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Show Road 'Also Will Serve Necessity Both in Peace and Event of War Money Raised in Califor- Bridging of Great Salt Desert Will Remove Barrier to Coast Travel. Action If Without Precedent and Indicates New Na-tion- al nia to Aid in Construc tion of Road in Utah. Spirit Arising in West Ths Victory highway, of which th Wshdover rood orcotofT to port, to g thorouchfaro projected from Nw York. to Saa Francisco. It utiltoea throughout ita routa federal aid high' wap exeiuslveiy. According to Baa Blow, manager of the Victory Highway aaaoataUon, U will be the first highway to hare pavement across the mud (tap presented by the Seep," fertile soil of Missouri sad Iowa soil excellent tor corn production, but mighty material. By poor ss ths end of 1934 the road will ha paved from New Tork to Satina, Kan., with possttdy a few gape under construction. Including the work to be done on the Wendover road this year, and that In Nevada this year and next. It is claimed for the Victory highway that it will be the first traneoontlneMal road to ha completed throughout. The expectation Is that the Wendover road will be constructed this year. The Nevada road progrgam, as outlined recently et Elko by Georgs W. Borden, state highway engineer, covers a group of extensive conetruc- tion projects on the Victory highwsy, which is also the Overland Trail route and the Pike's Peak Ocean-t- o ocean highway route end Pershing Transport highway through that Mate this year; and also a survey of the The road from Weha to Wendover. latter will thus be ready for completion in 1924. By the end of next year the route will be practically all newly constructed or put into shape acroes Nevada, with the poaelble exceptions of some gaps like that in Churchill county, which has a problem not unlike that of Tooele county In Utah, or that of Buiranit county, Utah, with Reference to the Overland Trail, up It was Just a month ago tiarch 3. to be exact that Thomas H. MacDonald, chief at the bureau at wUs . roads at the United States department at agriculture, telegraphed to Oovej not Mabey of Utah as follows: "Thb Uncompleted section of highway across the Balt Lake desert presents ths most conspicuous condition now pending before the bureau of Public roads lit ths matter of provid- ng connectione of important trans- state highways. The providing of this connection 1. hold to bo so Important that It will bo necessary for tha bureau, in rec ommending projects, to. resport thsj portion of tho federal highway requiring preference to be given those projects which will expedite the completion of an adequate system of interstate highways. "The bureau Is withholding recoin- mendation upon the location of the road west of Salt Lake C'ty on ac count of the uncertainty cf tho state being willing to finance ite portion of the cest. - The bureau estimates that the state should hat 4 atuliubls for this purpose immediately about ... ' hard-iirfa- 8190,000. tional park and 1874 by the north rim of that park. Compared with the 230,000 persons shown by tha Rocky Mountain National park offlee to havs entered, that park, the Utah State Automobile association actually registered something under 17.900 persons, from which It Is computed that about 47,000 tourists from other state visited Salt Lake Early Completion Is Hope. c With aid promised this year from northern California, it ie the thought that ths problem 'presented by Church hi county can be met, and In some respects Hr. Borden's program, aa given at Elko, may bo hastened. Engineering and contracting problems enter into the question forcibly, however, aa soon aa ths Urns element becomes pressing. Easterly from Salt lake the Victory highway passes through Heber City, Duchesne, Myton and Vernal, and joins the Colorado section at the K ranch. It traverses the whole Uintah basin, crossing ths mountain ranges between Bait Lake and that basin over federal aid roads now constnucted or under construction. Colorado has an extensive Improvement program on the Victory highway route as far as the Utah line. The financial conditions of the Uintah basin make the problem of maintenance of a good highway, such as tourist traffic should expert a difficult one Tet the resultant benefit - from bringing the tourists, among whom - homeseekers are beoomlng an proportion, through the wonderresourceful fully agricultural, mineral and timber empire of the Uintah basin, 4' proves a compelling argument to offset ' the expense Involved, after all, the mountain paasee a In And, Colorado, Utah and California make K of the Victory highway tn the west m essentially a summer road, a road that w will meet all the demands of ths tour-- t 1st Season, but which as a through a route can hardly be kept open the s year around. This is not true of the Wendover road to such an extent, " But In the Uintah basin the fact that k the heavy transcontinental traffic will be summer traffic, tourist traffic, soil called, the maintenance a problem simplifies in a marked degree. In 1922. Of th istered. 