| Show from sall sail lake 10 lo denver miles automobile highway logged by way of C coltun uintah basing basin craig and steamboat springs also meeker and rifle in compliance with his promise made to tives of the and commercial Comme iclal clubs when they conferred with him in denbei last july A 1 L gard pathfinder for the national highways association made a over the pio posed uintah basin auto loute via colton last friday night mi ali and wife and david matt son secretary of state of utah alried in where they spent a few houis hom s satin lay day morning the baity was escorted to the utah colorado line by president Pies lies ident cuny cully and Secie tary An andeeson And deison eibon of the commercial club and sylvanus collett road supervisor during the stop in this city a large gumbei of tive business men called upon the vial tois mi ali had nothing deiy encouraging to say regarding reg legai aiding ding the good oads loads of this basin but he did hay there is a splendid foundation for the leads which will penetrate a country abounding in scenic beauty undeveloped wealth and scientific wonders deis ile he nas not uble able to speak ith authority as to the distance from denver to salt lake but ills his log book revealed aled that to him upon his 01 thai at the queen city of the plains the ti lp was made N via la meeker and eifle ae the exact mileage will not be known until mi ali West gaid sends in his below belou will be found the distance from dener to salt lake as insa measured via steamboat and nig imig the from denver to V vernal anal having been made last eek by T J colo continued on page 2 from salt lake 1060 to denver miles fiolli lago ilage 1 I stale load the log from salt lake to NJ li cotton colton ab by nir mr West paid gaid demer deller to to SS steamboat to claig biair 44 to W K ranch IV banch to Jell hellren Ren is 19 ti aih ii to vernal 15 4 binal to moffat 22 1 I moffat t to ft Duc lisne 2 9 it ft Duct lesue to velt 7 7 to myton 11 4 myton to Duc ducheane hEhne 30 0 7 to colton 51 colton to provo 57 to salt lake 44 6 5 total distame benei to aalt alt lake 7 the load horn bovo povo to colton I 1 Is the coiet between salt bait lake and loinal bioni colton to Duches Ouch cHiu noi donn don indian ean cannon is ia tanily rood good crossing crosing tha summit bafo before re deop ping into indian lanyon anyon the ginde is 12 pr per cent bioni colton to do ii the duchesne Duch Duc hemie osne ri alei ei tile the I 1 oad load Is ia rood good dad bad half ill mile ile ijuin just out of amylon closs ing the steel bildne climbing north niton bench chely easy and on oil top of bench is a bouleau boul bou leai eaid d s gojii dmn donn n betich on oil noi coith tit iside aldo is lough and locky and lias calad much damage to mich lius th the e straight stretch ih on oil the section line 1 mining north to Koo Is iii a city street when to hat it nas as a 3 pai eal 01 10 40 ago the daiy diy gulch a 1 bridge has hag bean tit tiec ted eted but tilt the earth tit at that point is will buelt away od ad the slightest provocation cation just like G good 0 0 d bridge I 1 across wash asli on oil bastein aubin lubs bh of fa aiom om choie to ward waird dug ausua 11 fall dalily ay good dugway lia has seen poi cent fiade but is haid sin face and easy climbing all lit way across indian ben beah 11 machi machined neb make inake tine time coming coining down doli bolt duchesne Duch eBne some aonie i locks and con oil able band and in ili places from foit duehesne Duth esne to top of sand lidge machine and diliver little hae an awful time it it a filsht most all th alu nay ay iy if not sand and chuck hola some ollie farmei has hae helped make mis table conditions bv bir bunning limning his waste water ater in ili tho toad oad when half an houi at or ork would turn the title tide out of moffat washes to be looked after at the top of the band aldge the odiay valley canal was empty and tv ater was cunning down a nah Nash on toNN towards ards the halfway ay hol hollow loNN for a long distance the ne new load boad is not followed at all what was once the NN arst is now the best AU all through the twist tile the load Is ideal could not be better and bioni the venial dugway on in to tho the nalley alley azo aio A few feilo bad spots bert benell Ne Nell ell one of the diters foi tile the ducheane and colton transportation com juall Is a good roads booster and lie he 1 is all tile the while talking improvement he has a Foli foliente enie which he Is going to dy out ile he proposes to drag the roads from to noose vel twice eveia day witt a chain fastened behind his eat cai if the experiment pio pi oes es c belt will appeal to t 0 ocneta deiy driver of auto and ilg and to eveia freighter in tile the basin to put a drag of ome tome i t kind either a block or a ficai heavy y chain behind his vehicle le the rhe point is made that these flies e diaga biag s will be constantly filling ruts and chucks and that as the rains fall the roads ill harden this sounds bounds like a good prop proposition and teamsters and nito lyls should give it a ti bilal lai it has been tested lu in othel statts with good re rc ulta quits the of roads is costly but the maintenance is a big item |
