Show RECORD EGO O STATE ROAL o n nr r OG M r Worth of Highway Projects Turned Over to Contractors in March With about worth of oC road projects turned over to the contractors contract contract- ors during the month of March and an about half of oC that amount already contracted for In April the tho state stat highway department Is heading to toward toward toward to- to ward a n record year ear of road development develop ment mente according to Henry H. H Blood chairman of the state highway com corn mission Mr Blood says that this tills is th the contribution contribution contribution con con- of oC the auto owners and anc other citizens to the campaign o ol of educating to the beauties anc and resources of oC Utah While the Utah highway system i is isba b ba based ed upon service rather than a ride over the miles o ol of state highway would be an education In itself Mr Blood said I The work of the state stat has been beer supplemented by the activities of the counties and by the national park service and national forest service RECORD PROMISED The 1931 construction program will wil outdistance the building done in 1930 which at that time was greater than any InY other road schedule according to o Mr Blood Utah can well be proud of or its record ecord in road building in the past two wo years especially Mr Blood said When the extra federal funds were available to the states for emergency purposes several states were unable to o make US use of the money Utah however thanks to its enlightened people COple had established a sound highway highway high high- way vay financing system and when the state was called to match additional federal money Utah was able to do so 50 o. o Many states have lost hundreds of or f thousands of dollars of or federal government money in not being able to o match the funds The people through their county commissioners have put Utah in a place where it IL is the he envy of many of its its' sister states EMERGENCY FUND USED When President Hoovers Hoover's emergency emer emer- gency ency road appropriation was passed by y congress and additional money noney was made available a. to Utah providing that the state was able to spend pend It before September 1 I the people people peo peo- lC of or the state again functioned as usual and Utah was among the first of ot f the states to accept the proposal and begin to put this money on roads When September 1 i arrives there are ire going to be many knotty road problems solved which would not have been done for years if it had hadnot hadnot not lot been for the willingness of the citizens to further the road projects BUDGET HALF ALF ALLOTTED Mr Blood explained that the road budget of or about has has' been about bout half allotted with many other projects almost ready for the thc con con- tractor Some of or the serious handicaps Zilch which travelers tra have experienced in going about the state have been short extremely bad pieces of road which ire are expensive to improve Through the he e use of ot the emergency funds which inch must be bc repaid in five years these Iese bad sections are arc being competed com corn this year The road from Mt Carmel Cannel Junction June June- Ion tion on to the Arizona state line on one the he e Grand canyon highway will be finished before beCoTe fall lall and the dangerous dugway Just south of or the unction junction will be transformed Into a boulevard The state is 15 spending bout about on a mile mUe and a half halt of this his highway The road across Sand plateau lateau in Kane county another bad Continued on P Pue Pe e Eighteen RECORD STATE ROAD PROGRAM Continued from ra rage race e Fifteen stretch is I being brought up to federal ted fed eral erl standards A foot HO-fot HO tunnel tunnel and two t O miles mUe of highway hewn out of the side of a mountain of rock l-ck will 1 unite unie the Price canyon thoroughfare with the Carboa Carbon Carbon Car Car- bon boa county pavement The road between Thompsons Thompson's and the Colorado state line lie Is 1 being beinS al almost almost at- at most most completely complete rebuilt In San Juan county count Peters Peter's W lull hill as ES dangerous a n piece of road rad as can be he found in 11 the state is I being replaced by a new highway y and one ono of the chief obstacles to t travel in i the southeast south couth ruth ruth- east cast wilt will be removed remo About 66 n miles les of gravel el a road roa will willbe willbe wJ be b given the oil 01 mulch treatment at ata a cost of and still other stretches will vJ receive light oiling to I settle sette the dust dust Th The road roar across the salt flats fiats ats west of the Great Salt lake Is i being beig re- re graveled The Te federal government has Joined in the Know Utah movement by bythe bytho bytho tho the improvement of the highways en entering en- en the national parka parks and arid by a a greater expenditure of funds on forest forest forest for for- est roads An outstanding highway will wi be b the road south from Bryce canyon to to Long Valley Valey Junction This will take in 11 20 miles mUes of the finest fin tn- tn est timber Umber land of the tate state tte and will wl put pitt Bryce canyon canon on a loop lop At the present time tinto a Visitor to the canyon must retrace several miles of his hs Journey journey Jour jour- ney ncy when leaving the park park The Jensen national monument another Utah scenic spot when properly properly prop prop- erly improved will be seven miles mies nearer to civilization when the federal fed fed- eral erl government go puts put in Its us It prop proposed fed I ed development The state highway has ha about completed its is road to t-c th the roa I basin bain and the tho to dinosaur pits pit will m soon on be accessible to those who I want to study tudy the story stry of or the world I Ilas las as Mother Nature wrote it i. i |