Show OVER THE TOP TOPON TOPON ON GOOD ROADS The people of or the state must hand it to Beaver count county when wIen it comes to toa toa toa a matter of or good roa roads s. s Beaver has hasI I- I spent a good deal of money matching matching matching match match- ing state funds in the he improvement of their highways and as they have havea I a good formation n to build roads over they have the best stretch of of ot road traversed by the Arrowhead Trail in Utah Juab county has some very good road but It does not come u up p to the Beaver Deaver county road Millard county has a lot of road to maintain and considerable of it Is decidedly poor Salt Lake and Utah counties positively ought to be ashamed of the condition of their roads They are actually In worse shape today than they were six or eight years ago with the exception of ot ten miles of pavement in the suburbs of Salt Lak Lake and about a couple of adjacent adjacent adjacent ad ad- jacent to Pleasant Grove in Utah county Of course there are stretches In both counties that are fairly good but for the most part they are full of bumps and holes and cobble rocks that hat are hard on Urea In Iron county the roads in dry weather veather are a fair air average with the rest est but are not comparable with those hose of oC Beaver and Juab counties which are practically all surfaced or pr constructed of decomposed granite the he very finest of native road material mater- mater ial al Ut Utah h county has the nerve I to display display dis dis- dis- dis play playa a conspicuous sign at the southern southern southern south south- ern portal which reads Welcome to Utah County and then treats the tourist to a buffeting and shaking not surpassed in any part of the Arrowhead Arrowhead Arrowhead Arrow Arrow- head Trail above the Bellevue black ridge It is a delightful drive over good roads for far the mo most l part from l LeVan eVan c ni Y over overl Into t. t the ih r l v valley vaHey- and up past Richfield to Joe JoeTown JoeTown JoeTown Town but Clear Creek canyon Is bad wrt n and the nearer your approach the elusive summit of the divide the worse it gets particularly after atter a storm The distance that way between between between be be- tween Salt alt Lake and Cedar Gedar City is scar scarcely lly twenty miles farther but the road through the fear Clear Creek pass must be before the road becomes popular that way Though the variety which the loop affords is a pleasing div diversion and seems to shorten the drive One of the first Important undertakings undertakings undertakings under under- takings after the war is over should be the tho construction of r a trip strip of concrete concrete concrete con con- crete right down through the state scat from Logan to St St. Geor George 0 o when m drive e the length of the state by automobile automobile automobile auto auto- mobile will wll become a real leal pleasure and tho the saving to the state in tho the matter of traffic of all kinds will soon repay repa the money ed to build it Iron Iron County Record |