| Show SHORT ROUTE STILL FAVORED the question of a through road to salt lake city la is still a live one in ill vernal the people do not object to making a freight road out of the price road it should be repaired and in fact should nev r have bain neglected as it has been again the duchesne helper road hould bould be kept up lip its aa another con necking link with the railroad it it is also another freight road but tor for this end of the basin we are pretty well taken care of by the railroad it Is the backbone back boro bore of the freight service of the uintah basin particularly of the uintah county part of it we are not against my any of these roads and do not to their improvement IN hat we do object to Is tho the abandonment of the policy of the state to build a through roads to salt lake city we need a concrete road built on the shor tret possible route from tile HIP basin to salt lake city cas 1811 of what town it hits or what town it misses we know that b equal survey either the price palce myton or te r c duehesne roads are miles longer than the stock morewood more wood land route why build the longer toad road when the shorter one la is available it la Is urged that an automobile road la Is for pleasure only oily this la Is not true A road good enough to run automobiles on oil la Is a great artery of at trade when the autos and wagons cannot be run on it the sleighs can in the past the price myton road hits has been blocked several times to team teal haffie and while its lower pass makes it a better road than the du chesne helper road it to Is not perfect by any means and it has its faults as well as the others As a winter road the uintah railroad is the most reliable taking one year with another the price myton road Is 9 good thing tor for part of the basin the through short line road would benefit all because it would connect us with salt lake city if the pikes peak ocean to ocean highway Is any good to the basin steps should be taken to bold it here the tourist traffic from myton to price la Is a concrete argument in favor of the midland trail it this great trans content n tal highway la Is to be retained for the uintah basin something substantial will have to be lone done to hold it if the price myton and the du fesne helper roads are simply freight roads why expend fabulous sums upon them why not select the permanent road no now and continue the policy of the state to connect us with salt lake we have been connected with ith the D R G railroad rall rond for over thirty years the repairing of the price road will simply bo be a little improvement over what we already have in the goat patt otle meeting held when dean leary was li in vernal we pass passed et it a resolution asking the state to aid us in securing a railroad we feel that the answer to that public request Is the probable expenditure ot of about 40 on the price myton road the state road seem to consider that vernal is presuming a little to express a preference upon the question of where the state road should ip ive the uintah basin we were nere told in effect that it was not uintah county money that was being expended while in one way it Is none of at our business where here duchesne chesne or carbon county money iq ij spent the futua of uintah county will be vitally affected by the action taken the short abort road to salt lake bould benefit us ua most |
