Show VICTORY A Y HAS BACKI BACKING BACK BACK- I ING OF OR BIG AUTO AUTO CLUBS r I According to the Steamboat Pilot the Victory Highway between San and Washington by the way of Salt Lake City Duchesne Vernal Steamboat Springs Denver Topeka St. St Louis and Chicago will soon be ready for mapping for the log is completed J. J W W. W Johnson official official official of of- engineer of the California State Stale Automobile Association has returned re re- returned returned turned to California after making a trip over o the route accompanied by his wife Mr J Johnson is highl highly pleased with the trip over the entire distance and predicts that soon it will be the best known of the thc transcontinental high high- ways An immense sum of money has ha been appropriated for work on this II road but a large part of it will be to aid Nevada and Utah where long stretches of settled country make maIce it more difficult to get state aid The National government will also be interested I I The road is to be the best signed in inthe inthe inthe I the the entire country The truck with road signs sign's crew and to post them is isnow isnow now reaching Salt Lake from the west It is planned that signs will be posted the entire distance by Novem Novem- ber A large amount of money moner will be spent in public work The traveling traveling traveling travel travel- ing public will be made acquainted with the fact that the Victory high high- I way is the and most attractive attractive tive ive high highway way in the country Mr 11 Johnson says that the main thing local people will be called upon to do wil be to open the passes passes as early in the spring as possible so as asto asto asto to make the longest possible tourist season In Utah the have this work down to a science They put as many manyas I I as men on the Wasatch range and by digging holes in the snow v advance advance ad ad- vance val the open season by many weeks The action of the sun and wind soon melts the snow after the crust is broken The new highway which is named in honor of the men who risked their lives in in the great war will have the most powerful backing The California California California Califor Califor- nia nia Automobile club is responsible for the work and connections are being being being be be- ing made with automobile associations associations associations in all states through which the pass highway will pass |