Show the doctors letter in tho the deseret news ot of august 12 you published a purported reply to mr jas M petersons Peto raona statements regarding discrimination on the part ol of certain salt lake agencies against our part of the country witch when statements were printed in the above named paper the day previous to your reply the matter being of oe vital in terest to all of the eastern part of southern utah more particularly to bo be explicit to emery wayne san pete sevier pluto plute and garfield Gartl eld countes and our paper being the mouthpiece of a large part of the territory concerned we beg to mako make below a reply to your reply and wish to state emphatically that we are doing it without knowledge of 0 and uninfluenced by mr air peterson said mr peterson that he noted a tendency to discriminate against the southern utah counties which contain the states greatest natural resources you deny this statement with the implication that mr peterson does not know the facts we take issue with this implication mr peterson knows lust just as well as the people of this part of the country know of the continuous well directed and consequently efficient and beneficial advertising campaign conducted by the salt lake chamber of commerce and he and we do not hesitate to give due credit tor for it it mr peterson in his statement made one mastake it was out of courtesy and delicacy when he tailed failed to name tho the agency discriminating against us we do not intend to be so delicate but are calling that child by its Ita name the utah state automobile association and its manager and directing spirit a certain mr william alshel shel that he is discriminating against us we can prove to you to the chamber of 0 commerce to any impartial observer in court it need be and in any place and to anybody who chooses to argue the matter this certain mr rishel is persistently deliberately and we may add malevolently routing tourists going to bryce voll and grand drand canyons over tho deserts of the western highway instead the sanpete sevier valley route of which mr peterson who knows know every inch of it states this route la is enriched by flour flourishing shing towns every few miles the settlements of sevier alone having an aggregate population of all of the thero route uto la Is through picturesque country typical of the great west which the tourists come to see sevier and clear creek canyons one of which must be traversed are considered special attractions of 0 which no other route can boast boadt in spite of the facts regarding this route which are rightly brought out by mr paterson eterson and witch he it anything not overstated but bui understated uudo not bui uudo mr rishel Is doing his very beat to tc send everybody applying to him for information the other route our people know why he la 1 s doing it and so it if asked only are ready to say recently he advised tourists not to go to bryce canyon over the tha rich account of a detour bield salina sahna road on between aurora and vermilion which he described as terrible and which was not bad at all and could easily be negotiated in ten mi minutes finites while the route he recommended as a substitute had two deto detours urs each and worse than alaan the of 0 them longer detour and this aurora vermilion the trip lengthening other route a dozen of miles through des dea u a dozen u about country also or orif only IF ert and deserted recently lie ILO spread the news that sauna una canyon roa road d was closed on account of the fhe act activities levities the ril railroad road through t the canyon elicit absolutely untrue an and d was dewal tiled by tile the railroad officials tho the state road commission and tile the county commissioners ot of styler county mr air It Ishol ot of course had spread only the false news newa but did not toko take notice ot of the denials these aro are only a very fow few of the tha many incidents we can call quote of mr air alshel shel in the name ot of the utah automobile tit 0 bilo association giving discriminating information you may answer that this la Is none ot of your business and that you are not responsible tor for what the utah automobile association and mr air kishol are doing hut but the people on oil tho the sanpete sevier route think differently they know that the members of your chamber chain br of commerce are to a very largo extent also members of Ris hels utah automobile association they know that the directors of the automobile association are prominent members of the chamber of commerce and they judge that the chamber of commerce not stopping mr air Ris hels insidious efforts is making itself Parti cri minus 11 what are the consequences do you know mr keysor that on account of such reasoning the business men here very earnestly considered to stop buying their goods in salt lake city and to send their orders to denver and los loa angeles instead do you know that a move was as under way to install a truck service between richfield and milford to effect a connection with tho the main line of the union pacific in order to have good transportation transport aton to and front from los angeles maric markets ets do you know that even some of 0 our bankers thought of dealing and clearing with los angeles instead of 0 with salt lake city banks do you know that our people seeing that the salt lake tribune was printing all the untrue and misleading statements issued by mr rishel were about to cancel their subscriptions to that paper ind and would have done so had not the tribune sent down a special representative to look after things and put them right and do you know that all or a part of these plans had been put into actions had at it not been for the advice to the contrary by considerate and patriotic men like mr peterson Pete raon you probably did not know these things and your lack ot of knowledge in this respect no doubt was waa the reason for your accusing mr peterson of not knowing the facts we here know and we object we wd fully agree with mr peterson that arbitrary routing of tourists on any highway that will take them away from the greatest natural beauties of the state Is to be condemned as the most self destructive brand of disloyalty I 1 i respectfully R THE REAPER EDITOR richfield reaper |