara. driver, veteran of Olldden snd transcon-tlnsntal transcon-tlnsntal tours: Jchn Orman, factory rep-reaentatlve. rep-reaentatlve. T M Wsrd. secretary of tour, and Colonel H M. Low of Indianapolis In-dianapolis Brown truck E M Hsrrlson snd I HoMcrway. factory repreeentatlve. relieving reliev-ing each other at the wheel. O. A J. truck J H Ollcerk. factory expert, and Walter Weldely, driver. |