Show I MAILAND ROADS I Victory Highway Towns Meet l at Heber City To ToAs As Ask For More Rapid Road York Work Demand Mail Mall Come Direct From Front Suit SnIt Lake via Heber On S September 3 at Heber City nn an n unusual gathering gathering- of civic bodice bodies bod bod- ice ies m met t at Jt Heber City in response to an nn invitation from the Com Com- mer ial club and the Lions' Lions club of that place and amI considered roads and mail The rhe excellent resort at the Hot Pots provided the Ule right place A very good dinner was served at S 00 p. p m. m Vernal Vernel Roos Roosevelt velt Duchesne Heber City Park Parle City and representatives representatives from the Salt Lake City cham chamber of comm commerce C hat had delegations delegations elega lions that to together ther made up a big gathering After a Ii preliminary pro program ram of music dancing b by a group of yo young mr ladies and necessary necessary necessary sary preliminaries pr the business of the meeting was approached cau cau- Park City was frank rank in saying saving that the they get bet mail on a good goal schedule two each wa way per day and could se see sec no need of modifying modifying modify modify- ing lug it Salt Lake stated the big city was there only as a guest and would take no part in the matter mattaI Heber City was united in a protest protest pro pro- test lest ag against the present mail pro pro-I ices That tov n gets only one mail per day each ench way and apparently apparently apparently ap ap- ap- ap it is quite irregular Uintah Uin- Uin tab tah Basin towns all agreed they are aTe getting the best service ever enjoyed yet they also were a unit in agreeing that we want our mail to come and go east and west over the Victory Highway Many interesting phases of the subject were brought ought out For instance to give the basin and the Carbon county sections the I present service mall mail trucks go godown godown down to Thistle Junction on the D. D R. R G. G and make trips to get early mail mall to Price so that it may move from that point It seems quite unique as many said to have truck service paralleling a railroad for such a long distance and over Soldier Summit in order that we may get mail that is fairly fairly fairly fair fair- ly in keeping with the opportunity we have for service over the di direct direct di- di direct route And both of these summits are are much higher than any point on the Heber Duchesne-Heber road After a talk taUt on silver and gold golda a resolution prevailed that was I t backed by City and the basin ba- ba tin sin t towns asking our congressman congress congress- man Don B. B Colton and the postoffice postoffice postoffice post- post office department to 10 let us have havethe havethe havethe the mail mall over the highway direct from r m Salt Lake City via Heber City Even Parl City joined u uin un us in a resolution requesting the state road commission to complete the highway to the Utah-Colorado Utah state line and that oiling the road be done as rapidly as possible After the main objects had been attained the meeting seem seemed d to have realized the purpose for which the meeting was called Heber Heber Heber He He- ber City stood firm with Uintah It basin Dosin delegations in the demand for the objects noted and several good backers of Wasatch county spoke with vigor and I tion Uon i Duchesne sent a good crowd over the hill viz Ed Hart Wm Fitzwater E. E H. H Peterson Dr W. W I D. D Bishop Rulon J. J Larson C. C W. W Smith Bud Winslow l Jay Pope Roy O. O J. J Smith and others Fred Ferron represented both the Lyons' Lyons and the Commercial Commercial Commer Commer- cial club o of Roosevelt Vernal had about ten good men there It was teas a live meeting The rhe basin has genuine cause to thank than Hon D Don l. l B. B Colton and t others for the good mail service we ve now no enjo enjoy Yet it is only natural natural natural na na- na- na tural that basin people should askor ask f for lor or this western routing in preference preference prefer prefer- ence nce to the one v no now in use It nears keeping open the western oad during winter months Three winters during which this road ha b been en kept cep ept open indicates that successful ful operation over lower summits giving us many advantages adan t ages may nay be s secured by the propose proposed proposed pro pro- pose posed change |