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Show . NEW HO k LUND TO CEDAR State and County Officials Make Reconnoisance of Highway Big Improvement TO BE SURFACED AND SERVE ENTIRE DISTRICT Plan Urn the Endorsement of Practically Prac-tically Entire County, and Will be Great Boon to Cedar Valley, as Well as Many Other Settlements. i Mr. Carr, Stute Road Agent of the southern counties of the state, and Mr. Miles, lor.it mi' engineer for state minis, were in Cedar City and viein- j ity a few days thin week, their prin-1 eipal mission being to locate one pood highway between the railroad and the Arrowhead Trail which will serve as and be accepted by the federal government gov-ernment for a post road and serve ; the requirements of the people, when it shall have been graded and surfaced sur-faced as an all the year highway. It has been decided quite definitely that a mistake was made in designating and trying to improve two state roads from the railroad to the eastern settlements set-tlements of Iron county, and the propisition is now to select a route for a compromise road that will serve the settlements of this county from Paragonah south to Lund, and which at the same time will lie a suitable post road fon the southern counties of the state. With this purpose in view, the gen-, tlemen above mentioned, in company with the county commissioners of this county and the county and state road commissioner of this county,, conducted a reconnoisance last Wed-1 nesday, and it is claimed that a route , P- ha been selected which will not only : answer the purposes above mentioned, but at the same time be a great boon to all the land owners in the Cedar : Valley. The route of the highway, as tentatively ten-tatively decided upon, will leave Cedar Ce-dar City via the west lane as at present, pres-ent, until it reaches n point north of the "S. A. Higbee farm," when it will turn almost directly north and traverse trav-erse nearly the entire length of the Offer Valley, crossing the low Bald Hills about 18 miles north of Cedar City, and on entering the Ksculantc Valley to the west, will take almost an air line for Lund. It is sta. d by the gentlemen making the preliminary "survey" that the road will probably bt a mile or two shorter than the present route. At first glance this would seem to be impossible, but when we consider that Lund is about 12 miles north of Parowan, it appears ap-pears very probable. Coming from the direction of Lund along this route, the road would fork and form a "Y" where it enters this valley, the other branch turning to the northeast and entering the State north and south highway (Arrowhead Trail) north of Summit, thus serving the settlements of Enoch, Summit, 4 Parowan and Paragonah. It is pro posed to surface this road wherever necessary and make it a first-class i all-the-year route to the railroad. , With the Federal Government, the State and the County all co-operating in the matter, there is no reason why' a splendid road could not lie made and no one feel the burden of it. If this route is decided on it will -' answer the requirements of the Dixie I freighters and wool teams equally as' . WH " it does our own, and may be I entered via the lower road from Ham- L ilton's Fort, if preferable. It will al- so solve a vexed question for this I valley, which has been fenced up with j I little or no regard to road conven-, I iences until now it is next to impos- I sible for farmers to reach their land, E and at liest only by a very circuitous I k route. w If the new route, which is now in F the hands of the State Road Com- L mission and the Federal road author M ities, is decided upon, it will open a K. pleasurable drive way through the expanse of this valley to pleasure ft ekers and will show up the agricul- 6; tural development and possibilities of K the valley as nothing else could. And M if the railroad builds here, the road B will still be needed and a decided ad- Bl vantage and convenience. B It will be remembered that there j was considerable agitation for this compromise road several years ago, before the road via the Parowan Gup to Lund, was built, but was objected to by a number of people at the county seat as well as a number of persons of this place. Now, however, it seems that the people are much nearer a unit on the question, which is being strongly advocated by Preside. ,t Wil-ford Wil-ford Day of Parowan and other prominent prom-inent residents, and has the ndorte ment of the entire bourd of County Commissioners. Remarks heard on the streets and about town here, also, are all favorable to the change. |