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Show H ' PERSISTENT ' ' KNO OKING. ' ' m - m Well, what shall wo do? Remain inactive and allow Salt Lake M ,' to deceive the outside world into accepting the ovcr-the-mountains- H j to-Salt-Lake route as the one for transcontinental tourists, or, stir Hl ring ourselves to life, prove to the automobilo parties that the only H' practical road is along the water grado through that great passway, H the Weber canyon? HL Read the following from one of the Salt Lake morning papers: Hi A map of the road between Salt iLako and Evanston, Hj j Wyo.. available for automobiles, and intended as a part of Hn the transcontinental route, which at present does not in- H ; elude Salt Lake, has been prepared for the Salt Lake Com- Hl mercial club by Dr. Foster J. Curtis and Edgar II. Zobel, .and is now on hand for distribution to autoists. Hf Recently G S. Iloag of Ely, Nov.. started a movement H t to do away with the transcontinental route around the H northern olid of Great Salt Lake, by diverting the route H . . from Evanston into Salt Lake instead of Ogden. and tlience H southward to Milford and over to Ely. lie mapped out and H j logged the new route from Ely to Salt Lake and urged thut H , similar Flops be taken on the road from Salt Lake to Evan- Iston. The map of Dr. Curtis and Mr. Zobel is the result. The road runs up Parley's canyon lo the top of the divide, di-vide, down to Wanship and along the Union Pacific Park City branch into Coalville, thence on to Echo in the canyon j of the Weber river and Echo canyon to Evanston, a total H; distance from Salt Lake of 84.G miles. B 'I'l'-fc niaii lioag is Salt Lake booster. His efforts to send auto- H cn Wo tourists over the scorching desert between Salt Lake and Ely H phculu be met by a vigorous campaign in proof of the fact that the Hf route 'i one product ivc of hardships. Hv OytVr. with such persistent "knockers," must guard its intcr- B; Psf ze'.i,sly and do as much appealing lo the outside as is being Hii donoby its rivals. |