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M, main STREET BRIGHAM CITY n.i TIP vfrfisV - LOGAN1 SdZTJOL 7' ' $ -- T-- A J2 Routes. 3:' : r? dePaved roads are the present-da- y velopment of the theory of permanent highways conceived and carried out by the Homan leader, Appiua Claudius, in the construction of the famous Appian Way, which was begunln 312 B. C. After' a period of 2000 years, in which dhe true size of the world was discovered and the purpose of its inhabitants changed from one of mtltaryconqueet to commercial lines, development along roads have been designed to meet the aims of all interested. Ij it a coincidence, or was the average American paved road built specially to conform An size to the ancient Way? The "Queen of Roads was a military highway. It was care-luli- y and solidly laid, paved with blocks of hewn stones laid on cement, and was an average width of twenty feet, - It seems inconceivable that, during more than twenty centuries wherein aim-pl- y errmous strides in progress have been made, we have not reached improvement over the first road ever built in the knowledge of man. Yet there remains the fact that the Roman empire, bent on military conquests, as Its first venture in this -- constructed line a highway that. is practically duplicated In size today by the major portion of the nation's system of roads. vv - tw, j s' i - , fi x&-- T v' j, rj cv )vi a 4 wall-wa- s f J'A 0 'xv & w , -- ' rV iH 'TNA4 In tha near future an uninterrupted boulevard 250 miles long, from Tremon-toand Logan, on the north, to Richfield on the eouthwlll be entirely payed. This means that Salt Lake will have at its' very door a motor promenade unexcelled -anywhere, for to the west may be found the great inland salt sea and to the east the magnificent Wasatch mountains, the backbone of the incomparable t . ,. Rocky mountains. leading into the mountain range from this driveway are numerous glorious canyons, including Logan, Ogden, Weber, Emigration, Parley's, Big Cottonwood, Little Cottonwood, American Fork, Provo and Spanish Fork canyon. This road is one of the greatest and most powerful advertisements Salt Lake is to those tv tocrisu, ft great Acr-ii- o and Utah possess. Its great attraction whose territory it taps, and Us pleasure It afforded through rtciag over it in powerful, silent ipotor car, the modern means i transportation. n i , 1 Fi .France eeem. to have been the fir4hlshwayB Iead," eVfrV. this In lator centuries to have built a city the eie of roads on which excessive mud and dust i enviable. Statistics from other westdid not alternate, according to the less enterprisweather, and ruts prevailed the greater ern cities show them far Of part of the time. About 1775 Tresaguet, ing and with a much less percentage in France, and about 1820 and 1825, road building per . capita. Macadam and Telford. In England, Seldom is there found a more perfect the system of enrfacTng careW'asatch mountainearth roadbeds with range from Logan on the north and fully prepared broken stone. The exact disPayson on the south. In the United States the great tance between these two cities is 151 tances between cities, the sparse and there remain but s fete abort popumiles lation. demands for money in the devel- stretches of unpaved way, which will opment of a new country along the lines practically be completed through conof ocean frontage and tidal estuaries of tracts )et this year. inlandV the colonies, their numerous Exclusive of this paving there are apreachlng rivers, and later on the mag- proximately 140 mllea of pavement in the nificent inland takes of the northern towns and cities along thla route. Includof the country, conspired to delay part lm. ing Logan and Payson. The total of road construction. proved paved highways in one stretch open .to Intensive highway development In Utah the Utah mbtorlst is therefore nearly 800 In 1109 and 1910. .' commenced Probnblv miles. the first pavement in this state was laid Millions ere represented in the in Salt Lake on Regent street in 1890. road bill of the state of ytah Salt Lake's growth in paved roads was and Its towns and cities. There are aprhpid, and. today it la the London of proximately 872 miles of surfaced highUtah. ways within the boundaries of Utah.SHlt Lake is center of The exact Investment cannot be obfTie state" 150 etlma its of mllea from center and paved, certain the separata apeiiL hy tha - PROVO y- , ' Af r'Tiii .nX f' g ; trtrA)rp B't i j ' 'A . t ' ' ry 4'.' , snf r,.' .s ( f -;V v- i ,w MILES BEtwe&CJEi EACH TOWN six-inc- ' - '' V ' i'W''. GUNNISON r '. ' 'jr ' xn'W . t:..- - MAHTI larly 4those constructed early. In what might be termed the .paved highway era, varied. At present tna state road comMillions Spent. mission has adopted a standard width of eighteen feet, with twenty - Salt Lake City. Provo, Ogden, Pa yeon, pavement feet on curves for the hard surfacing. Logan and Krlgham, City have to date The width over all of the standard roads spent 19.339.747.57 for paved. roads and is at present twenty-four feet, though, streets. The state of Uttrup until 1920 of varies considerably witn coursejhis had . country the of nature the being " construction and He maintenance bill traversed. amounted to 91.414,768.06. The two latter sums are exclusive of the county road First Work Done. money spent by the state and counties. Without exaggeration it has been estiOne of the first pieces of peved road mated- that- - tiie- paving bid of this state-- , construction, outstde of - Incorporated of roadway including cities, amounts to something cities, was a nine-fostrip In the neighborhood of $13. 