| Show victory victor y highway through basin must be completed it THIS N 1 lit ST 1 till LINT avrill III fi BIS IT ull 1111 I 1 V 1 rry ITT I v r all 11 N 1 ir 1 r lvery ansin 1 I limn lien lim n known that history highway IRDI signs appear j a i along our state road this waa was mapped six ix year years ac ago a an a national falen wey abi arm rbi wilmington del to 8 P F nn mo i it via donatl tile I 1 iu in fis taa babin to heber and to salt fake cl y but there are powerful A farces working against till this road b be e 1 I with other road be t a I 1 eways than there to 1 a i nalter i del let il a in routing orand grand junction and price want the road t refute I 1 and for or a ear year or go it looked ilk they would win NN set from salt lake city hat ha ben been ilia d talt ertain burc lurcee trying to dirice di rive to slid othere others play tet ink ing for a northwest routina thu thus i san I 1 a direct con t tn f 74 f awn thie this highway Is known in IN ah ash arton a as federal highway no 40 on 0 dw doe ath last there wa was lih ed d in the denver post 1 an n 1 other M a atory story in substance as fol 01 ol low 0 it roal authorities backed by fedora federal I 1 road engineers 1 re ve bat that the road read should come through the ulilah basin to vernal along 1 the present roadway to D Du choo chedie te an ani I 1 to heber city via froitland fruitland Fruit land till this etory story wag was little noticed in he the ileda 1 or in our salt jake I ake patera pipers 0 to o far ai a 4 we know our state ban ha taken a secondary interest in thia this road in chairman henry 11 II blood a letter to governor dern feb sill he speaks peak of the so failed called chairman blood in that letter says in pa is ing it is t worthy to note that the state even in ili that earla wie when federal ferl cral mo nev became become available turn ed lt its first thought in reaching the hasin basin mr blood wall a not nn tin the job when the ducharne Du cherne as tie gate cate road wa wits built the road to which he be refers or he lie surely would not ha halt written as an he lie did i alf to should know that that rond road was wa built by postal fraits lind 50 60 per cent t and the other BO 50 per cent I 1 ly y the i counties coun tle ani ant the elate state but hen when 1 federal project no 1 I was built it RAS to give 1114 a mall roal the pot post office department wag willing to spend 00 if we As would do as a inucci 0 or kr mall arvice I 1 ousbey this rood moris or than any first of our state in 1926 the legislature amended the gait o 0 tax law tiling adding another out ent per gallon and this lina ue done at the instance and slid per advice of OUT our i inte itte autom bile bite M 4 keyser president prell nt this addition il t lat nt wag was added for the express ear purpose as the record records will wit I 1 how show of the tb poor count countie coun tle lei meet federal aid requirement requirements on the 24 76 16 one oile third of ile tl taie state gag gas tax money ie to therefore for or lul just men such ag as by the uin tab tah dain basin As a big road man in utah wrote lait last week so the money IM Is available and all efforts should in ili ray my opinion be i ode to divert larger amount to the uintah basin roid I 1 another important chise ph aae ot of th federal highway butinas that 1 I neoe rally ignored li Is the federal road law sec see 6 of that law a 1 reads a ai follow follows I 1 that in apar approving 0 I 1 ng pro ct to receive federal aid linter the pro vision of thia act the secretary of agriculture shall elve give preference to such project projects as will expedite the c mp repletion letton of an u adequate and connected system of highways interstate in character I 1 note the words ady ade I 1 connected I 1 and interstate in character 11 we are therefore on a national highway approved by federal engl engi and the federal roid road law make makes it imperative that 4 ark be done on it our state hae has gas tax tat money with which it may help us to ret get the duchesne lectia all under one contract we believe it proper evi evidence denee ig Is shown that we de tie ra land a a it it if we take it eay easy are satisfied eatla fled with what hat we e get we hall ret get juit just what the state Is willing to give ua us it we assert ofir ouro elves elvea like men we hall shall get 1 a fair air deal a quare deal we are on a national highway that la Is important to denver and to san francisco Francl co as a well as kansas city and salt lake city our state carlton Is I 1 ballel up tip in deveral roade roads but thene these other othor three cities arc are with alth us per cent we need 1 this oad eat east ant an I 1 west our out products demand access to market we must sell the I 1 it we progress and seed land and wool will not he be the covern ling inn forces diversified farming tannins la Is easen menthal Ment tat ial no other kind will pay and tah thi won I 1 t pay without thi thin east WM abst road leta let a back it work lor tor it fight tor for it I 1 let et no pers pilat or conflicting interest chainge you you from our plain duty to yourself youra your elt Relf and to your fellow elti I 11 MAY erelt utah |
