Show Will Examine Auto A Routes State Stat l old Engineer W. W I D. D Bers Be Beers r will shortly inspect the pr proposed p sed a automobile trail from to t 6 t the le Colorado state 4 1 k J. J lice ail and 1 l report i to the availability avail yail ability duel st- st str r y a highway high high- way ai at at the ill instance of the f Midland Trail association which 1 met 1 i k t noot in the theE E heft Felt i building g Salt Lake City The association will ask the legislature for a appropriation m for the thc proposed trail tV which hick it is desired shall he be ready for use before July 1 1 1 A delegation of automobile manufacturers manufacturers man man- and members of the Auton Automobile association are preparing pre pre- paring at this date to tour the thc Midland trail as ns well as other proposed ro routes of ocean to ocean automobile travel The state road engineer will b bo bt assisted assisted as as- in his inspection by Geo C. C Thompson of the Clark Construction Construction Con Con- n company Y free of cost to the state It is suggested that if there is not sufficient I time between now and July J uly tc to tonet to get net the he road through Price canyon canyon can- can yon the route could be made macIe through Castle Dale Salina Nephi and Provo This Tills how- how er c v would uld be abo about t GO 60 miles mile lon longer er than that tra er traversed cd h by hY hYA A A. L Vestgard pathfinder for forthe tb the e American Automobile association as as- W. W PI H. Ellison says it j ie th the sense of the e executive e t committee that Westwards Westward's s course from Grand Junction t Salt Lake City is the best and the Castle Dale route will be selected only as a last resort The Midland l trail route through rough Colorado and other states is sufficiently open to allow the a easterners erneI'S who propose t to o lip of f dollars on th the t transcontinental ne II highway t to topa o pa pass s with but little inconvenience fencer but hut from Colton Utah to the thc Colorado line it is consid considered con con- considered sid red practically closed That section of the pr proposed posed Midland trail which stretches h s from Colton to the tile colorado line will be bet inspected by V. W. D. D Beers engineer for the state slat e rood commission commissi u who has hns heel beer l instructed to gain information n on on which to base a report as t to the advisability and cost of til the e rou route te This This decision w was a s reached reach l led ed edd at a joint nt meeting of th the e Midland Trail association anthe am an d the state road state road commission I. I The asso association has indorsed indorse d a bill asking the legislature ll e fo for r I 1 of with which to h build ild the road It also 1 I Id d desires leS r f that tha i it be pe completed teci be be- before before i if f fore re m midsummer when w officials of pf the American A Automobile as association S- S 1 will make a n tr transcontinental ns on- on tour Tile The he road com coin commission com com- mission l however er is is of th the thc e op opinion nin th that at the route cnn cat 1 riot not be lc completed ed in such a i 1 short tin time e. e If the tion is granted every e effort t will be male made tp to expedite the thew w ark rk En Engineer 1 i e ar Beers Bt ers s. s will tall leave shortly to make a his investigations tion I lie Ie will h be he n l 1 by George Georg-e C. C Thompson of ot th the e CI Clark k Construction company which has extended t the services ic es cs of l 1 Mr lr Ir r. r Thou Thompson jon t to the as ns |