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Show BIGELOW'S GOOD I WORK RECOGNIZED I ARROWHEAD TRAIL I State Road Commission Adds Him to Staff of State Road I Engineer's Office PULL CREDIT GITON BY H OFFICIALS FOR HIS WORK H Importance of Arrowhead Trail Told H by Former Coventor Spry and Oth- H era A Route Which Takes the H Tourist a Long Way Through State. H Recognition of the importance of H the Arrowhead trail in Utah and of the work which has leen carried on H by C. H. Bigelow of St. George, in M maintaining interest in that thor- oughfare, came from the state road PjV commission yesterday, when Mr H Bigelow was added to the staff of the state road engineer's office. This H will give him official standing with M the state road forces and at the same H time permit his being employed in M state road work in the territory cov- H ered by the Arrowhead trail, which M is at present and will be for some time a distinctively active portion of the state's road program. Bfl Mr. Bigelow, who is an engineer by profession, will receive from the I state a salary about the same as M paid for a rod man in a surveying M party. U George F. McGonagle, state engi- I neer, and member of the commis- H sion, said that already Mr. Bigelow H had saved the state several hundred H 4uaea-tai apno work by eaVrrng ft- jj tentlon to faulty locations for roads B and bridges and by other results of his thorough familiarity with the tor- I ritory. Mr. McGonagle attributed to I Mr. Iligelow's work as much as any fl other one thing the fact that Arizona fl has undertaken to bridge the Colora- do river, thus affording access be- H tween Arizona and Utah and sehving a territory in which Utahns are finan- daily interested. It was partly due to Mr. Iligelow's work also, Mr. Mc- H Gonagle said that the federal appro- fl priatiun of $l.r,000 for a bridge and I road across the Shivwits had been H aavod and retained in the Indian ap- B propriation bill. H J. H. Manderfleld, president of the I association spoke of the unanimity I of interest in the Arrowhead trail I felt in Washington, Iron, Beaver and I other southern counties which seek communication with Salt Lake. He pointed to the fact that the Salt Iake Route had recognized its importance I and to the hearty support that has botn given the trail in the southwest- era counties. H Former Governor William Spry, I chairman of the finance committee of H the association, said that probably H more persons are coming into and H going out of Utah by way of the fl Arrowhead Trail than by any other H route It is a route, he said, which H take a tourist a long way through the state, "instead of in at one side H door and out at another." He doe H not wish to be deemed as speaking H disparagingly of any other route, bat H he does believe the Arrowhead trail H is a great benefit, not only to the fl western part of the state, but to the 9 whole state, and he thinks that the H state should join St. (ieorge and oth- B er immunities in the state in reaiu- H iterating Mr. Bigelow in a measure K for the splendid work he has already B done. BJ Harden Reunion, secretary of the H state, wit agreeable to the proposal P which was favored by all the other fl members of the commission present, with the distinct understanding that Hj Mr. Bigelow's work in behalf of the state should be plainly set forth in A the claims for pay that might be pre- U anted, and with that understanding JKm Mr Bigelow was given his commis- H sion. Salt Lake Tribune. H |