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Show H TAKING OGDEN OFF THE AUTO MAP. 1 Salt -Lake continues its efforts to change the trans-couthicntnl 1 automobile route so that auto parties, instead of coming -west H through "Weber eunyon, vrill diverge from the old overland road at B n point cast of Echo and, climbing the mountain range, go through H Parley canyon from Park City to Salt Lake. H I This is almost an impracticable route as compared yyith the, road H I down ."Weber canyon, but once established and made "'part'"" of tnC 1 , route in Ihc guide books used by tourists in automobiles, it will be J almost impossible to bring about, a change aud replace Ogdcn on Hj the line of travel. f 1 Wo read iu the dispatches today of a party of forty autmo- R j bilists in ten cars who have left Chicago for San Francisco and thoir H I itinerary calls for Salt Lake, with Ogden eliminated. This is one of 1 perhaps ten thousand auto parties that will go through this region j within the next year or two. Traveling by automobile is now one of H j tf,c pleasurable diversions of the rich, who, preferring the outdoor H A travel of tho machine, no longer ride over the country sight-seeing B j from the windows of a train. H A gentleman from the East says there will be an endless train 1 of nuto cars going to, and coming from, the Pacific coast with the H opening of the world's fair. Sid Badcon, who made the journey H . from Chicago to Ogden by auto, says the travel between Chicago H and Omaha by machines was a source of surprise to him, and that 1 everywhere along the lino of travel garages and eating houses were H "being established and supply stations located. The auto route is H I looked on .as equal to n railroad in the benefits to be derived. H J At present many automobiles are driven as far west as Chey- H' ' cnuc and then shipped to destination because of the bad roads in Hh Wyoming, but our neighbors are awake to the importance of the 1 traffic and arc planning the construction of a boulevard across the H "What is Ogden going to do in the matter? Slumber on its na- H tural advantages until aroused by being dispossessed of its com- H manding position? B This eity, either through the "Weber club or some other organi- H . nation, should be protecting its interests by getting in touch with j tho makers of auto routes aud by pushing for 'belter roads cast and " I wcst of this city. 1 Now is the time to act with vigor and judgment. |
