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Show j OGDEN ROAD IS THE ONLY ONE : TO TRAVEL V ( ' Speaking of the action taken by y Salt Lake people and automobile en- j thustasts from Grand Junction, Den- I ver, Provo and other places in their I efforts of late to establish the trans- continental automobile route along the lT line of the Rio Grande railroad and across the country west from Salt I' Lake by way of the Western Pacific, I. which is a Gould road, County Com-ft Com-ft missioner Moroni Skeen and others J of this city say that there will be a - first class macadamized road across i m t,,e cont'nont' J wav" of Ogden, kM through Weber canyon and across ifl Wyoming before the Rio Grande way 3fl is in operation. .9 Not only will the Ogden-Wyoming .Jfl route be in operation before the oth- fl- er road, says Mr. Skeen, but it will Wm always be the popular route and the one most traveled. 1 It is contended that it will require t at least five years to build a mac- gl adamizod automobile road over Sol- -4 dier Summit and across the bad lands fl between Price and Grand Junction, lludW nnd that, after It is built, it can be Kj i used onlj' in the summer season. The K snow falls heavily on the divide be- tween Thistle Junction and Colton, ml ; and no one attempts to travel that ft ' road In the winter season. It is -with II difficult!' that the railroad Is oper-!g oper-!g ; aied over that divide, snowshoeing I often being resorted to as a means of f travel. iThe other route, traversing Weber and Echo canyons, may bo traveled wjth eaBo at any time of year, and tho original construction of this road wilL be cheap compared with the Sol-? Sol-? dier Summit road. State Treasurer David Mattson, who ; Is well versed in the road building i operations of the state, says that the Soldier Summit route Is the least ' feaslblo of any he is familiar with for a transcontinental automobile road. He is of the opinion that it will be very exponslve and will never 1 be tho most desirable trail across the country. Tho Weber connty commissioners j are willing to make the roadway across the county as good as any : along the line of automobile travel, and they are assured that every Inch of the way from "Utah to Nebraska and then on to tho Atlantic will be ' turned Into a concrete turnpike in 4 the course of a short time. " , The Box Elder county commission- l or8 are willing to meet their share , of the road building to the Nevada '1 lino and the eastern Nevada people " I will build through that state. |