| Show Autom oUie highway n may completed com icicy to the H K ranch dy do june 1 I UTAH STATE ROAD commissioners TO BEGIN WORK SOON one hundred prominent men stained the ball rolling COLORADO SPRINGS LE AND 11 F 1131 ell lincoln highway to be brought way editor epics you may say to readers that the basin Is now on the gi meat eat lincoln high way foi automobile traffic an that tourist 1011 ill be routed the flip basin this season on leaching salt lake thursday day night I 1 was lequear ed to be present at a good roads meeting at the commercial club on friday at 1230 friday about sat at a luncheon at the club and discussed the lincoln eighn highway ay Aless rs austin gavin and A W henderson of colorado springs and mr W 11 caal blaik k of meeker were present and delivered addresses explaining the lincoln highway move ment and asking aid and operation cooperation co air dark clark pledged the colorado state commis commission slon and rio blanco county to have the road completed from rifle to the K ranch by june 1 it if utah would join at this point and complete the road to salt lake the writer pledged every assistance possible by the towns and communities of the basin the meeting resulted in a special committee of thi ee being appointed by the salt lake club to meet on saturday Satu iday with the Coloia colliado do and uintah basin representatives and perfect some definite plan of action this conf conference was held on saturday with acting governor dave mattson being present and it was decided the route should be from the K ranch via jensen vel nal roosevelt Hoo sevelt myton duchesne and colton to salt lake the distance avei this route being miles bioni tile the state line to the capital and a condei ence was appointed fol foi monday at which tile tho state road head commission and the county commissioner commissi of salt lake county wore were to be pr Ebent the salt lake commercial club committee also called it a meeting of the utah county and wasatch county commis to meet on tuesday at provo to further decide specific action in putting the road into condition at the meeting on monday the dinst commissioner av was present as well as a full board of the state road commission of the miles of road to be covered 60 Is in uintah county about 75 miles in was atch county 75 miles in utah county and the balance in salt lake county it was agreed by state road commission that engineer morgan should go over the road just as soon as the snow is off and the state agent in aln tali tab should be authorized to build all bridges between roosevelt and the state line at the state road commission expense commissioner sid continued on page 7 IY automobile HIGHWAY JUNE I 1 continued from page 1 daway a greed agreed the i oad load worl should be completed to meet the rifle road at al state line by june 1st ast mr jewkes state kiei Is the committee of the state road commission fol foi th the uintah basin do d ailean I 1 he I 1 pledged mr and th writer that every dollar it wae possible for the commission to appropriate for this road would be spent on the same and that every tiling thing possible possie I 1 c would be done to redeem the pledges made to mr dark clark ol oi rio blanco county as to the connection being made at the K lanch upon the above s showing howing mr galvin of colorado springs who has much of the routing of the tourist traffic through colorado expressed himself as satisfied with the showing made and that houi traffic of the lincoln highway would be routed via and colton to salt lake fr from om which point the i outing will be into idaho and tile the natural park of wyoming besides the energies put f orth forth by county and abate 9 t a to road officials it will be quite necessary for each town to organize its good road clu clubs bs have its good roads days dayo and do everything possible to help keep this road in repair gasoline and repair stations should be permanently established in each town for this traffic means much to all the basin in the advertising it will give us and in the money it will circulate in every town please urge all citizens to heartily operate cooperate co in the movement very truly yours R S COLLETT salt lake city feb 24 1814 1914 |
