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Show AUTO TOURISTS BY THOUSANDS 900 to 1 000 Cars Booked to Come Summer Highway, this Between 900 and 1,000 automobiles auto-mobiles have already been booked book-ed to come over the Pikes Peak Highway from the east this summer sum-mer according to S. J. Redford, a member of the Lincoln Highway High-way committee, who was in Myton, My-ton, on Sunday and Monday. Mr. Redford also gives out the information infor-mation that fully 5,000 cars have uwn oooKea for the Lincoln Highway and. that a large number num-ber of them will doubtless return by way of the Uintah Basin. Mr. Redford was requested by A. R. Pardington, vice-president of the Lincoln Highway association, associa-tion, to inspect the Pikes Peak Highway and the Midland Trail in Utah and make a report as to their condition. In a letter to Mr. Pardington, under date of April 3, Mr. Redford says: "I beg to report my trip over prtion of "MIDLAND TRAIL" and the "PIKES PEAK ROUTE" Right now would state that I find the roads from "K" Ranch (Cofo; vProvo, (Utah), are undoubtedly un-doubtedly BEST , "Ie believe that in the near future you will namethis latter lat-ter route as a goo t.ujHjy CmJ j Highway: v XTie MidlaVa tt-all-rneeds a great amount of work around 22 ,. SUmml' Wbodlde. tiienca all tTi -nrjr j rr-- land between Mack and Woo-side Woo-side is full of "washes" and must be difficult of travel after a storm. I understand Grand Junction people figure upon making mak-ing some improvement. "But the Pikes Peak Route from "K" Ranch is in fine shape even NOW, and as I came along there were numerous teams hard at work putting in culverts, new bridges (where necessary and widening roads at curves, especially where roads decend to valleys, "Gasoline Supply stations BOWSER) are at VERNAL, ROOSEVELT, " DUCHESNE, MYTON, HEBER, and PROVO, on to the points already reported report-ed upon the Lincoln Highway. "Please have this information posted, so that tourists who desire de-sire to vary their return trip can have first hand knowledge, of good roads and delightful scenic attractions the Uintah Basin offers." Mr. Redford exhibited a new map published by the Lincoln Highway association, . showing the: different routes across the continent and the Pikes Peak appears as a tributary to the Lincoln Highway. , The map also shows that Ogden has been cut off. The new route goes from Evanston, Wyoming, via Coalville Coal-ville and Parley's canyon to Salt Lake, then south of the lake to Ely, Nevada. November 27 of last year all the Lincoln Highway was covered cov-ered from New York to San Francisco. Redford was assigned assign-ed the distance from Ely to Salt Lake, 305 miles, which he made in 21 hours. Noticeable improvements have been made on the road from "K" ranch to Duchesne. Bridges Bridg-es have been built, culverts have been repaired and washes and chuck holes have been filled. The road all the way is said now to be in first class shape. From Mytn west for two or three miles some fine work has been done by J. L. Taylor, the road super- ' visor. From the Myton Town-site Town-site bridge the road runs directly di-rectly west for nearly two miles and then due south until it goes into the road crossing the bridge over the Grey mountain canal. - --' The Uintah Basin roads are receiving considerable advertising advertis-ing in publications on the outside. out-side. The American Bluebook an automobile publication, has given us much space. The representative rep-resentative of that publication was m Myton last summer when the sociability-reliability run was made from Colorado Springs to Salt Lake. In connection with the Bluebook publication the Vernal Express last week had this to say: . "One of the biggest boosts which the Pike's Peak Ocean to Ocean Highway has ever received receiv-ed and a boost that ought to mean thousands of dollars to Ashley valley and Vernal merchants mer-chants this coming Bummer, haa i centy been accorded this, route , V thtJ- Nation of the Amer- . ; -ican Blue Book blWied : . -;, nually in St Louis the; : "bible" of the automobile xou. ! and going to. the lair this year. "Advance proof sheets of this publication have been received in this city and in looking through the maps and the routes marked on these maps the Ocean to Ocean Highway is the only route which is marked across the Colorado map. A heavy line extending from Colo- rado springs, xo uienwooa Springs, through Meeker and icross the Uintah Basin through Vernal and on west to Salt Lake is given as the best route to follow fol-low in crossing this state. The Midland Trail is marked only as a minor route and in every vay possible the tourist is directed over this route. The various Midland Trail associations are protesting loudly but it is doubtful doubt-ful if they can secure the change. 'The importance of this can not be overestimated as over 90 per cent of the travelers carry car-ry this guidebook with them and generally follow, its advice. It means that the local route ought to better than break even with the Midland Trail in the number of tourists secured." |
