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Show IID BUILDING HEED0F STATE Rate of Construction Said to Be Falling Behind Traffic Increase. Utah roads are being used from S00 to uiu) por runt more today than they were : U-u years aero, and wit en tlie traffic is , compared to the amount of money being i expended and a comparison made with the i amounts that have been spent In the past, ; it will be fo'md that the state is not keep-i keep-i iii'-T pare -with the increase 01" travel in ' providing- for its needs, according to facts : brought out at a discussion of the matter '. by the state road commission at its last j meeting. An e iio r mo us amount of highway con- strucliou is needed properly to take care j of the demands of the state in co-ordiuatlng co-ordiuatlng the highway traffic with that I of railroads. This is true throughout the entire country and, according to a report ! from the Highway Industries association j of V;i shi rig-urn made to the Utah road j com mission, it is estimated that the na-I na-I t ioual governmen t should take over and I construct approximately GO,UOO miles of : ron d way. ! The states should improve in their own highway systems about "50.0U0 miles of road, the federal report says, and the counties and townships have the task facing fac-ing them of improving and constructing about 300,000 miles. This would still leave about 1.800,000 miles of earth roads in tlie country unimproved. in going over the program, the national association advises that most of the work p ro i os e d m u s t be none by tlie hi gh way' departments of the states and counties. The national system, ft is estimated, will cost about ?2. 000,000. 000, tlie slate systems approximately 6,000,000.000, the county system of improved roads nearly $(5,000,-000, $(5,000,-000, and the earth or top soils roads about $;s.ono,o.io. A conservative estimate of the work to be accomplished within the next ten or fifteen years means an expenditure of about ?1 7,000,000,000- for the people of the United States in order properly to develop the country and to serve the needs of increasing in-creasing truck and motor transportation. The Utah state road commissioners have agr eed that the time has come when the hit or miss method of planning and building build-ing roads must be abandoned, and, in order or-der to accomplish the best results, cooperation co-operation must be had between the state, county and national highway commissioners. commission-ers. It is believed that the system of roads should be divided into three distinct units, or classifications, the national highways, the state highways and the county and township highways. The national highways, it is held by road building experts, shouid act as the main arteries tying the states together and connecting the entire country as oneinit. The state system should then coordinate with t he federal system and connect the sections where commerce is the greatest, developing the state in the most logical manner and connecting every county road with the adjacent county road, making a complete network throughout the commonwealth. common-wealth. The counties and townships, it is held, should take charge and build those roads leading from the centers of population and the railroad stations out into the farming districts like the spokes of a wheel, connecting con-necting the state and county roads with the national system and thus bringing all farms into close touch with the market. Many bills have been introduced recently in congress dealing with the road situation situa-tion and much legislation is pending at this time on the problem of Improvment. |