Show ROAD COMMITTEE commission DISCUSS STATE COUNTY ROADS road committee members of the chamber of 0 commerce and lions club met with the uin tah tali county commissioners last thursday evening at the court house to discuss proposed coun t road improvements and to establish a I 1 priority rit fin fol state road projects present were joseph merk lev ien orvel swain and curds curtis dudley commissioners frauds francis beitch chairman of both the tile aion lions and chamber road corn coni ni i t t ees jack C tur gurnei ne and id leon I 1 11 christensen Chris lions ell com mitte emen henr B ralph chris mckenla MeKin McKin la lav and stan robbins chamber Chani her committeemen and 1 L Y sid dowad secreta secre tr tir managed of the chamber camber the two comm committees ittes wish to to have the p established and submitted to the tile state road commission bv hy tit count com coln mission in ill order to have work on oil the vernal manila highway I 1 begin egill ah as soon it us poNs possible ihie tilt priorities are as follows follow I 1 gusher 1 I I 1 slier aridell 2 ft duchesne Duche sm oura 3 1 jensen ihno dinosaur satir N I 1 tiona dional monument 4 venial vernal man mail ila highway 5 lapomo whitt rocks hoth both tile gusher aridell and jensen dinosaur Montini monument ent pro ejects have been programmed 1 I foi fol 1954 by b N the state road Co coillie Illis sion stoll according to mr air beitch who met recently with dave Whitter iburg chairman of the commission the tile road at jensen will be paved from U S high way 40 to brush creek A sec see tion of the ft duchesne burny project is already under con st ruction and will go as tar far as randlett a distance of seven and a I 1 half 1 alf miles no definite road program has been outlined by the county commission for count county roads this year but they indicated that about twelve miles would be hard surfaced work will also be done on roads in the willow creek area and additional mileage on the diamond mountain road may receive consideration dry fork road may get additional a asphalting asp halting this summer also the commissioners said A contract for 9 3 miles of gravel through Ste Steina makel kei draw was awarded to vernal sand and gravel on february 0 9 by the state road commission but is not included on the federal project which calls for realignment and graveling on 14 miles from the head of Stel draw to little brush creek at the present time 6 A miles of the project from little brush creek to mckee draw has been completed it is hoped that a section from the head of draw to the forest boundary will be pro framed by the state road commission soon mr air will corm to vernal on march 10 to talk roads with various county groups including the chamber of commerce the county commission and the lions club mr feltch said that mr in their meeting at salt lake two weeks ago had also indicated that work on the road and bridge on U S highway 40 at red creek will be carried out in the near future as well as as section of road between hailstone and the end of the silver creek junction road over in cash loans available to students to assist them through colleges goes unused every year |