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Show Arrowhead Trail is Discussed at Luncheon A special session of the Merchants Mer-chants and Manufacturers association asso-ciation was held Tuesday so that the members might listen to several speakers expound the advantages ad-vantages Redlands, San Bernardino Bernar-dino valley and Southern California Cali-fornia can derive from the highway high-way advocated by the Arrowhead Arrow-head Trails association, which was formed in this city last week and will make Redlands its headquarters. head-quarters. Before presenting the first speader, Mr. Harris referred briefly to tne object of the called meeting, which was to hear elucidated elu-cidated the plan of constructing a modern highway along the old trail blazed by the Mormons while traveling from Utah to California. The officers of the association are Mont. P. Chubb, presidents Charles H. Biglow, field secretary; secre-tary; H. H. Ford, treasurer; Douglas White, first vice president. presi-dent. A vice-president will be selected se-lected from each of the cities where a chapter of the association associa-tion is formed. The executive committee appointed ap-pointed by President Chubb follows: fol-lows: Douglas White, Los Angeles; An-geles; H. H. Ford, Redland; E. W. Griffith, Las Vegas; J. B. Gill, San Bernardino; Chas. 11. Bigelow, Redlands. Mont P. Chubb was introduced intro-duced to explain the origin and purposes of the Arrowhead Trails association. The objects of the organization were declared to be the connection of Southern California and Salt Lake City by the most direct route, the furtherance of the good roads cause and the securing of desirable desir-able publicity for this vicinity. Mr. Chubb explained that Red-lands Red-lands will be the permanent headquarters of the asoociation and that the by-laws for it had been adapted , from those of the Ocean-to-Ocean Highway association. associ-ation. A Leipsic offered a resolution for the recommendation of the short route pioneered across the desert by Charles Bigelow as the official road linking the Southern end of California with ialt Lake City. The resolution was approved. Douglas White of the Salt Lake railrocd company, one of the organizers of the Arrowhead Trails association, was introduced introduc-ed by Mr. Harris as one of the speakers of the meeting. Mr. White explained the interest in-terest of his company in promoting promo-ting the Arrowhead Trails road, which, in the main, parallels the Salt Lake route. He declared that good roads meant the development devel-opment of the country and the development of the country signified sig-nified more tonnage and more passengers for the railroad. He stated that only a little work in San Bernardino country will make it possible for an automobile au-tomobile to run from Redlands to Salt Lake City over the proposed pro-posed route. The tentative plan calls for a trip over the favored route by a pilot car within ten days, and the organization of an automobile automo-bile caravan for a grand tour starting from Redlands a month hence. Charles Bigelow, who has been a prime mover in the Arrowhead Arrow-head Trails agitation, spoke of the publicity which will be given the project by the Hearst newspapers and the Hearst pictorial pic-torial news service. One of those present Tuesday was C. H. Bran-aman, Bran-aman, automobile editor of the Los Angeles Examiner, who has been detailed to cover the story for his paper. Mr. Bigelow averred that the suggested route will avoid excessively exces-sively high and low altitudes and materially lessen the distance dis-tance separating Southern California Cali-fornia from the Utah capital city, Mr. Bigelow stated that 15,000 tourist cars visit Salt Lake City anjaualty-and that most of these will certainly follow the new and shorter road which is proposed, and so be diverted to Redlands and vicinity. Redlands, Ex. |
