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Show i oo I WOULD PROVE AN EYESORE I FOREVER J That the scheme to declare the "Midland trail" a state highway and J J expend large Bums of state money on ! I the proposed road is based on a re- solve to do desperate things in order to rob Ogden of Its present position i on the transcontinental highway, is I made evident bv a letter from Loren f L. Taylor, editor of a paper publish ed in Moab. Grand county, written to the Salt Lake Tribune. J The proposed Midland trail would) go through Grand county This is, what Mr. Taylor says of that part of f, the road over which Westgaard. the I "pathfinder," passed with great dif I f lculty J "Editor Tribune As yon are no , doubt aware, there will be introduced I In the state legislature a bill to ap- j J propriate $50,000 for the immediate 1 opening up of the Midland trail in I Utah for auto travel. The bill may I have been Introduced already j "Tt Is proposed that the funds be I expended on those portions of the road that are not passable at this I time, especially that portion between Green River and Grand Junction, in Grand county, i "The state road commission expects j to designate as a state highway the j route that parallels the Denver & Rio j Grande through this county, In order that state funds may be expended on the road to get it in passable condl- j tion. "The designation of this route in I Grand county as a state highway, and therefore part of the Midland trail, is a mistake that will prove costly to Utah The people of Grand county Ji deplore this proposed action on the l part of the highway commission j "Before any road through the coun- ,1 ty Is chosen as a part of the transcon 1 tlnental highway an investigation of other routes should be made 1 'The desert route which paralleln I the railroad crosses over a dreary al I kail expanse of territory that will be j an eyesore forever If this route Is j designated It will cost the state ttaou- sands of dollars each year The road bed would consist of a clay formation I i which In the rainy season becomes a j sort of Btucco, over which travel is j impossible. j "Knowing tho two routes, and the urgent necessity for discouraging the 1 selection of the desert road, the resl- dents of Grand county ask that an In j vestlgatlon bo made before the state 1 road commission designates a routi I I that will forever be a knock on Utah.' I J Notwithstanding these protests, th.' state authorities are going ahead with the campaign for the Midland trail As the Grand county man says, the road. If constructed, will prove an eye sore forever Rather thun join with ' Ogden and the northern part of the state in mnkins that part of the Overland Over-land trail in Utah the most attractive and delightful stretch of road on the "hole transcontinental trip, our i friends In Salt Lake aro advocating a route that virtually Is an Impossibility and are doing their utmost t draw from the state treasury Hinds to bo ; expended in this unworthy enterprise. |