Show FOR NEXT 1 EARS ROAD preparations tor next years road building program occupied the attention of the state road commission at its regular weekly meeting particular reference was bad to salt lake and cache counties for the reason that delegations were present from each salt lake county obtained a definition of policy as to the east and west state highway through this county and cache county persuaded pd the commission to order surveys to begin at once on wellsville canyon to the south of the paving now aider contract in cache and from field to the idaho alno oa the north when this Is completed cache will have a paved strip running continuously through the county the present time ft as declared to be particularly opportune tor outlining next year s road work for several reasons surveying and engineering forces of the commission have been taxed to the limit during the summer to keep up with the construction work under way and have had little or no time to devote to the engineering work necessary to additional projects in the initial stage the construction st work is now slacking up and will cease but there Is said to be no reason why surveying parties should not remain in the field for some months and in fact most of the winter their parties are organized and well seasoned and therefore capable of doing efficient work it was pointed out by mayor roy bullen of logan himself an engineer and one of the large delegation from cache county that was present another reason Is that it has been found necessary for contractors to know of work three or four months ahead in order to obtain necessary equipment from the east in these days 0 unfilled orders in the machinery industry thirdly the cement problem looms large according to figures presented to the commission by its secretary ira R browning engineer browning said that data compiled in the office showed that of the barrels of cement tor which the cement factories undertook contracts last year but little more than half had been delivered yet the road building forces could have used much more than came he further asserted that a total of barrels Is required tor the work now actually under contract in addition to many that has been delivered already mr browning said that for some reason the sacking capacity of the utah cement factories is under the rated dally capacity of the plants and be anticipated that there might easily be difficulty in obtaining the required cement for a possible state program ot cement concrete road unless the work were planned out sufficiently far enough ahead and the character of roads fo be built determined to enable various preparations to be made in advance he urged that the commission should determine as early as possible the character of construction to go into each road that full preparations might be made for an extremely busy season in road construction overhauling cement plants W evans general sales agent for the portland cement company of altah said this morning when bis attention was called to athla situation that with the assurance of a heavy demand for cement next season the cement companies are now overhauling their plants and would he ready to stock up on cement during the long winter season when the product is not heavily required in construction work the companies mr evans says have storage capacity tor all they can manufacture before the season again opens and if there is any interruption in supply it will so far as present forecast may be made be due to shortage of cars poor weather or other cause rather than the ability of the cement companies to take care of the utah market deseret newa |