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Show STATE OF UTAH MUST KEEP OUT OF FIGHT, The legislature of Utah is to be requested re-quested to assist In destroying the j prospects of the automobile route l through Ogdcn being recognized as a part of the official transcontinental transcontinen-tal trail At a meeting In Salt Lake City last evening ihc Midland trail boosters decided to ask the legislature legisla-ture to appropriate $80,000 to make the Midland trail route In 1'tah passable pass-able by the time the Indianapolis Ore.m-to-Ocean Road Builders, to travel in 60 automobiles, start west In July for the Pacific coast. We are informed that: "A committee of six was appointed to prepare the necessary bill and lobby it. with the general assistance of all interested, through the legislature legis-lature without delay The committee consists of C H Ward. Utah county; coun-ty; J R Sharp, county commissioner commission-er of Carbon count ; Dr B V Brick -er, Emery eountv; C. R. Holllngs-, worth, Weber county, and Orson' H. Hewlett and W R. Wallace, Salt Lake count ! "The proposed bill will provide that: ,a convict camp be established at the earliest possible dale at some point along the route to assisi in placing: j impassable portions In proper condition; con-dition; also that the state road commission, com-mission, after consulting with the state engineer and one expert engl-J engl-J neer representing the Midland trail I project as to feasible stretches and lowest estimates, definitely designated designat-ed the Midland trail route so that improvement work can be started as soon as possible and that such a route be made an official state highwaj 'To bring its attlLude and action before the proper nut horit les without delay, it was arranged betorc the close of the meeting to meet today at noon at the Commercial club with Governor Spry and members of the state road commission." This contest over the Overland and Midland routes is one in which the state and its money should play no part We do not object to the at its of Utah aiding the good roads movement move-ment In that part of the state from Salt Lake southeast to the Colorado1 line but the assistance should not be extended so as to place all that re- I gion of Utah along the Overland rout" ar a disadvantage in this rivalry forj the transcontinental automobile road, and. above all the state should not I attempt to determine the route through Utah by designating an "official "of-ficial trail" Those who are selecting the trans-continental trans-continental route, such as the representatives repre-sentatives of the big eastern auiomo- 1 bile associations, ;;re capable ol discriminating, dis-criminating, and the slate of Utah should not interlere or In any manner man-ner seek to prejudice them This rivalry is a matter of dollars to Ogden perhaps hundreds of thousands thou-sands of dollars and the ttate of Utah should not attempt to rob this city of that prospective wealth This is not an affair in which the money of all the people, as represented In state funds, can be fairly turned to the advantage of one side or the other, and it should not be |