Times Independent | 1923-03-08 | Page 4 | Urging Governor to Approve Road Appropriation

URGING GOVERNOR TO 1 A telegram was today lent sent by the board ot of go governor vernom of the moab chamber of commerce to governor C II 11 mabey urging urging him to approve the bill 1111 passed by t the e legislature appropriating 15 for the construe lion tion of a road from bluff to the san juan oil fields the measure passed the home house yesterday having hiving previously been ap approved oved by the senate and li is now in ln the 0 hands of the governor it li in reported that he it is rather dis posed to veto thea the appropriation due to the financial con condition NINIon of the state and the expected deficit during the next biennium when ap rached b by a friend of the appropriation bill recently he stated that hundreds of thousands thou fandi rands of dollare dollars had already been expended in southeastern utah on road roads and indicated that nothing could be done in behalf of the oil field fields road however governor mabey realizes the importance of diverting diverting the oil held field business to utah through the construction of a suitable northern outlet road and since the bill hai has been passed passel by the legislature local people are con confident dent that he will approve it many citizens cit izena of southeast ern utah are writing the governor in support of the bill