Show whoopee wanta our friend W P epperson editor of tile the kaysville Kays ville reflex former president of the utah press association and a very close friend of tho the utah state road commiss commission fou haa tile tho following to say about the wendover route when one travels ho he does or at least should receive impressions and we believe most moat people do some perhaps receive very light impressions as aa light as that made by light or an under exposed film while others receive positive impressions as clear and sharp as a mould d for an electrotype after all borha perhaps aps this ig 1 asit should bo be and perhaps RIB neither of the extremes who do things most things now it Is sure t that hat neither nelt lier tile the negative nor the practical positive would have even proposed or much less consented to build an auto rodd road over the mud and salt flats of tho the wendover 11 this route leads through or more cor erectly speaking over miles and billus of straw colored bottomless anuj mud more or less surfaced with a thin film of salt on which in or are films of brine ditching machino graders clam shell dredges and men with teams slip scrapers ec and fre arefa 5 noes are now busily engaged in piling up thin dirty sickly mucky bolt lad en and brine soaked old lake bottom for a road bed and a all aley gravel la Is being hauled in tho the cars of the west ern pacific railroad which it parral aels for surfacing the low laying grade era do it should be remembered that this la hs not the first attempt at building an auto road infer this route which was waa abandoned for another it assaid Is said less lesa practical route tho the present effort consists in piling more mud on tile the old grade which was washed out in places putting wide shallow cu lverts for the ebb and flow of the wind driven brine during the wet season dut but this Is not the time to write the cloud of salt laden dust and dirt only can do that what impressed tho the writer most moat as aa we sped over the rails of the western pacific our oyo eye followed the mud ridge which forms tho the road our train enveloped in a C cloud ou d of salt laden dust and dirt that commission both federal and state were fearfully and wonderfully constructed and better working more marvelous mary elous than their construction no piece of earth surface if this route may be so termed Is les leas adaptable tor for successful road building than this wendover route and it may be a success nevertheless so far as a roadway Is concerned but tiling thing can be said sa id in its favorit favor it j i ono 0 I 1 le will have no hills and oa as no one or its sides tho th nothing lives along speed fiend end while tile the road la is dry 11 ly mid i nd in good repair repa ar can plow many mally yirda yards of surfacing off the r road omi every mile commenting Comin enting upon the above article the times has haa the to say from tile tho above caustic co i some idea can call be gained 0 of tile the kind bind of a road bed that the tax p of 0 utah along with federal aid are trying to convert into an auto road on tile tho plea of military a direct route out of utah to the coast that it if salt 1 this paper will wager lake city had been located where nephi Is this impossible piece of desert highway highfi AY would never have been thought noflet ot let alone built |