Show H PATRIOTS L kEATE REATE THREE CHOICE ROADS rued r Warriors Backed Back d dy y y Loyal Citizens Con t Scenic Highway PERSONS ARE r h GIVEN TEN EMPLOY EMPLOYMENT t I te e Council and City I Avert Misfortune l by Early Action Actio m mii i By A A. H. H Paul PaulE I RE E city commission and the state I of or defense adopting preness pro pre ness as a watchword met late In tuber and devised ways wars and means i homo home Utah fighters the war should be over They aw that economic conditions 4 d be bo such Immediately following nd nd of ot hostilities that the old Jobs d not be bo waiting waiting- for lor many reng re- re nig ng 1 men hat at to do was the tho question It was ed that unless concerted action Id ld be taken b by business ss men and ns ns toward giving g th the former sol sol- rw p work the city would start to roadS broads give every dollar possible to the tho lit It was provided that that steam steam sho hould be bo barred in the This met with somo objection most efficient led men of ot self eIf j Job b providing come comA com com- e e. e A vast waste aste would be bo caused s s contended as a result of or hiring 1 where ere machinery c could uld do the tho St Steam nm Shovel KIT II H Farnsworth chairman man of the council o of defense pointed out the primary object In expending city r funds would be to ti give lve work soldiers and sailors s with building as a secondary consid- consid on on Tl The e majority of ot the tho work profs pro pro- i sided with him and so it was led ed d. d reo eo o roads were planned two as fc c drives and the third as a means the necessity for Davis V and north state motorists tot to t f the tho circuitous and difficult route South Temple street and up the tho street grade to get gel to the tho Capi- Capi roads have havo but one ending the tho pi 1 More c correctly they have but Beginning for fOl tho the motorist will advantageous to begin his drives tIie t back door or of the state house tRend nond Hun Through Grain first road the tho most easterly one J b tho west bank of or City Creek n I 1 and mounts over a grade not noting ding ing 10 per cent to the base of ot orn n peak The rue last stage of or this leads through gently rising of ot velvety vel green reen grain on tho the I dry farm operated by the detent tic dc- tent of ot parks and playgrounds no rio ambitious us drivers will attempt ish sli farther anI and climb the sIdes of or the peak itself But the road 1 Is 18 seldom traveled and few ed d in accomplishing the foaL feat Much It to park ones one's an ano anti and antio to o the Ue summit From irom this o point where carl early plo plo- a flag Ja pole and unfurled Ion lory the tho view of or elt city and V Here the redskin often t. t ti hI said and watched the Great Greal Salt lake lako made into twid twi- twi d deepen into night before tho the hardy whites under 7 ji B and Brigham Young it t t o of coining coming westward r r refreshing tho the lungs luns with lain ln hii air alt and drinking deeply of ot the motorist will retrace ps PS to his car and return to tt the ill 1 1 it to tn f tit 1 fh rh the not next or middle roa road Is us lh the m most i p pretentious te tetI tI of r the Much Toil Toll light Ight Ight north for half a m mile lo It ind pd then bends sharply to the theAtter After Atter rounding a polik that rc- rc and sailors have havo made 16 after much labor It mounts fey jy r stages to the tho famous Bonne- Bonne terrace Js a regal road twenty went to thirty fide Ide well ballasted with tho the rock J h Ii which In many places it has hasI I and dynamited A mile mUo r is ili IK its ItH immediate destination at J one of the stran strangest j In the tho state his this point Is tf demonstrated tho the I the road builders Sylvester Q il h city en engineer with his able ahlo I R R. R C. C Davis until two I t ago a first lieutenant of In- In f. f V W WA A. Alexander f formerly a n. aU an n U in the arm army and Edward Ste Ste- twice wounded sounded Canadian war- war I Rock Awa Array thousand housand poun pounds S of powder Is 0 uSed to blast St away some of tho the tous rocky walls of the tho left face faces face's s 's 18 z hollow to form Corm a ledge for or orve 4 vol ve e. e It 1 t has been boen foud fond necessary I out much rock on the right and fifty feet up the gulch it- it make muke the proper propel curve turning II northerly to a westerly esterly three three- will not be ie completed for Cor two months month Eventually it Is la lathat that city and Sand state will Coto coto coto co- co to continue the highway to till lit ul When hen this has lias been done lone doneald yard ard of ot rare magnificence from fromI I of or historic and scenic will result It