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Show road mm COMPLETE THIP Price-Castlegate Highway Held Up by Pipeline Construction. Ira R. Browning, engineer for the state road commission, in company with W. X. Kr.ckstad, senior engineer lor the federal bureau of roads, and B. H. Fowle, district engineer of the federal post-road work, returned from an Inspection trip of the road between Price and Emery, a distance dis-tance of sixty-one miles, and of the road between Kphraim and orangevilie, a distance dis-tance of forty-five miles. The work of paving the highway between be-tween Price and Cast legate is l?mg held up because of a pipe line which is in the course of construction irom a spring near Colt on to Price. According to Engineer , Kowie: "The city oiticials of Price contend con-tend that they had been granted permission per-mission to run the pipe, line along the state road by the county commissioners, who deny that they granted such permission. permis-sion. We believe that it would be useless use-less to attempt to pave the road if tins wooden pipe line is to run aiong the state read as now planned by the city officials. "It would leak and cause us trouble constantly. I have taken the matter up wiin Major George Wootton of Price and with W. Y. .lones, engineer m charge of the construction of the pipe line, and have told them that it t h e y w an t ed a paved roai there, they w ould be com- I pelled to co-operate w :th us in the matter mat-ter and take their pipe hue along another an-other route." Much damage has been done by floods in Carbon and Emery count ics and tne work of constructing the federal post-aid post-aid roads has been dela ed on this account, ac-count, is the report of Engineer Browning. Secretary of State Harden Pennion, Joseph Jo-seph Kirie. stale auditor, and James O. Un:-son. assistant road engineer, returned yesterday from an irsp-etion of the Ein-coln Ein-coln h'ghw ay as far we.-t as Sheridan, ten m lies west of Gold Hill. Secretary Hen n ion sa s the government transcon-t transcon-t mental motor transport corps tore up the road badly in some places. The work of constructing the road, he says, is a slow process, and he now reali7.es why it cost the United States government so much money to bu;iii rv.uis in Prance during the war. Much of the ma t erial for the Lincoln highway is shipped by rail to Wendover and then on the peep Crek railway line to Gold Hill and then to Plack Puttes. the w estern end of The construct '.on work, by freight wagons and automobile trucks. Eng.neer Purson savs he believes that the road stxxi tip tairly wei; under the t ransport trucks, in view of the dry summer. |