Show I 1 am fo obiah on ver fillI LN PM 0 4 im the fact that tho the legislature in the enactment ot of the load law determined in it tile the law where tile the state highways would run and the route for such roads does not apparently seem to bo be understood the state for almost every day there are delegations before the state road commission asking for a change in the route the commission Is powerless in the ciattei and cannot make tle the changes much its aa the might like to this in tile the opinion of some would seem to of the campaign being made for the vernal Stock ioro more road at least for the time being during tile the past two weeks surveyors have lave been locating a road site that will acconio accommodate date tile the largest number lumber of persons in the basin between vernal and Stock more and thence fato park city and salt lake the road as located would bould run east to west from vernal passing through lapoint Ha haddell vdell neola altonah alzonah and mountain home it Is said that over this route thoro there are no stepp steep grades to climb on saturday a big convention Is to bo be held at altonah alzonah Al tonah at which delegates from ny the settlements battlements tributary to the ho proposed route will attend president john N davis of the Commer clil club secretary wro win AT anderson earl Tromp Tr ompson gon hen ben A critchlow bishop wilkins Wl lkins ashley bartlett Dart lett and other vernal men will III be there to boost supt bupt thompson Is going to make the big talk C 13 hartlett bartlett than whom there Is no man better posted on the whole subject will be present as tho the official io of the vernal express so that our next issue will have a faithful report of till all that Is lone done there surveyors who have beon been busy the last two weeks surveying investigating ti and hunting a good road site which will accommodate most ot of the people say that they have round found tho the way and have surveyed a line which will average a grade of per cent it la is claimed to be about seventy miles nearer than any other file which could be surveyed with the same percent of grade through to salt lake and everybody know a that hat seventy miles Is a big item in road building salt lake city to la northwest ot of tile the most moat northern town in tho the uintah basin consequently the shortest route would necessarily be as far north to the foothills as it could be gotten and still retain the three percent grade the Strawberry road to salt lake city via duchesne heber and park city Is miles or 33 miles more than tho the proposed Stock more road this same road by way of diamond fork Is miles or 42 miles more the colton road over the hump Is miles or 60 50 miles further while tile the price myton road la is miles ties or 87 miles longer than the proposed propose d vernal verna I road on the Stock more roald road the proposed route would have to cross wolf creek summit ft high but the colton summit Is ft and soldiers summit and one must RO go over both of these it if he takes the colton road there la Is this in favor of the wolf wok creek pass that when you reach the top 3 ou at once descend on tile the other side there Is no three miles of dangerous to travel on top like there Is on top of the colton summit |