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Show BOOSTS OGDEN FOR THE AUTO ROUTE That Ogden le not without strong ' support in the contention regarding q position on the coast-to-coast highway high-way is made evident by an article appearing ap-pearing in the January number of i .Motor Field, a magazine published 0 Denver in the interest of automobii .sts. The ankle is a long one, deal-; deal-; ing with the conditions of the roads least and west of the city and giving descriptions of the scenery along the I wav as well as a good account of the road through Ogden canyon Several clear cuts of the road through Weber canyon to Ogden and also photo the good roads west of the city illustrate il-lustrate the article. One large cut of the road through the canyon Is accompanied ac-companied by the statement that the value of the gorge as a point of Inter est to tourists, alone, furnishes a good argument in favor of a position on the route for Ogden. .1 P Apple, the author of the artl cle came to Salt Lake with the party Irom Denver several weeks ago when the big meeting of Denver and Suit Lake people was held In the Commercial Commer-cial club in an effort to have the Midland Mid-land route from Denver to Salt Lake by way of Grand Junction accepted as an official part of the trams-continental highway. .Mr Apple met O J Btllwell at the meeting and became so Interested in Ogden that he spent several days here investigating th claims of tbis city. After being shown the photographs of good roads that are on file at the publicity, he e pressed a desire to travel over them and the result or his experiences along the logical auto highway arc I put forth In the article. In his article, he points out thai tourl6ts traveling over the Midland trail would go away with the belief that Utah Is a desert Along the route favored by Ogdenltes he states the impression is gained that " Utah Is a garden " |