Show coltharp Gol tharp talks on 60 uintah 11 basin a sin route J H coltharp of rangely langely lias has been doing some boosting for the rifle meeker vernal part of the lincoln highway since his recent visit in vernal mr coltharp has been to glenwood springs and while there lie took advantage of the occasion to tell a reporter of the Ol glenwood enwood avalanche a few things about the automobile highway the article in part is as follows what are you doing here asked the reporter well I 1 was just stopping off to see some of my old friends and to meet joe lux rn n who is coming coining up from rifle to have a chat WelL someone said you had tome ideas on the automobile road to salt lake by way of meeker 1 I travel that road much of the time and I 1 see they are putting it in shape to run autos over by the of june it is a fine road all the way irom broin meeker to salt lake right now but the mormons cormons have a way of doing things if they ever take a notion to when they have any doings in their community land and there are three or tour four interested te they get together and say ray lets do this together and it Is done they never try to work individually I 1 tell you they are great people I 1 came over that road and I 1 f ind find them ut work all ulL along the line you glenwood fellows are lill all right you sent a committee to our state and woke us up tip and we are going to havo have the best auto road into this town that can be built by way of meeker mr austin bavin is one of the best road boosters boasters bo any state could have and he was waa head of that committee coin I 1 understand all of utah to is roused up 0 ver over that new road and they will surely have the same beady for autos by june lot let and the beauty of It isyou lan an see a farm house every toot foot of tile the road in aalthe band there to is no handsomer valley nor a more productive one than you will find on the ti ip ill from meeker to salt lake we have started in to build telephone lines auto ests can be always within speaking distance of the world we are going to have gasoline stations along the road at convenient places and there is nothing that will be left undone to make the pike elkei peak ocean to ocean highway like trav aeling in pullman cars mr coltharp took the re poi ter step by step over the road during the conversation and set a dream of a trip for any person looking for a ride without bumps and with escen tc le attractions that no one traveling across the country should miss ile he explained how foolish it would be for the people to to the pacific ocean by way of cheyenne as they would not see very much of tile the state of utah and none of colorado |