Show RICE CANYON ROUTE N ALMOST BEYOND BEL liu E almost beyond comprehension and the notable feature bt of the entire midland trail enthusiastically salta 1 A L west bard gard tico pre precedent and director of the transcontinental ot of the national highways association in speaking of 0 the opening ot of the trail through price canyon uon upon his arrival la in salt lake Throng bout the trip eo so far I 1 have fabled failed to eoe see anything ir in the 0 way ef c that could be compared to that piece of engineering la in tho the minda minds of all automobile it must land stand aa as A a magnificent monument to the enterprise of those who constructed j it la in aadi making the trip from grand junction to salt lake last eit 1 year it took the thirty six brawny men with their nine tars cars just twelve daye days and they thet had to fight every inch of that coa tending as they were with gummy wet adobe attempting to brors arroyos filled with rushing rebuilding long lon stretches of roadway that had bad boan washed out and encountering aa an adobe desert hat that waa was la in the worst con condition dItton possible compare that trip with thia this one last year only onel car arrived in salt laiq la in nn an uninjured condition this year wo we maila made that same trip la in three flays twenty cars with practically no damage that ono one fact will how show better than anything else the wonderful improvement mada la in the roadway furthermore the hip trip we have lust just completed was mida mado with two bowery showery dayd but we did not havo bave that olt problem of crossing streams culverts Cul verta had man constructed which matters when I 1 passed through price caumon last year there vat not even a trail over which a P burro baa could safely travel in tact fact I 1 had to use the roadbed of the railroad to set get through certain portion portions ot that canyon what has been accomplished there Is almost be told yc id belief and what caa be done by ener gotto people |