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Show NEW ROUTE IS PROPOSED BY SPRINGVILLE Springville Delegation Meets With State and Federal Road Officials. A decided change in the route of the state highway from the mouth of Spanish Fork canyon to Springville Spring-ville was presented to the state and federal road officiars at a meeting In the Utah county courthouse Fri-, day, by a delegation from Spring- j ville and Mapleton. The meeting was a session of the Utah state road commission. There were present Preston G. Peterson and H. H. Blood of the state road commission, Howard C. Means, state road engineer and B. J. Finch, in charge of the Utah district of the federal road bureau; Robert B. Patterson, Pat-terson, engineer of the state road department; J. T. Gardner, Fred Matley and A. O. Smoot of the Utah county commission. The petitioners included S. L. Mendenhall, M. O. Packard, J. P. Smith, John D X'hilds, H. Ralph Smart, Mark Cook and Thorn C. Miner of Springville ; James Wis-combe, Wis-combe, Leo Ilanner and John Ilolley of Mapleton. Mr. Mendenhall, as head of the delegation, urged that before the final route is decided upon a survey be made along a new route running east of the Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad tracks to a point north on the present Mapleton road. He said that the new road to be constructed according to this plan would be about one and a half miles ! in length. I The new route, according to Mr, Mendenhall, would eliminate the , high overhead bridge at the mouth of the canyon, do away with four railroad crossings and shorten the road about four and a half miles. "The road over Mapleton bench serves a community of 800 people," said Mr. Mendenhall. "Last year there were hauled over the road about 20.000 tons of beets and 30,-000 30,-000 bushels of fruit. "From the mouth of the canyon to the Jefferson school on State street , iu Springville via the proposed route is five and a quarter miles. From tlm -"mn? of the canvon to - - - T- surveyed route rlirouy.li ..iiuLf ' Fork is ten and a quarter miles." M. O. Packard urged that the com- 1 mission survey the newly proposed route. He said that the route would not only eliminate a $00,000 over-! head bridge, but that it would also shorten the distance to Salt Lake City for the tourist travelers. Ho declared that the Mapleton bench , route as now proposed is the best' and most feasible route that has' been mentioned thus far. I "The people of Mapleton are very much interested in the way in which this matter will lie disposed." said i John Ilolley of Mapleton. "We are in a way isolated iu Mapleton since 1 there is no connection with any railroad rail-road and all of the traveling has to be over the road. "The proposed" road is a mail route, mid t wo hiuh school trucks 1 travel over it; daily, rr is our opin-I opin-I ion that the new route would elimi- nate many accidents by doing away with the high overhead bridge at the mouth of the canyon. Each year" one or more accidents occur at that point. "Instead of crossing the railroad, the new road will be on the east side of the tracks. It will be open for traffic the year around as there is no drifting of snow along the route." Preston G. Peterson, chairman of the state road commission, assured the delegation that the proposed route would be given consideration and that a survey of it would be made in the very near future. He said that no decision as to the permanent per-manent routing of the road would be made until all available routes have been surveyed and gone carefully care-fully over by the commission. He intimated that the building of the can-yon road is a matter that; Is some distance in the future. A new process for making crystalline crys-talline maltose sugar from corn starch nt a cost relatively equal to that of the production of cane sugar has been developed by -a United States government chemist. |