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Show ARROWHEAD TRAIL MEMBERS MEET, ELECT OFFICERS , Pressing Need for St. George-Kingman George-Kingman Highway Told by Speakers at . f, Convention Here Last Thursday Night Delegates to the Arrowhead Trails Association convention assembled assem-bled in the courthouse at St. George last Thursday evening and were called to order by Vice-president Jos. S. Snow1, ranking officer of the association, in the absence of President Pres-ident J. H. Mhnderfleld. As the first order of business Mr. Snow read a call to members signed by J. H. Manderfield, president, Jos. S. Snow, vice-president and C. H. Bigelow, secretary-treasurer. The first business before the house was the selection of a . chairman and secretary, of the meeting. Mr. Snow was nominated for chairman and W. O. Bentley secretary. Under the by-laws the officers to be elected consisted of president, vice-president and a secretary-treasurer, a director direc-tor from each county represented .nd two directors-at-large. J. H. Manderfield was nominated for president and declared unanimously unani-mously elected. Jos. S. Snow' was nominated to succeed himself as vice-president, and C. H. Bigelow was nominated for secretary-treasurer and declared elected. Iron county, Washington county, Millard county and Beaver county being represented in the convention, directors direc-tors were chosen from each as follows: fol-lows: Prom Iron county, Walter K. Granger. From' Washington . county, ' Jos. S. Snow. Frorri Beaver county, Judge William Wil-liam Knox was named by C. H. Bigelow in a short talk of reference refer-ence to the valuable services rendered ren-dered by Judge Knox in the past in his unfaltering willingness during past years to labor early and late for the development and improvement of the Arrowhead Trail. (Continued on page 3) i i 1 ARROWHEAD TRAILS ASSOCIATION MEETS, ELECTS OFFICERS (Continued from page 1) Millard county was next in ordei and Edward Nelson was elected. It was recalled that Mr. Nelson had spent many years of his early life in St. George, was thoroughly familiar fa-miliar with the needs of southern Utah and loyal at all times to the things that make for the common good. Two directors-at-large remained to be chosen and David Hirschi of Hurricane Hur-ricane and Wlilford Day of Paro-wan Paro-wan were elected. The board of the Arrowhead Trails Association now stands as follows: J. H. Manderfield of Salt Lake City, Jos. S. Snow of St. Geogre and C. H. Bigelow, president, vice-president and . secretary-treasurer, respectively; respective-ly; J. H. Manderfield, director from Salt Lake county, Jos. S. Snow from Washington county, Walter K. Granger Gran-ger from Iron county, Judge William Wil-liam Knox from Beaver county, Edward Ed-ward Nelson from Millard and C. H. Bigelow from Los Angeles county, David Hirschi, Hurricane, and Wil-ford Wil-ford Day, Parowan, directors-at-large. E. J. Pickett was . requested to address the meeting on behalf of the- St. George Chamber of Commerce Com-merce and analyzed the campaign now before the association and emphasized em-phasized the fact that the chamber cham-ber of commerce was back of the association to a man. He touched upon the failure on the part of many, to realize the potentialities that lie before an active, aggressive road association working to the end that Utah and Arizona may be more closely bound together and that a highway connection be established estab-lished between the north and south portions of Arizona, divided by the Colorado river. The association platform and resolutions res-olutions were read by the chairman, chair-man, discussed and approved and appear ap-pear elsewhere in this paper. Mr. Snow in the closing talk rehearsed re-hearsed the history of the Arrowhead Arrow-head Trails Association, called back memories of the day when an automobile auto-mobile was a curiosity on the streets of St. George, visioned the growth of travel up to the present season when during many days more automobiles entered St. George than the most optomistic of the highway boosters of ten years ago believed would pass through in a month. He referred to the fact that Nevada Ne-vada is building a high-class motor road to Panaca which will be completed com-pleted and graveled this fall. Thus the Victory and Lincoln highways may be reached from St. George either ei-ther by way of Pioche or Salt Lake City. As analyzed by Mr. Snow, this construction is an enabling factor for the traffic , from the northwestern northwest-ern states to visit the southern Utah parks, and as he expressed it, "If you will watch the arrows on the road signs you will see they are all pointing toward the scenic wonders among which we live." Mr. Snow called attention to the recently completed Hamblin-Hastelle bridge and appropriations that have been made for road improvement between Flagstaff and Fredonia. This work he views as being a most important im-portant highway effort enabling, as it will, the citizens and travelers on the transcontinental highways of Arizona to detour into southern Utah's national parks, the Kaibab forest and view the gigantic intaglio, inta-glio, the