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Show Hh THE BIG AUTO ROAD. Mi tw tOW is a pretty good time to say Bj , a word more in favor of the trans- B continental auto road through H Utah. U It would bo best to have that routed Btj through Salt Lake and Ogden. H j There is a belief in Ogden that the jgjj people of Salt Lake are trying to divert MB ; the route away from tlio capital of B ' Weber, and for the solo purpose of B i; hurting the said capital. They think B they see evidences of intentional B ' injury to Ogden in the attitude of B ' Salt Lake. It would be best for B ; both cities, and for the state at large, B and certainly better for the B tourists who later may drive over the B f route selected, to have both cities B on the map. And there is a pretty well B ? defined notion that this can be done B i if Salt Lake mon will work for that re-H re-H l! B l Indeed, the road will go across this Wj state where the people of the state Hf; want it to go. H ! The best-looking country in the state H Is between Provo and Brigham City. km Tlio luinnln wJin nvn cnlTur in tnll Amor. H ' ica what Utah looks like from the ton- H ; neau of an auto will suy better things H of the state if they go that way than H ; if they miss the cultivated fields, the H orchards and the towns of Utah, Salt H Lake, Davis, Weber and Box Elder Kj , counties. And on the statement to be Hj made by the auto tourists for the next H ; ten years the good name of Utah is go- H ing to be built. H This is more than a passing inci- M dent. Whore that road is now located, H there it is very likely to permanently H remain. Where the beginning now is H made, there the finished road will most H likely bo forever. There the improve- H ments will bo effected. There will bo B the national, generally used, constantly B travelled route across the continent. B It will be a tremendous advantage to I the state to have the road through the best part of the state, because that will insure Utah a good word from every tourist; and thoy are the sort of people peo-ple whose expressed judgment can help or harm any section commented on. It will be helpful if, when they speak of Utah, they speak of the fertile fields of Salt Lake, Davis, Weber and Box El-dor. El-dor. It will be immensely and perma-, perma-, nently harmful if those reports deal only with the desert. Every tourist from the east want! to ee Salt Lake. His trip would not be complete without a view of the "Mormon "Mor-mon Capital." This city is on of the famous objects of interest in all the broad land. It would be folly to try and divert him. And nobody in Utah wants him to be diverted from our biggest big-gest city the peer of any he will see between the oceans. But -if there is any one thing that will boneflt the state now and later, and that will, at the same time, knit together the strong, rich counties of the state, make friends united of all the people in Utah, it is the wise location loca-tion of that road NOW. |