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Show Highway South To Virgin River Bridge To Be Oiled, Says Woodbury ' By EVAN WOODBURY In keeping with the promise made by Governor Herbert B. Maw and the State Road commission, Highway High-way No. 918 from St. George south to the Virgin river bridge is to be oiled. Roy McLease, district dis-trict engineer, recently notified Washington county commissioners that the oil is now available, and the work of oiling this small strip of road will begin in the very near 'future. The St. George to- Enterprise road is Washington county's number num-ber one state road project of long standing. This project was approved ap-proved for construction with work soon to begin, when the war started and was stopped just as all other projects that were listed as not absolutely necessary in our war program. Efforts have since been made to get this road built as it is felt by many that such construction would materially help the all-out war program. This however, apparently ap-parently does not qualify as a strategic war road. It seems that the farm-to-market roads just don't. That part of the road from Central to Enterprise has recently been re-checked by the Federal bureau and is now placed among the first roads to be built in the post-war program. The survey work, plans, etc., on the stretch from Central south to Veyo will be done as soon as labor can be a ..;iui,. r. t-utr. ...ill un indue ttvauauic, euiu win uicu be placed as one of the state's first post-war road projects, reports re-ports Mr. McLease. Since construction of a finished highway is out of the question for the present, the problem be-( be-( Continued on page six) Co. Road Program (Continued from first page) comes that of maintaining the road in as good a condition as possible. Last summer, Governor Maw promised $6,000 to be used in 1943 to repair the worst places on the road. Due to the shortage of equipment and labor the job was not completed until the spring of 1944, and because of adverse weather conditions, the cost was $10,000 instead of the $6,000 originally orig-inally allocated. Even though the road is far from satisfactory today, it is probably prob-ably in better shape than it has ever been before. The workmen who made the improvements and who maintain the road are deserving de-serving of credit for having done as good a job as they have, and as they are doing to keep it .in as good condition as possible under exisiting handicaps. The fact is also pointed out that even if the oil that is now made available were used anywhere along the St. George and Enterprise Enter-prise road, it would cover at best, only a fraction over two miles, which, would be an aggravation rather than an actual benefit. But, being used on the completed strip of road from St. George to the river bridge it will effectively preserve this road which is in daily use by many farmers. It was merely a question of using the oil available where it would be most practical under the circumstances, cir-cumstances, and would be of more than temporary benefit, that urged the county commissioners to suggest sug-gest its use on the two-mile stretch mentioned. |