Show UINTAH ROADS SHOULD BE OPEN YEAR WIND interesting FIGU ItiS BY DY TIMA SUREtt ON construction CONST AND maintenance oil C ROAD 11 IN UINTAH COUNTS COUNTY A recent article in the tribune regarding the cost ot at roada roads in tho the aln tah basin for tho the past five years mat od some bad been spent A delegation ot at business bual nees men from tho the salt lake commercial club directed the attention of at the state road commission comm lulon to the need of bettor better roads for or tho the basin and urging especially pec specially ally lAlly the keeping of the roads open during tho the winter wirter months roon tha with the tribune tho information which appear appears in another article on an this thill pace pago of tho tile express wua wits regarded as its interesting in the light of ro re cent emit statements in tho express and other baayin u papers ro regarding garding the opening up of at the road east to grand junction whore where there people are expending of their donated money to build a road to the he uintah basin to secure trade of the tho four projects lighted sighted the tile cost ie is approximately project no 10 B D entering vernal from life twist haa has never had a dollar ax expended on an it from county the following elgues ware were furnished from the records of treasurer Trea W S henderson Hende raon and those ahl aln n him when out to salt lake city checking up with tho state road commission bond money county utah has a little over in road bond funds of the first uintah county received of tho the second of 4 bond she received and every county in tho the state was to have received CO of tho bonds ahe site received 17 19 yet the state road commission when may asked for the extra money ni ony elated stated thoy thet iwed uintah county hence w were figured out of ag ito were other small counties stute ilond road tax heavy in the matter of at taxation for the state road fund county haa lias taxed herself aa follows 1917 2 mills 1918 1919 2 mills 1919 3 milla 1920 3 mills 1921 1922 1 mill 1922 3 mills thus mug it can bo be seen we wo havo hav 0 paid a tremendous tax to maintain state roads far more wore than most counties in the state especially so in the wealthier counties where only a fraction traction of a mill will give many thou thousands tho uranda rands of dollars in road taxes from these figures showing county and state portion based on cooperative agreements signed march 26 and april 27 1921 were furnished by W C nuttall may 24 1922 when mr Hoad ereon was in salt bake lake checking up on the road work done project no wn 10 A the estimated cost of project 10 A was the government continued Conti on page 5 column 2 X stale roads in basin cost about continued from page 1 column 6 portion being 72 28 or 60 pet per tent cent county portion 04 2 G cl I 1 or 20 per cent the state 43 G 0 37 7 or 3 30 0 per cent nor L is this all of bo the 20 per cant cent county paid and later another making a total on tb project of ao 10 49 less than whet what the tile tatu state paid hmata ow owal ue Us money according to mr Nott alls signed tho the state now owes 77 to county founty ou on which they aro ar paying no inhere t and wilca we are receiving none real ruction coste costs our local bidders on the project received ved as follows caldwell aud eiton eton caldwell and baton eaton 73 bf M ba batty 28 M at dally batty 7 emmertson Em merteon and james and the wasatch grading company making the whole cost of roal real construction au MIX engineering costs thu amount tha state road com mi ulon charge I 1 ier per cent or 31 for cering thia this la Is amount far too great even for high clans class work and office forces aven with cost the road thoi cot cost only ance bump lump charge cliame to milte up the tha balance Is char charged god against project 10 A under au item marked estimated amount to complete na they bald said jor for cement timbers powder etc tho the government furnished tho powder the a fi figures cures do nol not balance but it Is their figures miller data date of may 23 1922 10 now for lor project no 10 B D it would appear that this road has al at ready been complo COMPI CUd tid when ben in fact only to or three surveys have beatri been made wo we expect several more before work commences it was aiom elised faithfully abat this project would be completed thia year and they aIr already cady irive of or our moner on ort hand which would pro fo a long way toward star starting the tile work county to pay all of the te the coet cost of project 1013 10 0 13 11 Inta county from her bar own Is putting up S and there Is not one ones of 0 state money put into the contract tho bli lange being fedorak aid adix appreciated eulate all help neither in this nor former in the Er empress press 9 the return churi county r avo nm ahn and we are only glad to print both aldee sides of or the Is question to 0 o aba that tho the public may know ab u they ha have a right to know what Is being done and ham been done with their money we have bea beon accurso of gotting the lions bare and if it we have done so alo also paid a 4 llone lionte share in road maintenance outside needed wo we do feel however that to help make tho the inhabitants othe of the basin a L prosperous and contented content td people ibe atee roada reads uro tt needed eded that to lacure u tho federal aid necessary neo euary to mike ohp roads a creator greater effort made by the state road conjunction alth lah the tile silt SAIL lake business bu alnese men man to help ui us in our burden of road building and maintenance we tax ourselves to the limit of endurance simply to maintain in poor shap long stretches bez of roada road that ara costly because they were darer good roads at dimir beet best alood to we cannot be blamed for ine ing an excellent road on our cast li Is being biln opened up for ua us witt out an extra lax tax burden making II 11 so we can reach a railroad without being jarred to pieces or the car having to ba to run into the repair shop ben we reach our destination all loyal loyall to utah weare wo are loyal cit laena tzeng of utah and want to aco see uenh arow are willing to help make her hc r grow have the greatest in tho the state and west went yet we are impotent without good roads help is 1 needed to make them food good |