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Show UINTA BASIN NEEDS iADSJITlDI State Treasurer Jewkes Says People There Will Assume As-sume Burden. The greatest need of good roads in the state of Utah today is in the Uinta basin and from here to the Uinta basin country, said State Treasurer Jesse D. Jewkes yesterday, upon his return from a week's inspection of roads in the eastern counties as a member of the state road commission. Nowhere could road-building be of such benefit to Salt Lake City and to the stato generally as would result from the opening of good roads to the Uinta, according to Mr. Jewkes. He said: It is roads to the Uinta that aro needed, not a road. Though the people out there have a right to expect ex-pect the roads, it is really the state that needs them, and Salt Lake especially. p Good roads will move the Uinta country many miles nearer Salt Lake from the standpoint of accessibility, ac-cessibility, and it must be moved nearer very soon if its resources are to be saved to Salt Lake as a commercial com-mercial center. Of course, this has all been said before, and the fact that eastern Colorado is rapidly getting a hold upon the resources of the great Uinta country has been called to the attention of business men of Salt Lake repeatedly, but tho people peo-ple out there say that they are watting yet for road improvements. The state road commission has it in mind to do all possible for the Uinta country in the immediate future. fu-ture. Members of the commission will make another inspection trip out there very soon to determine what localities need help worst. The people of the Uinta country are ready to do their share. They are willing to undertake the burden, so far as I can learn, of so much road tax as it is possible for them to carry, if they can see prospect of immediate results, but they feel that it is time for the state and for Salt Lake to begin making good on an effort to level the barriers that now shut the Uinta off from, this section of the state. During his trip Mr. Jewkes visited Vernal, Duchesne, Roosevelt and My ton. He also inspected road conditions in Carbon count', where he says some good work is being done. |