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Show DKSKllIVr KVKNINCi NKVS SATURDAY DKCKMnKH --N U) ID But Three Million Dollar and More Spent Thit Year Will be Exceeded NexCin,Giving the State a Network of I mproved Highuayt. kt like tae included la ita i M )ur I ilkoul parallel y r j are; va road espandltuie West Ttirtr third South tret, Sait ! ha Tha ravotd J Cut. .ke oouaty; cum fact fur 4 nut Mtarvme rooetruruea atovl It par aatar before even haaa cent com plat a. Tha l 311,147 epeat wapreached Wuauh-Ueanelll- e boulevard t der tha direction of lha alai road Stale about 8 miles, on 19: r aad-Incommteaioa during fh flee I prograai. Magna la Teoel oounly line; tboul No. Id leaf will la I re a dad aad mile: on 19J inrogrm. for lha calendar yer, Mm lUchfleld City, 8 6 Mill; bUulIth- ker of laat pear alll 4y a maaaa apo Ig ooeeret baas; completed. proach lha rarord oal If lha final Mentl I Pigeon Itoilow, ni.Kw; month of lha prevent pear. end San-p- m field work ryxnpltl eurvey la addition la I haaa amount apant end Sovler caunl'r-hat already wader lha direction of lb atala road eeked that the ruiiimtaaion com m toaloa, addlllonal million hare cider a herd surface roed from Thte-ti- e been apant on eoeniy road aad on la the south boundary of alroat work la rtllaa; and mill more but that eaurh can hardly be eatd, as million are available, ihroush bond yet. to be included In Ih Ino-yee- r laauaa and otherwise. for aapaadlturaa program. nett pear. tnirheene I Vernal, about t mile. Tha aiata ha haaa tha beneficiary from Including lea location which to lha la eilant the pear during to Myioa about 9 milea have It received aupplla from tha army beea aurveyed and the Geld mapa ar aurplua found on hand 'at the audde about complete. While Ih govero-me- at rloalng of lha World war. an year bureau f publta rnad haa been , go, Many ihouaanda of dollar worth asked to teet natural rock aepbalU I the aant of equipment haa boon la tb Vlnta Beale a a poestbto material far thto road, Ih hard mi r feeatala, and additional ihouaanda wilt aloe lb In b aervlc pear, 14 to b a ing eaa hardly bo part of of thto aurplua ha been tha twa-yaprogram, although aom alow aomeehal a b praoaaa found lo etretrhea may b laid to tost thto mat eman t haa been lha favorite, bnt teriel a oervlca. Frlre-llelpe-c not tha only material weed by lb Caet legato. 8 1 - mlleek. Th survey haa been mad for tbd atat In ronetrurilng hard aurfaoad road thi yyar. Bltuman ptoata poet road project, like that last mend Uoaod, but th project atatement had hooevar. have of 11 boea oblalnad bttum-Inoae been approved, although tael of from tha war department, and mop enter aomo rork aaphalt la that neighborlargely road may hood aloo ar ta be mad. Soma eorl Into neit year' program. Ut amended tha of hard aurfar for thte road haa altala The leg lum ways been Included In th tno-yoa- r road law o aa to real r let tha mileage program. of atat road materially. It atoo ton to tb load which a limit of 1 II milea. Difficulty Id finding on atala carried be road, hading oullabl aggregate among Ihd may rock native to the region traversed Id It nacraeary either o to limit the g load or eta provide for delaying approval of Ih project atatefund ment; but at least a suitable founds-ti- e of a character far beyond any A libfor a hard surface read to the atat ha yet provided. waa authortoed. la lha Iwa.year program. eral bonding program nail of the automobile Ogden canyon, alg mil: survey for which tha to bo provide will aipactad J year oomplet for hard surfae pa vein rat. the redemption fund. Other State Roada. When tha 11 Uglalatur had adIf th Arrowhead Trail from thd journed the atat road Idaho to th Arison lino la tb maid found itaelf with about daf-inbond money tt Ita dtapoebl. far north aad south road, there are several I roads east aad west through th otie Improvement of hat mllaagwin addition to about half of th bond Of thee, snoot attention during th tb autbortaod by laauo of I3.900.0e4 biennium la betag given lo the to Lroooat which owing Uglalatur of HIT, war had not baen highway, the other east an4 of tho weet road being Included In large ih outbreak authorlaad the toglalator 11 measure ta tha poet road and force! pent. a bond laauo of 34.000.004. Tho atalo roed projects spendroad commtoalon aloo haa tho The paring work en west Thirty-thir- d whar th South la on this route. In sddi ing. In tha varloua eountle atat eounUoF funds ar ralaad. of tho Hot) work has been done