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Show I. NEW ROUTE FOR HIGHWAY BETWEEN I CACHE VALLEY AND BEAR LAKE lH - - x K Lakctown Man Takes Initiative in Selecting Course For B Road With Low Summit. Proposed Auto Way K Can be Easily Constructed. Officials B And Others Interested Urged IK to Get Busy. B Enthusiastic over perfecting high- H ways between Cache Valley and the Bk Dear Lake" country, Mr. Joseph Wes- B ton, ofLakotown, , Utah has taken IB the Initiative' as a pathfinder and at B ter weoks of- persistent search for B a routo which, at a minimum oxpenso IK can bo made perfect mountain drlvo B way, ho has located n courso that ho Bk holloves will sooner or Inter be s. H lectcd and mndr ' o H between this and the valley to the fl cast, F With Laketown as an objective H point tho road from Logan would be H ns follows:' through Logan Canyon H to tho forks, then up tho right hand Sj fork to Cowley Canyon, thence In n j southeasterly direction through Cow- ' ley Canyon striking Saddle Creek f Just north of tho Danish dugway. Saddle Creek valley would then bo followed to tho old Blacksmith Perk road, which leads directly to Lake-H Lake-H town. H This route, according to Mr. Wes- ton, who Is perhaps tho best author-H author-H lty on mountain road construction in H this section, can bo established nt r much less expenso than will bo nec-H nec-H essltated In tho repair of tho prcB ont right hand fork. It eliminates tho high summit of tho Mcadowvlllc road nnd tho long dugways through fl Blacksmith Fork. It would bo a courso ovor tho lowest summit be-H be-H tween tho two -allies, which means considerable to spring traffic since tho J snow melts there from a month six weeks earlier than elsewhere M "Neither of tho present roads, nci any other site," sold Mr. Weston, In i an Interviow with a representative of Tho Republican yesterday, ''penult tho construction of a low grndo sue ns would tho new route." Tho road would bo no longer than tho old cut-off (Meadowvlllo way) and would cut twelve miles from tho Blacksmith Fork road. "It will bo conceded by all," sug gested Mr. Weston, "that Laketown Is the logical arriving point In our valley. It is located nt tho southeast corner of tho lako and tho point from wuiiu imm ruuies unu Btiuo roauB lead to nil towns of tho north." As a scenic routo that proposed has no equal in tho northern part of Utah. All the natural beauty of Logan Lo-gan Canyon would bo presented t i the eyo of tho tourist over this high way, and many disagreeable sections of tho old routes aro eliminated. Blacksmith's Fork Is out of the question ques-tion ns an automobile highway slncr It Is a sheep trail during tho spring nod fall of every year. Loenn Canyon Is free from this road destroying Tea-lure, Tea-lure, heuco Is the only one fit for auto au-to traffic. Now in vler of tno fact thi th Ogden Good Iloads Association, Jin.ugh Its Secietnry O. J. Stllwcll, has reco.it!' proposed making Liuan a sub-central point for auto tours, out of that city, with Bear Lake ono of tho most desirable places to tnotcr, tho matter of roads has n double significance. sig-nificance. Tho peoplo of Cache r.nd Rich Counties bnvo a pro' '' '. them which If successfully solved means tho bringing of hundreds, nnd perhaps thousands, of leading American Ameri-can people Into their vallles annually All that Is asked In order to bring about thcBO conditions Is that suitable) suit-able) highways for automobile trnffc be selected and built. Mr. Weston has taken tho Inltlatlvo Ho has selected a route which he bo lloves answers tho needs of two great counties as no other eac. He l,t8 done this on his own Inok, so to speale, and purely In tho Interest of public r.ood. Ho Is a prosperous far-iii-r, sun n man who bel'.otos In community com-munity building. Ho has had experience experi-ence as a road builder, and Is ono whose Judgment Is eagerly sought In this lino. Ho was the Rich County delegate chosen by tho governor to attend the Intcr-Mountnln Good Ko Convention In this city last Juno ' while hero ho conceived tho Idea ol the now road and talked the mattci over with some of tho Cache County officers. He, has since been over the ground thoroughly, nnd now staru loady to lend nil assistance put i i to carry into effect tho actual construction con-struction work. Ho suggests in county officials net on the matter m once; that good roads officers and automobile men get busy, nnd that all who advocate the construction of a better, easier, and shorter connect Ing road- betweon tho two vallles show by actual work to what exten" they are Interested. Mr? Weston will gladly nccompr.-nny nccompr.-nny person, or party over tho proposed propos-ed routo. |