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Show COUNCIL PROTESTS ON ROAD FUNDS The following letter of protest was sent this week bv the citv was sent this week by the city council: March 3, 1943 Mr. Ray Leavitt State Road Commission State Capitol Building Salt Lake City, Utah Dear Sir: I have been commissioned by Mayor R. A. Murano, of the City of Bingham Canyon to contact you offering a protest on diverting divert-ing Salt Lake County Road moneys mon-eys to the monumentary highway. high-way. The state roads to Bingham are in very bad need of repair, if not a new, complete highway. It has been at least 23 years since any constructive work has been done on this highway. The a-mount a-mount of moneys received in taxes from industries' in Bingham, Bing-ham, we feel, entitles us to some consideration. During the last two weeks our roads have literally fallen apart, in fact barricades should be put up prohibiting anybody from entering en-tering the Bingham highway at West Jordan. I realize that the sudden change in weather has caused a great deal of deterioration, deterior-ation, but the only solution is not to repair what we have, but to give us a new highway. We are not in favor of Com. Jaynes' proposal that a highway! be constructed from 10200 So. changing the Bingham highway; at least 90 per cent of the travel from Bingham is to and from Salt Lake. This road that Mr. Jaynes proposes will lengthen the distance rather than shorten. We would appreciate your giving this letter your consideration consider-ation and I place myself at your disposal for consultation in helping help-ing to alleviate a bad condition. Very truly yours, Harold F. Chesler, City Commission |