4752 In August, practically one-ha- lf the year's total In two months. Months in which more than 1000 persons reg- known aa Interstate" highways, and the secondary roads, which may be munt, Intercounty roads merely, notwithstanding. "eonnei t and correlate" with the primary roads. Allotments Determined. Outside of definition prar- tloaJly tho only distinction drawn in tho federal1 highway net botween pri- mary and secondary roads in that In it la- - provided that not . mors than 60 per cent-othe federal money allotted to any state shall be exon the pended primary r the 3 per cent roads, unless with the approval of the state highway department. Study of the practical effect of such a provision can lead to only one conclusion that congress expected - the federal bureau to look first to the conand struction of the primary road desired to encourage that tendency, hut only up to the extent that it realised that in road construction the loraJ problem, aa well as the through traffic problem, should receive fair consideration. The state highway In each state has the commission to demand right under the provision federal-aid that 40 per cent of the money ahail be spent on the 4 per cent system of roads, hut aa a matter of right under the federal highway not cannot demand more d sentence of It was the the federal law which caused Thomas H MacDonald, chief of the bureau of public roads, to insert in his tele gram, which is found in full elsewhere in this issue, 4he swords. The providing of this connect ion (across tho Great S&k Lake desert) held is to be so important that it will in recbe necessary for the bureau ommending project, to- - respect that portion of the federal highway act requiring preference to be given to those jwojeots which will expedite the completion of an adequate extern of interstate highways-M- r. MacDonald a telegram was the word with a bark on it, and was Instro mental Jn procuring the $25 POO appropriation from the state legislature which made poesible the completion of the Wendover road at an expense of around $400,000. wfrteJv Demanded by Government. X Bo far as construction of a road across the Great Salt ie above-quote- desert a concerned, there Ie one Lake reason for tts rt others, construction that transcends ail that nullifies any argu- a meats ofand local Interests that may de- - The reason why the state of v Utah will contribute II out of every 98 In the construction of the Wend- spent over road, is not merely that It is a inasmuch as prso- good J tieallyinvestment, all of the 89 remains In the state. That might appear to be rea-- 2 on from the purely financial of view. But there to a larger - pointenough reason; The federal government demands that the Great Salt Lake desert be g bridged. Since 84 of the 88 will coma j! from the federal government, it baa a gained tha right to present such a de- mand. And it does not require hutch Intensive study of the situation from c ths national viewpoint o. make It s clear that the federal government is in right making the demand. The federal highway act, it will be remain hared, was. aa finally a consolidation of several road passed, bills, ont of which provided for the construe- tion at federal expense of a federal system of highways. This feature Is taken care of In the federal highway set by the Insertion of the following per graph In the act as passed. That In approving 1 to re-- Z eelve federal aid under projects the of this act. the secretary ofprovisions agricnl-- g ture shall give preference to such JJ projects as will expedite the comple- tion of an adequate and connected interstate w evstem of highways In J tharacter. along In the same section a tt Further Is provided that 3 per cent of the w states entire highway mileage may be designated as primary roads on f the federal highway system and 4 per rent as secondary roads on the eame V lystem. The primary roads are also - valop. , 1 f . ' ' s W Bridges Large Gap. Bu why should th government Insist on n connection across th Grout Ike desert And --why should the chief of the bureau In his telegram apeak of the atwence of mob a connection the most conspicuous condition now pending before the bureau of public roads. In the matter of providing connections of important transstate highways? eA glance at the national road maps makes the answer Prom the east three imporplain. tant transcontinental highway, meet at Salt Jake or Ogden. Prom Salt