The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-12-14
CHEYENNE PLACED
IN AIRSHIP TRIP
Dr.. BrOdbeCk Discusses Latest
Plans for His Scheme to
Navigate Air.
ROUTE is NOW LAID OUT
TOURISTS WILL VIEW GRANDEUR
OF MOUNTAINS FROM ABOVE.

Cheyenne is now on the aerial map,
for the Western Airship company has
just completed details whereby the Wy
oming city will be the final turning
point on the proposed birdseye course
over the Rockies.
DR.. A. BrOdbeck of Salt Lake, who or
ganized the company, has now cOmplet-
ed all details for airship excursions to
all wonders Of the West and his COM
pany has planned to take in everything
worth seeing from the sights of south
ern California to the petTified forests
of the Yellowstone national park.
Speaking Of his plans, DR.. Brodbeck
said: 1.-THE Zeppelin airships, now
world-famous, will be used to go over
the aerial speedway. The company has
enlisted the support of the Commercial
club TO induce the city to turn over a
starting station at Ensign peak, from
which airships in the near future may
skim across the Salt Lake valley,
above the Great Salt Lake to Ely and
Goldfeld and the great mining camps
Of Nevada. From there the airships
viii go to the Yosemite and from lofty
heights view the wonders of the great
dreamland.
Sailing over the Yosemite valley the
airships will view other wonders in Cal
ifornia, and will then tack to the north
east and take in the Yellowstone park.
SwOOpi1g down upon this wonderland,
the tourists carried in these great me
chanicaI birds will be given a treat
lasting several days, and then the air
ships viii start on another lap of the
great course to Cheyenne Wyo. All
other points had been planned until
Cheyenne was put on the schedule re-
Gently.
From Cheyenne the course will be
to Denver, Colorado Springs, Pixies
Peak, Pueblo, and other points Of in
terest when the nose of the big ma
chine will be again turned westward
and pass into the Garden Of the Gods.
Crossing the Utah-COlorado lines and
skirting the southern edge Of the Blue
mountains, the airship viii touch at the
Natural Bridges, which is now ma
tiOnal park, and will then hit across the
serried desert between the Blues and
the Grand Canyon Of the Colorado. The
airship viii actually follow the course
Of the Grand canyon down as far as
Bright Angel trail, where the tourists
will again be allowed TO set foot on
earth and stretch their legs.
"Swishing through the air and swing
ing to the north, the airships will make
a straight course for Salt Lake, cover
ing nearly the entire length Of Utah.
TwelVe-Day Trips.
It viii take twelve days. according
to Dr. BrOdbeck, to complete this
amazing trip over the Rockies, and
/ thousands of miles will have been COW
cred. DR.. Brodbeck says that an eff
fort is being made to get the United
States government to set aside lands
near national parks and other points
Of. interest where the airships may
ahght, and he confidently expects that
| the requests that are to be made will
/ be granted.
1T will cost $500. all expenses paid, %
! said DIT. BrOdbeck last night. "That
isn't so much, considering that every
wonder in the west of any Importance
will have been visited in so short a
space of time. And to think of seems
all these things and much more Won
dertul country from an airship makes
the amount seem very small indeed.
The Zeppelin airships, which we
shall use, VIII carry Is or 30 pGssen-
gers, and it is only a matter of money
to make a machine 900 feet long that
Will carry at least 100 persons. The
| Zeppelin airship has passed the point
| of experiment, and over in Germany
many of them are being made that are
carrying passengers. The record has
| been that there is not a single injury
| from it ali.
Our company viii employ German
| experts, and we will import the air
| ships direct from Germany. Of course,
/ they viii come I'm pieces and the ex-
| perts will put them together on the
ground. The German experts will op-
crate the machines until our pilots get
acquainted with them, and then they
Will be run solely by Americans
1T is a wonderful thing to cOntem-
plate, but it VIII be done in the near
futE-e, and next spring we expect to
send our first order for an airship We
have had many inquiries from pros
pective tourists and will do a tremen-
dOus business.
salt Lake is most important for two
! reasons. and that is why we will have
our headquarters here. In the first
| place, this city is midway between
Denver and the coast, and in the sec
Ond, it is the very center of all the
wonders in the Rocky mountains
| When we get our tourist airship line
running it viii be common to take a
| jaunt over the highest peaks of the
Rockies and view all Of the wonders.
We are going to make arrangements
with hotels and inns on the route and
make a flat rate for the entire trip"
Removal Sale.