Show THE HOAD HOID TO LA ll PLATA with the fall consciousness of the fate late that anaita us when these lines shall reach and bo be read in cache valley TUB THE STANDARD again aliberta that la data plata ia Is nearer to ogden than to lotan logan by road I 1 two competent and experienced men who have traveled over both roada roads to and from the mine declare to this paper that from logan to la plata ia in fully 29 miles this is corroborated by parties who have traveled and are in the habit babit of traveling between logan login and the camp from oden ogden to la plata via the new road ro d now nearine completion the eibest estimate of the distance by those who have traveled it ia Is 27 milea miles thus is this city not only at least two miles nearer to la plata than logan ie Is but the miners and their product are also fifty milea miles nearer the rest of the world when they get here than they would be if they went to logan oar cache county friends may way take this a little unkindly but the truth unpalatable though it be to them must come out it la Is rumored that selectman foy has in mind the locating of the new road dp up the west fork of the middle fork canyon to reach the summit from the best beat information we have been ab able e to gain this would be a serious mistake the judgment of men well qualified to peak speak on the subject is that the east fork offers a much easier route its grades are not BO so heavy and its obstacles will be far less difficult to overcome it is earnestly to be hoped that th the e work which has been going on so satisfactorily will not be marred now that it is nearly fi finished bed by any error whose correction will involve delay and additional expense the best beat and easiest route is to follow up the east fork of the middle fork canyon and the way the road should go |