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Show Deplores Knocking Pikes Peak Route "It looks like rank discrimination to me the way some are knocking the Pikes Peak Ocean-torOcean highway and it is high time that some action was taken to check this discrimination. discrimina-tion. If not, sooner or later, and h the 'powers that be' are allowed tc cany over their plans, then Southern Utah will be wiped off the map.'; Thus spoke J. S. Peterson, the wed known Gunnison contractor, on his return from a trip to Colorado. "Going to Grand Junction and re- . turning we traveled the Pikes Peak rou'ie, and notwithstanding the fact that reports have been circulated tc the effect that the road was in bad condition, we failed to find it so. A rccenit storm made it a little rough in places, but it can be classed as e good highway as compared with oth ers. I found that the Pikes Peak highway was the big feeder to Southern South-ern Utah and a tabulation of rt'lv travel over it demonstrates that it if. one of the popular routes for the """ eastern tourists making the trans continental trip. The attraction, of course, is Southern Utah's scenic-wonders. scenic-wonders. These garden spots, I found, were growng in popularity and I firmly believe they will be so for years to come." Mr. Peterson deplored the fact that so many of the road signs, particularly particu-larly on tha Pikes Peak route, and in Utah only, had boon defaced, either by having been shot at and filled with holes, or having been smeared with grease. In Western Colorado, and along the same highway, the signs are intact, kept prominent and are not defaced. |