| Show PAVED HIGHWAY FOR UTAH COUNTY GETS V START AT BIG MEETING I I. I I Forty three Forty three Miles of New Road to Run From I ehi ebi V to Santaquin in S 10 j J. J i I I Construction of ot three sixty mite of or paved pa highways at Vat an estimated cOllot cost coat of ot was vas planned for tor Utah count county at a a. meeting held heM last night in Provo at which every overy city cit and town of or tho the county was represented lJ by dele gates cates The rhe delegates agreed to return to their respective e communities and work for tor a a. bond election for tor the necessary necessary sary funds for tor tho the proposed road Delegates who gathered at nt the I Provo Commercial club last night were enthusiastic over oyer the proposition o of having ha their county traversed b by a n. highway that will put In permanently upon the tho map Figures as to the probable probable probable able cost were given from estimates prepared b by W. W I. I F. F Long cn engineer in charge of or this territory for the tho Union Portland Cement company I Petitions are now b being circulated and anti have haYl signers and when COO more are attached the tho count county commissioners commissioners com con missioners will bo asked ed to call can for a special election to vote ote the tho price of th the the- roadway V There Is little doubt that the count county commissioners ners will call for the tho bond election as ns public sentiment in fn Utah county is 18 said to be strongly In favor of or the new road rondo The rho vote yote will conic come some time in March larch and those con con- conversant I versant with the situation say that there is iN little doubt of or it carrying Substantial citizens have hayt already signed the petitions Jesse Jeee Knight ht be being being being be- be ing the man first first man to claim the tIne honor honorof of ot signing the first petition In detail the new mew roadway will consist consi con eon si t of ot a 0 main line beginning at Lab Lehi which will run to Santaquin a distance dis dis- tanco tance of or three forty miles This will willbe willbe be a sixteen-foot sixteen hi highway hway Two loops will branch brancin from the main hi highway hwa one eleven en miles In length from Pleasant Pleasant Pleas Picas ant Grove l to Provo The rue second second hr branch will wm bE begin at al I Payson and run nin straight north until ninth It hits the mii main linn Hn about nine s from Payson V V These heso branches branche will m be ten feet feel wide wide- They will rim run through some ome of the richest sugar be beet l and farming aeo- aeo coHons Hons of Utah where the tonnage Is U very er heavy rhey They will act as te feeders to th the tho main maln line and it la Is thought that the loops will prove prove more more useful than tho the highway Itself V One farmer Anner In the meeting remarked last night that the tax un which would be levied upon the people p oC of V Utah county count amounting to about one anti and on mills mm is Inconsequential compared to the benefits benefit 11 H He himself has hns Ii a a. forty Acre tract of land planted to sugar beets This Is II asse assessed sed at His rOl forty acres will willbe be taxed nt at that rate 1380 per acre aClO per year for twenty years ears lie Ilo staled sted t that he could AA save that in in the tho cost of or keeping his steel tires repaired repaired- and where it took look three horses horse to dra draw hi his sugar beets to market last at season it will whit require only two If a good ro road d were provided I The Tine people of ot Utah count county received V their Inspiration In concrete roadways from Davis Count county V theirs thir neighbor which Inns has man many miles mlle o of such ucb rond roads The completion of or orthe the he Utah county road will give Utah a a. stretch of con con- highway 10 miles in length when the two lines ii In this thi co county nty are I built as promised The Tine proposed highway will 1 1 be tone one ne of the most picturesque in ini the country country coun oun tr try it i Is said al embracing n a aH It does scenery which includes the Great Salt lake lal stretches of ot canyon and arid mountain moun moun- tain country that excel Switzerland In beauty V But one stretch of or roadway Intervenes Inter I venes between alt Lake City An and Ogden Oggen Og- Og gen den wh which Ich is iN not con concreted and there Is one ono lap of or road between ern ernIl Midvale Il yale Junction an l Utah county comity count I an and this year will see sec ec thesis links converted con into modern roadways roadway |
