Show THE MIDLAND AUTO THAIL the big event ot of the week past was the coming coining ot of the indiana whose tour Is a preliminary to the establishing of a transcontinental auto highway from the atlantic to the pacific cefic coast the party riding in twenty automobiles arrived in salt lake on friday a day behind their schedule and tile the proposed trip to ogden had to be abandoned two prominent representatives of 0 the crowd came to ogden on satur saturday day however and were ivere entertained by by the weber club the mechin was arranged for the purpose ot of listening to argument favoring the northern route around salt lake to california and a delegation from this city went down t to 0 represent box elder county and do what it could to have the route designated igna ted the cox box elder were county commissioners T 11 blackburn and F alan E roche mayor R L Fis fishburn liburn of this city prest W J lowe and vice prest 1 I E hufflin or the dom cox elder commercial club the int meeting eting was held at the weber club iut but before tile the conference was called the entire party of indiana citizens weber club members and the delegation from this county were taken thru ogden canyon to huntsville in autos returning to the weber club where a banquet was served during the banquet the matter of designating the route was discussed and in be liala if of box elder county commis lioner roche made an eloquent plea having been designated spokesman by the party ire ile enumerated the advantages of coming this way and told what the county is doing to make her highways the best in the state L ills his argument was nas supplemented by n stirring talk by hori W W al drowning of ogden avlo represented the weber club and citizens ot of ogden and ex mayor bookwalter Book waller of 0 indian polls told the gathering that the route the auto party had traveled in making this journey should by no means be understood to be the route that will be selected ile he stated that every route proposed will be carefully surveyed by engineers of 0 tie automobile association thoroughly investigate taid nd considered and then the besci bes q loute will bs be selected lie he pointed pointe 11 out that every community along the way wanted the route to pass through it which is an impossibility but assured ills his listeners that it if the northern route is better than the southern in getting around the gleat salt lake it will be designated ile he expressed pleasure in conjunction with that oe it his fellow tourists at the live interest the communities of utah have taken in the matter and assured til that every claim will be thoroughly considered and a fair selection will be 6 1 made commissioner blackburn Diack ourn and mr air 1 I E duffile compan led the party parly back to salt lake chere they joined the ingance of the tourists in the big nativities nativi ties staged at salt sur pal nd hal a glo glorious ilous time |