Show THE OLD SETTLER dy by albeit R lyman there is to be a road connecting our big biff bridges and our part of the country with the wonderlands wonder lands of southern utah our reason for being sure that that road will be built is that it is known how much marh it will mean in money to the people of utah and to the whole tourist fraternity with what is known about it the question is no longer about being able to afford such a road for the cost of it will not begin to be what we will profit from it when it is made seventy or eighty thousand cars come every year to mesa alesa verde seen ery bent with cash inclination to come right on into utah if there were a road but since wonderlands wonder lands are to be reached only by way of cape horn they turn in some other direction and our state gets but a small per cent of them and every year the same number of cars come into utah from the west but with no way to answer the lure of the colorado river country and the big bridges on this side they turn away where otherwise they would spend more time and money in the state beginning with the big ruins on the animas at aztec and coming this way to mesa verde the tourist is starting on one of the longest most interesting and most varied strings of worth worthwhile while sights in the united states but that string is broken by a stretch down white canyon on this side of the colorado and up on the other side when this isthmus of wilderness is crossed by a suitable road the tens of thou sands of cars from this side will go eo on over and the tens of thousands from the other side will come on through here bere to mesa verde ahen when the fact of this road is generally known in an even greater number of cars will be attracted from both directions and san juan will be animated with traffic as never before it is estimated that eversp every car crossing the state will leave ten dollars between its eastern and western boundary multiply that by the estimated number of cars and see what it will mean in money our county will come in for its share at the ratio to which it comes up to standard with its services for these travelers will do the greater part of their spending where the inducement is greatest to buy the coming of this hungry multitude will justify development of gardens orchards and vineyards at every suitable place along its line of march at the crossing of the colordo there is is likely to spring up a 4 village for at that point is abundance of water with rich alluvial alluvia land and climate for fruit and melons to temp a king the market will consist not only of this endless procession with v ith ft abet betted te d appetites for sweet and juicy things in the desert but there being a road over which men carl can get out from these fertile places with their stuff to mae market c et they will make good use of the road and be a factor in it it upkeep the opening of this road through the heart of san juan county may mean the very greatest stride the country has ever made in so short a time towards its big destiny it will be much to the advantage of the people ot of the county to anticipate this big event instead of waking up later on to discover that men from the outside have taken splendid things which we might have had |