lAke or Ogden the tourist may turn directly north or direetlv south. Consequently he may turn westerly again and reach Eos Angeles or Portland. And he must travel approximately to these two cities. If he is to reach any place on tho Pxciflo coast between the two. The alternative Is to leave the federal highway system in a jaunt. Knit cross-count- ry Moonshine and Gasoline bad mixtnrq. We roll none of tha former, hot the host of tho latter. W believe that basin esa goes WHERE IT'S INVITED and turn WHERE ITS WELL TREATED, and we govern our service accordingly. This is aa invitation to visit lua. and we'll take chances on your staying. is Tire & Supply Co. Goodwin-Dickso- n GOODYEAR SERVICE STATION . Open Till 10 p, m. 508 SS Tvjrrn. auc kp-- r 14 79, to be exact, who reg3577 registered In July and xr - . T Main " fornla, ha will still find that his shortest and most, dfredt route there will bo by way of Salt Lake and the Wendover road. And probably the shortest, and certainly the coolest, route from Zien or the Grand Canyon parks te the same objdotlves is by way of Balt Lake. The strategic value of the Wendover road does not apply only to warfare. There is still another thought In connection with tourist traffic, and that Is that Just as many automobile tourists go east as go west. The tourist must return home. Moreover, there Is a steadily Increasing proportion of H.Californians now touring. Frederick Meyer, of the highways committee of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, points out that California automobil-iat- s have already, many of them, seen the wonders of their own state and now are ready to spread out to other states. H estimated that easily cars a year would come from California as noon as the Wendover road is opened. Roughly speaking there are ' In transcontinental highway the choice of three route., northern, central and southern. There are several centra routes. M to true, but all either pass through Salt lake or Ogden, or are within such distance ae to suggest a detour in this direction. There are two or more southern route, and possibly as many northern. Many tourists prefer to return home bv a different route than they leave home. The Californian who visits the Yellowstone may use the road by way of Portland and Spokane one way, but If assured pf a passably good road, will return by another route. Similarly with the visitor to the Grand canyon In the tourist season, which, aa pointed out. Is the summer season, the southern transcontinental routes, with much hot desert country, cannot be popular Many transcontinental tourists will either go of come by the central route. " to Get Part of Chicago, Exhibit ST. LOUIS, Mo..-- " April I. "In veloping plana for district conventions for 1923 the National Automobile pealera' association has encountered an unusual demand and rivalry between territories, say C. A. Vane, general manager of the National Automobile Dealers' association. In a bulletin to members mailed this week. The national convention in Chicago In January was hailed by the indusconstructive and try as tha most ever valuable program staged tn the Dealers throughout ths Industry. country urged that the N. A. D. A se Survey Begins Tortiorrow. That was Just on month ago. Today th thing to done. Tomorrow U Wendelboe, engineer, or Lsgn, formerly on the bureau staff f engineer, will take a party of six or seven men. survey cf the roid from Lew pare west, running in part s new locstlm for the road between Low and Knoll. Quickly following will be another engineering tarty running a rood f line th forty miles across ths mud and the salt beds from Knoll Wendover. IAst Wednesday th project stste ment was submitted te Mr. MsoDon eld's bureau, for Its action and for an prove! by tha secretary of agriculture (Oeatiased a TUwta Fife ) JeSCfXihyS 10,-0- istered were as follows: June. 2004; July, 3577; August, 4752; September, October, 1474. In live months The Great Salt Lake desert, there- 2147; almost exactly 90 per cent of the enfore. has been the hitherto Impassatire registration was enrolled. year's ble harrier, the "Chinee, troll. as W. H Goodin, preeldent of the Over- The tourist season really begins shout land Trail club, put it at the Elko Jun IS, to at its height st the beginof August and ends about Octomeeting, which has kept tourist traf- ning fic qut of northern California, save ber 15. In 1922, statistics would Indicate, a by roundabout routes. Considering the sentence quoted from the federal great many persons came west as far highway act, the federal officials as Colorado. From the figures of the would "appear to be thoroughly justiRocky Mountain National park It is fied In mentioning that the highway easily within the range of probabiliconnoetkm