Show AUTO association discriminates AGAINST BASIN misleading statements given tourists regarding road conditions I 1 never in the history of the uintah basin have roads entering ter ing from every direction and traversing 0 the basin been in in as good condition as they have this spring this is partly due to the light winter and lack of rainfall rain fall this spring 0 none of which fell until last week the other reason is that more work was done on oil the roads earlier in the season because of the open weather another reason is that duchesne Duclie sile and uintah counties have had more money to spend for this purpose also the roads never being ra soft for any length of time have not been cut up by the heavy trucks as in previous years with all these facts before the utah automobile association in salt lake city imagine the surprise of the roosevelt business men when the news kept filtering through to the effect fact that from the alie association headquarters the uintah basin was being discriminated against in routing tourist traffic just as lias has been done in the years passed it was not until the other day that definite knowledge was brought in by tourists who had disregarded the information given and came through the basin to see our wonderful country of which they had heard so much they expected to I 1 have bave a terrible trip but thought they would be repaid for it by seeing the uintah basin first hand mile after mile they traveled expecting all the time to find the bad roads they had been warned against reaching roosevelt they wanted to know where it was the bad roads were to be encountered and when told they had come across probably lie he worst strip of the bad roads expressed surprise that such information had been given out as reliable from state automobile headquarters they were free to say that the roads traveled thus far in the basin were equal to those over which they had come and superior to sonic some just why from salt lake city a traveler is directed to go out of the state over a desert from price to grand junction or i immediately leave the state via wyoming in place of seeing one of the show places of utah over an equally good road is what the roosevelt commercial club intends finding out A committee will ini immediately mediately check up on the statements which they have and no doubt which they will be able to get from tourists who travel through the basin and also those who are routed away from the basin another way to get an all absolute check on oil just what is being done along tills this dis line is for every Bas Basin inife ifo who happens liap pens to be in ill salt lake city to step into the automobile headquarters and inquire the best roads to take to denver and other eastern points let us learn first hand every uintah basin commercial club should make such a loud protest that eliat the noise would be heard from coast to coast to be an isolated section is bad enough but to get a genuine enu black eye at the beginning 0 of the tourist travel when h 11 our roads were never better is a blow below the belt a real stab in the dark and given at the very point where least expected all any uintah Ba Basl nite asks or lias has ever asked is a square deal the true condition of all the roads inquired about be given tourists and let them be the judge as to which rou route te they should take discrimination against the uintah basin in m favor of any route should be resented by every person living in the basin lot let the traveling public know the facts is all we ask |