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Show OCEAN-TO-OCEAN OFFICIAL SURVEY TOUR IS PLANNED One of the most mportant tours ever planned, especially for Utah, is the proposed Official Survey to be made by the Pike's Peak Ocean-to-Ocean Highway association, this summer. sum-mer. The start will be made from New Work City, on July 18, at 9 a. m. and will end at Colorado Springs on August Aug-ust 25, after having crossed the continent con-tinent to Los Angeles and returned to the Colorado city where the caravan cara-van will disband, each auto returning return-ing home as they see fit. The schedule as sent out by the association provides for many side trips and stops at various places of interest along the P. P. O. O. Highway. High-way. On July 29, they divert from Montrose to the south through Dur-ango Dur-ango to Mesa Verde National park, where two nights and a day will be spent in studying the cliff dwellings. The night of August 2nd. will be spent in Beaver City. August 3rd at Zion park, August 4 and 5 at Grand Canyon, August 6 at Bryce canyon, August 7th, Panquitch, August Aug-ust 8th, Cedar City; August 9th, Las Vegas; August 10, San Bernardino; August 11, Los Angeles. Leave Los Angeles on August 17 August 19th at Yosemite; August 20th at Ely; August 21, Milford and Beaver; August 22, Salt Lake City; August 24, Glenwood Springs; August 25, Colorado Springs, where the tour will end. Plans are being made to make this the grandest affair so far staged on any trans-continental highway tour. The time has arrived when the outstanding out-standing merits of this highway as compared with others should be better bet-ter known by the public, and this tour will be a practical demonstration to many influential people who will accompany ac-company the tour and to millions who will read about it and become interested inter-ested in it through reading about it in the columns of our papers. It will also give the people along the highway a fine occasion to show j their interest in the highway. Previous to this time no public tour of this kind has been made on the j P. P. O. O. highway for the time ! has not seemed propritive. ! Mr. H. D. Judson, manager of the j P. P. O. O. states that "The high-1 way is hard surfaced from N. Y. : City to well into Missouri, a distance of over 1,200 miles and westward to Los Angeles, about 60 per cent is hard surfaced." The absence of traffic congestion, due to skirting the large cities, the easy grades crossing the Rockies and the Wasatch mountains and the , minimum time required to cross the ' desert, the large number of notable ' scenic attractions so easily reached, ' will bring the remarkable advantages of this highway to the attention of many thousands of prospective tour- ' ists. , |