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Show ANOTHER AUTO PARTY PASSES THROUGH STATE Three members of the New York Automobile Club, R. T. and RoyE. Loder i and U.C. R ind lph passed through Gre,en ' River last week, on their way to Los j Angeles and the Pacific coast. They are ! seeking a scenic route for a transconti-i transconti-i nental automobile line. The Olds "Auto-i "Auto-i crat" an SO horse power machine made j the trip from New York to Green River : in 19 days, averaging 'J00 miles per day to Denver, but from there west they ! averaged but 125 to 150 miles. They ; have worn out one dozen tires on the trip 1 but the caris standing it well, j The gentlem an stated that fifty automobiles auto-mobiles were following and would be through in a fiew days, on their way to the cost. They have made much better through the mountainous country than ; the 40 horse power Midland car that passed through a week ago. They left Fruita at noon Monday, reaching Cisco at S P. M. and reached Thompsons at 10 i that night. They remained at Thomp sons all day Tuesday. After taking dinner at Green river they recharged with gasoline and at a high rate of speed headed for Salt Lake. A description of the route is being kept for the benifit of the New York Autmobile club so that others following will be able to find their route. It will in a short time, according to present' indications, be as advantageous for a town to be located on a well kept automobile line as on a railroad, as those travelers through by train always get to see the greater part of the town and do not spend a cent there, while it is just the oposite with the automobile parties. It is the intention of Mr. Hearst, the millionaire newspaper publisher, to send 2,000, and perhaps more, automobiles automo-biles over the transcontinental auto route, of which Oastledale, Green River, Westwater highway is to be a unit, providing pro-viding the state and county will do its part by appropriation to help open up and maintain the automobile highway. Indeed, we may say it is left in the hands of the county commissioners to say what the county will do to secure this highway through this section of the country. We cannot build a railroad alone, but we can secure this auto road, which will be almost as advantageous to our people. The roads are already fairly good, but there are places that ought to be fixed and the county and state could well afford to fix these few. That we have the most feasible route for this road is evidenced from the opinions of experts who have made investigations in-vestigations and who say th it it is the cheapest built and caeapest maintained road that could be had any place con sidering the shortening of the distance. ( There is no question but that this road will be a great benefactor to this coun-! coun-! ty. Tnere are to be 2,000 autos sent ! over the road and each car will contain ; at least two passengers. People who travel in automobiles usually iiaye money and thev will spend it. They put up at the best hotels and ! often represent considerable capital. The automobilists are very conservative conserva-tive in tneir demands and only ask that we remove the holders from the road and fill up the big holes, and the railroad rail-road crossings to be board planked. This is the way the Green River Dispatch Dis-patch has the affair summarised; "The Emery, Carbon and Grand county coun-ty route through eastern Utah presents many advantages over the "northern" or Green River, Wyo., route and it is up to the commissioners of the three counties to see to it that Eastern Utah gets what she is entitled to. Salt Lake of course gets all the business traveling either way, however state officials should certainly favor having more of its undeveloped country opened up, and this will result quickly following the betterment of highways in Eastern Utah, for instance at the present time eastern bankers are laying dans whereby a caravan of twelve automobiles automo-biles are to start on a big motor trip from ocean to ocean, passing through Utah by the "northern" route. If only the roads of this section were now in a little better shape, they might be easily induced to change their itinerary so as to include Eastern Utah. "The party is made up of some of Philadelphia's most influential men, known as the Millionaires' club, who, in seeking recreation and relief from business cares, abandoned the summer haunts of their wealthy friends, and devised de-vised an original and enjoyable vacation. "The Dispatch hopes to see the commissioners com-missioners and commercial clubs of the three counties get together on this matter at the earliest moment." |