000,000. between Tremonton and Uarland. in A glance into the history of the state Boxelrler county. h This was a will maze the of reveal monolithic pavement, and for various and:eity projects road construction data that represents reasons has become disintegrated, eo our present road systems that the project is now well under way A summary furnished the it. state for by replacing road commission, being cbtfipiled by W. Perhaps the first pavement laid by the A. Richmond, assistant state road engistate road commission, or under its suneer, and R. W. ,Groo, office engineer, pervision, the money coming of epurse shows that, there are in the state 116 largely, if not entirely, from the counmiles of cement concrete highway, ties traversed, was strip twenty-thre- e miles of bit ulithlc. Seventy between the north city limits of Halt Boun- miles of Tarvia pavemajft and twenty- - l,ake and the south city limits' of different project g, particu and i a!it-4- ue. It is- approximalety : "''rl m government, 'state, county and city then figure the contracts. w ' ; CpilR s3Ci ltah four miles long. Convict, labor wag. employed, nnd an especially favorable rate for cement was obtained from the cement companies. It wan laid before the war,, and before the present era of high prices for material and labor, with the result that cost of this piece of road is afMr)xtmately 9iM)00. a', mile. roads iiow reqUCntly cost more than that amount. . Cost High. , That amount for a rural road . In those v J ,V from Avenue jymwwr run around a mile, this the expense of bringing the roads fb grade, and the ' entire construction costs, as weil as overhead charges. This a would give-- total cost for the hard-sufaced roads now constructed of rr . . Speaking hy and larged while a certain the oost-- f these roads hasbeen borne by the counties, by Tsr the greater portion has been borne by the owners of the state. This was effected by means of state road bond Issues totaling 88.000, 0i0 in all, about half been spent on of which, probably,-baa roads, while the other half has been spent on roads of other types, connecting with the roads, or constructed in other parts of the state where the traffic is heavy, or where, the economic importance of the roads, as outlets to areas not tapped hv railroads. Justifies high types of con. struction. x percentage-o- f days though looking backward it is not o very long ago. as year are Counted was considered a very high price. The road, however, even at that lime, was a heavily traveled section, and an actual count showed a total summer traffic of approximately 1000 vehicles a day over It. counting travel in both directions. Increasing use of the automobile. Increasing sire and loading capacity of the trucks have, of course, greatly' increased the traffic on this road. Of the 332 miles of surfacing ahSve the Contracts Under Way Thu state road commlMion has various gravel type. 139 miles are of the tvpe embraced Jn the expression places of pavement already under conusually Is It roads. estimated tract and of the constructed, part tie stole officials named alicivier thAT "nrikftclng partlv oamfc Uf "WlxicH from-t- he the state will 96,0nd,0tttl already riTred to. but ' th the coat of these roads-ihard-surfac- d 3 , iTj. the-boo- k rL.Silced ,yS?CL I -- PAYSON LOOK me SOU TH PAVED ROADS EARTH ROADS hard-surfac- J. T SAL a- ife B , - fCY j t.ttAoe TRIBUTE STAFF PHOTO nRtion w 4 Vi. CITY- - France First. iD Ji 'b V It OFMAU STREET r A T'f LAKE earllsest systematic road making is credited to the Carthaginians, but the road builders of the olden times great were the Romans. It is mentioned in history that three great highways led out of ancient Babylon, but it remained for thw Romans to be the first race of people to systematize their military and commercial operations upon a basis of over highly developed transportation .. roadways. Great Britain, except for a small portion lying north of the river Tyne, was for many generations an Integral part of the Roman empire. Further, the country to the north of the Roman part of that country for periods. Scotland north of the Forth did not receive the Impress of Roman civilization In anything like the same degree as the more southern parts of the islands, wnere a complete network of highways or streets would alone testify to the settled condition of the country. These highways, which are still traceable. were like present lines ot railway. The main routes radiated in an directions from London, London having been, in Roman days as now, the great commercial center of the country. Thus it was that the Romans reduced their conquered domains from, states of savagery to profit paying dependencies. - i J' '-- - Thr ' i hard-surfac- Carthaginians-Credited;- dhV ir' ,, , j 4. i.. t - Ap-pi- &&?. GS' '.tlP ' L i J of the .state'g expense wtU greateiLpart be borne from the additional' bond ieaue of $1,000,000 for rond purposes authorized by the last legislature. These bonds have already been sold st a premium, although they have not been delivered, ; With tli exception of th completion of some contracts already In the main t4v new- - cmair4itioiv of oonatntcteL pavement will be with the cooperation of the federal government to the extent of one-hathe cost. Such was not made available cooperation earlier in the history of highway Liah on account of a more strjet interpretation then preva ling of the term "pot roads In the act of congress authorizing federal aid. has now been Btate road pavement constructed on the main north and aouih on the north Smithfieid from highway to Spanish Fork on the south. Therm nr a few gaps in this road, notably YVellsvillft and Bnxelder canyons, between Cache and Jbtoxeldor counties abort strips at RiverdaUi and Farmington, between Ogden nnd halt Lake, where recent or proposed bridge construction Is delaying the location of the road In ths line it ..will:, ultiroHtttv .follow; similarly OeatiBued sn reUowinf Fage hard-surfac- lf V1 A V , |