Show AUTO CLUB MAN LIKES STATE ROAD secretary set rotary william al anderson of the vernal commercial club has baa received a letter from W 1 D His rishel liel secre secretary taly and ronna goi of the automobile club of utah in which the jd id state road from vernal tu to taft la Is recommended in preference to any other as the official route for automobiles mr air bishel says aay I 1 found the route from vernal to I 1 11 t Such Du cheRne osne avei the old state road as iou oil all it far superior to the lower iced by way of moffat those duga ays are not at all hard for an automobile and the bad spots depota are principally high rock centers and a few hah dirt enneis en teis which could easily casily be with very little cost and ier eo little time in ill fact we put two or mice ali eo out of with the nead of an axe it la is up to you people there it items cems to me to get this route improved instead of the lower one for the simple reason and sane one that it can call be done at a far less lees ex pense they ale aie building a splendid road from rt ft ducheine to roose volt and across to alaton which Is aar ar superior to the road by the way of independence the road from The theodocie to strawberry dam would je is a better route for automobiles lu in every way distance and scenery if lie he road Is improved at present it does not compare with the colton route I 1 am therefore recommend ing the colton route to reach your bounty from here because the roads re better A man under ordinary circum stances can make salt lake from vernal arnal tn in a day and a halt half to send engineer in line with the suggestion of re biving and using the old state road instead of the old mall mail route from vernal to ft duchesne secretary villiam if anderson has taken up with gov governor lo arnor vernor william aply the matter of sending a state engineer to go ter oler these routes also the tate otate line at the I 1 jr ranch here Is andersons letter to the governor Jo vernor lion william spry CON gobernor Goer arilo nor r of utah salt lake city utah dear sir upon your last lilt to vernal at a meeting held under the auspices of the vernal commercial club to con sider aldor ways mays and mearis means in the mitter of establishing a transcontinental automobile route you intimated that in the very neal future you would mould send out a state engineer or rather competent engineer to look up the route for a state road via jensen to the utah colorado bbate line we have haie ha ve awaited anxiously the coming coining of 0 the engineer and thinking that probably you had forgotten the incident we take the liberty of bringing it to your attention A great deal of work la is now cow being done on the state road now es from ft ducheane Duchess ne to vern at al which we me believe is not doing the people the good it should or serving the purpose it should serve along this route there la is not even a foundation for a road to begin with and it has been condemned by practically every or teamster who has driven over it As a e can sequence we are more than abam a anxious ax that the engineer who was to pe e here in the near future be a sent A put ut just as boon as possible in 0 order er that the greatest amount of go can be obtained from the funds sib s on oil roads in this section of country very respectfully yours WM WAI M xa ANDERSON andersone Nm secretary vernal commercial vernal utah october 12 1912 |