across tha Great Salt Lake ties that something like 500,000 eastdesert was likely to have an Impor- erners were in Denver, Colorado tant bearing on the future federal aid Springs or Pueblo, headed for some road program In Utah. portion of scenic Colorado. As a matter of fact it to quite apMany of these turned back. They parent that tho federal government enjoyed Colorado wonders and departhas other reasons. Comment I ed Some of them were on their way sometimes heard on the maaatve char- west. Of these, some undoubted'y Money Value Considerable. acter of the bridges used on federal took" the Sants To trail, in spite of the What the average tourist spends aid highwsys. The structures have heat and of the desert. Unst times been attacked a a showing doubtedly. dangers also, some went north, during his sojourn In or passage extravagance. But it Is recalled that Wyoming, entering the Yela etate Is, of course, a matin 1919 the government sent an army crossing lowstone at Cody, and probably through ter of conjecture. Mr. Rishel baa motor transport corps across the leaving bypark the and northern entrance, based calculations on ths arbitrary country. There was an eighteen-to- n to coast and thence the proceeding 85 of per person ftgureper day. truck or two akng. The statement down the coast. The park service, Warnwill spend less Many will is made that It went through every however, presents no statistics ss to more. He estimated culvert In the stats of Wyoming. It the routes visitors taka out of the snend 82much 909.090 spent tn the state lost about is recalled also that there Is an ear bv tourists And the estimates arsenal at Ogden, and that there are park. are at least eight tourists visthat important tunnels and bridges on the Incentive ited to one Colorado who visited Utah Lacking. railraiy line, between here and the The Victory coast Tha time may come when the Borne came on to 8alt Lake by the last year. highway places Utnlh In a fair way to get a construction of bridges that will Lincoln highway Wyoming, of through these n large proportion truck will be carry an eighteen-toBut sa.de from suoh figures from an important port of military strategy. by the Midland trail and by the Vicpersons who pass through, CaliAnd If that time ever eomee it needs tory highway When they reached the no military expert to see that a highLake and visited the local at- - fornia records show a considerable way connection across the Orest Salt tractions, they could go north to the proportion of the automobile tourists returned to stay, and Nave Lake desert is also Important. south to Cedar Break. who havemoney Yellowstone, to invest. California. Zion National park. Brvce and th brought ' Inc , has received more than 100.000 Grand canyon, northwest Military Necessity. towards thquiriea In response to a campaign Governor Mabey has pointed out Portland Of the first 40 000 advertising -and- southwest to- Los - .A- of which bed been' complied some" time that unless one Is to believe that ngel.. They hsd" no direct rout, to the ago. more than 1000 Indicated that wars have ceased, the time may easily cooler lake Tahoe district, the they desired to eettle and that they the Big Tree and th. other awe come when the Pacific Mope states by automobile. coming northern California. will have to defend their civllisetion attractions of The value of such traffic in an unSouthern California is famed a a developed country, Talking at Elko recently he pointed winter In as resort, rather than as a sum- undeveloped country particularly out that good road, saved. Paris st with the rich natthe first battle of the Marne, and mer resort. The Journey there is un- ural resources of the Uintah basin, is hot in summer. good roads aqved Verdun against comfortably The point of the above is this' The apparent. what tt was feared wee aa lrrealst-lbt- e Some fear has already been extourist reaching Denver and enlos pressed that southern Utah may suffer onslaught. Good roads saved1 not only Prance Ing scenic beauties of Colorado had as a result of the construction of 'the ltks the incentive to come to Wendover road nothing in those stern days; they saved civiSupporters of that Utah that he will have with the Vic- highway lisation say that tha strategic value tory highway completed aa a tourist of the road The big considerations that lead the is such that It will bring And once here, if he to the doors of southern Utah United Mates government to Insist thoroughfare many on completion of the connecting of waa bound for tha coast, his direct more automobillsts than now enter was route lacking. - Great- - Salt theserosa and of the, southern Utahs Lake highways Wendover-roaThe thd of completion desert confederations that, aftsr