The Meeker herald., 1913-03-22
is COMING OUR WAY
The Salt Lake City-V ernal- Meeker
Route for The Big Highway

The Salt Lake City ernalMeekor
Route for The Big Highway
The last issue Of the Veral Express
has the following interesting com
ment on the "Transcontinental High
way" proposition
IA race from Cotton TO Denver,
one automobile to 60 by way Of the
Midland trail and the other through
the Uintah basin.
Machines to be used must be Of the
same make, same horse power and
just out of the factory. Let friends Of
each proposed route be on each ma
chine or other machines TO follow.
This race can be run next summer,
in time to meet the 100 autoists from
Indianapolis, who are to make tour
Of inspection. Advocates Of the Md
land and Of the Uintah Basin routss
can At that time present their reasons
and make their arguments. No exag-
geration as to the good or bad points
Of the respective roads will be possi-
BILE, - . Uintah Basin committe will
have travelled the Midland and .
committee Of that route will have
gone over this.
There is but one possible route
through Utah and Colorado and that
Is the Vernal-Steamboat routs. II
the Midland people will accept the.
challenge for . race, to be pulled Oh
the latter part Of next June, there
will be no question as to the winner.
The crowd behind this ocsan-to-
ocean highway want the best route
that can be found through this conn-
try. This il the way to decide which
IL the better of the two proposed
Would the Midland outfit accept .
challenge for race? They know our
machine would get into Denver ~
least ten hours ahead of their ms
chine. We have the best foundatio0
for road, the most inducements il
the way Of scenic attractions, water,
fuel, fishing and hunting, scientific
wonders, and the shorter way BY 1t
least 100 miles. The Midland trailers
do not hope to win on their inertia
They just want to win and they ~
resorting to all kinds Of methods. N
be sure they cannot be blamed tx
wanting the route, but they can b
blamed for not toting fair. They
managed to got IN appropriation ~
e6N0oo tlsro~ehs 18th hesssA~ 4eJe4
Utah legislature, but whom Il went
70 the governor he refused TO sign 1t
In that form. It was returned to the
senate for amendment and when the
governor received 1t again 1t was
slightly disngured. Uintah county is
not now required to pay taxes for the
benefit Of other counties through
which this trail is wanted. In . letter
to the Vernal Express, Representa-
tive Enos Bennion has this to say
with reference to the appropriation:
1.-THE Midland Trail bill has again
passed, but 1t carries = provision that
the money comes out Of the general
road appropriation Of the respective
counties through which the trail
passes.
''As they can not start to build the
road for that amount, $4,000 through
Boxelder county and $4,000 from
Cotton to the state line, I think they
will have simply wasted their money
and the road will never be a road. So
Uintah county wants to keep on
working with Steamboat Springs and
the trafiic will come our way anyhow.
1.-THE general road bill carries
$500 for each county"
The road from Jensen to the TX"
ranch has been designated ~ state
highway. A part Of the $500 due
Uintah county can be used in that
work. All we need to do now is to
get busy