Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1912 — WANT TO REBUILD TRAIL [ARTICLE]

WANT TO REBUILD TRAIL

Young Mormons Will Ask Utah 'Legislature to Appropriate Fund to Improve Old highway. Salt Lake City, Utah.—A movement has been started here by the Mutual Improvement association, a yonng people’s organization or the Mormon church, to induce the state legislature to appropriate sufficient money to improve the “old Mormon trail” from the point where It enters Utah to Salt Lake City and make It a part of the proposed trans-continental automobile highway. The route which .the young Mormon people are seeking to have made Into an automobile highway was the trail over which Brigham Young led his followers when they entered the Great Salt Lake valley in 1874.