Show opening new route to pacific coast won word ii was as hecei received ed i esterday esterd ty in a letter to the tribune that a party of los angeles business men would leave within the next few dais for I 1 b bill bilt like in an automobile to explore and open a new route from los angeles to salt lake the road proposed MI clo ely follow the salt lake houte route between be teen these two cities if the plans of the los angeles people are carried out it will mean another automobile highway connecting salt lake and los angeles it will also mean that sooner or later there will be a contest between rival towns on the pre present ent high highway vay betin between een salt lake and los angeles known as the connecting link to lincoln highway and the new route which the los angeles party hopes to open up before this contest starts it might be well to warn narn the rival towns of both routes that salt lake welcomes all the roads possible but further that salt lake neither through any of its commercial bodies state highway officials or otherwise has in any way manner or shape had bad anything to do with the promotion of this new los angeles route work on this new route roule has been going on quietly for the past two years already cars have reached salt lake over it from los angeles but it is not known that a single car has cone gone to los angeles from salt lake on the proposed route the main trouble has been the crossing of the virgin river just after leaving the utah elate state line there is no bridge there and as the water mater is quite deep an automobile must be towed across this ford for this reason alone few care cars haze have ever ener made the trip the route waa nas first proposed two to years ago by the business men of las vegas nev and san bernardino cal they have since interested loa los angeles people and now a start is 13 being made to boom the road the route as proposed apropo ed will leave los angeles by was of san bernar dino cal and land las vegas nov nev Bun bunkerville kerville nev across the northwest corner of arizona entering utah at st george from st george it will follow the main state highway to salt lake through the towns of toquerville cedar city parowan carowan Pa rowan beaver fillmore scipio juab nephi and provo with the exception of provo none of these towns has ever hid any connection with a trane transcontinental continental automobile route and they can therefore be depended upon to get buy as soon as the boomers come along and cry aloud that they be recognized delegations will probably besiege salt lake and demand that salt lake help them through while in the meantime if pact past history can be depended upon other delegations will demand that salt lake assist the older route according to information received the promoters claim the new route will be miles shorter than tha present one it will be open nearly twelve months of the year this is the claim made by those interested te and is not a statement of tile writer this route will also more nearly follow the railroad but the one strong feature of the route from the tourists point of view la is the fact that it will give a connection to the grand canyon from the north something none of the various transcontinental routes entering salt lake either ither from the west or east does now from the states point of view are the tile following strong becom iw fint tho road ig already M as far as utah Is concerned there will therefore be no demand on an utah to build pirt of the highway whether the route ever sees a transcontinental tourist or not it will be kept in shape for el second it will give the eastern tourist a chance to see the agricultural parts of utah there mil be no talk of utah deserts on this route and there will be plenty of towns to take care of the tourists this is what the promoters Dro motors of the route have before them aa as inducements to use this route to california against this is the argument that it cuts out the lincoln highway from salt lake aest est then the town of ely and goldfield in nevada would be passed up by all who take the new route these cities have been important factors in transcontinental travel in the pat past and naturally will make male a strong fight to keep it about a year ago a party of los angeles busi business nebs men came to silt salt lake booming the present road now another party is headed this way to interest salt lake in another route the first inRi insisted sted they had the right road and the coming visitors will probably say the same thing W D in salt lake |