Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-11-24 | Page 9 | Extensive Road Work Outlined

work oaniD, Surveys Ordered So That Actual Construction May Start at Once. Expected That Arrowhead Trail May Ee Completed During Winter Months. There bht;: no further necrl for applications ap-plications to the United States highways council for permission to build or improve im-prove travel arteries, the state road commission is mapping out an extensive exten-sive program for next spring. This hroposed activity is partly to take care ft iabor which will bo released on account ac-count of the military armistice, as well as to put Utah highways iri condition for the maximum service during 101D and thereafter. Already surveys have been authorized for nearly 100 miles of roads in diil'er-cnt diil'er-cnt sections of the .state, with the purpose pur-pose in view of immediate calls for bids, y bo that the work can lie commenced as Boon as weather conditions will permit. There is now left of the st ate road bonds about $1,300,000. To this available avail-able cash resource will be added approximately ap-proximately $570,000 to be received from 'the federal government. Part of this will be reimbursement of the state for money advanced on authorized projects. proj-ects. Then there will be the county portions of costs to be defrayed by them on roads within their boundaries, in whose construction or improvement tiie state will participate. To Push Highway. In connection with the road program is a proposal of the Arrowhead Trail association to hold an early meeting hero, for the purpose of pushing that highway between 8alt Lake and Lo3 Angeles, Cab, to completion in time for the spring tourist travel. Work is possible on this trail during the winter months because of the mild weather conditions which prevail along most of tlio iiiii-onipietod way. Another feature of the meet in g will be to take steps to make available at once the $15,000 federnl appropriation for the stretch across the yhevwits Indian reservation. President J. U. Mandertield of the , Arrowhead Trail association yesterday : received a letter from C. II. Pigelow of St. George, sec ret a ry, Jn which is made an e in1 mi raging report of conditions condi-tions ulnrig the trail. Mr. Bigelow, ac-y'eompanicd ac-y'eompanicd by Joseph Snow of St. f Oeorije, vice president of the Arrow-Jr Arrow-Jr head Trail association, will probably be i in Knit this week to confer with Mr. M;ied rf;fld. and a meeting of the organization may bo called .for au early i.lafe. The finpriep committee of the Arrow-read Arrow-read Trail association comprises William Wil-liam Sj.rv, (ha:rman; Fred J. Leonard, T. X. Ta'vlor of Provo, V. T. Jones of Tfc."'!ar f'itv, Wallace Prnnsford and M'nfus Tlar'dv of Salt Pake, .Tn tries A. M,-llvi!lu nf Helta. William Bailey of Nephi and X. P. Ipson of Beaver. Work in Arizona. "The Tudhu reservation road' Secret;) Sec-ret;) ry Bh'Hov; says in his letter to I '( -adent M;mdorfield, "is at last about to be mil meted, authority having been ranted the a::cnt to begin grade work t once. The Mo.jave county, Ariz., per visors expect to meet their engineer engi-neer at an early day to lay out the rx-eadituro of $25u6 between Little-fields Little-fields and Moroni to. Clark county, .vy.., is con st rue tins: a bridge over the Muddy river at St. Thomas. It will require very little effort to assure the prisma ije of a bond issue of $."0,000 by Arizona for Ividging the Colorado river south of St. George. " ff the gentlemen at Salt Lake City and along the Arrowhead trail can arrange ar-range to give us the support that will permit myself or sonipono else to take the lead in the0 matters, the "return to the state of Utah will he, inside of a venr, eailv $50 for every $5 ex-t ex-t ponded. A word here as to the volume of travel over this' route: Auus-t, 1S1 cars; September, 201; October, 20". 'he present month averaging about eight automobiles per daw" State Road Engineer Ira Tt. Brnwuing is on tl in in? further plans for hinhway work in the spring, and says that it in the purpose of the road commission to extend this activity to somewhat uu- usual nrot'O'-finnp in the interest of transpm-i ation and to furnish employment employ-ment for nmnv of the men to be released from milit'iry service at earlv dates.