| Show or he I 1 line C an airline air line route from salt lake city into the uintah basin via park city wolf creek pass and stock more is now one of the possibilities for 1919 as the result of a mon ster road convention held at altony ah utah saturday may and participated in by delegates from all parts of tile the uintah basin an airline road such as was discussed and started on its way to become a reality has its excuse for being in the tact fact that every town in the basin is moad moved up anywhere from 32 to 60 50 C miles nearer salt lake city for x instance by this route vernal Is only miles from salt lake whereas the nearest other way via duchesne heber city and park CU cit is miles at the present time there is not a highway of any kind extending east and west connecting the towns of the north side of the basin with each other in the direction of salt lake notwithstanding the rapid growth of the country Ho however the urgent need for such a road has caused such unrest among the people affected that at last the altonah alzonah meeting was as called to make the formal demand among the important items pre dented at the altonah alzonah convention are these the lincoln highway extends from salt lake to park city the state road from there completes the link to woodland and the new nev forest road from woodland to stock more on the Du chesnee river on oil the uintah county side an re f port was had showing shoving that uintah v county proposes to build out of the reent recent road bond funds a good road from vernal to the duchesne county line ine at hayden a digance of 30 miles actual construction to begin soon but nothing whatsoever was being done to establish a road from hayden to Stock more through rapidly de K ve velo lopIng sections sec tons of duchesne county dr enochs resolution in ill the speech of the convention ashlea bartlett of aln ash county who recently met with mr ira browning state road engl engi neer and went over the provisions provision of the recent legislature relative to the creation of state roads informed the convention that it would be impossible to get state aid at this time since the designation of a state road Is now vested in the legislature in stead of the state road commission therefore it is up to you gentle men said the speaker to proceed to build for yourselves the best road ou can pending the meeting of the next legislature then if aou ou want it made a state roid dour our representatives can introduce a bill to that effect at this point dr R J enochs speaking for the myton delegation voiced the approval of the south side of the county for the creation creat ioa of an airline air line road and offered a resolution suggesting in its provisions provi siona the means without state aid of financing the project ills his revolution rebo lution is as follows a that it la is the sense of this convention that we ne favor the making of a county road from hay a 7 den on the east to the murdock J ranch old jeremy ranch on the th j duchesne river and that we poti peti j tion the commissioners of duchesne county to call an election at an early date to bond duchesne county tor for two per cent of its assessed valuation tor for road building purposes specifying this road among others to receive its portion of said moneys the resolution received unanimous i and enthusiastic approval it was apparent to all tho the delegates that the uintah basin has so 90 many and marled road interests that some means must be devised to secure unanimity of effort it fell to B 0 colton civil engineer of moffat to propose a uintah basin good roads association the convent convention lon approved the suggestion and named the following six elx gentlemen three from each county to draft a constitution B 0 0 colton C B cook wm at anderson A F maxwell J C hacking and oscar wilkins this committee Is to report at the neati next e uintah basin good roads convention I 1 to be held at myton tuesday june 24 1919 at 2 p m every in the uintah town or community center basin Is invited to be represented at this convention which will perfect and ratify the constitution and name a permanent organization altonah alzonah sent its excellent band and a committe of citizens down to mt aft v t emmons to officially welcome the arriving delegates from uintah counte f and the eastern and southern towns of Dur Ruh besne esne county and escort them into town and to the town hall N where here a sumptuous feast was in waiting and was served during the progress of an excellent program of band and i vocal music interspersed by a stump speech on good roads by humorous johnsen of Af tonah aad ja a f by ur mr wright responses were made on the part of the guests by wm M anderson see sec rotary of the vernal commercial club and C U B cook editor of the myton free press 1 mr air anderson complimented the people of altonah alzonah on their enterprise and careful preparation for the convention and said that it was the purpose of the vernal commercial club to support the people of duchesne county in all good road movements as long as their