| Show rT A AD H OFFICIALS lelLAN EXTENSIVE 0 AD CAMPAIGN height Hundred Miles 1 of New 5 Mand nd Improved Highways Tays J I Proposed if t O WILL MAKE l IP TO WASHINGTON i U e of German Prisoners to toBe Be Urged by Chief D. D Executive e. e BY w. w J. J SLOAN t More and better roads Approximately miles or to be beL L miles of ot new or Improved 1 OadS at an nn estimated cost of or over ij These are amon among the plans of or Ira R. R Browning Browning state road commissioner for tor 1918 Tho federal government go the state arlous counties and at least one railroad railroad railroad rail rail- road will Join hands In the greatest road building program ever outlined for tor torU U Utah h. h DI Dispatches patches from Washington strongly strong strong- ly h intimate that the war department is I t beginning to look with favor on the plan llan of or working German interned prisoners prisoners prisoners pris pris- on public highways s Gov Simon Bamberger expects to leave for tor tho the H cast ast within a few days s He lie will visit Washington and personally personal take up the matters of or working German prisoners o op on the tho roads of ot Utah with the war de deI de- de I I At the present time there are aro about 1 Interned Germans at Fort Douglas I who It Ii is claimed could bo be worked i U to great advantage on the highways of oC i I i the state If Ii tho the government go will only U give Ivo its consent Governor Bamberger II S declares that the work which these I G Germans 1 0 might do L' L would 1 In no 0 way In- In c Vl LII III LU LUC I Ld but hut would rather mean the building of ot many miles of t good roads that otherwise other- other wise might have hav to wait walt for tor years before be be- fore ore the they could be built It Is tho the hope the governor that the consent of ot otc jo ho c war department ma may be had In time I start these men to work as soon as the weather will permit I But German prisoners or no German F prisoners tho the plans of State Road Commissioner Com Com- missioner Browning for Improvements this year are arc tho the most far reaching and andi andover i cover foer over a wider part o of ot the state than ih lave ave ve ever been planned before hilo ho admits that owing to war he cannot go through with that he lie would like liko to this year rear would Include work In ever every in the state he hopes to get et so 3 the end of the year ear that 1918 HI stand out as the greatest g year ear of g od road rOld building In the history of 1 and one that it will take many manyi Years to exceed i I. I Even should tho the plans already decided on for this year rear bo be carried out outI I Rt 11 will mean hundreds of or miles of roads that will be a Joy jar to e every ery ry motorist and user of ot the roads In the tho state aa as w welt l Is us ns the thousands of or tourists who are j 5 annually visiting various parts of oC Utah S Ith the tho automobile or 01 the motorcycle I i Just which one of ot the man many road 1 plans for Cor this year ear Is tho the most mi- mi I would be a question that would have to be decided b by the people who Euse use the tho road the most moat While an ImI imI Im- Im pro provement in Grand Granel or San Juan coun- coun t ty might not appeal to the people of or I Salt ISalt Lal Lake o with any great force It K J would appeal to tho the residents of ot that p part of at the state as 18 being of oC the ut- ut II most mo t Importance 1 Viewing the tho many plans outlined for tOr VI this year perhaps to the people of ot the I central and antI eastern part of ot the tho state the road from Salt Sal t Lake Jo 0 o Duchesne will appeal peal the strongest i This road when completed will have J an approximate e length 0 of HG miles Xi It will run through Parleys Parley's canyon canon to to Park City then to lieber Heber City up upI I Daniels can canyon on through the Strawberry I and on to the Uintah and antI Duchesne county count That part of ot this road from Heber City to Duchesne Is 77 11 miles This Is now a federal highway on which considerable work was done last summer and will be resumed this spring Those who have traveled this 1 1 part of oC tho the state will readily understand under under- li stand d the need of or an n Improved ed road The estimated cost of ot this work Is j. j In addition to what was spent pent last summer From Heber City to Park City Is a distance of ot 17 miles a n. part of t this road Is In good condition condi condl- 1 tion and md with a little work the entire stretch will wIlt make a 1 good road From Park City to Salt I Lake alco Is IB 3 32 zi miles d Last summer and ami fall the state and Salt LIe e and Summit counties com com- on this Important road rOld A detailed story of oC what this road 1 would mean In thee the elimination of curves curve cutting out of ten railroad 1 s and other Information was 1 published In The Tho Herald two months ago But If It the tho plans of Mr Ur Browning Bro go through even a big big- er cr and better road roach than was there thero described will b bp built tho the state road road commissioner has stron strong reason to be- be that this part of oC the state highways highways high hish- wa ways 8 will be declared a federal highway highway high high- way that it will connect with the federal highway at Hebor City and andIn In addition will extend down Silver r crock creek from Crom a 0 point near In Summit county through and to Echo East from Duchesne the government plans to extend th the tho road 10 on through Colorado to the cast east and later through Salt Lake to tho the west It being planned as one of or the great grent federal highways 8 across tile tho continent From the standpoint of or mileage and cost the greatest road Improvement to he ho he made this year ear will be a stretch of miles from Thompsons Thompson's ons on's to BlandIng BlandIng BlandIng Bland- Bland Ing In tho southeast t part of the state The cost of oC this road rond will bo be Owing to weather conditions work worl on this road can be done at t tills this Is time of or year and Is no now being rushed with all possible HH od with the tho aid of or a large I Continued on ou Following Page |
