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Show TOOELE - BINGHAM LOOP PROPOSED Tootle Lions Ask Bingham Ki-Wiaiis Ki-Wiaiis To Cooperate A delegation of prominent business bus-iness inen, members of the Tooele Lions eluli paid a visit to the Bingham hivvanis club last Thursday to solocit their aid and cooperation in a movement to open op-en a direct highway between these two towns. The proposed road would pass through Butterfield Canyon to the top of the divide, then down Middle Canyon and out into Tooele Valley. Such a road it wan pointed out, woum tiring t lie two cil.ies witli-iu witli-iu 12 "or 13 miles of each other, the present nearest accessible road being by way of Magna and Garfield, a distance of 47 miles. It would also be the connecting link necessary to complete a loop for a wonderfully scenic drive for tourists and others desiring to see the great open cut mines ot the I'tah Copper Co., the beautiful beauti-ful canyons and the great, indus trial plants on both the east and west sides of the Oquirrh mountain moun-tain range, in an auto trail of only on-ly two or three house drive out of Salt Lake City. The proposed route would nt-tain nt-tain an elevation of nearly 8,-()()() 8,-()()() feet, above sea level, with a magnicifent view extending from the Antelope Islands which rise from the middle of Great Salt Lake, to I'tah Lake and Mt. Tim-pa Tim-pa nngus on the east. The Kiwanis club was favorable favor-able to the proposition provided a feasible road plan and methods of financing the construction can. tic worked out. The Lions club committee appointed ap-pointed to visit the Kiwanis club and who laid the matter before Jhein, were; 15. iX. Evans, Lelvoi Bent ley, J. 15. Baldwin and Sol J. Selvin. The Kiwanis club appointed ap-pointed ii commit tee, to euVt'i"ato i with the Too.'le committee as follows: fol-lows: (leo. Earl, Pres. of the club, J. B. Myers and Richard J. Bryant. Bry-ant. These committees will be together to-gether and go into details of the matter in a short time, after which they are to report their recommendations back to .'heir respective dubs. |