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Show THE CITIZEN 4 fairs, I am told, is the state's policy of building out from its commercial Motoring the UINTAH BASIN Paved Highway From Basin To Salt Lake Would Develop New Buried Wealth BY ELROY WILKINS Uintah Business Man i llll!l11IIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllllllllllllllllllilllllIIIIIIIIIiailBIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!IIIIIIII)llll1lllllIIHIIIIIIIIIIA During the past week The Citizen has received a number of telephone calls complimenting us on the stand taken in support of the people of the Uintah Basin in their desire for a paved highway into that territory. On account of this, and in order that' the people of Salt Lake may know the sentiment of the basin people, we are publishing in full an article which appeared in the Roosevelt Standard in its issue of February 2nd, 1928. ?HllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIif It is but a short time ago since I returned from a trip through southern California which included a visit to the Imperial valley, and covered a distance of something over twenty-fivhundred miles. While greatly impressed with Californias salubrius winter climate, its old missions and those other features which have caused it to be designated the play ground of America, the one outstanding feature which impressed me above all others, was its wonder- e fully efficient road system which mit reaching the most out-of-the-w- per- ay places on splendidly paved highways in the shortest possible time and at the minimum of expense. Southern California is not only the play ground of America, but is also one of the busiest sections of the nation. Its agricultural, commercial and industrial development during the past few years is nothing short of marvelous, and the greatest factor in bringing about this happy state of af and industrial centers, a class of paved roads which are in every way com- -, mensurate with modern traffic requirements. What this class of road has done and is doing for California, they will do for other states, and it is with this thought in mind that I am submitting this article. Those of us who for years have patiently awaited the coming of a railroad into the Uintah Basin, and grown old in the waiting, realize thorof adequate oughly the necessity transportation facilities. We have seen our crops rot in the fields, our unlimited resources lie dormant, while the outside world clamored for just what we had to sell. Distance, bad roads, mud and winter snows formed an impenetrable barrier and a state as well as a community suffered proportionately. Since returning from my trip, I have given the matter of transportation in and out of the basin considerable serious thought, and have come to the conclusion that a modemly paved highway such as now extends between Logan and Nephi, reaching from some central point in the basin to Orem for instance at the mouth of Provo canyon, would be of greater value to us than a railroad. People today are .traveling in their own conveyances and for comparatively short hauls trucks are taking the place of freight cars. Such a road would not only serve the basin, but would provide also a national highway across the state which would prove of qq. limited value to Utah as a whole, For the past few years the stab has been making splendid headway in the improvement of its roada. ft is quite possible now to reach many of ' the most isolated places within our borders on improved roads of some sort or other. In fact we arc now pretty much out of the mod, Yet we are told that at the present rate it will require some eight yean more to complete the proposed in. provements of the entire federal aid system within the state by so called federal aid construction and we an wondering if the paving of the maig or heavy traffic highways have to wait until this is done. Eight yean is a long time to wait for a paved highway into the basin and those of us living here, as well as the business interests of the state at large, wiH suffer proportionately if it is not done, L or at least commenced much sooner than that Isn't it just possible, in the interest of all people of the state of Utah, that some plan might be worked out to get a completed road of this nature into the basin within a period EX of four or five years? We might tion too, that the first section to of this nature, should be the extenof some ten or ding for a distance twelve miles through the Strawberry valley, where the soil is soft and the men-- 1 lie snow is deepest, and where, with the idea of keeping traffic open duriny the whole year at the minimum ex-- ( Continued on Page 9) Introducing The New Householders Policy 10-Poi- nt Loss from any one of many hazards lurks just around the comer for every man. In addition to the more common losses due to fire and theft, he is faced with numerous and annoying losses some of them petty, more of them more grave. It is to give the householders complete protection in one policy and a very low premium rate that the Intermountain Lloyd has devised the new policy. 10-poi- nt i tome THE NEW POLICY COVERS Loss by Fire in Your Own Home. $500 protection from loss by fire on household furniture, family stores, personal effects, etc. 2. 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