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Show I "WHO BUILT THIS ROAD?" H Somo lime, maybe twenty yoars from now, a H man will' bo riding in a 1933 model auto along H tho "gaorhbrcad highway leading down" through H "UUih 'to Iho Grand .Canyon of tho Colurndo H througlimatehless scenery, past ascounLrv of H mystBrios n geology hud nddles in anthropology, H with.forMt and field lo th right and to the loft H of him," his spoedometre recording -sixty miles an houft rind not a bump m the path and ho H will ask'Somb roBidont: 'Who built this-road? B Tho retetddnt will tell the nama of tho latest M highway oensiircration boas then extent, and thero H thtf mfocmatfen buisaurwall come taa rull stop H Bufeitf thv-road arid Urn auto and tho tourist part nf lids rtircrtifcl "eoihV Iritc, Iho Bnll?Aiko,J Tribuno oflglifAo havo lift clddll for Llld'rdad.' l - f wouldn't' wdrtddr Wo recent exploration tripmado un'dor the' auspices and at the expense-of expense-of that paper froiri ftlarvsvnlo to the Grand Canyoh is Iho beginning oi a groat highway, it should bo. Without a doubt, people have been approaching the 'tJanydh'-fi'bm the' wrong sfdo. CloSjo Co fffty Chonsaiid totfrists will in 1913 have visited that' wonderland' from tho Arizona side. Ill's a busindss Utah might have had. II is not ' only commerco but advertisement that has boon within roach of this slate evor since Iho Rio Grande wont lo Marysvalo. Evory day the present pres-ent condition continues, Utah is being deprived of benefits il ought lo possess. And this auto exploration looks like tho beginning of an enterprise en-terprise which will rosult in building a road from Iho north into Iho Canyon country. The plan is feasible, tho trafflo is corlain, the benefit 16 iho stalo Iromondous. Thore i3 ovory reason why Iho road should bo built, and nol one against it. Of course tbo papor loading Iho way will not got the orodit desoWcd. Newspapers rarely do. But Ihoro is no bigger service to the stnlo today within the possible power of any journal than thai of urging forward the Utah route to the Colorado. |