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Show PROTEST MADE AGIST ITA BASIN HIGHWAY sBsssWaaaBsaassBaasp - Delegation From Wasatch Wa-satch County Tells Got-ernor Got-ernor There Is No Necessity Neces-sity for Construction Construction of tha proposed highway known aa the Avlntaquln Canyon route Into tha Uinta basin waa protested to tha governor, and the atata road com mission today by a delegation from Waaatch county headed by Stat Senator O." Frank l Ryan. Frederick Crook, represent s-V s-V tlve from Waaatch aminty, the y board of commleeloneragif the coun- ty and tha naatnhee af on nasi acre of Heber City. The protect la made on tha ground that there are three roads now Into the Uinta basin and that there ! no necessity for the construction of another. Tha proposed highway Is one that would be from Duchesne to Soldier. Summit and would run through the Avlntaquln canyon. The route would be about forty mile In length. Trouble haa been eaperlenoed dur-tig dur-tig the winter monthe-tn keeping the roada open between the basin and Price and Myton, owing to the heavy anowa that cover the divide at time aald to be twenty-five feet in depth at the summit. To main- tain communication with tha basin during the winter, monthe on account ac-count of Inability to negotiate the enow at the summit of tha range, an Investigation waa made by E. C. Knowlton, assistant state highway engineer, and P. Cross of tha bureau' of public roada last winter, when both got loat from th world for everal daya, - of th Avlntaquln canyon route and they reported favorably fa-vorably on th project aa compared with any other route Into the basin. VICTORY ROAO APPROVED. The Victory highway haa been approved ap-proved by Secretary of Agriculture - Wallace as far aa Duchesne, and there It haa remained waiting on an outlet weat that would he an all winter route, the Victory highway route being from th Colorado line to Ducheane. ' In their report oa the Avlntaquln canyon route, the engineers declared de-clared that the route waa on a aomewhat lower '' level than the others and that the prevailing winds In wlntsr kept it practically free from the heavy drift that marked the other route. u-.-. .,v Last week the atata toad commie-l commie-l slon. in view of th difficulties Si which hav been met with on the ether route into the baaln and in jrlew that the star rout of the Toetofflce department, the longest one In. the United State and further fur-ther that it la th heaviest parcel poet route In the country, took op the question of building a highway through Avlntaquln canyon from Duchesne to Soldier Summit and determined to submit the question to the bureau of public roads in Ogden, where it now is. Tha commission com-mission In submitting ths federal and 1 per cent ayatem In December, 1121. included the road between Duchesne arid Hober as a part of tha aystem. It Is stated at tha road commission commis-sion office that It la possible to ob- : tsln funds from the forest service for tha construction of the proposed pro-posed road, aa the project la located l.artly within the Uinta forest reserve. re-serve. PROTEST OFFERBO. Protest against th construction ' of this road I besed en th ground that it would ahut out the Heber-Krultland Heber-Krultland road in th winter, aa the road from Duchesne, which now connects with the former road, would branch off to Soldier Summit Sum-mit route about half way between the first two point, and opposition Is also mad from tha Caatle Gste-Duchesne Gste-Duchesne route and Prtce-Myton road, all of which are now constructed, con-structed, because it la declared that these hlghwaya would be closed .during the winter nd that people would be discommoded, although It la sdmltted that. .to maintain tha opening of the road would continue to he very coatly. Carbon county today protested against having th Antlnoquln rout included In th tat ayatem of roada telegram being received from th cha'mber of commerce at Helper aaylng "Tha . chamber of commerce of Helper protests against the Ducheene-Soidier Summit being designated aa a federal aid project to the Uinta baaln, which will mean , Vf he abandonment of the Helper-' Helper-' I-mchesno route.' which Carbon county at the demand ef your body baa spent large sums of monsy." Other telegrams protesting aieo were received from the Klwanl club of Price, the Price chamber of commerce com-merce and L. E. Whit more, former representative from Carbon county. Th matter I being threshed eut this sfternoon before th state road commission. |