Show IN NS S 41 WITH stith luthia IA tx rt V kune and ie belv IV I 1 mutt in phe thou or alove mill lie libuse available Aval table lly ily the uie F building though 1 robrt rob rt mckune and awl L vl N alar mon man bial nees men of price and lepre citizens here tn tri midland and trail matters were lobbying visitors before the state legislature at salt lake city last week in the interest Inte reet of the fifty thousand dollar appropriation for the transcontinental dodte through carbon county of which it la Is proposed to spend at leant twenty thousand dollar dollars tn in price river canyon Cai nyon between castle gate and kyune ayune and colton mckune la Is quoted by a alt 8 laie late city newspaper paper as saying that the bill as it tt passed the utah senate recently provides that the fifty thousand dollars expended expanded tor for the eastern end of the trail trall shall be used for the road from colton down price aher canyon to cattle castle cafe and thence to price woodside green river and grand junction following loving tol the line mapped out by official pathfinders of the american Amerl can automobile association last fall the construction of thie this road according to mckune will cost la the neighborhood of a hundred thousand dollars but he adds that prominent citizens of utah and the business aa men ut f the eastern part ot of tho the hate agreed to furnish the remainder necessary necess axy to put the road through the tire chief question now b is the matter of time said SIc mckune Kune it if the road Is to be built this year it will be necessary to start immediately and as soon as funds are available through the passage of the bill which Is already through the senate we are ready to begin work in the eastern part of the a tato eo oo thai that the road will be in shape for the opening of transcontinental tin touring teams are f iw at work on the road and a nd tn in the vivin ity ty of wellington the citizens are donating doiA donatL tIng ng ten to twenty teams a day for the construction of at this road we mean business and while we are asking stale aid we are willing to do our full share and then come some during the laet last few day days we ha auve vo rec received eLved word form the amad gra nal nfl ju junction ne t ton midland trail association to the effect that so far a as ampro pria are d colorado has done its share we are informed li however oever that unless w we can do our part the hundred cars coming through in lu july will take the santa fe trail and aad utah will lose its opportunity for a place on orl the route of the american Amerl cani automobile m association FIELD TALKING THE TILE the current issue of motor field has a nicely illustrated article by J X apple on the efforts made by utahn to have the midland trail a adopted 11 0 p te d as the first transcontinental t h highway rah w ay beautiful mountain aery la Is shown and an account of the th t e midland trail association given it Is to pointe d out in the article that utah Is fortunate in that inheritance herit anee tax fund amounting to about now may be dive vetted ted immediately to good roads senators smith and iverson are given credit for being the leader leaders in the legislature among thoai in favor of at the midland trail appropriation apple writes there is at present but one apparent issue in utah and that la Is to out ut the state roads in euch such condition that automobiles from all over the world orld can see utah realize the extent of its resources and view the gorgeous scenery the fertile valleys the cultivated lands and the educational institutions of this common yealth the people of utah believing that tha t their state Is the natural highway for the proposed transcontinental automobile route are from center to circumference to put the roads of the state in ta such condition without delay ns its to open to all automobilists and tourists h yar the grand panorama of df their dominion and to secure through their own efforts the coveted prize cf tf the midland trail passing through the tho state from east fast to vet the interest manifested everywhere at meetings in various couil tel of the salte indicate that the veople everywhere are finally real izing the value of good roads |