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Show AUTO HIGHWAY TO GO SOUTH OF GREAT SALT LAKE A meeting was held at the Weber club today lor the purpose of discussing discuss-ing in detail, matters pertaining to the Lincoln Memorial highway. The meeting was called at the instance ot H. E. Frederickson, counsel-at-largri for the association, who arrived in Ogden yesterday afternoon. Those present at the meeting, in addition to Mr. Frederickson, Were M. S. Browning, Brown-ing, A. P. BIgeldw; H. M, Rowe, W. J. Parker. Arthur Kuhn. Charles Barton and J. D. Larson. For an hour or more matters per-tainlng per-tainlng to the good of Ogden and the Lincoln Memorial highway were dis-cussed dis-cussed and" many things regarding the undertaking were made clear by Mr. Frederickson. He announced that the highway would come through Echo canyon to Ogden, then to Salt Lake City. From there it would go to Ely, New, and then, by way of Reno, to California. The visitor also explained explain-ed that the reason for the route around the south end of the lake to Ely, Nev., from Salt Lake City, instead in-stead of around the north, end of the Great Salt Lake, was that it was desired de-sired to get as near as -possible to Los Angeles. The people of Loa Angeles, An-geles, he said, intended to build a road to Ely, that would connect with the Lincoln highway. Mr. Frederickson also told the Ogden Og-den men that two short cuts from Salt Lake City to Ely had been located lo-cated and that the phortest and' the " - ----- - ; i- cheapest one to build would be finished fin-ished within a few months and would make it possible for automobllists to make the run between the two cities In a day. This route will run from Redding Springs, over the desert to the north end of Granite mountain, by way of the Johnson Pass. After the meeting, Mr. Frederick-son Frederick-son stated that President Henry B. Joy of the Lincoln Memorial Highway association nnd a party" of automo-bilists automo-bilists would drive over the route within the next six weeks. All the states through which the highway will pass, except Nevada and Utah, have already marked the route. Nevada will have its i larking done within a month, and Mr. Frederickson will hold a meeting in Salt Lake City tomorrow to-morrow morning with Governor William Wil-liam Spry and members of the Salt Lake Commercial club and the Weber We-ber club, for the purpose of getting the Utahns to "get busy" and have their share of the route marked out before President Joy makes his trip. The Ogden men who will be at the meeting in Salt Lake are M. S. Browning, A P. Bigeiow, H. M. Rowe, J. D. Larson and R. E. Bristol. Mr. Frederickson will remain in Ogden Og-den tonight and go to Salt Lake with the Ogden men. in the morning. ' |