all. unrivaled" attractions will attract affords that direct route It win goodly are Just ss important In the movepercentage that way. The Salt ment of traffic- - in times of peace as afford the shortest route and there- Laka and Ogden district. It Is argued, thev are In effecting preparedness for fore the best argument for the coast becomes the hub of the big road bound tourist to travel by way of wheel. possible wan are due to the strategic Southern Utah cannot help location of the read west of Salt Utah. Moreover, the Victory highway but benefit. Lake And that location has, tn the ss being completed in Colorado and In this connection," added "But close to the opinion of persona who have studied eastern Utah passe W. Taint, member of the state Rocky Mountain National park. The Henry the situation closelv, road commission and one of the most just visitor to that as great strategic valuerelatively to the 'state park may leave It by eonitent workers for southern Utah, find it must be remembered that from the of Utah In the production of a con- a western entrance and soon on the Victory highway aga.n. stantly Increasing revenue from tour- hlmaelf road commission's point of view It passes through some of the most state ist traffic. matter of local traffic : It W. D. Rlshel, secretary of the Utah nonderful scenery In Colorado. It itis lanotnota astate It Is InterSlate Automobile association, quotes crosses esstern Utah by way of the state or nationalquestion. in character and in Uintah basin, wonderfully rich In some respects international. from national park service reports The state In 191? 224 person, entered the Ye- scenic beauty and natural resources road commission la not routing tourllowstone National park by the west- It is a cool road, a summer road, just ists. it ts build to road, ern entrance, the one most readily what ths tourist Is seeking And it with nationalendeavoring will serve that best help, In Sait Lake, whence he accessible to the tourist who reaches lands him the park by way of Balt lake. That has a direct route to the summer tour- national as well as state interests. same year 1990 entered the park at ist attractions of California. With the the northern entrance, and 1353 Wendover road completed, the adverpassed in by automobile by way of tising of these California attractions the Cody entrance. Note the order the Yosemlle. Lake Tahoe, the Big of importance: Western entrance first, Trees, advertises Utah. - Testing Motorcycles northern second and Cody last. In 1932 the automobile traffic to the Works Both Ways. The Canadian poatofflc department park had vastly increased. In that When he reaches Salt Lake, th has been conducting a atrehuoua test year Jhe western entrance brought tourist will find available the wonI?,i94 persons by automobile; the for motorcycle for mail collection Ai northern entrance '11,154, and the derland of southern Utah, which he Ottawa for a month post. The departCody entrance 20.939. .Note the order may reach by a balloon route, or ment baa been using a mourn ycle and H never has to retrace his commercial van in the downtown disagain exactly reversed from Una of loop. savs for a few hours on a trict of Ottawa and It haa proved a five years before. steps, paved road. He can see the Yellowdistinct success, despite unusuallv stone In similar manner, retracing his heavy Tourist Travel Vast. snow and continued cold road only between Brigham City and went her. From the 1922 report Mr, Bishel Salt Lake. C to mads that the deAnnouncement shows that 219,144 persons in automo-bile- s Dearer, naturally, will prefer, when partment is adding another motor-crat- e to the service in Ottawa and entered the Rocky Mountain Na- the road exists, to route traffic west Colorado, then through through will use both machine for a year. A tional park. These figures compare record ie being kept, under careful with. 41 507 entering the Yeilowetone Moreover, even though he go north government auspices, of the perform-Froby similar conveyances. 23.59 at th Denver to the Yeiiowstpne, If balance of the motorcycle equipment for south rim of ths Grand Canyon Na- - U headed lor northern or cental Call- - the collection from the streak boxes. Yose-mit- Dittrict Show should arrsngs to reproduce a part of this cooventloti In various districts. The sesoclatlon executives began to lay plana for those district sad tentatively scheduled mootings one far California and one for the Pacific northwest. Others have been tempo rarily dated for New Tork City and the Atlantic southwest. For the central states one may be developed la St. Louie or Cleveland. Preliminary to malting up the program for the Pacific northwest, the N. A. 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