Show BEN BLOW MANAGER VICTORY HIGHWAY HERE ih Is t Link Bet con con Now Acu York Yeti and San Francisco Francisco- Members Secured d In n Basin Ben Den Blow man manager ger of the tho Victory Victor Highway association spent a few Cew days in the Uintah basin stopping slopping at Vernal lt M Im 17 HI and Duchesne At each place he conferred ed with the commercial organizations s sand and secured Victory Highway memberships memberships memberships mem mem- totaling around Each membership is 5 6 The headquarters of the Victory Highway are In Topeka Kansas and naturally tho the work centers from fromI I that point As explained oy Mr Blow the Victory highway is a memorial memorial memorial memo memo- rial to the world war veterans and is the greatest memorial ever undertaken undertaken undertaken under under- taken by a people in honor of her soldiers The road reaches from San Francisco Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco to New Now York At each terminal terminal terminal nal a bronze statue of a soldier will willbe be le placed facing each other where the road crosses any state line Une a smaller soldier at attention will be placed At each county line an American eagle cagle will be placed ant and I the names of the tho gold star boys on a tablet It is expected that means to erect such memorials will be raised raised raised rais rais- ed by women's clubs and Legion Auxiliaries The Tho roads through Utah and Nevada Nevada Nevada Ne- Ne Ne Ne- vada arc are the weak links in the highway highway highway high high- way and if left to their own resources resources resources re re- sources it might be years before beCore paved aved roads could be hie secured because of oC tho the great length of roads and few people to support same And here was vas the interesting part of Mr Blows Blow's remarks The government in n her road building plan puts up 74 74 and the state 26 of every hundred spent on primary rand hand secondary secondary secondary sec sec- roads Such counties as Uintah and Duchesne Duchesne Duchesne Du Du- chesne cannot build many miles of ol roads so ao Mr Blow proposes to devise devise devise de de- vise some means whereby eastern financiers will donate the money necessary necessary necessary essary for the state to take tako advantage advantage advant advant- age of the governments government's offer While In n California he expects to secure money to help in building roads through Nevada where worse taxing conditions exist he then intends gong going going go go- ing ng east cast and put up Utah's needs to men and expects their financial finan- finan cial ial support in getting the government government government govern govern- ment aid ald The Victory highway Is the most direct trans-continental trans route It is already the best market route in the United States with paved roads from New Jew York to the Mississippi river It t is the most scenic route with the most side attractions for the tour- tour st st. Much work is to be accomplished which will take time be before Core all things oan can be accomplished Bureaus Bureaus Bu- Bu of oC information will be established along the way n |