Show CIN CHIC IC CLUBS the salt lake tribune of sunday contains the following development at of the road system into the southern part of the state was vms the principal matter of business brought before directors and mem 4 bera hers of the associated civic clubs of southern at the monthly r meeting held at beaver beaver saturday at hernoon attention was paid to the contro versy over the routing of the boose roose velt highway and plans were made to assure the road entering utah from the east over U S 50 from grand junction colo isit isk N ninie nune une route 0 6 president martines Martl nes recently re turned from the annual meeting of V the roosevelt highway association a in chicago and i ic ported that its dl ill rectors had passed a resolution ask ing that the route brough colorado and utah the one favored by the As soc socia ted civic clubs be designated r by the american association of state highway ellas at U S 6 this route would bring the road past the rocky mountain national park of colorado to grand junction and into utah over U S 50 As outlined by president martines marlines the route Is 78 per cent paved as tar far a ao spanish fork as compared with on jy ly 27 per cent pavement on any other route that could be used and lit 11 would be open for traffic the year round nothing definite was decided upon the matter of asking for a new road from eureka to salt lake city but a committee was appointed to make a report at the sunday meeting of the directors the committee include N bcd ed L A of milford mar ion hearle chairman of the millard county commission john P rowe president of the lureka kiwanis club and A D gibson of nephi probe prowled Prom led during the discussion of the roose velt highway routing commissioner hearle read into the minutes of 0 the meeting letters written to the pres ident of the roosevelt highway as by W 1 6 rishel president of the utah state automobile club and gus P backman secretary of the salt lake city chamber of corn com merce the latter leitter from mr rishel read tn part to be honest with you houi your proposed designation west from spanish fork through delta to ely is a joke there is no road to speak of from delta to ely and there ably never will be tl U is not even on our state highway sa system stem left leit a lone the federal aid system it would be a crime to recommend such a route to tourists sas sais road graveled mr henrie pointed to this state ment as a criterion of the knowledge mr rishel has of the southern part of the state he said that the road to which he referred Is state high way no is as good a gravel road as utah has the balance of mr rishel s letter as well as the one by mr air backman he said contained inaccuracies and statements intended to mislead aas berners even though both parties claimed in their letters to be inter ested in no particular highway only proper routing of tourists after reading the letters it was voted to r the chamber of commerce lake city to take a neutral at ua on the routing of the |