The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-03
TRIBUNE TOUR
To MAP ROADS
Pathfinder Car Will Gather
Full Directions for
Auto Travel.
WILL COVER STATE AND
ADJOINING TERRITORY
Complete Maps and Road De-
tails for Readers of The
Tribune.

Local and visiting automobillsts
wishing to tour Utah, eastern Idaho and
western Wyoming will no longer have
to depend on information supplied by
the chi-!ce wayfarer as to roads, grades,
distances and other conditions OF over
land travel The Salt Lake Tribune
has undertaken the task OF preparing
road maps of all autom ohlle routes III
this section. These maps and informa,,
tion will be at the service OF all local
and visiting enthusiasts.
The first installment Of the series OF
maps and directions will appear IN the
Tribune issue of Sunday, August 8.
The Tribune's EMF 30 pathfinder
chr left Salt Lake at noon yesterday
on the first of many trips to be made
in securing data for this complete sys-
TEN of maps and road logs. The initial
run is being made to Evanston, Wyo,
with q return late today and the most
explicit and complete directions VIII
be prepared from the data gathered on
this trip. The car is in charge of VIII
liam Rishel with Chauffeur j. ". Duff
fin accompanying him. The car, one
of the best outputs of the leading auto
mobile factory, is equipped with Dia-
mond tires. While speed is not con
sidered in these trips, 1T is accomplish
ing 4 rapid run.
Extreme care will be exercised in the
preparation of the maps to be compiled
for The Tribune. The most complete
directions for the guidance Of travel.
ers will be secured. including not only
distances. routes, etc, but a complete
summary of the advantages and obsta-
cles Of the various routes. percentage
of grades, character of the roadbeds
and every detail that mi ght be OF adj
vantage to the traveller.
Map Will Be Valuable.
Equipped with one of The Tribune
maps, an automobilist who has never
before been in this section may travel
with perfect confidence the most OBJ
scure roads. relying with safety on the
information compiled by The Tribune
experts. This will result in great
increase Of travel in this section and
corresponding increase in future years
in the number of tourists attracted to
the state.
Joseph f. Caine, secretary of the
Commercial club, warmly approves of
The Tribune project. "We have
great demand for automobile 'logs,' rs
road maps and directions are known"
he says. "This club has published a
CnJu giving lcl
lists. but nothing as complete as planned
by The Tribune. The demand for this
data is so strong that we have had as
many rs ten autoists at one time in
these rooms in search of just the infor
nation you are now compiling
Mr.. Caine is especially pleased with
The Tribune g action, as he is an advo
cate of advertising the many excellent
automobile tours in this vicinity. "We
are anxious to let the general public
know of these great tours awaiting
the automobilists who visit this sec
tion before 1915. the year of the Pan
anna exposition, as thousands of cars
will make tho trip overland. and to the
coast, and if the tourists know of the
beautiful scenery Of this section. so
Lake. we will have thousands of visit
ors who will stop over here en- route
TO and from San Francisco,
Scenery Is Wonderful.
Within fifteen miles from the center
of Salt Lake is some Of the most beau
tiful scenery in the country. This is
seen by few, as the automobilists even
Of this city are not familiar with the
routes TO be taken. while visiting en-.
thusiasts never even hear of these
scenic wonders. 1t is to remedy this
condition that The Tribune at consider.
nble expense is compiling the directions
for the use of the general public.
Many trips through the canyons of
this vicinity would compare favorably
with some of tho most famous of the
c country said Mr. Rishel before leav-
ing on the first leg of his tour "The
trip to the land OF the stairs in Big
CANYON may be made over
an excellent road and through beau.
tifnl valley. ending III the midst of
grand scenery, while numerous other
trips OF this kind await the autoists
when supplied with logs such as we are
The Tribune pathfinding tours will
cover practically every automobile road |
in this state and portions of adjoining
cnes, Utah will he mapped to the
Nevada line on the west, as far as
Evanston, Wyo.. on the east and to
Yellowstone park and through all tho
eastern part of the state of Idaho. The !
data when compiled will he the most
ever attempted by any one
and will be arranged in such form that
n glance will inform the tourist Of the |
most agreeable route to any portion OF
this section.