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Show II OVERLAND IS I REAL ROUTE Salt Lake. Sept. I -Selection of the Overland route through Wyoming has already been decided upon by the officials of the Lincoln Highway association, according to W. H Ellison Elli-son and thfl governor, who have Inst returned from 'he ('.rand Junction moating of forty representatives of the Midland trail. The governor also attended the conference of Governors at Colorado Springs While the Wyoming route has hen H selected bv the Lincoln association. as the route for hard surfacmc' said H Mr Ellison the proposal of the Lin coin association calls Tor an impossible impos-sible expenditure If thp highway is built over the Overland route It will cost the state of Wyoming $10.-H $10.-H OnO to $12,000 for every mile The B same thing would have ben demand- m ed of Utah if the Midland trail had , H been selected, an ! would have been Just as Impossible Will Improve Trail. H. "Notwithstanding (his selection, the H Midland trail will be Improved and VX the major portion of the tran6contln-1 t ental automobile traffic will pass Hv over this route. Denver plans the j B' construction of a road from Jaleeburgl Hl to Denver and from Denver to Tie jv Siding to bring the transcontinental H! ' tourists through Denver The greater j Bf. number of them will be sent through ; Rfj to Salt Lake over the Midland trail. ! Hh' "Even with the Oxerlurd (rial Be-lected Be-lected Ogden may have to Oght to r get on the highway, should It be Bf built. The route selected will enter H Salt Lake through Parley's canyon. 1 As yet It has not been decided Bi the route from here will be by the ; Hrc north or the south end of the lake. H However , the indications are that the ( HtL southern route will be settled. HlL "As a matter of fact It was not the ' HI condition of the Midland trail In HjL Utah that brought about the .selection 19 of the Overland as much as It was the high grades in ( olorado. 1 Believes Plan Not God. Ht "I doubt very' much if a transcon-H transcon-H 1 tinental highway will ever be built under thp plan of (he Lincoln Highway High-way association Leea than ori-half of the $10,1 000 has been raised. ana consiaerani work ana engineering engineer-ing expense is to be. encountered "The Midland trail delegates at H Grand Junction passed resolutions H congratulating the advocates of the Overland route on Its selection as to H the one to be hard surfaced. In ad- fl dltion to this we Invited a frlendly I rivalry In competition for automobile j traffic and challenged them to com- I plete their route In less time than i we do." Under present plans, said the governor, gov-ernor, as outlined to governors of western states by H B Joy and Carl Fisher, president and vice president ' respecth ely, of the Lincoln Hlsrhway association, the road will split east of Denver, one route going through i! the Colorado capital to Santa Fe and ' Los Angeles and being known as the winter highway, while the other will go through Cheyenne to Ogden, Salt , Lake and thence to San Francisco, this being the summer highway "I do not think that the western I states will get much benefit from this highway movement." said the govern .or last night. 'The fact that the association as-sociation will give Its aid only to a road supplied with a concrete base, which will cost $10,000 to $12,000 a , mile, means that the cost of such a I road Is too high. "The conference of governors Included In-cluded such Incidents as advocacy of I the abolition of legislatures, but few topics were taken up which were of distinctive Interest to Utah " aaa i m |
