Show ROAD BOM commission C GETS BACK OF WIM extension of rood road from springfield mo would give utah another transcontinental highway plans that have been formulating lor for a couple of years past through the efforts of the chamber of commerce of independence kas KA aarand Rand and the people of southeastern utah bid fair to speedily result resul resulting tin in this part pait of olour our shnte being placed on an ocean to ocean highway and make accessible to the motoring world an all year road through the hitherto inaccessible wonderland of the country by action of the state road commission this week according to an article in the salt lake tribune which states in a letter to W C markham executive secretary of the american association of state highway boffl cills the state road commission of utah through the chairman henry H blood requests that the executive committee of the association at it meeting in washington may 26 consider the proposed extension of U S route 60 from its present terminus at springfield mo as far as mont cello utah ultimately the state hopes hop this route will be extended through utah and arizona and back into utah to andersons Ander sens ranch on U S route 91 the salt lake los angeles highway the state of utah writes mr blood is interested in the matter of the proposed extension of U 9 highway 60 into and a nd u ultimately through the southern part pait of oar our state if it Is s from what you say that the present by he states east of us colorado kansas and missouri is that U S route 60 shall enter our state skate from TrIn trinidad idna colo absorbing the present U S route and terminating for the time being at monticello it is also noted that tha you think US highway gresant gre sInt from walsenburg isenburg wa 9 colo Co loto 6 utah by way of monticello should stand as it is from monticello the ultimate design being to continue this highway south westerly through san juan county to the arizona state line thence by way of kaynon and tuba city grand canyon bridge jacobs like lake and fre donla all in arizona to io the utah arizona line between fredonia Fie donla and and thence byway by way of kanab mt carmel junction and zion national park to a junction with U S route no 91 at abersons ranch utah your statement that U S route 60 will have to terminate at monticello for the present in no n 0 way changes our desire to have the extension of the highway made as tar far as monticello at atthe the present time |