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Show Automobile Gossip Tho Ilotary club is still persistent in its efforts to build an automobile poad from Salt Lake to Morgan via City Creek canyon and it looks like the efforts of the club will bear fruit. J. F. Rodman, who has been n consistent con-sistent and energetic booster of tho proposition, led the movement this week to bring matters nearer a cri-" cri-" hIb. Tho club oxpecte to announce Its financial program shortly and it I lcf hinted that the funds will bo i forthcoming as soon tnT the money is i needed. Governor Spry has promised that if the road project Is at all feasible feas-ible a gang of convicts will bo sent to work building the highway. C. F. Adams reached a broader side to the question when he said tho,t tho building build-ing of -the road would add $200,000 w year In business to Salt Lake. Tho Commercial club, of course had to have its say on the in vtter, and the report of the club advising against the construction of the road, has been printed. The club committee which reported against the road felt that the traffic on such a highway would contaminate the waters of City Creek. Tli is has ainco been proven to bo fallacious. The road between Salt Lake and Ogden is being whipped Into shhpo for heavy traffio an dautoists will soon find it a splondld thoroughfare for intorurban trips. At Bock's hot springs the road's width Is being doubled and the improvement will bo vastly beneficial. Last Sunday an autolst, making the trip to Ogden In something less than two hours,- mot seventy-five cars. He was not asked how many had overtaken and passed him. Improvement of tho road through Parley's canyon so as to provide an automobile boulevard of groat sconlo possibilities from Salt Lako into Summit Sum-mit countyTTTay result from a trip of inspection made this week by tho county commissioners, members of tho automobile club and city offloials. Recently the automobile club called attention of tho county commissioners commission-ers to the possibilities of such a road, and It was to determino just what might bo done in that direction that tho trip was thken. By sponding about $15000 it -Is estimated that tho canyon road can' .bo put In first-class condition and a boulevard constructed construct-ed along the oldgnuvndonod railroad grade from RoifpBts half-way houso to the summit, JivHy switching tho roadway "grade It Will be possible to provide an even, steady grade over the summit to a connection with tho road that leads to Park City, Evans-ton, Evans-ton, Coalville and tho valley of the Weber. |