Show I Fo o Improve Highway 1 Through Basin When t Ben Blow manager of the jo Cory y Highway association was ill lil lilton ion ton last summer he promised to toe tose tose se e money on the Pacific coast to top p p improve the highway through J jah h and especially through the tab basin In last Saturdays Saturday's Salt Sa ke Tribune appeared the follow follow- tah I reference to a campaign lu iii ornIa J to raise fn San n Francisco is raising I give give Xo to Utah and Nevada N-evada with rich ilch to match federal government Jin J In the construction of highways Uhe he federal highway highways system inI int in t ee I re respective stales stages find and the stat slate California outside of San Franco Fran Fran- seo aco co will raise for the dine me purpose according to a tele- tele Jam m received by The Tribune from I arvey ervey M. M Toy of the Bay city Mr y oy is president of the tho Downtown Mens Men's association which eId id a luncheon Thursday at which oi Mabey was guest of honor e is also a member of the board of If rectors rectors of the Victory Highway a as- as which is interested in the instruction of one of the main east- east i west el-west trunk line highways Mr Mr Toy informed The Tribune at t lis as s chairman of the San Franco FranI Fran Fran- I 3 co o committee which will campaign if raise alse the fund he already has ob- ob tined or one-fourth one of the en Francisco allotment in a single ay ky Governor Mabey and Governor r mett D. D Boyle of Nevada were oth oth guests of honor at the luncheon l t the occasion neing known I Highway day The ex were hedl at the St. St Francis otel and Mr TOY Toy said that Govern Govern- r Mabey made a wonderful speech nd ad created a most favorable Im- Im among the Sa San Franciscans tom rhom hom he addressed i Road Gains ns Favor the close connection of Mr oy oy y with the Victory l highway and ands andis ts is s development there is no doubt hat fiat bat the claims of that route to de- de federal as part of the system will be ably anted it if not recognized as as r rant a t It would wo ld not be unexpected un i find that the pledges of v viii u be made conditional on the de of the Victory highway outer oute ute While San Francisco is Inter sted primarily In th the bridging olie o 01 ohe he he lie most difficult gap in the mental al highway y system that part pail J if f the the east east- west east west nd-west route lying west wesl t r f Salt Salt Lake county In Utah and andI and stretching I through Nevada sentiment senti- senti ment nent ent is already crystallizing th there theren re rei n i n favor of the already develop veU-develop- td d route known as the Victory nigh high ay lT This route west of Salt Lake fon fot lows Iowa owa the Lincoln hig highway y route to P I point point known as the the mill nUl where it ii on west while while the Lincoln route as now adopted adopted turns south The Victory Fhe-Victory he Victory highway route passer passe through Grantsville and then foll follows follows fol fol- fol- fol l lows ws closely the line Une of Cf the Western Pacific railroad as as' far as Wendover on in on th the Utah Nevada line tine While there are some difficulties to be beI me I In construction cOnstruction of a permanent all all' year rear passable le road across across the Grea Olt rw t L Lake k des desert rJ they ar are no not believed be d to be insurmountable and on the other othe hand there are man reasons reasons advanced why that road should be chosen in preference t tone tl one one that that hat turns turns' southward and crosses cross crose es ee an uninhabitable stretch of COUll try at a great distance from an railroad or other means mea s of Building Cost Bt Lower The raising of this money for t c federal aid highway means that Ir it Utah 4 I will be spent on the road for Call Calf 1 presented by by the The Tho federal l government puts up 7 74 per cent of th the cost o or o federal highway construction on ii it Utah 1 If Il or one halt one one- one half th proposed amount were devoted to Utah of the California allotment this would mean available for the completion o a othe othe the the road With a railroad parallel ring Ing IngI I the roadway within a few feet fee the cost ost of J c construction here woul t be much under wh what t it was when tb ate road commission undertook undertook tr expend to best beat advantage i r f is tho the funds furnished for tor the Selber Seiber section of the Lincoln highway E However Utah may easily be allot t f ft f 1 ted even eyen more than of tin lh lt to be raised in This is for the reason that in Novae the proportion of federal support J i road construction is even highe and each 1 of money raised local will go much farther in road COil can cou when it Is matched wit iti 58 8 or 9 of federal money money-in money in Ne No Novada vada instead of with 3 of feden leder money noney as in Utah v vo 0 o 0 |