The daily sentinel., 1912-01-15
COLORADO-UTA GOOD ROADS
MEET To Be HELD HERE NEXT
APRIL TO BOOST HIGHWAYS
Effort Of Pueblo TO Boost the Santa Fe Trail to Be Thwaed
Governors of Both States to Be Present.-ImpoTtant
Issues TO Be Discussed and Acted Upon
WANT PORTION OF THE FIFTY MILLION APPROPRIATION FUND

An official call Will he issued by
the Grand Junction Chamber of Com
merce within the next few days for
a convention of Colorado-Utah
Highway association to be held in
this city on April Is. 1t is proposed
TO have Governor Spry OF Utah and
Governor Shafroth OF Colorado attend
the meeting and it is understood that
the latter executive has already
agreed to be here.
The purpose. OF the convention Is
O! the most vital Importance to the
two states and particularly to this
section OF Colorado Pueblo has sue
ceeded in having the Good Roads
convention indorse the Santa Fe
trail. and, incidentally the Rainbow
route. The latter, it is believed. was
included in the resolutions as vote
catcher for other parts OF the state
while Pueblo actually intends to
shelve everything for the Santa Fe
route This route takes in but a
fraction of the state and is part
.of the southern highway proposition
and viii reach no community of i'm
uortan'e except Pueblo II is the
one road which does not lead to
Grand Junction.
II is easy to comprehend that Pue-
hlo has undertaken to make a Colo
rado Good Roads cong egs indorse by
implica ion at least o road that will
not do the state as a whole any good
whatever
The purpose of the convention,
therefore. is to bring Colorado and
ctah together in a movement to es-
tablish one OF the several routes
across the range in q direct Colorado
Utah route This will mean a Den
ter-Graud functions Lake city
route that will be of some actual
GOOD to the Two states. Locally it
means that Grand Junction will be
on the most popular OF the great
transCOutinental auto roads from
New York to San Francisco.
For some time an organization hay-
ing its headquarters in Washington.
D.. C. and known as the National
Highway association, has been urg-
ing the passage of measure by con
gress appropriating $4,000. 600 each
year for five years for the eonstruc-
tion and Improvement of transconti-
mental highways This fund will be
apoprtioned TO points with the great
est need and where there is not To-
cal fund to handle the necessary i'm
provements.
If the Colorado-utah line, giving
as it does a perfect route over the
most beautiful scenic land in the
world. can be included in this propos-
ed fund it will be possible to realize
this great highway within a few
years.
Grand county, Utah. for instance
has no funds to complete the road
from the Colorado line on into the
center of the Mormon state. If ma
tional aid can be secured this part of
the highway can be Immediately con
struCted.
It is said that there is no question
but that the measure will pass with
the full appropriation
The date for the meeting here has
been set at April 10, which is Bloom
Sunday. and will furnish the visitors
remarkably good idea of what the
Grand valley looks like when in full
blossom.
Delegates viii be named from a
basis of population so that the CON
VentiOn cannot be packed by nearby
sections as it was in Pueblo Local
people are earnest in their wish that
no more steam rollers shall be set in
motion.