Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-09-04 | Page 34 | Midland Trial One of Great Beauty

MIDLAND OF GREAT BEAUTY BEAmy Motor tourists of today traveling toward tho the sunset via Ia tho the Midland trail trall will enter California through a pass of ot majestic beauty This entrance to toi i the tho Golden state Is located Just a short distance west of or tho the Nevada c boundary I In the tho stately White Whito mountain range towering towerIng- like lIko a rampart reared b by y Cyclopean ali forces and through which nature b by toil toll of centuries has hns fashioned fashIoned fashioned fash fash- a a. natural gateway between the theland theland land of sagebrush and the tho land of lowers flowers A halt to sure survey the beauties beau beau- ties tics UC unfolded so 80 s suddenly will reveal among other things a a. huge hugo sign situated situated situ situ- well up the mountainside bearing the tho lettering Pass Pass This name was as upon two the cut by bythe bythe the Ithe state of ot California In 1 honor of ortho the tho late Into A A. A I L. L for tor many years field neld representative c of oC tho the American association and discoverer of the tho pass pas In 1911 Half wa way up pass and t id partly sequestered from tram the hot sun by a 0 cooling cooling- cluster of or trees there thero Is isan nn an ancient spring On n Saturday August August August Au Au- gust 13 33 13 this was dedicated to the theat memory of at Amos Grant Batchelder II late ato executive chairman 1 of tho the American Amen Ameri can Automobile association and tho ho homah mah who sent on his first transcontinental trip At tho the same time and place there was planted and baptized with wat watT water r from the Pacific ocean a R. year 10 foot high Sequoia a 0 type of or tho ho worlds world's largest Redwood evergreen evergreen ever eyer- green tree many examples of or which In California aro are of oC Cr great groat at hol height ht a and ond girth and more than years ears old The one ono placed In W gard to tobe tobe tobe be known as no tho the Throe A tr tree and andwan was wan dedicated to the tho national org of or motorists i These dedications at t the point where the tho renowned A. A A A. A A. A pathfinder covered a n sought long-sought and beautiful passage sal through though the mountains were were Intended as a n. token of ot the far lest west's appreciation of or tho the American Automo Automobile bile associations association's great work for tor for m r- r and of ot the ability and ands r of ot Batchelder who for tOl twel twelve a y Enri ar directed the tho organizations course The tree treo was sp specially lally selected and Is expected expected ex expected ex- ex to become one of at the tho worlds largest and longest lived And all aU tho the while It grows and rises higher and higher above e tho surrounding trees t It twill t twill will be fed and nurtured by Batchelder spring Just as os the tho A. A A. A A A. A was brought to its Hs present eminence b by the man pass Is the ten ten mile mile crossIng crossIng cross- cross I Ing jag over White mountains mountain It Is In Inthe In stretch from Oasis th the mlle mile Cal on the Nevada Ne' line westward to Big Pine This stretch Is part of ot the tito Roosevelt Midland trail which also In 1915 1916 was wall chosen as S the Lincoln highway highway high high- southwestward southwestward southwestward southwest- southwest way branch from Ely NeV het e ward to Big Pine The pass is open Pine El Cn Camino Ca- Ca all the year ear From Big mino Sierra Is s used northward to reach San Francisco or southward to reach rench LOB Los Angeles eighteen miles nearer to The dedications warp duo due chiefly tho the Initiative of ot Wisner Isner Gillett Scott often otten called the C Cecil Rhodes of oC east eastern ern California and for tor man man- years oars prominently Identified with highways advancement in tho the West Veat In carT carrying carrying carry carry- In ing out his plans lans Mr Scott in turn was aided largely by bv Editor George GeorgeM e M 1 M. M Schell Scholl of at Motor West Rest cst the Pacific I coasts coast's leading automobile magazine I