Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-08-03
AUTOMOBILE ROAD
TO SALTA|R BEACH
Approach Through Sand Hills
viii be Built 10 Pa
yiIion.
NEW ROUTE FOR TOURING.
Partly NlaCadamifcl Roadway Can De
Followed 10 Garfield Via Hunter aud
FairyieW, With no Bad Ruts.

Within a week a new automobile
driveway win be- opened up near salt
Lake, that viii materially promote the
interests Of pleasurable motoring. Its
terminal is the Saltair pavilion. and the
roadway VIII be opened clear to the
beach so that ear drivers win not have
any Inconvenience IN going ont IN their
cars instead OF over the railroad.
The demand for such ana auto route
has been Of long standing. The auto
mobile club worked on 81 last wear. and
this year the reorganized club threat
cued 10 DO something, and then apsed
into silence. Part OF the work had al
ready been done. however. and d good
road had been built leading westward
as far as Garfield Il ended high and
dry ln the sand dunes along the old
lake shore and automobiles have as
yet been unable 20 tight their way
through the loose sand onto the beach.
Sunday last "a party composed Of
members Of the automobile club. who
last year were interested IN opening M
= westward driveway rode over the
route.
They went south along the Main
street boulevard 10 Twelfth South,
where autoing IS now az SIS best. then
west on Twelfth South over beautl-
fully constructed new Stag r0adbed 10
the Redwood road. aud then south TO
me road free from dust and chuck
holes, that leads west TO Hunter and
Pleasant Green. Much Of this road rs
macadamzed with crushed Stag base,
the work having been done by the
county this year.
At the new Garfield smelters, which
were reached in less than an hour.
cut was made n0rthward across the
sagebrush. over a road where the au-
toing u SIN pleasant To the Inland
Crystal Salt works Here trouble be-
gan.
II was found that there was no
chance 10 get on 90 the hard beach
as sand piles stalled the machine Wher-
ever an EFFORT was made. The party
left II in the sand and walked on foot
the Intervening mile 20 the pavilion
There they met Mr. Langford and IN
talking over the case with him, he
promised 20 have the sand cleaned
away az once. and construct an ap-
Ir0ach % the pavilion. Since then Mr..
1angford has gone over the course near
the pavilion and plans have been made
10 have the work done az once.
Scrapers will be used 10 clean away
The sand 10 hard bottom. where the
,Toad runs into the sand hills at the
beginning Of the old shore line, and az
Ter this difficulty Is removed splendid
automobile road VIII open all the way
10 the lake once the machines find
their way onto the sand. the posslbill-
ties % the game seem unlimited. f~
there are miles OF unobstructed hard
sand lying both towards the north and
south. where speeding conditions should
he perfect.
Automobile users IN Salt Lake have
Gong been bomoaning the fact that
There was no place 20 80 except
-around both sides and down the mid
die" borrowing an expression fitting
she fayorite driveways in Liberty park
The run 20 Saltalr however seems "a
open mp a new fed. and N the beach
lnnning Is found as good as Il appears
10 be. Salt Lakes automoblllng oppor-
funities WIN not be excelled IN the
United states. outside OF the Florida
coast and few places IN California.
where they have learned the value Of
oil roads