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Show COUNTY ROAD WORK HAS SURPASSED ALL RECORDS OF PAST Road improvemertts In Salt Lake county during the past year surpassed anything ever accomplished in any previous previ-ous year. The total expenditures for road improvements exceeded JCT0.000. Sixteen miles of completed concrete road constitute the most splendid and enduring endur-ing feature of the Improvement work done. Another extensive improvement was the straightening and grading of nine miles of road In Big Cottonwood canyon, the highwav to Brighton, the famous mountain resort near the lakes that have in the past two years been converted into storage reservoirs for supply of water to : Salt Lake City. 1 Improvement of ten miles of road in Emigration canyon also effected a safe and "easy automobile route to the summer sum-mer homes and resorts in that canyon. In Parley's can von a stretch of three miles of road on the Lincoln highway was graded and surfaced with shale, the work being made necessary to make satisfac- 1 tory connection with the new road built bv the city around the site of Its billion- : gallon reservoir in process of building at ; Mountain Dell. Improvement Cost $30,000. The Improvement of the road in Big Cottonwood was accomplished at a cost of $30,000. Of this amount, $12,500 was appropriated ap-propriated by the city. In the Interest of protection of the water supply from contamination; con-tamination; $5000 by the Cardiff Mining & Milling company and $r,000 by the Boston Development company, operating the Maxfleld mine. The interest of the mining companies in having the road improved to a point where it would permit of the use of tractors for ore-hauling arose because considerable agitation occurred over possibilities pos-sibilities of contamination of the city's water supply from the canyon through the presence of many horses on the road in the hauling of ore. I During the year thirteen steel and con- crete bridges of from eight to twenty-I twenty-I foot span were built in various parts of the county and lti-i culverts were constructed. con-structed. Contract for an eighty-foot span steel and concrete bridge across the Jordan river at Fifty-first South street lias been let, the work to be completed In the spring at a cost of $6800. The county is sharing equally also in the construction cost of a bridge of 160-foot span to be built across the Jordan at Twenty-first South Btreet. The designations of the proposed bridge locations are according to the new numbering num-bering of the streets south of the city, in accordance with the prevailing plan in the city, allowing 100 house numbers to the distance of a city block. The change was effected during the latter part of the summer by R. E. L. Collier, county surveyor, sur-veyor, under the instructions of the board of county commissioners. Streets Renamed. Under the new numbering or naming of the streets, what was Thirteenth South street became Twenty-seventh South; Fourteenth South became Thirty-third South; Fifteenth South, Thirty-ninth South; Sixteenth South, Forty-fifth South, and Seventeenth South, Fifty-first South street. During the year, according to George W. Holmberg, county supervisor of roads, approximately 1SS niiles of road were Improved Im-proved in I he county, putting into good shape for the winter 300 miles of the 450 miles that constitute the main thoroughfares thorough-fares of the county. Double this extent of highways Is owned by the county and due for Improvement in the future. The problem of obtaining surfacing material ma-terial for the county roads was simplified during the past season by the purchase of an extensive silica berl on the mountain side near the mouth of Neff's canyon at a cost of $17f.O. Before this material could be made easily accessible, however, it was necessary neces-sary to build an aerial tram for bringing it down to where it could be loaded upon wagons. The tram, completed this fall, has a capacity of thirty-five tons an hour, or 300 tons a day. A bin of a capacity of one day's cairylng of the tram has been built at the lower end of the tramway, tram-way, where the silica is screened and loaded load-ed for hauling on wagons to points of distribution over the county roads. To Do Better in 1917. Because of the late date In the year when the tramway was put into service only a small amount of the silica became available for road surfacing this year, but It Is anticipated that an early slart of the distribution of this material where needed on the county roads will be made in the spring. vl the concrete road built in the county. all of which was constructed under the direction of the state road commission with funds from the 2-mill special tax levy of 1915 and the mill of 1916, voted for road purposes by the board of county commissioners, the greater stretch Is southward from the limits of Salt Lake City on State street. More than three miles have been completed com-pleted in tne vicinity off Granger and Hunter on Twenty-third South street, and approximately one and a qua rter miles further westward, near Pleasant Green. During the year twenty-eight and three-quarters miles of road in the county coun-ty were resurfaced with gravel, at a cost of 371,875; twenty-nine and three-quarters miles of dirt road were graded and turnptked, at a cost of SI 4. 75; three miles were surfaced with Tarvia and one and three-quarters miles with Rodamite, at a cost of SooPO; three niiles surfaced with slag at a cost of $1000, and one and one-quarter miles surfaced with silica at a cost of $:'500, A total of 52o.95S.S9 was spent for sprinkling of roads. Five niiles of additional addi-tional street lighting were installed on the county roads, raising the total mileage mile-age of street lighting in the county to forty-rive miles, the approximate cost for operation of which was slightly in excess of J6000 this year. The total cost for the year of the operation op-eration of the roads and bridges department depart-ment of the county government, exclusive exclu-sive of the improvements accomplished bv the state road tax, was In excess of 31S7.O00. |
