Show t DESERT ROAD TO SHORTEN LINCOLN WAY W WA A 1 Granite Granile Mountain Redding Springs Project Planned t I by Association WILL VILL COST Desert Bed Available for foi Road to Shorten Highway High High- Highway way Tay Engineer Says r a report to bo be submitted to th the BY BYa b Lincoln III Highway association b by 13 r j 1 A. A X N. Johnson of oC Chicago a s. highway highway high way engineer ot of national repute Utah Utai is expected to to benefit by the expenditure expendi ture tuie of approximately In outside t e capital within tho the borders of oC the state besides further benefiting to the tho ex ex- extent extent tent of at a permanent nent concrete highway two twenty miles long tong acro across s tho the Great Greal Salt at desert Mr Johnson returned yesterday from froni I the ceno of the proposed highway the thc desert portion of which will run from froni Granite mountain to Re Redding Springs SprIng nd announced that tho floor loor of thee the thc desert e crt presents present an ideal surface upon which to lay a concrete roadwaY Mr Johnson was accompanied on hl hi his trip b by W. W F. F 10 Long LonS' a local highway en- en Kincer gincer The Th Lincoln Highway association Mr III Johnson said at the Hotel Utah Utti yesterday wants want to cut off about fifty fifty CH- CH ty miles of ot the present circuitous route across cro s Utah but the tho director directors thought 8 balked bilked by the litO fact act that a off cut would have ha to cro cross s the thc Great Salt desert In order to doter doter- nIn whether a a. concrete road were possible the they sent me mc to look the thc ground round over O to determine whether a concrete road were possible and as the tho result of oC m my visit I am convinced that thata a permanent highway Is not only possible pos pos- sible across th the proposed ed route but that It will be a n big biJ asset to the tho state In that It will bring tourists through L the state who have hereto heretofore Core shunned the trip The proposed route will cut off a roadway that now forms Corms a perfect S Sand and skirts the desert at Its southern i extremity The Thc new route will HI go from Salt Lake Inke through Tooele then fort forty miles due west to Granite mountain and then straight as the crow flies files Ies across the desert to Bedding Springs s. It will shorten n the to coast hl highway hwa five fifty miles mUes besides eliminating a stretch etch of roadway that Is desolate and for tor that reason very cry little traveled tra The cost of the improvement will be beabout beabout about all aJl of which will como come from outside tho the state This will wIn bo be expended almost entire entirely in Utah a as 9 practically all the tho material will beL be bo obtained In this state as well Wen as all L the labor Machinery to the value of ol about will be necessary and i the task of ot building tho road will consume con con- sume approximately five lve months About IS 15 men will be employed Will Prove Invaluable The construction of this stretch ol of ot highway Mr Johnson declared will b be invaLuable 0 to the people of at Utah Prior r to the outbreak of ot the war he a said aid A American tourists annually 51 spent eDt a t sum said to have havo been It In ItC seeing Euro Europe The Tho construction 0 of oC C the Lincoln highway of which th the stretch of oC desert road was termed h b by p Mr fr Johnson to be tho the keystone will wil I furnish with an incentive tesee to te tofee eee see America first thus bringing Utah Uta a n goodly portion of ot the tourist Urist monc money that formerly went abroad At At the present time ho he said i traveling the highway Y through Utah find but one oasis after I leaving the inhabited section and that thatIs' thatIs thatis is Is' the Orr brothers brothers' ranch This we I used for a headquarters on our trip and while whilo the Orr boys are ever eer hospitable hot hot- hoe hos 1 to wayfaring the tho trip over the present road is b far tar from beIng be being being be- be ing an enjoyable one ne The Tho prel preliminary minar work ork on the tho new road road will Wil probably bo started this tal fall but ut active operations will wl not be under wa way until the spring The Tho difficulties s surrounding the construction con con- of the road are great as It will wil be necessary to use Wendover as the nearest available railroad point point This means meas that tractors tractors' will have to tob tobe tobe b be used to haul material supplies and machinery forty miles to Redding Springs where construction headquarters will wi be br established Narrow arow Guage Gone re Railroad A narrow ai railroad rOM will wil have to be built buit across the desert parallelIng parallel parallel- Ing the road to be built buit and twenty five miles mUes of rif tour Inch water pipe will wil have to be laid Water Yater for construction and drinking purposes will wil be obtained train from Redding Springs where a pumping pumpIng pump- pump ing ins station staton will vill have to be bo built buIlL buit When com construction work is 18 started gangs s will work simultaneously simultaneous from tram both ends of ot tho the road road Tho The necessary sand and ad gravel ravel will wf be bo taken from beds located at Redding Springs s and this and the cement wi will win I be fed Cd to th the construction construction con con- gangs s by tho construction lan railroad Oil will wi be used as fuel Cuel both bothon on thu railroad and also for the tractor trains running to the main mainline line A feature of the construction man ne will wil will be tho the oiling of oC the floor foor of ot the des des- urt rt before tho the concrete Is laid This Thi will wil servo as a an insulating upon which a concrete span pan two twenty n miles les long nine nino feet teet wide two and seven Inches Inches- Inches thick at the center will bo laid Th The road road will bo be seventeen wil feet teet wide lid the nine foot concrete stretch being flanked on either cither side by a foot tour gravel harder border This will wIl permit machine machines machines ma ma- chines chine to pass pa with wIt two wheels each eachon on Cn the concrete In all aU cubic yards of concrete will be laid which will require sacks of oC cement |