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Show OGCDI SELFISH CI ; V IIATUR OFOCEIill TO OCEMI TOIIRS Local Man Says , Junction City Wants All Its Own Way. Th reed from Salt Lake City to Ogden Og-den la wore than th road from Ely to Halt Lake City Tta th Schellbourne peas route," said O . Hoag. secretary of th Ely Commercial dub. Saturday afternoon after h had spent six hours In making the trip from Belt Lake City to Ogden. a distance of less than forty mites, to the same machine In which h mad th trip from Ely to Salt Lake City, a dlstanc of 276 nwlee. In a Htile mora than twenty hours. Mr. Hoaa was sceompanled on the Ogden trip by Csrl R. Williams, director di-rector of tbs publicity bureau of the Bait Lsks City Commercial club. The party left Bait Lake at I te o'clock Saturday morning and did not reach Og-den Og-den until l:M In the afternoon. The roads from this city to the Bait Lake-Dsvla Lake-Dsvla eounty line were found to be In excellent ex-cellent condition, ae good as could be aeked for. The rood from the county line to Bountiful In Davie eounty waa good, but from there on until the Davis eounty Una waa reached the party had trouble. The road waa strewn with cobble stones for long stretchee: at many points the fat-mere had allowed the water they were using for. Irrigation purposes to .flood the roads, and at the sand rldgs neat Clearfield the machine stuck In the sand, as did number of other machlnee on the "The object of the visit of Mr. Hoag and Mr. Williams to Ogden waa to meet wtth aom of th leading citlsens of that city to try and map out a transcontinental route which would Include both cltlee. 'Halt Lake City would be glad to have Ogden Included on the route, aa It la the second largest city la the state." said Mr. Williams this morning, "but some of the people of Ogden did not show any disposition to have Bait Lake City on the oeeen to ocean route. Mr. Hoeg. who le representing the Auto Club of America on hla present trip, wee Informed in Og. den that the route from Halt Lake City te gay via Mllford was impracticable, despite de-spite the fact that he has made eeveral tripe ever thle route, and found It to be a good road for practically the entire distance. dis-tance. The attitude of some of the people peo-ple of Ogden Saturday afternoon and evening eeemed to be: -Take any old route you pleeaa. Jnet so that you leave Ogden on the route and out out Salt Lake City ' rnntlanhur. Mr. WlPlama aald: "On of th principal reasons for the visit of Mr. Hoag to Osden was to see If It oould not be so aramged that both cltlee would be Included In the onean to ocean touring party, which will leave New Tork City the eerly part of October. He was told that tha only possible route was to the north of the lake, which goes through Ogden and leaves Salt Lake City out. There are two routes that might be taken from Echo to Ely. One le through Weber canyon to Ogden and then north aroond the lake, and the other le from Krho up to Coalville, In Summit county and then through Parley's canyon to Salt Lake City and out via the Mllford route. A third route would he down Weber canyon can-yon to Ogden. ta Salt Lake City end out via the Mllford route. By taking the first route the tourists would see about fifty miles of the fine agricultural land of Utah, and by taking th second routs they would eee ctoee to 06 mile nt th rich Units of the etate. By taking th third roots they would sea over toe miles of the state. Prom the remarks mads by one Ogden man Saturday night S arranged might ba led to believe that there we nothing In flab but Ogden. tha country from there to Brig ham City aod the Oreat Salt laka' Mr. Hoag left Owl en yesterday afternoon after-noon for Kly. He will go over the "north of the leke- route and win then make hie report to the Auto Club of America. Mr. Wllllame le of the opinion that he will recommend that Salt Lake City be Included In the onset to coast nlnerarieo. |