by th state which road money to rato thto year en 138 mil of thto route, mum Ui levy of I mllatoallowad varying from there maintenance I with Join atat might Moreover th th construction of a new road In P the federal government lhrou Fleher I formerly Johncoa') obtaining road t th still more difficult conproject, and forest pass, federal aid up to I par conatructad. ll of aa strue! straightaway road q of th coal entire across th southwestern arm of the Great 8alt Lake desert, known as thd Boat Rond ProjooGoodyear or Belberllng section. Fund Poat road project must b approved tor the Fisher end Belberllng section who to th extent of 8136.000 were providby th aecratary of agrlcultuj. of public works through tho bureau ed by th Lincoln Highway association of ar haadquart and two o( Us officials. road, haa dlatlnct In Ogdon. oatabllohod been hlth Burvsy to -- complete aad hid are eub-mlatat to th that Th procedure ready to advertise on 13 miles od a to th bureau road in Echo canyon, from th staid mant petting forth th probable ctwt lino, eastern end of th Lincoln nature rth the a highway In Utah. Four miles hare per mil of road, nacea-alt- y tn and dealrad. beea surfaced between Echo and Wan Improvement for auch Improvement. Th roao chip, and 18 milea have been graded the ueed one be by between the same points. must Grading which. If imhaa beea carried on between Kimball mall service, or on o b to th Lake Salt and likely line. Apcounty proved. 3. tha eecretary approve, accurate proximately 860,000 has been spent aatlmalea In conthe survey to made and canyon. Parley's Including y struction of seven mile of new rood prepared, after which. If the In th down of agrlcultur algna tha agreeand scenic thet niche South Sections the the Center State. Three Three Projects in North, of Stages in the ment, the work It undertakenonbjrforce rang. Som 20 miles of new either have been constructed, connectetate road commtoalon, making office aimilar bridges are under construction in several parts of the state. The road the tha pictures herewith ar teen roadmak ing activities of the year that may be regardwestern end of th ftelberllnc account or by th letting of contract,ing IN moat advantageous. as may appear bridge may be taken as an indication of the permanent nature of the state's road mak- section, bv way of Gold Hill, with Wasatch-Bonnevill- e underboulevard is of a ed a the as out At the to panoram top carried typical.' work Foreat road Ibapah. Total amount apent on Imactivities. The dugway shown at the left is in Washington county. The old road fol provement of thto highway ing after aomewhet similar butpreliminary during tho connectLake Salt City with the taking of Salt Lake county.- It runs along the foot hilla east of 8226,000. Thd action ha been taken, lowed the lower windings of the wash, but the modem method is to get the road on the year reaches more than In b muat I road Fisher th section that pass difference complete. Some ing and running into the canyons east of the city. It will be,' when completed, one of wholfe or In part within the confine side of the higher ground. The picture reveals tho width of the road and also II milts of the Selberllng section resunuy main to be surfaced with gravel, not of a national foreat and foreat service tho most attractive scenic routes, in the west and of inestimable value as a factor in mean task when all th material hae gives an idea of the amount of work required to give this width. The next step in the imundertakes the eonetructlon work, the to be haulod -from one end of the il road comtnlMlon paying ita Lake exten the visitors The Salt of and is resources and of this the the road. other tourist be called t, a possibilities paving remaining showing picture may provement program section. expense. agreed share of the State-Counto be a strips of Che Lincoln highway in its pristine im The etate road commlaalon decided valley. The largo photograph in the lower It horrible example. happens comer hand is a new concrete Projects. of bridge right that wherever poeelr early In the year State roads Included In the two-ye1 cent amoot be h as will as glass. Next year it per handsome design completed over the Logan riyer. Under the direction of the state road ble the county should pay of passability. program, on which th state and of the cost of eonetructlon of atat county may expect no outside aid InIn some road through w county. road la in fair condition, project statements on these roada not clude: case tha atat apent th remainingHi let and work about So per cent comFill north of Farmington, about (00 Midvale Junction south S.S( miles; the present ultimate Modena to Enterprise, about 20 aim to to place a having been submitted. the though (! per cent out of the bond issue.structures in bitullthic work on and feet; completed. drainage base; plete. slag on this also). Beaver county line to tedar City, 47 milea; survey end field work comfederal government 1 of preceding to hard surface From south-en- d Brigham to Weber county. 