Show I I I GOOD ROADS LANS COVER NEARLY Miff ALL OF STATE r j jI 1 I Comprehensive Co Out Outlines lines t tt of f t Proposed Improvement tl Are Extensive I I IThe The good roads movement In Uta Utah already tady widespread and enjoying a re remarkably roe roe- h healthy growth will receive recall added Impetus t this I I year If the legisla legislature ture ure acts favorably on the several bl bills bill lI her before r that body calling for expendi expenditures expenditures' Ui U- U tunes tures' i res' res In different Be sections of the th te and nd which have a as their purpose the completion of overstate hl highways each forming a link of ot a a. transcontinental route or a connection Gov William WIl S Spry In his Ws message message t to te the tho legislature placed himself on record as favoring hl highways for the people of the state as against roads that h have v M as their first fint purpose purpose the furnishing of at main arteries of travel In and out of ont It borders Members Member of ot the legislature and State Engineer Morgan hold dUT different different differ differ- rent r- r ent views and believe that when the state has overstate highways connecting up with transcontinental routes routes- o of travel that lesser leaser connecting links will naturally follow Road Road Cond Condition tl n Fair If It th the e Browning measure measure providing for tor a bridge over the Price river at Is 15 enacted the original Midland Midland Midland Mid Mid- land trail from the Colorado line to Salt Lake JAke will willbe be In fair shape pe I In n their efforts to to put t the Midland trail in n shape for tor travel during 1916 the people of ot Colorado have Invaded Utah and have done work on the roads In Grand Gran county This work worle and the Installing of ot three bridges year last last year In Grand county counts have ha placed the Midland trail from th the state line to Green river In very fair condition Residents of Green Oreen River and Castle CasU Dale and Md th the Intervening territory would have the route swine their way y yAnd and work to this end wilt wll be started this year Green want wan a highway that will make It convenient for them to to- get g-et to the county s eat at t which Is la Castle Dale DaJe and at the samI same sam time Ume hope that such a roae road will get th the overland c automobile travel The road road t tax will wilt be paid for with Emery Emel county money The bridge at ot Woodside on the original trail will do awn away with fordIng toed ford Ing when the Price river Is la low and the crossing of the Denver Ee Rio Grande bridge in times of ot high water A road was 8 built last year eu from Wellington Wellington Well Well- and tho the present ington Inton to as road from tho the last named point to Woodside Is In very fair shape shape tho the bridge e over the Price I Is all that Is needed to complete the original route rodt from t tAsks the he Colorado line t to Salt Lake Asks Aske for The measure asks Aske for an appropriation of ot 2000 2000 for tor tho the Yellow Yellow- stone-Grand stone canyon canon highway It If the till bill la is passed and work commenced as soon Soon 8 as the weather will permit It will wUl willbe willbe be possible for tor tourists to travel that way to the tho canyon this summer There should be no r reason ason wh why It should not be In ire fine shape shave travel From Juab to Scipio on the West Western route about twenty miles must be bo Improved The road from Scipio to Kano Kanosh h Is 18 faire fair but from there there to to a n point point fifteen miles great north of Beaver aver City a great deal of work must munt be bo done Between Beaver and Parowan there must be improvement Improve improve- ment The section In Iron county be between between be- be tween these two places laces will be Improved Im- Im proved oved this spring to Iron county having authorized authorized the wor work Parowan to Hur Hur- Hurricane Is 15 fair Convicts Con are now working work work- log ing on Hurricane hill bill and will be e through there thero by about April p 1 From Hurricane to the Arizona line settlers will wilt do the road work ork On the eastern route two roads roads' ar are being considered between Gravel Springs and Kanab When a n decision has been reached as to to- the feasible one work will be started Immediately From Kanab to Hatch about twenty miles must be Ir Improved proved From Hatch to Salt Lake the present road is possible All the mone money appropriated will road be b requIred re- re aired if ft the Grand rand canyon road Is a to to tobe be be In fair shape for far the entire distance Mile Forty-Mile Link Planned A A. total of In asked to build a alink alink link Jink between Knolls and Wendover on the Lincoln highway south south of tho the lake like This piece of ot road d It Is III s proposed proposed to build between these thue points Is about forty forty forty for for- ty miles mlles In length and Is 15 located In Tooele county As the proposed d road will follow the Western Pavlov Pacific It Is the tb contention of ot state engineers automo- automo and pr practical road rond builders that the mone money should be authorized by the legislature stature e so ao that tWit work may be Inaugurated inaugurated at at the earliest possible date To fo complete tho the northern route about the lake Jake and the one so strongly rec ice recommended recommended by Ogden den and which Is le a apart apart art part rt of ot th Midland trail about would be oe necessary The road from rom Salt Lake to Rosette was repaired last year at a lO lost tt of 16 15 From Rosette Rosette Ro Ro- sette Bette to lo a a. point on tho the Nevada line the road Is in cad bOld bad ha shape From From all all sources there will be he available avail avail- able this year for tor the tha Improvement o othe of the road rond from Salt Lake by way o of ot Provo c Carlton Duchesne Duehesne Roosevelt and Vernal ernal v to the Col Colorado 0 line and andover andover over o a G route n first t known as a the Pikes Pike's peak jcak ocean to ocean highway hway about All the tho ne necessary bridges and culverts culvert are In and considerable cradIn grad grad- In K I has already A y been done In addition to the special appropriations Ions Ilona asked for tor It Is 18 expected that the usual amount for general road construction construction con con- will be authorized by the leg leg- slature As AB one prominent state official pu puIt puts it It- It tr Unless something goes wrong when the tho next legislature convenes there here will b be a n big change chanSo In Utah roads oads Ut Utah h Is 15 wideawake to the necessity necessity ne ne- t of good roads I tully fully ly cx expo pe peto to o see the good work go gO and Increase In fn n importance Imparlance from year to year ear Good oads stand lItand for development and pr pros pros- prosperity s' s |