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Show LEGISLATURE URGED " 10 AID JEEP CREEK Bill Submitted for Building Roadway From Salt Springs to Gold Hill. The good roada committee has recommended tho passage by the legislature legis-lature of a bill carrying an appropriation appropria-tion of $10,000 to be used iu repairing and constructing a roadway from Salt Springs, Utah, to the, Gold Hill post-office post-office in the Deep Creek country. A I petition,- signed by the farmers, sheep- men and mine owners of that district,! as well as a number of prominent business busi-ness men of Salt Lake, urging tho passage of the bill has been submitted to the grtod roads committee and will be submitted to the legislators. The 'condition of the roadway during the entire year makes it practically impossible to haul supplies into the territory south of Salt .Springs except at almost prohibitive expense and vexatious delays. J. C, Davis of Salt Lake, who is interested in that section and who has recently returned from there, is the father of the bill. In discussing dis-cussing the difficulties encountered, Mr. Davis said yesterday: The Deep Creek valley is practically prac-tically filtv , miles from the railroad, rail-road, and lieygnd Salt Springs to Gold Hill the roadway is practically practi-cally impassable and has kept back the" de elopment of that country. The present bill carries anappro-priation anappro-priation which conservative road builders, after taking into consideration consid-eration the available road building material in that vicinity, assure me will put that roadway in good condition. con-dition. Farmers, sheepmen and mining men of that vicinity have been tt; perimenting with all kinds of transportation schemes to overcome the difficulties, but without avail. The last one tried was the high-power high-power truck, the promoters of which scheme assured us that it would solve the difficulty. After repeated trials, however, they gave it up as hopeless with the roadway from Salt Springs to Gold Hill in its usual condition. The. roadway from Eerber to Wendover is good, but that from Salt Springs to Gold Hill is covered with deep sand, dry washes ami gullies around tho base of Dutch mountain. That there is great need of a good roadway through that section mav be seen from the fact that south of Salt Springs that roadwav is used bv the United States mail service riailv for all territory south of Wendover. such as Gold Hill. Ibanah. Calico, Fish Springs a"d Trout Creek. At present the fanners are complaining, the sheepmen are complaining and numerous otineri of mining claims are unabU' to haul out the ore present in large quantities, quan-tities, not because of its low grade, but bei-aue of impartible roads. It's an utter inn --ibilitv for an ore shipment to be hauled out on account, of the weight and the impassible im-passible roadway. |