8.88 awaiting settling of fill. , other, the Levan to Sciplo, 20.6 miles; pre- miles; survey, completed and project plete. Farmington City, about 8 mile; American Fork, 11;12 miles; cement spending 60 per cent of the expense, mllea; contract let for cement conHuntington to" Connellavllle, - 28.8 -liminary survey for project- statement statement approved. and ih etate road commlaalon. 40 per crete,- and work about 8 to 10 per cent grading" under way for part of new concrete, 25 per cent complete. miles up Huntington canyon; survey road for to Cedar 68 completed. poet City 8t, dletancee George,' the counties milea; eome and for rbute. to In overhead cent. approaches complete. Pleasant Grove to Provo, 8.23 milea; 62.8 milea; survey completed end project atate- completed. Utah Hot Springs to North Ogden, crossing over Bamberger Electric rail- cement 27 per cent complete. are so great, and tho population and Price to Myton. 78 mllee; much road project atatement approved. ment approved. Work on these last eo 8 tt miles, contract post . conthe county of wealth cement for let way. th resultant Provo to Spanish Vork, 4.81 milea; There is another gap In the proposed two sections of road la expected to be work completed thto year and last. Farmlngton-Centervlll3 6 low that even though the county may crete with bltulithlc topping. miles; per cent complete. being ' program for Immediate hard surface under way thto winter, and by special Additional bridges - cement, ' required ' bond to the limit, it la unable to pay Washington, avenue. Ogden. 3.6 concrete; completed.- , Spanish Fork City, 2.2 miles; culplanned. road south of Not of the at) Sciplo. la the state arrangement, building From Centerville through Salt Lake verts and excavation work In, for con- Drdta to Kanosh road Is on the ArrowVernal to K ranch, Juat across th 10 per cent of th state road program-cos- miles; work completed this year. power line to connect up tha Pixie Colorado Ogden to Roy, a little mor than 2 City to Mldvafe Junction, the hard crete pavement. within Its boundaries. head line, 32 miles. Lirtls but otatemem and the Power Trail, project at St. companys system out miles; bltulithlc on a concrete base, eurfacing of the north and south highA two-yersoonnaisancs work as yet done. Fork to Payson, 4.09 milea; to for earth construction. surprorram waa mappedstrict contract Spanish Hard Cedar and g Georg the .City, complan was cent befor tha base 88 per way already completed by th Wetldiver to Timpie, 80 mile; Impost road project statement approved facing of the Arrowhead Trail, porto use electric energy to operate by tha etate road commission, -- ginning of thM year, and work was by secretary of agriculture; survey tion, however, may be Included adherence to which to dependent on plete. provement of sections across mud in the the' roed construction machinery, and conto confined to maintenance 8.26 ae miles; and repairs, and plana complete. Sunset, ability Cleapfleld flats completed; road under contract final protect agreement. to pump the necessary water. many ..fclrCumstances, auch an crete. their to including contribute of be widened and gravel surface concompleted. interesting process For g few miles in southern Millard of the countiea to Payson to Kephi, 28.4 miles; post This completes the hard surface e, 8.81 miles, con- coating the cement concrete with a road project statement approved and across Beaver county there la portion of the Arrowhead Trail. Oth- templated. Considerable aid has been share, great excess of thand contract . . bithllthlc , crete, similar 8 .cushion. to about completed. miles' a still estimates. state tFrom Nepht Levan, gap in the program, the er. pleces.of auch construettonwhich rendered., on the. const ructlonof ,ihl. prices over the ' road by Salt Lake City commercial " consideration. Following are given club and Utah State Automobile asJm th more Important projects in that sociation, 