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Show MILFORDITES MEET ROADJNGINEERS HAVE FINE TRIP-CHANCES GOOD FOR MILFORD GARRISON ROAD A party of Milford citizens went I out to Garrison Tuesday afternoon and met State Road Engineer Brown ing and District Engineer Wooley. j who had been conducted to that town by representatives of Delta and Millard county in an endeavor to j have the road built from Garrison to Delta to connect up with the Lincoln Lin-coln highway. The Milford-Beaver county delegation went out to lay' before the engineers their claims to the road and the reasons why the connection should be built from Garrison Gar-rison to Beaver county. Both sides, put up their strongest arguments and the decision will rest with the highway commissioners and their engineers, but our local representatives, representa-tives, after showing the engineers over the route of the Garrison Beaver Bea-ver county road are confident that they will win because of the numerous numer-ous points in their favor. The distance from the railroad at Delta to Garrison by the sheep trail which they went over is 98 miles, while from Garrison to the railroad at Milford is 81.4 miles over a fair desert road, 20 miles of which is already built. Again, the distance between water on the two roads is vastly in favor of the Beaver county coun-ty road. Also the accessibility of good road material, easier grades and the number of people along the route who will be served these points are all in our favor. During the three months just passed, over 700 tons of supplies and produce have been hauled over this road over one-half of which originated origi-nated this side of Burbank, and If the Delta road was built, none of this would use the road on account of the much longer haul. This tonage is increasing by leaps and bounds and deserves consideration. considera-tion. This line has been a "Star Route" mail line for many years and that gives us an added advantage as we understand the law passed by the recent legislature defines state roads by name and description and also says that the State highway commissioner commis-sioner may designate roads over which mall is carried as State or post roads, and federal and state money can he spent on post roads whenever it becomes available. (There is no federal money available avail-able for the present, but when there Is any, we must he In a position to get a good share ofit.l Those Making the Trip J. R. Pearson, representing the commercial club. H. T. Hanks, representing the hotels. ho-tels. C. A. Arrlngton representing the financial Interests. Karl Carlton representing the press. Wm. Martin and H. Larson, representing repre-senting the auto Intereses. D. A. Baxter, member of the Stnfe legislature. C. T. Woodbury of the city council. coun-cil. Orln Burke nf the county commissioners. commis-sioners. Wm. Dohson. representing the hus iness men. Wm Morris, representing Nnw-hopep. Nnw-hopep. T T. Griffiths rer-rpsonMrtg Frisco F T,. TntteriTi(rh renre?orjt!r!T the Cactus Club. I TV G. Clnv renresenttng BnrMnV f. Sloan met tbo r-nrtv at Wnh Wah on the return trln rind pseorf-v pseorf-v t bark tn Nowhnnse. The Trln. T start 'rem Mnfnrd wnc made shout 4 p. m . and the first atnn mnefp nt the TTtti S'l-cr store I" Frfs'-n rtvt to the ywhose Mot-- coHle store pt Vpwhouse ttAipt-( I w became the zfrnrr section of the T". P. mail limited Put the flr 1 real stop irm mndp at Wah Wah, when' we were welcomed to the city by our old friend O. P. Johansen, who after inviting us to have a drink took us up to the orchard and told us to help ourselves to as nice apricots apri-cots as ever grew In any state. We did not have to be told twice and as our genial host had brought along a big milk pail, we proceeded to fill it up and take them along, and not one cent would he take. We surmise sur-mise that he did not know what the Milford merchants were asking per pound for fruit of not near so good , quality. After drinking and eating our fill, we passed on over the Wah Wah summit and down into the valley, val-ley, where we found our first real bad road road which was rough, dusty and all cut up into ruts, but the elements favored us, as a nice shower came up and effectively cooled cool-ed the air and laid the dust. Another bad piece of road was found just ov- j er the mormon gap, about three or four miles of it, hut the rain here had come to our aid and there was i but little dust. The Ranch of B. G. ' Clay at Burbank