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Show uu A KNIFE THRUST IN THE BACK. Widespread circulation has been given to a dispatch under a Detroit date line, in which the statement Is made that Salt like City wants Ogden Og-den cut off the official route of the Lincoln Highway. On last Sunday, the New York Herald published the story and on the same date the Los Angeles Times had the same article. A bulletin Issued by the "Lincoln Highway " comes to hand today with the same attack, accompanied by a petition from the Rotary club of Salt Lake City, with this introduction "The petition, which was circulated in Salt Lake by the local Rotary club follows It is signed by every member mem-ber of the Rotary club and by many of the heads of the largest business firms of the city Including Mr. Apper-son, Apper-son, general superintendent of the Denver ft Rio Grande railroad, whose lints by the way. run north of the lake." The Rio Grande north of the lake comes as a surprise to the neople of Utah The close of the Rotary club petition peti-tion follows "Whereas, the Weber club and more particularly the Weber Club Publicity bureau, immediately commenced com-menced to discredit the southern route and worked ami used their in fluence to secure state and county appropriations for the improvement of i the northern route to the detriment I of the southern route, and that further, fur-ther, through misrepresentations of their agents, they have diverted automobile auto-mobile tourists from the Lincoln Highway west of Salt Lake City and caused to be printed in national publications, pub-lications, log books, newspaper, etc., articles erroneous in thir statements and detrimental to the best intetests of this state. Salt Lake City, and the Lincoln Highway and ' Whereas, the Rotary club believes that a route south of Great Salt Lake is the most feasible and to the best Interests of the traveling public and the state, and is convinced that the Ogden representatives will never aid or influence the buildinc of such a road, unless through fear of losing the automobile tourists, when perhaps they may agree to -work with this city and with this club for the improvement im-provement of the Lincoln Highway west of this city via the southern route, therefore, be it "Resolved. That the Rotary club of Salt lake City petition the Lincoln Highway association to establish the Lincoln highway through Utah as or Iginally laid out. via Echo. Parley's canyon and Salt Lake City, to the end that the tourist may derive the greatest great-est possible benefit and this important Highway receive the attention that should be given it by the citizens of Salt Lake and the state of Utah." The Standard has more than once said that a crime would be commit ted against Utah to send tourists south of the lake, and dozens or travelers who have been misled into taking that route will support our contention. con-tention. This paper again challenges the Lincoln Highway people to send a disinterested, impartial . committee of road experts over the two trails, north and south of the lake. If the decision of a committee thus con stituted does not confirm what we have said, ell the expenses of the Investigation In-vestigation will be borne by this community. com-munity. It is an outrage to even propose thai all the most beautiful part of Utah, from Ogden to Willard, Prig ham City, Corinne, Bear River ( Ity, Tremonton and on to Snowvllle be eliminated from the automobile map of Utah, to be supplanted by that treeless, sageless desert waste Bouth and west of the Great Salt Iake where even a coyote or a Jackrabbit cannot be found, so desolate and barren bar-ren Is the face of nature. As to the Parley's canyon route, the Rotary club aims to send travelers travel-ers over a great mountain range, rather than allow them to move along the gradual Incline of a water grade ovrr a perrect road tnat runs uirouRn the most beautiful canyon scenery In the United States. A year ago Salt lake fanatics sent the son of Million aire Duke to his death in Parley's canyon can-yon In their eagerness to prevent the young man going over the Ogden j route. Nothing is too desperate for I those sons of selfishness In this rlv-I rlv-I airy over the transcontinental trail. |