efforts will not conflict with that which has been accomplished through wears of effort on the part of vernal and other towns of the basin mr C B cook in his address called the delegates to note that the first white woman to enter the uintah basin was nas in attendance at this convention the alady referred to la is mrs maly of vernal wife of deputy fish and game commissioner william mr air cook began byi by saying that he first visited the site of altonah alzonah twelve years ago at that time tile the only sign of human life on that vast agricultural area of acres was the tepee of old moroni a ute indian now you have several prosperous communities I 1 am in favor ot of a good road all the way from myton to altonah alzonah applause slid and on north to moon lake applause one of the prettiest spots in the west A place worthy to be made a national park immediately atter after the banquet the air line convention was called to order mr A F maxwell ot of alton all ah was elected chairman with mr luke clegg as secretary the key note address was delivered by commissioner ashley bartlett of uintah county after explaining the futility of state aid at this time the speaker urged the citizens to build a road themselves and later on the state a attention it could be called to it just now the state road commission has set out to build a paved paned road from logan to st george to be furnished odore any other hard surfacing projects are undertaken in the state rn in this connection said the speaker uintah basin has a loyal friend and advocate in salt lake in the person of mr W D alshel head of the automobile association of utah mr rishel said to let the state proceed with its paving as far south as but after that let us raise the slogan build to the uintah basin first 11 and lie he pointed out that ac 5 miles of paving would tap the uintah basin as against miles to reach st george and the basin with its infinitely larger population and fertile areas would give the sta state to far greater returns for little more than halt half the expense mr air bartlett concluded by pointing out that the state road commission has been annoyed by our disagreement as to the point at which our main state road should crons the rim of tile the mountain to reach salt lake and until we ve agree on one point the state will never help us J C hacking of lapoint gave the results of the survey made by himself and engineer B 0 colton on the airline air line route distance from vernal to salt lake maximum grade at any point between hayden and the loot foot of Woolfe reek pass would not exceed five and a halt half per cent the wolfcreek pass is 50 feet lower than soldier summit at the head of spanish fork canyon Is timbered and has no table at the summit he thinks it the most feasible place to cross the rim john davis president of the vernal commercial club expressed great surprise at the bigness and the for forward bornard Nard development everywhere apparent of the north side of duchesne Duc heene county 1 I heard someone describing it the other day and I 1 thought he was exaggerating but I 1 find it even better than lie he said and now in this move tor for an all airline air line road you have our hearty support bert lloyd of lapoint drove the convention to tears tears of laughter secretary clegg failed to dry ills his eyes in time to get the report hence clience it is ne cesary to omit it chas B of tridell aridell thought it most profitable for the convention to consider selecting the it he route over the rim hugh barnes of neola advocated the building of the shortest and most direct route to salt lake it is 19 the capitol and our objective at this point the chairman announced miss mima alima davis soprano ot vernal who rendered the sunshine of yo your ur smile ben A critch low accompanist levison hannock of bluebell arg ed that the road authorities be sup aup no matter where the road la Is located oscar wilkins of mt home announced that the people of hla his section were ready to build the road even it if it had to be done by private evor rp rl alee th atti of t tile tk air lr line route are offering to the rest of the state the shortest possible road into or out of the basin on oil the easiest grades and in addition to this we ne aro are opening the way to the I 1 picture places of utah and to the I 1 finest fishing streams and lakes ini in the west david thompson of altonah alzonah also alao made references to the beauty beauty spots around the hundreds of lakes in the uintah mountains in easy ao cess to the proposed airline air line and closed his address with an oppression expression of good will toward the al myton lyton delegation for the splendid friendship manifest in the terms of the dr enochs resolution levers front from thomas rhodes of tabby and from prominent bu business gilless men of park city endorsing the airline project were read before the convention in fact the whole hole proceeding was aas characterized by a feeling of get together for the m more ore rapid development of good roads into and out of the rich basin |