Is two miles o 0 Capitol to Hells Hell's hollow hollo and late ate tc plans call caU fox fon carrying tho lotion two miles beyond that down the pike pike which which t tempo tempo- t least will be he called the tho Bonne- Bonne goes lve-gocs goes the moto to theand tho the and and ind is soon read ready for a trip remaining load road tho the we west L one 10 l Arc rc rc Joined hand fand and city have operated co-operated o d In InthIs thIs drive tho the city working c north end at Warm arm Springs the he Capitol and the state start- start lie be latter point The flie two con con- forces met mot last week at a n fourths of ot a u mile from point The road road Is is thus thua I seen to be one and a halt half miles lon long Surfacing Surfacing- work worl and grading remain reman to tobe tobe toe be e completed To date it is estimated that more than han OOOO has haH h as been spent by 11 the tho city elt and nd nearly b by the u state In putting put- put ting Ing through h these drives Work has b been tn provided for from to o m men n mostly returned soldiers and sailors who have haz families I The afternoon of or November 11 armistice ar ar- day duy the second meeting of or the work providing committee was held at atho atthe the tho ho Capitol and it IL was agreed that come ome what might the tho roads road as would bo be started tho minute labor began stagnating tag stag In the local cal market Ald tiU 7 Men 10 Better t to facilitate labor distribution to o places where it could be ue use used the soldiers and sailors sailors' employment com com- mh mission state council of or defense was created and I Morris was executive secretary December DecemberS hot en is S tho the commission lon opened an office at 23 3 U E South Temple street It had on I its files flIes fifty situations for tor various kinds of f Three returned soldiers were directed to good jobs that day The next day live five applied d for tor work and were placed place the tho following following- day ten and the da day after fifteen met with ith equal success then a varying varying vary vary- ing InS number have appeared dally daily on applicants being as high as tome some lays days COO 00 Situations have not kept pace Ilace with applicants and at Sit present it i is estimated that a labor surplus of 1000 exists in Utah But these theBe are hopeful times and id with the tho farms needing need need- In lag ing help hell work for all who wish It will doubtless be bc forthcoming I The darkest period was In the ml middle of or January when a surplus o at ot SOO men IPU I in Salt Lake Lale was noticed with no prospect of or work It vas waa then the city elLy began building Its drives l Within three days the names of OO applicants whose cases needed immediate attention atten aUen- tion were placed on the pa pay rolls of or orthe the city Not ot enough picks or shovels shovel were available to lo supply this number so construction and machinery companies companies com corn gave e a implements to the men Soon afterward the number was as In Increased Increased in- in creased to and this total has been practically maintained since that date i 00 oo Escape lIun Hunger r In February tho timO state put on a force Coree of men Persons best hest qualified to know lenow declare de de- IC- IC clare clara that starvation for at least men was vas imminent when the road building program began be an Tho The city commissioners arc wondering wonder under ing In whether commend or blame for their expenditure of under the circumstances circumstance will be e theirs Al Already Already Al- Al read ready p time the editor of one weekly has denounced the project for Ol not employing steam shovels Whether blame blamo or 01 praise Khali be accorded there la Is no gainsaying z that today todar three drives drive two to arc are scenic and a third that saves ten len minutes In Journeying to time thu C Capitol for OOOO north state persons are aro practically completed d and anti arc valuable val val- assets to the thc community So valuable do those these three drives appear to state and city officials that thata a bl big road opening program is likely to be held on Arbor da day The Time plan is to have hae an automobile 1 parade over avem- tho the new drives cs with the tie machine leading rho Tho last highway ha to tobe tobe toI I be Lc traveled travel d will be bo th tIme the test st Canyon on drive IrivO Parl Parking the cars at the baso base of 01 Ensign peaK tho time citizens and of officials officials of- of will ill mount to the summit and amid there will bo be held exercises exorcises to commemorate com corn tho tIme fact that these were loa roads 9 built buill by patriots and planned by patriots |