Show I I BOARD IN FAVOR Of DUCHESNE ROUTE ADOPTS STRONG RESOLUTIONS NS FOR THE BASINS BASIN'S BREAD AND BUTTER BUTIER ROUTE During the last hour of the tle meeting meeting meeting meet meet- ing of the board of ot county u ty commissioners commis- commis 81 ner Wednesday things generally generally- wen nen considerably over o degrees Fa sometimes described as as boiling point Matters 1 became hot when Co Cominis- Cominis stoner Lin Lindsay say offered a resolution and moved mo its adoption in which the declared in favor of a c convict camp on the Duchesne to Helper road load and advised against the establishing establishing establishing lishing of one on the Price to Myton l road offering such Mich assistance as would be bo possible pOS on the former route hut but virtually announcing its Intention intention In In- to refuse re use to operate co-operate operate co-operate in ina a BolCh ch a movement on the latt latter r. r Commissioner Commission r Gentry strongly op op- Posed the resolution while Commis Commis- e ers 01 ers Lindsay and Rhoades Rhoades' were e. e equally a ly insistent that it be adopted On 01 a vote being taken the resolution passed by a two to toone one vote The Tire follows s That whereas the tike state road commission com com- mission ision and the state board of cor- cor cor- cor announced their in intentions ten ten- a state r road ad from some point on n the railroad to t the ie U basin and Whereas the Uintah basin is sep separated sep sep- P- P crated from the railroad by bY bYa a high higl range of nio mountains making making- wirier making wi winter il travel on on n all routes more mote or less di dif difficult difficult dif dif- and r Whereas It has been shown by the records of oC the past eight years that the route from Duch Duchesne west the loathe railroad h has s proved to be the the most satisfactory route into and iid out of the b basin sin and W Whereas 1 reas the incoming and outgoIng outgoing outgo- outgo ing g freight for Uintah county Is by byway b way of Watson Vatson the terminus of the Uintah railway only the th-e inCo incoming ng and and nd outgoing tr freight for Cor D Duchesne c county will wilt be se served ved by the proposed ed road and Whereas there is no community in Duchesne county comity which cannot re reach the railroad at least eight miles n nearer Jre by the Duchesne to Helper route than by the Ule My Myton ton to Price route and and Whereas Whereas each of or our our peo- peo p peo people o- o pie living west from the town town ofton of Myton ton in order to travel the Myton l to Price road would be forced to o travel two t miles e extra tra distance for each milo mile he lives west of Myton 1 and Duchesne county county- bein being fiet fifty mites mUes wide the Myton 1 tc to Price road would add an n average J mileage of or fifty plus eight miles or eight fifty eight additional miles for or the to be served and Whereas it it- itis is possible le to secure help from th the forest department department department de de- I for the improvement of road conditions conditions- from Duchesne Duchene to Helper Helper which could not bo secured for fOI Ule tile the Myton l to Price route and Whereas a very very large federal appropriation appropriation ap ap- can can be sec secured d for the Du Da Duchesne I chesne chesno to Helper route the same being be be- ing jag a which could not be secured for any r route ule not a post road and alid Whereas wood and good water are e. e plentiful along the Duchesne to Helper Hel Hel- l lp p per r route in the tile place of ot an an absolute t de ert of ot a large 1 part a of ot the to Price road and Whereas seve six sevenths of tie the road between Duchesne and Helper has ha's has a natural excellent road bed composed of bituminous and sand clays formed the samp being practically impervious to w water ter and nd wears swears equal to macadam and nd about the same sanie per cent of the Myton l to Price read is of the poorest grade of road load material existing in the State of Utah which would necessitate i- i tate an expenditure several times greater to make malce a passable road than would be required to make an excellent thoroughfare re of the pu Duchesne Duchesne Du Du- chesne to Helper road Therefore b be it it If re resolved h hYthe by this thu con continued on page five five j. j 1 ti j y u BOARD IN FAVOR OF DUCHESNE ROUTE ROUTE- continued from front page board of or county commissioners of Duchesne county that we declare ourselves strongly in favor of the Du Duchesne Duchesne Due chesne to Helper route scuffs and that w wo we wew w will ll give glue this route conic all of tho the financial assistance under our conditions conditions condi condi- bons but that owing to the necessity of at first bul building a road t that at will ac ac- all an of the people we doof do cIo doot ot of feel justified In spending any money on the Price to Myton l road until the Duchesne to Helper and Strawberry valley roads are ed |