was the next stop 1 and here we found the nicest garden we have seen this year it was sure ! a dandy only as the proprietor was away, no one asked us out to sample an onion, but we got a drink. Out In the corral the boys were lassoing bronchoes and one of them gave us an exhibition of real broncho bust- J Ing as done for the movies. At tills , place a band of 14 wild horses were seen to come down to drink at a spring a fchort distance from the other horses. The road for twelve or fifteen miles before reaching Garrison Gar-rison Is through a fertile well watered wat-ered valley with plenty of stock and feed for them. At Garrison, we stopped at Jo. Deardon's, and although it was nine o'clock when we reached there, Mrs. Jo. soon had a hot meal on the table, ta-ble, which we sure did appreciate, all but Baxter he was too hungry to eat. After counting noses, it was found that the bed capacity was short of being long enough aud Pear-sou Pear-sou and Carllou asked permission to sleep iu the barn, a request which was speedily denied by Dearden, who evidently had seen and had experiences ex-periences with tramps before. In order to relieve the situation, and finding that there was no deputy sheriff at Baker, the sporting element ele-ment of the crowd, headed by Orln Burke and Hebe Hanks went over to the Nevada metropolis to see if they could get up a game of flinch. In the morning, the rest of the bun-'ch, bun-'ch, headed by Cam. Arrington, who when he is home, gets up at 3 a. m.. N. Y. time to milk the cow. went over to Nevada to bail out the sports and it was lucky for them, as there had been a murder committed the day before and all suspicions characters charac-ters were being watched. The start back was made about 11 a. m. and after taking a drink at Newhouse with Wm. Morris and another ano-ther with Ed Butterbaugh at the Cactus club and a smoke with J. L. Griffiths. Mayor of Frisco, we reached reach-ed Milford at 6 p. m.. tired happy hungry and well satisfied with the trip. P.elow we print the log of the road from Garrison to Milford. starting from Garrjson at an elevation of n 310 . Clay's 5.7 miles, elevation 539m ft IDeardens. S.2 miles, elf. r.-l'iO feet Robinson's 10.4 miles, ele. 5440 ft. ! To this point there was plenty of water and the road was good. Mormon Gap. 17.7. m. ele. ",r,!in ft Six miles of had roa'l in this ne iphhorhood ruts and dust. Antelope ra s. 24. S m.. ele. fin;.-, ft ; Millard Beaver County line 2S.T. m. elevation 54 90 feet. 1 ' Floor of Pine Valley 30.S m. elevation eleva-tion 5200 feet. 5 miles poor road to 39.4 m., elevation eleva-tion 525 0 feet. Wah Wah Summit, 46.1 m. elevation 6 42 5 feet. Roads good to fair. Wall Wah ranch house. 50.0 miles. elevation 5575 feet. Fine water here. Wah Wah flat, 53.5 miles, elevation j' 4 950 feet. Fair road from the summit to Ibis point. jNewhouse R. R. depot. 5S.S miles, elevation 5 200. j Poor road. i West end of improved highway, ill. 3 a splendid road to Milford. Frisco, 66.5, the highest point on the road, elevation 6475 feet. Milford 81.4 miles, elevation 502!.. , The nearest point from Garrison to the railroad is 5S.8 miles New-house. New-house. The above fltrures and dntn were furnished by Stale Highway Fngi-neer Fngi-neer Browning and are the most com plete that have published. Mr. Browning expressed himself as being well pleased with the trip and could see no reason why a good road could not be built at a reasonable reason-able cost. Note by the AVnyslde j We have heard some real fish stories stor-ies In our time, but the pulling of n nice trout out of a badger hole by Engineer Wooley at Garrison, has them all beat, but he says he can prove it. There is going to be a big ( t op of . fruit this year in the Garrison I!:-!; er country. The trees are just loaded. load-ed. Found fin the trip A new reeejpt for making Home Spun, O'.vner can have same by applying to i:ill .Martin .Mar-tin and drinking a sample. There are more dead soldiers between be-tween Xewhouse and Burbank than in Mexico and they are nearly all named WbiteRibbon. It was a beautiful pith! to see II T. Hanks drinking ging'Tjile at the Cactus Club with his old friend K 1.. Butterbaugh The heavy rains in the bills had made the Wah Wah river a r: i'inr torrent and two of the cars fit tit'k and had to be pullei out Saturday a party or ih- party companfed by r'pr'-'iitnilvc from I'.eaver made the trip to I'V't-'-Lake. an account of whieh will ap-1 ap-1 pear in our next. |