The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-06-13
DENVER MEETING
DERECARDS UTAH
AND IDAHO ROUTE
Many States Offering
Protest Against
Plans Made at
Denver

| representatives of the communities
in southeastern Idaho and Utah most
interested in the building and MAIN
tanning Of the Utah-Idaho Yellow
stone Highway. The purpose Of the
meeting was to elect delegates to q.
Park-to-Park Highway convention
to be held in Salt Lake City, Utah on
or about June Is, 1921, due notice
of the exact date to be given later.
The Park-t0-Park Highway asso-
citation was organized at Denver,
Colo, about year ago for the pur-
pose Of building a paved highway
from Denver. north to Cheyenne,
Wyo.. from that point to Cody, Wyo.
and from that point to the Yellow
stone park; from the north entrance
Of the park west thru Montana and
Washington. to Seattle and south
along the coast thru Washington,
Oregon and California and then east
thru Nevada, back to Denver, having
the proposed highway designated by
congress as the official Park-to-Park
Highway and so advertised and
known. The meeting at Denver,
when the proposed Park-to-Park
Highway program was outlined,
sought to give out the impression
that the Denver convention repre-
sented the united west and that the
west was asking congress for a fed
eral appropriation Of $1O0,0OO,0OO
for the purpose of building the pro-
posed highway.
The Denver convention ignored
the present Utah-Idaho Yellowstone,
Highway built from Salt Lake thru
Utah north to the Idaho line, from
there to Pocatello. north from that
point thru the upper Snake river val
ley to Yellowstone, Mont. The pro-
p osed Park-to-Park association
makes no mention Of either Utah or
Idaho In the advertising or publicity.
and neither of the states are in
cluded one the highway as being pro-
NOTED by the said association and as
shown on the maps and the advertis-
Ing sent out by the association.
The people Of Utah and Idaho,
western Wyoming, southern Montant
and Of parts Of Nevada and Cali
fornia, Washington and Oregon are
offering protest. The delegates to
The Salt Lake convention will offer
protest to the. program as outlined
BY the Denver convention Of the
Park-t0-Park Highway association,
and arrangements are being made to
have the sections of Idaho and Utah
most particularly interested in the
building and maintaining of high
way thru Utah and Idaho from Salt
Lake to the Yellowstone park to con-
lect with highways from Boise and
he southwestern part Of the state
Ind from the extreme southeastern
part Of the state and the central por-
ions of the state, represented at the
convention. The call for the conven-
ion states that boards OF commits
'ioners, mayors OF towns and vii
ages, presiding officers of civic and
commercial organizations, presiding
'fhcers of automobile and good roads
associations may send delegations to
ne Salt Lake convention, each with
roper credentials SO that those who
re there may be prepared to vote
md act ION the matter which will
'ome up before them for considera-
ion. -
e. M. Kennedy Of the First Ma
tonal Bank has the proper creden-
ials and will give them to any from
lere desiring to attend the meeting.
This meeting should be of interest
o everyone and 1t is hoped that
3lackfoot will be well represented.