White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-02-27

FIELD SECRETARY OSTERMANN
SEEMS NOT TO HAVE HEARD
THAT SUCH A THING AS THE
WENDOVER ROAD EXISTS.

The advocacy of new routes.
started by Salt Lake City. is working
ont fine for the tourist. Road stu
dents interested in the Midland
trail now have a proposed shorten
ing of the route.
There are two principal routes
through Colorado. One Is known as
the Midland trail and the other the
Pixies Peak Ocean to Ocean high
way. Through western Colorado
they coincide until Rifle Is reached.
at which point the latter leaves the
former and goes through Meeker.
Colorado, Vernal and Duchesne.
again joining the Midland trail at
Cotton. offsetting the Midland trail.
which goes through Grand Junction.
Colorado, Greenriver and Price.
Utah Thence both proceed to Salt
Lake and to the coast via. Ely.
The new project is to diverge from
the Midland trail at Greenriver,
thence over Utah state roads,
through Castledaie. Salina. SEWER
Cove and Blackrock. to Garrison and
on to Ely through Osceola. This
route will shorten the Midland trail
129 miles. or course 1t would leave
Salt Lake only 142.5 miles as a side
trip, but think OF the 129 miles 1t
would save the traveller. Perhaps
everybody would take that little side
trip into Salt Lake Just to consult
some of their wise road builders--or
TO visit the race track or the burying
ground-but travellers from the large
eastern cities are not likely to go SO
far out of their way Just to visit
what to them is merely spot on the
map. We know that those who used
TO travel by Ogden refused to make
the 32-mile side trip to see the Nor
mon city, but David Larsen lives in
Ogden. and he furnishes most of the
real life OF Utah.
I Talking about short routes from
the east to Los Angeles, this sounds
like the real thing. Perhaps when
the next Salt Lake jobber visits one
Of its bonehead road boosters and
tries to drive common sense into
his head. that certain aforesaid bone
head will explain how the above out
line will be of benefit to Salt Lake
City.
An amusing story was published
In one of the Salt Lake papers re-
Gently as follows:
"peeved by the fact that a few
sales had been lost through the Ely
boycott representative of a Salt
Lake jobbing house called on w. d.
Rishel, secretary of the Automobile
Club Of Utah. yesterday to protest
against the boosting of the Wend-
over highway. The jobber didn't
Know exactly what he wanted. but
knew that he did want to have the
dificllty arranged so he could get
That Ely business.
1T seems that Ely is opposing Salt
lakes Wendover cutoff because peo-
pie of that town feel that Ely will
lose transcOntinental travellers
through an elimination of the pres
nt Lincoln highway. The Salt Lake
sackers of the Wendover road claim
Ills not a slap at Ely because when
uavelers reach the west end of the
"endover highway they can go
through Ely II they wish. (For
which the traveller and Ely business
men are under great obligation and
must generously thank Salt Lake
The Wendover highway will
mean 10000 more tourists each year
T" salt Lake City, Rishel told the
v'o'estant. Now Just stop and
'u'nk whether 10000 persons pass
Y through this city In single
@r will mean more to the town
uan your ability to sell several bills
of Goods
The kicker couldn't answer"
'his article is not labeled in the
~a Lake paper as a Joke but 1t was
snaps intended for the comic sup
.,"eht and just got into the news
"amns by mistake.
is not explained. nor is any at
mp. made to explain just how the
Sendover route would bring 10000
o. tourists each year to Salt Lake.
'0urse there is no explanation
hssil Will appeal to a man with q
AMY mind. Then again there are
s,..o1'nately 10000 people in this
h' &c, who we're steady purchasers
'su Lake CITY. II sonm. ....oc