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Show NEW TRAIL HAS BROUGHT SORROW That was a severe blow the Mir? land trail received, when the well equipped Indiana part brake tip into number of groups owing to the almost Impassable condition of the road fronr Colorado Into Utah While we are forced to admire the enterprise with which the people from Salt Lake southeast along the route to the Colorado Btate line have gone ahead to accomplish that which we were assured was next to Impossible, Impos-sible, still we find ample reasons why regret should be expressed over the campaign which resulted In the In dlana automobile tourists being persuaded per-suaded not to follow the Overland trail but. Instead, to try tho experl raent of crossing this state on a new, and, necessarily rought and dusty, road Had the strangers come Into the state through Echo and Weber canyons., can-yons., down which there Is a hard, firm, water-level road, with no danger points, and through which the scenery Is Indescribably fascinating for those who are from the prairie states, and had they made a side trip to Salt lake and then gone out of Utah by way of the orchard lined road from here to Brlgham City, a more favorable impression would have been made than Is now being Imparted by the desert dust and dangers of the Midland Mid-land route. One of the special correspondent B describes the dust-covered travelers as real heroes because they have so uncomplainingly endured the bar ships of the first fifty miles wlthlo the state of Utah. They may be h roes, but heroes, like common mor tals have memories to remind thm of the unpleasant things of life, and, In this case, Utah will profit nothing by the recollections except to be gratefully appreciated through the efforts ef-forts put forth to make up In kindness and courtesy for that which was lack lng In road facilities The tourists were to have made "9 miles the first day out of Grand Junction and 64 miles today That 1b almost equal to the running time consumed con-sumed by Frank Botterill. in covering the entire distance from Salt Lake to Denver, the latter part of June, over the Overland route, when a speed equal to that of the Denver & Rio Grande trains was maintained The . I comparison should leave no doubt In the minds of the Impartial that a blunder was made In Inducing ihe present automobile party to follow the Midland. on |