Grand Canyon, from the north rim1. He referred to a conversation between be-tween he and Stephen Mather in 1920. when the latter said that he had asked for an appropriation for the roads in Little Zion of $13,200. Mr. Mather, when he made this request, was none too optimistic that it would be granted. In the spring of 10H0 the Zion-Mt. Carn-.el tunnel tun-nel will be completed. Ten years ago $13,000 was considered considerable money to spend in Zion. The present pres-ent tunnel job alone represents an investment of almost two million dollars. It is not only by comparison compari-son cf figures such as these that we can correctly visualize the vast and ever Increasing travel into southern Utah. It is the demand of the motoring public and the highway facilities required that bring about such efforts on the part of the road building engineers. The speaker then drew a picture of a half moon or rainbow, one end touching the National Old Trails at Flagstaff and the other end at Kingman. Unfortunately the link between be-tween St. George and Kingman is not open to travel. In his opinion 1 there is no more important work ' before the highway enthusiasts of ; southern Utah than that of assist- ing Mohave county in every pos-: pos-: sible way, to bring about the construction con-struction of a motor road between ' Kingman and St. George, by the shortest possible route, which, as is often the case cf our western highways, high-ways, follows the old pioneer trail through Bentley pass, along the ; higher levels of the Grand wash and across the river at the mouth of the Grand canyon. He states that this road will shorten the distance dis-tance between Phoenix ar.d Salt ' Lal-te City by over 100 miles. H? very aptly expressed its value when he said. "It does not mean a month's work or six. It may mean one or two years, for worth while ach- ! ievements are not accomplished by wishing. It means work for everybody. every-body. It means the bringing to the attention of the bureau of public roads, the commercial as well as the tourist value of this line. It means another campaign. Perhaps it may even be necessary to start it as the Arrowhead trail was started when in one day fifteen crossings of Santa I Clara creek were eliminated by the ; donated labor of the citizens of St. George. Two hundred single hands and over sixty teams participated in Washington countys first organized organ-ized road day. Boys of 15 years of age labored beside gray headed . grandfathers. The ladies of the Relief Re-lief Society furnished lunch and the Arrowhead Trail W2S born." He fa id: "I sympathize with Mohave Mo-have county because of the distressing dis-tressing condition they have labored under for many years, that of having hav-ing almost one-half of their county cut off by a practically impassable gorge. I believe, when this road is opened so that automobiles can safely travel it. that 20.000 Utah and Arizona people who have rela tives or business interests on opposite oppo-site sides of the Colorado river will make use of it. I believe that this number will be but a small percentage percent-age of the total travel because the half moon will have been extended extend-ed to the National Old Trails at Kingman and this contact will make possible the grandest loop trip in the world through that unsurpassed wonderland, the Grand canyon region re-gion of the Colorado river." The speaker then referred to a pararraph in the platform of the association in which reference is made to the projected national highway, the Mesa Verde National park past Hovenweep national monument mon-ument to a contact with the "Grand Canyon hif-hway in Utah. He said that in his boyhood days he lived within sieht of the Vermillion cliffs and that during later years he had i frequently penetrated for con.s:'.'"r-j con.s:'.'"r-j able distances this almost unexplor-I unexplor-I ed recrion contiguous to the Cnlo-: Cnlo-: ratio. He said that he had infor-: infor-: rr.ation that a recor.r.a isance is now brine carried on for the purpose of j locating a motor road to make ac- i cessible the natural bridges, Monument Monu-ment valley and that huge area in San Juan county that is so thickly dotted with the ruins of a prehistoric prehis-toric civilization." A study of the map of this region re-gion reveals a pressing need for this highway. It will make of the Arizona Ari-zona road projected to Bluff a highway high-way of major importance. It will j make desirable a road from Lee's Ferry or Hamblin-Hastelle bridge. I up one of the canyons of the Ver-! Ver-! million cliffs almost a necessity. It i will serve a.s the ri'-eded additional east and west highway that will j bind northeastern Arizona and south-j south-j western Utah, rich in archaeological ; treasures and huge monument;, arising from the level plains, and the vast natural bridges, to the fantastic fan-tastic erosions of Bryce canyon, the deep sculptured gor;;e. Zion, and increase in-crease the vacation travel to the-i-rr-gions many, many fold. Mr. Snow closed his remarks with the earnest injunction that the people peo-ple of St. George work unitedly with the a-isociation to make its platform, a reality. |