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Show MESON 1 DISPUTE OVER ROAD state R08"1 Commission Mem-k, Mem-k, bers Differ as to Spanish Fork Canyon Road ARGUE WHICH PART A OF ROAD TO BEGIN ON ichairman Peterson Favors id ! Upper Section, County Com-mission, Com-mission, Lower Section j Whether the ten-mile section be-itKB be-itKB the Red narrows and Detour, jcr the six nille section between Thistle This-tle and CastiUa should be the first jtobe Improved by the 'federal nid miction In Spanish Fork enn-jjonvias enn-jjonvias the rock . on which the liiatc road commission split Tuesday, ''it mis the first division In the commission com-mission which, has had its present personnel about three years. And """"libra all Is said nnd done, it np-Urcd np-Urcd there' was plenty of room llor argument tin' either side." The Umiisslon has been arguing over lie matter for some time, and last Friday it made' a trip to the canyon ito Investigate the ground., j Commissioners II. II. Blood and 0, W. Lunt made the trip and it 'Jevcloped yesterday that they re-'ttraed re-'ttraed divided in opinion. Mr. fount voted with Chairman Preston 'G. Peterson of Provo,. giving first jronstructlon to the upper section, lite county commissioners of Utah i icoiinty have stated their preference i (nr the lower section. Problems Faced. To Improve the lower section, un- i der surveys that have been mnde, ijieaiis the moving of the Spanish : j fork river from its present bed 1 Ver towards the railroad grade, a : Hi lone overhead crossing nnd the accu- jpatlon of part of the present bed i with ther grade for a highway. At Ipresent railroad and highway are ! tn the some side of the river. It IU also be necessary to make arrangements ar-rangements with the Utah railway for a partion of the grade It built up the canyon, for use by the high- 1 way. Construction on the upper section trill Involve moving a double track railroad over several hundred feet, and use of the present railroad roadbed for the highway. f Arsumeats in favor of the upper 1 section were presented by Chairman ' Peterson. In that part of the can- 1 yon the highway, virtually n one- f way road, frequently runs out on points, with hairpin turns and poor ' visibility, far above the railroad ' track. The rond, he argues, is liangerous twelve month in the year find when wet, either In spring or by 1 fomraer showers, it is excessively 1 liangerous. 1 Eliminates Rail Crossings. Below Thistle the rond is sufficiently suffic-iently wide all the way and the dif- ' ficultles of travel over it at certain ' seasons, he believes, can be handled 1 at much less cost as betterenient tfork can bo done at the section i Heber up. In addition, the new location on the upper section will ' eliminate two had railroad grade crossings. With ,n larger amount spent above iU(, betterments there would not be, in - Mr. Peterson's 1 opinion, ns good a road as elready "ists below Thistle. Money spent on either section will be useless just soon as the corresponding new , notion Is built. It Is argued by Mr. Peterson thnt , 'Hb tbe ten-mile section improved , '"ore will be a good and' reasonnli- . !' afe rond all the way from Sol- , Jiot Summit to Thistle nnd below Thlslle, he avert; the '-traffic is Practically always possible, though " times not convenient. 1 Ir. Blood took the position that j (he improvement of the lower sec- would benefit the. greater ' mount of traffic; that -it Is report-1 report-1 officially that at times the road "closed below Thistle, though open ove, hecnuse the lower section is ; "io shady side of the enpyou and , l n few thousand dollars spent i In knocking off some points of rock "'"'I'l make, some of the admittedly : """Berous points much safer. , - i |