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Show SINE HIGHWAY COMMISSION IRE SATURDAY Making Trip With Express Purpose of Discussing the Proposed Harrisburg Bench Anderson's Ranch Road The Utah state highway commission commis-sion will visit 'Washington county Saturday and will be met at Leeds by a delegation from St. George. Together they will go over the road from, Harrisburg Bench to Anderson's Ranch. The com-missioners com-missioners will then be brought to St. George where a lunch will be served and road matters discussed. dis-cussed. The St. George delegation returned re-turned Wednesday from Salt Lake where they spent two days in conference with the state commission com-mission urging that action be taken at the earliest possible time looking to the construction of this unimproved stretch in Washington Washing-ton county. The delegation was composed of H. T. Atkin, chairman chair-man of the board of county commissioners, com-missioners, Ellis J. Pickett, G. W. Hail and Jos. S. Snow. , According to members of the delegation returning from' Salt Lake, the controversy over this proposed construction was entirely the result of a general misunderstanding. misunder-standing. The road commissioners asserted that they weTe always ready to cooperate with Washington Washing-ton county in the matter of good roads and pointed to their past record as proof of this. The whole matter will be discussed dis-cussed in St. George Saturday and it Is hoped that a satisfactory satisfac-tory solution to the problem 'will be worked out. -T-'s State road commission will spend more than $3,154,000 in the construction, oiling and maintenance main-tenance of highways during 1930, It was announced Tuesday by Henry H. Blood, chairman of the state road commission. Federal aid project work will cost $1,288,000 for the completion of 20 projects, including road con-(Continued con-(Continued on page 8) |