Show uldie we va sigard 1411 p 0 10 come T through this 1 I basin pathfinder promised to mike make auto trip from rifle to colton in september this route stands hood good show to form link I 1 I 1 in highway the hie mon automobile jilji hah way a good show to faini a link in the ocean to ocean it 1 L vestgard Vest gald the pathfinder ft ho li it making tho the till Iter aarona ciss tho the nent with the indiana auto has promised to RO go over this route 1 in Septem boi ie will title then submit 1 MH la report to the i appointed to ti select tho file final loute L 11 W 8 er and isaac kinei representing the meeker Coloia colliado do commercial club and C jl 11 cook representing the vr ver lint commercial club met by appointment mr III West gaid and arl the latter the prime promoter tn lit the cocoanto ocean to ocean highway I 1 ii mot met in ili brown palace hotel denver deliver last rilda night for vie the purpose of trying to induce a part of the to tonu onu this way vay idith gentlemen adsan advanced ced good and ciuffi clent reasons why the party not lot pill up ill at that iha lint time and place the first fint reason was its that the daiv era ot of the were employ dl by bv the manufacturers and had bad no ati an dhority to lemie eke the party if then the did no iho it would mould bo be at the risk of lesing their positions the route had been mapped out before the left indianapolis and could riot cot very mell bo be hanged argued that it would do 10 us to no good goa at this time tor for ft a ear car or two to come this way nay ini inasmuch as the dryers mould not bit be in a position to make makal it a satisfactory factory report as to the condition ondi tion of this road as an corn com pared with tile the midland hild land trail ller having traveled over the hattei lat tei during the first part of the intel lew neither nor visitor were macli impressed aln the hie idol dot of the uintah basin iotte abela the wore were informed inform od that hom fifteen to twenty houra hour oh be swed from dom denser or to salt lalo bialt they wore ore doubtful and when facts and figures alfi aires were ere presented they vers mere surprised but bornn began to ninko make laci inquiries mirles them all the inaus and halts baits aro called for and investigations were matle when the opportunity pi pies itself the meeker and ipen senta lost no time lit in ing the imprints of this route it was hown that we ise have not only the hut but tile most feasible wa aa lu lit fart fact tho the only way ay when om pined to the midland trail the littI attention till of the he tourists mas tailed called to the fact that this it in it a business and not mot a question of sentiment 1 ahe I he object Is 1 to the bt beat rodd road re Kard gard lesa legs of through bilat what towns or through ishac lint country countr it pasqu north northa A sarn colorado and eastern utah afford binl belt abundance of water slid fuel ibri climate belld earth JP ar ronda mid had 1 short distances batu eel downia whirr them are garages Ka and plenta of A allne and oil ond chero good hotels abound prom denver to salt nike anke tit the distance Is IR ut at leist joist mn B s shorley than b the midland t at the conclusion of the ahe conf tierce nir mr westward was eo nuh much thit th t lie hp made the ill if i f ter fer to personally perno nally inspect this colite some homo time in Septem september bet illa hn ho hl arrives arriles allos ankeles h ho will mill make inake a trip montana oil his re pe euln uin to denser denier lia hp will lao his 1114 ali go on the train to rillo w dhori he will be mot inet in automobile tit by alo mak ek er cr people who will escort him to the utah colorado line where lie will be taken up tip by of tap basin ba who will mill him to colton or some other pint alana the line when lio lie returns to the east lie he will make ills his erport it its IH a mistaken idea that the route li it no now being selected ted the tourists tire are making the trip over oer a pro posed poked route to see aeo what ailey abial oi it other olber routes will ie he tw bcd und imd in ili the ory ery buoi future awill ito be sent out to loate the high I 1 those enkin ecra will ome iome the uintah basin in ili this part thoro there are sixty nine cople with twenty to automobiles ot ol almast ns as many mak lenver was waa reached luat last priday friday night and lit in that alty ity they until sun sim ila da coining minute of the time ilien HICK wan aas something tolas doing the I 1 liam bei or of commerce Com merco lind and other entertained lit lal I 1 silly at noon on oil saturday there wat wa it a luiK heon a al the albany hotel and on Sa night it a was wn glien at the Ui amber of Com common mero e I 1 looms when the trip was st si ikney morning there was and cheaib towns all ailon alons the he line were wo full decorated de orated with flors flags and bunting tho the tourists coloia orange and black floated flou pl from telegraph poles fences pillars and pats the signs vo apie stuk up ut lit and heinds played fast music and people hollod oiled and waved flags most any atta tillage on oil the lay ay w was 1 dressed in holida holiday attire imd and ala al liy ing mountain trout meals meala tempted the appetites of the dust and travelers at junction night was a grat blowout blow out during the ali night it a beav rain the nith and soaked in muddy stream Bt letai trl klod lions along road sides und and fillet filled huck holes at elight eight on wednesday morning the pilot car skidded into mack tho the flak flag swung high the load and he of the mack alack hotel were b bei decked with orange had and blak black bla k almost identical irth ith the hall dilall way vay colors a deeper orange and black in tile the pilot car was the colonel I 1 baitel ing coat III at evoly timi the way tuda there Is it a trail ot of tills this stuff almost front bean to fo across mountain and aftin in akym and gulch not far wet west of mak it kult uko lake pilot ar abot ot stuck stink in ili tho mud most moot till nil night euid the drivers driver a mouth looked tired d next warning its aa if he might have boan talking to ti the deport camo came price wednesday that tile the town own had been vice up tip rot foi a short time and that eler een body regardless of age or condition had rone gone out to vork mork on tho canyon I 1 oal load it la Is bald that at least COO were on tho the lol job cari cihir fishr Is enthusiastic in hta praises of the keat ile he gave ug is a place abbie italy or switzerland lit in beauty nail climatic delight tho the bermell us its and the people of those countries Is that thy capitally ca flir llulu fc conery and climate und and we me do not r sas if the right kind of loads itie BIB buli buit in ili colo indo and utah there would 00 automobile touristy tourists here bere every oai eat and that they would lea leaa a wibb its ils 25 2 i that man mail la in a won aon ir oil a few years ago he be was wa q a little bicycle etore ili hi in illana polls today lie he Is itch slid and influential fluent ial lal and lie ho la Is itt it a young trian man ile he informed the lite man that eri 5 has beon subscribed to wards wardi the bi glima fund the Is to t r a mile after tho the and giadina tu hits has len ben dono done tit the states through w hicl it Is IH to pass are requard to do the tha surveying and grading and the highby say will do the rest think of an automobile road through this basta bal that would ost that hat much money per nille mile and then kei got busy |