Show an open letter tetter LL the folloN following vIng letter was wa sent to the lh aper till thia weak eok by mr r alf alfred red kearl of utah with the i request ahat it be published j march 20 19 1920 mr alfred kearl laketown Lake town utah butali 1 dear mr rear kearl is made to your letter of march 17 WO we do not lot have very informal in respect to 10 the proposed road between ogden and randolph via monte 11 onto crato luti but what information we have indicates indic sites unit that it a through rond rend along till line would be expensive much mow go Q than I 1 think the promoters realize it would appear to me that the expense would not be warranted wai ranted particularly in the near future and while I 1 am not opposed to the roud road if tile state und and counties concerned are agreda ble to it and can flaum the portion out outage sAde the alie forest I 1 am ain not appi for it thera seems sect iii to be two general routes that might be followed over conle 10 nt crasto one leaving beaver a couple of miles below the beaver creek cicek summit and el around arcuria to the south of tile the main peak thence going goin norlie northward nor hward ird to bill the old oil road to randolph the other route pases pase pas es through denver beaver creek mit then drops into skunk creek ond extends northward north of the annin peak and thence to randolph I 1 believe the former bouto would be entirely within weber and rich ilich counties while the other route would cross crasi it a portion of cache county no accurate estimate has been made of the cot of the road but I 1 believe it would be not less than the following ant bunns wt weber countes Coun tys share 2 national a dional foi afis to dependent upon which route was selected rich county 4 aih allare ne LOM the amount t of cacilie countes Coun tys share is included within the above estimated thita ted amounts for weber and rich Coun counties tle As you know nil all forest tl ishway funds fluid which aro arci avul available lable for the wC action tion of tulsi road cros shig national forest land ire are programmed under agreement between tile state bureau of public roads and the r boref lt service ervice 1 15 und and lf if as stated above the state and bureau of pub ife lc ROOM would be willingto use forest highway money on the portion oath of the aaros w 4 tzi ane national lial F forest 01 arld the Mian cing of the eliares of weber crunity cache county and rich county could be accomplished I 1 would raise no objection to placing forest idaway funds on the national forest portion very sincerely your R IT II i district strict forester |