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Show DKTOl i:s (Las Vegas An) With highway conwt met ion at lilh lido it Is Inevitable that: the hated but necessary detour will become a two-fold thorn, ii-iital.liiK both those who must use II. and those who must maintain main-tain It. j Detour stories are fast annum-! liiK a status similar to the well; known "llsli story." They are al- i ways described as beinj.; much worse than they really are. Being Be-ing accustomed to travolliiK at u r.O to GO mile rate of speed, it is li'ksomo to bo forced down to a 25 to '35 milo rate. Tim unavoidable dust forms nn especially unpleasant annoy-lince annoy-lince and by the time the tourist reaches Las Vegas he is sure that ho has traveled over the worst road In tho country. No one likes detours, and contractors should, of course, be required to keep these necessary evils In tho best possible condition. condi-tion. Nevertheless it should not 1)0 forgotten that every dollar spent on constructing and maintaining main-taining detours is ono dollar less to bo applied on regular highways. In a stato of large population and great wealth, construction of expensive detours is warranted, but in a sparsely settled state such as ours it is Incumbent upon us to cut our detour expenses to the bono in order that we may have more miles of first-class highway. Tho dust evil is absolutely unavoidable un-avoidable on the desert unless wo spend tho money to construct con-struct an oil-gravel highway for nso as a detour, and hero again, Old Man Economy looks us in tho face. The old boy insists that we slow down a trifle, and just grin and bear it, consoling ourselves meantime that ten years ago the highway across tho state was in tho same condition con-dition as our present detours. Five hundred cars a day are going over the Mormon mesa detour. That means a lot of wear and tear on a detour, but rather contradicts the story that tho road is impassable, especially espe-cially in view of the fact that tho usual running time to 13un-kerville, 13un-kerville, SO miles distant, is about two hours. |