Show I HIGHWAY MAr A ER PRAISES BASIN BASINI lIThe lI- lI I The Victory highway from frost New Nev York City to St St. Mo is arf an ar f r f accomplished thoro re It Jt is inthe ini in ir i the west particularly in iu the mountain moun tain tamn states that the work of or the a as- 7 remains to be done dOllO California Call Call- fornia has Its paved roads from San Francisco almost to the uda New roads will be built in Missouri 1 Kansas Colorado Utah and Nevada to complete the chain And all of these roads yet to be bei i finished are on federal aid projects Mr 11 Blow estimated yesterday esterday that t the federal government will provide one half the cost of oC the work In Missouri Mis 1 and Kansas 65 per cent of the cost through Colorado 74 per c cont cuntin contIn nt I In Utah and 87 per cent in Nevada Funds Available A Ample state funds are available in Kansas and Missouri to furnish furnishEr Er the quotas of those states Nevada Nevadas s r has available now to add t to the large proportion of the exi ex- ex f f i pense to be borne by federal appropriation approprIation appropriation and Colorado has half a million dollars ready for its share Provision for supply the funds needed need need- i ed in Utah to pave pa ve the Victory high high- v way across this state will be made and the officers of the association with the cooperation of state and local private interests are engaged in finding the best method of getting L' L the required sums These roads constructed so largely large large- ly with government funds will be built under government and state specifications and will be maintained t by these joint authorities giving the Victory highway a a. nationally supervised supervised supervised super super- character that will insure its s success Following a more southerly route a more direct route through the west than the Lincoln highway the Victory traverses Missouri k Colorado and comes into Utah through the Uintah basin that fertile fer ter- tile rich undeveloped empire that such a will serve most ad ad- Link Te To Wendover route has been designated designated designated des des- as a part of the Victory highway highway highway high high- way westward through Utah and Mr Mr- Blow said last night that the Victory Highway association would be most please to have the Lincoln highway association designate tho the Wendover route as a part of their system also Selection of the r followed by the Victory Highway is left entirely entirely entirely en en- to the state officials under whose jurisdiction the roads are built and maintained The association tion asks the state officials to desIgnate des des- designate designate des des- ignate which routes shall be named parts of the national highway tem tern Prominent Men Associated The high standing of the e association association tion is indicated in a measure by the j jnames names of the men who comprise Its r f honorary advisory board President r C Warren G. G Harding is honorary president and associated with him are Thomas A A. A Edison Henry Ford Harvey Firestone T. T T Coleman Du- Du Dupont Dupont pont Governor Sproul of Pennsylvania Pennsyl Pennsyl- vania Governor Charles n. n R. R Mabey of Utah Senator Charles Curtis and Arthur Capper of Kansas Casper S. S r Yost publisher of the tho St. St Louis Louisr LouisI r I Globe-Democrat Globe William T. T f of San Francisco and Dr F. F I L L. Bartlett Bart Bart- Bartlett lett chairman of the board of tho the thoI I Merchants Merchants' bank of Denver One of the most important recent recen steps toward the consummation ofF orf of or f the Victory Highway association t plans In the west was taken within the past fortnight by Missouri authorities authorities au au- I E. E when they authorized the construction of miles of paved road across the state to be paid for forIn forin forin in part by funds from the recent in bonds voted by the citizens of Missouri This road will willbe willbe be fifty miles shorter than the present present present pres pres- ent state cross-state road and twentysix twentysix twentysix ty-six ty miles shorter than the the- rail rail- road road The road will link Kansas City with St St. Louis over the shortest possible route The Victory highway across Kansas Kansas Kansas Kan Kan- sas has been designated as a primary road from the Kansas line to Denver Denver Den Dell ver vel It is a secondary road front from Denver to the Utah line it Is a primary primary mary nary road from the eastern Ut Utah h boundary in the Uintah basin to Salt Salt Lake it is a secondary road from Salt Lake to the Nevada line Unel a primary road and across the Jie state f f r Nevada a primary road Mr Blow who has been driving west over the Victory highway was W. particularly enthusiastic abut abou the Uintah basin country Owing to the thi- wonderful scenic 1 it of tho the route oute through that t terri tern ry and as a a clAss first highway it w vI serve Elene to I hf help lp In the development ui oi the Ibe tion in an economic way The Uintah basin Mr Blow said is a treasure house whoso rich riches s cannot be app appreciated e anted n without with 1111 ith- ith ou out t personal study v v. v a 3 l ties for futures on i i 3 to the they west cannot even be e m d. d aur ur-U. ur u. u 00 highways for tor the i m-h m as contemplated contemplated con con- tom plated by the v co Hj association will serve to j the tho material welfare of Jr that great preat area In the mountains as could no other agency And such are the tremendous possibilities there that the association which I represent will exert every to expedite the provision of adequate roads I IThe The Victory highway a great memorial in honor of the country's valiant sons sans will soon become the paved Main street of ot America Ben Blow manager of the Victory Highway Highway Highway High High- way Association Incorporated s said ld yesterday upon his arrival in Salt Lake on his way to meetings scheduled scheduled scheduled sched sched- for tor Nevada says Sundays Sunday's Tribune Mr Ir Blow told yesterday of the progress made b by the association in inthe inthe the two years of its work for the new transcontinental artery and of the plans for the further material development development de de- de- de m nt of both the he memorial memorI 1 i idea a which the Ute road Is to engrave In his IUS history history his his- tory and of the the physical physical betterments needed to band hand the country from frem coast to coast with a single broad road Cooperation ho he said Is the Keynote keynote Key key- note of the success achieved by br the association thus far and the buld uld Ing log principle under which its efforts directed The alms of the tho association association association asso asso- are simple its purposes high Cross Continent When these are realized l jn that Mit day clay Is not far Car distant he hp Victory highway ar will reach from New York to San Francisco a n single paved road providing adequately and comfortably com roni- for the swelling flood of transcontinental tourists |