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Show LAY OUT THE LANDING FIELDS Four Different Kinds Marked to Insure In-sure Safety of Express Fliers Salt Lake City. After laying out fifty-five landing fields on a possible air route from Los Angeles to Salt Lake, five pilots of the Western Air Express arrived Wednesday to recon-noiter recon-noiter the local situation prior to the beginning of service next month. Three of the pilots who arrived here will make their homes in Salt Lake. The other two will fly out of Los Angeles, An-geles, with the sixth member of the flying force of the first important commercial com-mercial aviation company iu the west yet to be chosen. Four different sorts of fields were marked by the pilots as thev came across the country in trucks. Canvas signals were staked out at approximately approxi-mately ten-mile intervals as emergency emergen-cy landing places and as markers of the air trail. At present there is but one established landing field between bait Lake and Los Angeles. That is at Las Vegas. But Captain Maurice Graham, one of Lie pilots, declared that so on-tm.siastic on-tm.siastic was the' welcome accorded the advance party of the air trail tint many communities along the route wia soon h ,,, additional "fe fields. Everywhere. Captain G.aham said the greatest interest was manifested m the project "How much will it cost for passcn-What passcn-What will the express rates be" here-n! Ca,'ry tiSh? W1 "top he.e? .these were samples of the oner 3 launched at the group evervwl e" e they stopped. Salt Lake and os Vn Be es will be only the first cities "o enjoy the new transportation. The other towns and villages wa,t it too n"l,0nw'ntime Can M ti nu.rid will warrant giving them the flier0-1 ot sarvic- ?. ' ot? a''e in UlS !- '.? on the canvas "T " Ti,n a safe landing ahead- the n , SC0"A Idling in aiiv di ;ct.oenth'rd Eon" |
