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Show 'HioHWAY System" " I PLANS APPROVED i i A State Road Commission In-i In-i . dorses Scheme for All of Utah. Expenditure of $5,000,00C Arranged to Open Remote Re-mote Sections. I'IliIj tor t::c expenditure of nearly $r..0'i'),cu0 on the ruaJ of Ulali were approved ap-proved at the weekly meeting of l::e slate road commission yesterday afternoon. The plan, outlined by lia It. Browuiir-i, state road engineer, and Ids assistants already has the approval of K. J. Finch, district engineer for the federal government, which is contribuLin a pare of tho funds to be spent within the state. Every section of Utah will be benefited by the development" of this highway system, sys-tem, and it will provide splendid roads to remote parts of the .mate, hitherto almost al-most inaccessable to the average tourist and automobilist because of a lack of ood highways. Thus many portions of the state, rich in mineral, agricultural and scenic wealth, will be opened and developed. devel-oped. Following are the plans as approved: Castle Gate to Duchesne, surfaced earth road; length. 4j -miles; serving a population popula-tion of 4100 persons; estimated cost, $1S1.i::j.i0. Ogden to Hooper, macadam road; length, 9.6 miles; estimated cost, SGi.340.-14. Price to Emery, sections of earth, macadam ma-cadam and hard surface roads; length 63 miles; serving t2S0 persons; estimated cost, J.V.O.i'.IO. Thompsons to lloab, surfaced, earth road; length S3 miles; serving population of HiL'O persons' estimated cost, $100,000. Moab to LaSal. surfaced earth road; length 2-1 miles: serving population of 25 persons: estimated cost, SOS, 000. I LaSal to Monticello. LaSal to Monticello, surfaced earth road: length 86 miles; serving population of 600; estimated cost, $104,000. Monticello to Blanding, surfaced earth road; length 25 miles; serving population of 950; estimated cost. 572,000. Delta-Ilolden-Kanosh, sections of surfaced sur-faced earth and hard surfac roads; length 55 miles; serving population of 3S36; estimated esti-mated cost, $:j26,0OO. Duchesne to Vernal, hard surface road; length 61 miles; serving population of 13,-920; 13,-920; estimated cost, $732,000. hiUtid to Cedar City, surfaced earth road: length 34 miles; serving population of 0052; estimated cost, SIOOOOO. Cedar City to St. George, hard surface road: length 56 miles; serving population of R370; estimated cost, S072.OOO. Beaver to Milford, surfaced earth road, now nearly completed; length 33 miles; serving population of 4460; estimated cost, S30.6OO. Tremonton to Snowville, surfaced earth road; length 45 miles; serving population of 1S00; estimated cost, 5100,000. Cedar City to Buckhorn, hard surface road: length 35 miles; estimated cost, $420,000. Panguitch to Kanab, surfaced earth road: length 72 miles; serving population of 2790; estimated cost $200,000. Levan to Scipio, hardv surface road, length 2S miles; estimated cost, $336,000. Blanding to Bluff. ' Blanding to Bluff, earth road; length 28 miles; serving population of 360; estimated esti-mated cost, $33,600. Marysvile to Panguitctr; macadam road; length 55 miles; serving population of 6072; estimated cost, $330,000. Junction to Escalanle, surfaced earth road; length 66 miles; serving population of $1500; estimated cost, $125,000. Paragonah to Orton, earth road: length 29 miles; serving population of 500; estimated esti-mated cost, S34.SO0. Milford to Newhouse. earth road: length 25 miles; serving population of 350; estimated esti-mated cost, $30,000. Richfield to tlanlisville, earth road: length 140 miles; serving population of 25SS; estimated cost, $168,000. Morgan City, Littleton, Peterson, Stoddard Stod-dard to Morgan City, macadam road: length 17 miles; serving population of 2776; estimated cost, $102,000. From Wyoming state line via Antelope and Manila to Linwood, earth road; length 14 miles; serving population of 500; esti-mated esti-mated cost, $21,000. Federal aid in these projects will amount, it is estimated, to $2,841,031.92. As a result, there will be a connected svs-tem svs-tem of good roads to all parts of the state. Of the amount to be expended, the counties coun-ties will be called upon to bear a total of $4S5,647. Delegations Heard. Several delegations requesting road improvements im-provements in the southern part of the state were heard at the meeting yesterday. yester-day. The contract and bonds for the concrete con-crete paving von the Salt lhake-Ogden road were approved and signed by the governor at the meeting, and the work at Center-ville Center-ville and Farmington will proceed at once. A delegation-from Kephi requested the state to pay two-fifths of the cost of a concrete road a mile and a half long through that city. They w ere advised that telephone poles now were too close to the area to be paved, and that thev must be moved before definite arrangements could be made for the work. Citizens of Sanpete count-,- requested a hard surfaced highway between Mount Pleasant and Fairview, and the board instructed in-structed that an engineer should investigate investi-gate the matter and make a report. Payson citizens also requested paving through their city streets on the same basis that the paving for Nephi was requested. |
