Show I ROAD BODY AIMS AIM I TO JO REACH All PARI f UTAH State Highways Would Circle Globe Blood Tells C. C of C. C The policy of or the state road commission is to reach all sections of the state at as early a date as possible and to treat all alI sections fairly Henry H. H Blood president of or the commission declared in his address to the chamber of commerce commerce com corn merce Wednesday and yet there is a strange thing about roa road roal i building build build- ing every mg-every every section Is nearly sure that It is getting the worst of or the deal highways placed In a straight line would nearly circle the globe at the equator There are i in the state miles of or rO roads ds Divide this by 7 and you have exactly exactly exactly ex ex- ex- ex the of roads in the state highway system system miles Apply 7 as a percentage multiplier to the same road total and you get exactly the mileage In the so called federal aid system system 1684 1684 miles Federal money can be spent on this 1684 miles but cannot be spent on the remaining 1751 miles Federal money can be spent however only for construction This leaves the full maintenance of miles and construction of 1751 miles a state charge Thus your road commission must spread its maintenance funds over as much road as would reach from New York to San Francisco and back to Reno every mile of ot which must be watched and much of It patrolled Do Do you wonder that it Is impossible V to meet promptly all demands V While much remains to be done some things have I been accorn- accorn The construction condition on January 1 I 1928 1925 was as follows Snow removal 2000 miles kept clear costing Zion CarMel Camel highway construction government state for five ty-five miles oiling fifty miles cost The projects now under V way total total total to- to tal and those soon to be belet belet belet let The maintenance of roads this year will wiIl cost betterment and special maintenance Mr Blood took each section or of the state in turn and told what had been attempted in road projects in each and what sums had been V ex ex- ex President Edward M. M Ashton pre pre- sided E. E M. M was chairman chairman chairman chair chair- man of the meeting |