The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-08
NEW AUTO ROAD
IS MAPPED OUT
Southern Route Being Estab-
iished Between Denver and
Salt Lake.
UTAH AND COLORADO To
JOIN HANDS ON MATTER
Commercial Club of This City
Will Assist i'm Every Way
Possible.

With the exception of few miles
between Price and Scofeld, good roads
enthusiasts and automoblllsts beiieVe
possablc road has been mapped out be-
twcen Salt Lake and Denver by
southern route which fills in the link
between San Francisco and the east
with Salt Lake as central point i"c
now road will be printed in the inter
national guide book rs one OF inc Trans
continental roads. Members OF tnc
GOOD roads committee and members
rs tbo automobile committee met AT
tho Commercial club Friday night 10
hear members of pathiinders party
tell OF the new route, which the Pai'n
has lust traNersed, arriving Iu '0a''
Lake Fr, day morning.
The new road will give tourists il
ronte through Salt Lake instead OF senu-
inr them dowa through New MeNic9
and .Arizoua or IN north; eltner ,r VI
which routes left Salt Lake out la9
rarty will attempt 10 blaze 4 new roho
from Salt Lake TO San Francisco .nelS -,
by cutting off 400 miles on that emo o'
The route. The party left Mohne, lie
for the express purpose of hndinS tnc
new route. ;.
Colorado commercial bodies and au'
+omobiIists arc interested ia the plan
and in the party Is q representative VI
the Denver Commercial club. the asso
ciate editor of the Motor Field. Den
yer publication, and the stan photog
rapher OF the publication. The driver
of the car is W. a Peck from Omaha,
while r. +. Mavo is factory rcpreseu
tativc and looks after the car on the
trip.
Meeting Is Informal.
At The meeting Friday night. which
was informal suggestions were made AS
to the wcrk that should be done to
make the route easy to follow and drive
over nv tourists The driver. w. y.
Peck. saws the route the party took can
be made n transcontInental route by 4
comparatiyely small amount of work.
Between Salt Lake and Denver there
is tho need of good many culverts
and bridges and some work in pulling
down the high centcrs OF the road.
In all that distance Mr.. Peek says
less than ten miles of actual road build
ing will he necessary to make the road
passabic for the ordinary drivers. He
saws the route by way of Tennessee
pass does not possess many of the i'm
passablc barriers generally supposed 10
be reason enough to deter automobile
tourists from attempting the drive. He
saws the road as taken by the party
offers some of the grandest scenery in
the country and when once established
as trauscontinental route with the i'm
provcmcnts necessary thousands of pco-
pile will travel it bringing greater part
of the eastern tourist travel through
Salt Lake.
Complete Data Made.
While the party did not turn bach
from tho road from Price to Scofeld, ii
was agreed that the road is too difficult
for a road for tourists, On the return
trip this part of the route will be es-
tablished.
Complete data was made on the new
route aud the Commercial club will Al
once take up the matter of having the
different counties make the necessary
improvements. Colorado Commercial
clubs will cooperate in the work, thus
completing the work started by the
pathfnAers.
In 1915 the Panama Pacific exposition
will attract thousands Of automobiists.
All over the east and south plans al.
ready are making among motorists to
make an overland trip to visit tho cX-
position and it is considered of the
greatest Importance that Salt Lake
should be on the best route across the
mountain states To this end the Com
mercisl club will work with confidence
IN soon accomplishing this end. On ac
count of short notice many members of
the two committees of the club were nm
able to attend the meeting However it
was an nthuslastic meeting