Show WILL mm IMPROVE BOTH DISPUTED ROADS state road commission decides con troit drovers tr overs in lavor of iloth par ties palce amton route to get lat gest slice at their first meeting afeei the state road commission returned to salt lake city the question as to whether the price myton or the du chesne helper road should he improved was settled bellied the decision of the state road commission was that both roads should he be taken care of by the state the attitude of the state upon the question was tersely stated in the meeting by governor bamberger as follows were going to build both roads the state cant lose by putting money into the uintah district it ls Is a great empire our offer Is of course contingent upon the willingness or of the county and the federal government to operate cooperate co financially in the usual way nay I 1 have absolutely no financial interests in that region but I 1 have unlimited admiration for its wonderful resources and I 1 believe that any amount of money the state may spend in improving the transportation facilities into the basin will be amply repaid to the state within five ears cars it Is an empire by itself and it is a land of magnificent 11 in a recent letter to the manager of the express state al auditor joseph ririe conveys the information that the state will meet all government money with an equal amount on the high level roads meaning the ati duchesne helper and the Stock inore routes t but says saya mr ririe the price maton route will be the main bread and butter route state engineer mcgonagle estimated in abed that it would require approximately 40 to put the price road in good condition state auditor ririe has kindly sent the express a copy of hla his notes on the trip in which he makes some very interesting observations and from which we cull the following the distance by rail from salt lake city to price is 18 miles distance stanca dl from price to myton myan 74 77 miles estimate of amount of money needed to rebuild tho the price road price to mouth of soldier canyon fa 12 mouth of soldier canyon to summit summit to mouth of gate canyon 8 up gate canyon to summit from gae canyon summit to myton total the distance from myton via duchesne to helper to Is 74 miles and from duchesne to helper 62 52 miles the summit at the head of soldier canyon has an elevation of feet and the summit at the head of indian canyon is feet the latter being about 1800 feet higher than soldier summit from the figures given out as official and authentic price Is miles distant from vernal salt lake city via price is miles from vernal salt lake city via duchesne and helper Is about miles in this connection the express will interpolate a statement of fact that by the united states survey vernal city being located in section 23 township 4 south range 21 east to Is just miles from salt lake city by section lines and that there is available a direct route to salt lake city via Stock more woodland and parleys canyon that would bring us almost as near to salt lake city as we re now are to price the most that can be sald said for either the price or helper roads to Is that they are freight roads the same as the uintah railroad is to vernal with the difference that the uintah line an aa a connecting link with the D R G Is of more value to the uintah basin than both the helper and price roads com combined tIned of 0 cour course e there is passenger traffic over all these roads particularly the aln uintah t ah railway auto line one fact however should be recognized and that Is that the more roads we have the better oft off we are it Is better to have a nalle mile road to salt lake city via price than to have none at all perhaps it Is best beat to build the price road now b before fore the shorter line Is undertaken otherwise it might never bo be built we consider the decision to keep keel both roads the price and helper roads roada in repair a wise one and to be candid we have to admit that it la is a better decision than we expected when the state road commission was in vernal |