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Show ROAD IRK PLANS ARE : ANNOUNCED State Department and Counties Coun-ties Will Cooperate In Proposed Pro-posed Improvements; Seek i To Relieve Unemployment. rians arc under way for a . program of road improve-i improve-i i merit to be undertaken in the i near future by the state road 1 department and the respective respec-tive counties of the state, according ac-cording to an announcement of Preston G. Peterson, member mem-ber of the state road commission, ' Monday, Money for the proposed be tie r-,' r-,' ments will come out of the state i ( gasoline tax fund and a residue ' from the motor vehicle license and county slate road funds, It is said. I The counties will participate on a i fifty-fifty basis, and Utah county I will match a considerable sum If the state road district engineer's .1 ' recommendations -to the state road 1 I commission call for this. I 1 Favor Miin-Tciirn Jjibor j Mr. Peterson states that it is j I ho intention of the commission to , ha mile as much work as possible i that calls for man and team labor, i jin order to relieve the unemployment unemploy-ment situation as much as possible. , I In discussing the situation with 1 respect to Utah county, A. O. Smoot, of the board of county commiasion-'ers, commiasion-'ers, declares there is much better- ment work that should be done in 1 the county this fall. He calls particular par-ticular attention to the road lead-i lead-i ing from Goshen to Dividend and j iKureka, which was badly damaged hy recent floods. Something must be done in that section if the road is kept passible duing the coming T, winter, he declares. l ; Mr. Peterson indicated that there iare several sharp and dangerous j' curves in Provo canyon that should be taken care of. It is the belief ( ;of Commissioner Smoot that the i 'Fifth West project will be com-l com-l 'pleted this fall, since Provo city 'and Utah county have met the re-r re-r 'quirements of the state department, ; and there is no further need of 4 Iclny, the commissioner declared. The money for this project, Mr. : ..Smoot points out, comes out of the ;;tate road fund, which fund has a i Substantial balance with which to j Ijnatch state road money available 'or this county. The county road - fund, however, already shows a - jloficit, and such projects as ifwelfth North must be improved T from money out of the county fund A "ntircly. That is why that project tj -annot be undertaken this year, he . 'xplalns. |