'which are. still keenly Interprogram, together with the atatua of ested in Its development. each at. tha close of the first year: 8t. George to Arizona state line. 28.3 Bard Surface Roods. of prison labor Is contem( mile; use plated on this- portion of the Arrow-hee- d The hard surface roads program of ' TralL tha state to largely confined to a Spanish Fork canyon, 34 miles; In of Highway Improvement Is Undertaken in Consequence of Voters' Approval of Bond Issue of $1,500,000 ,For thie Purpose Scenic Boule--var- d Impressive highway, the whole formProgram part the former grade of the Denver ing a part of the Arrowhead Trail, A Rio Grande to being used In conto Reach Famed Beauty Spots and Provide Delights for the Traveler Seldom Found Much Work Is Done oif Bettering Roads Connecting Various the runnlag from Lo Angeles toFrom struction and Improvement work in the Localities With Main Arteries of Travel Accomplishments Thus Far Only Beginning of Extensive Projects. National Park. if somewhat diffici It ' this much-useIdaho Vne ta St. George waa th '. region. to the legislator thought submitted Prova canyon, 12 miles; consider-bi- s when they passed the bond Issue. Her AKINO advantage of the unex- Lake county Contemplated tha build ful acenery be found.' And thte boule- Salamander. Lake Solitude and other Ing on thto high pinnacle. preliminary work has been done; to the division of this road into From the summit of thi mountain Utah county residents propose -a - hard celled possibilities afforded by Ing of an automobile boulevard which vard alll take the tourist; into the smaller lakes lying In llttl valleys tn as facta a aalient and few - - ' project, Very heart of thto land of scenic beau- the very top of. th great Wasatch the road will drop down Into th head curface pavement. If possible. nature, Salt Lake county thto would traverse the mountain- - ridge ty. to th progress made, an 13 Soldier to ereek Willow - , Summit, Almost ' the of ridge. beyond description Big Cottonwood canyon leading to ment being planned ultimately from year undertook the bulldinf of a from Farley canyon to Brighton at miles; additional work required en Linking up with the Wasatch boulealong thto route afford the Bi Ighton. which in destined to bfcomt tho Idaho-Cach- e eounty line to Pay-so- aeries of scenic boulevarda, which, th head of Big Cottonwood .canyon, vard skirting the north'eastern bench scenery of Midland Trail. section the lover of nature a treat which can be one of the greatest mountain resorts thi with a tilne-fo14 miles, of strip from there when Thistle Salt Lake City, the Alpine highway found nowhere else. In America. Th highway then leads completed, will be Without a a doubtful. public declared it could of construction St George: road and Improveearth lead to Jo Idaho first will Nowhere up there auch a Emigration down canyon panorama Cottonwood Big to to the county ment In two-yeline to Smlthflold, 10.45 miles. parallel in the United State. Only a never be done. But it program. bflng done. to Pinecreet. From Emigration can- as that obtainable from the top of Mt. road, west to through the Survey - under way for post road beginning hat yet been made, but it ie Its feasibility' has been established yon it will follow the old Mormon Majestic, one of the highest peaks in richest farming Draper of Roods. Post counthe regions project: project statement approved. the beginning which wjll make 1919 a and It to expected that next year will trail and on through Little Mountain the Wasatch range. From this mighty ty, south to Butterfield canyon, one Poet road work Included definiteSmlthfleld to Logan, (.8 miles: conpass Into Mountain Dell, Parley's eminence one may look Into no less of the most picturesque spjts In the tract for cement concrete , pavement year never. to be forgotten In th hi' aea thto dream realised. , ly or tentatively In thto year's proThto link of the highway la of than nine counties of Utah-- Salt canyon. Oquirrho. through Butterfield can- gram and next, and the extent of protory of Salt Lake county. It Is the ' Thto road will be but a link of what particular Interest since It covers the Summit, Wasatch. Morgan. 36 per qpnt complete,. Utah, yon to canyon, on from gress ta date are as follows: Logan to Wellsvllle, 8jml!es; con- flret time that road building haa been will be known aa the groat Alpine ground traveled by Brigham Toung Juab, Davis, Tooele and Uinta. One Bingham Bingham skirting th Oqulrrh 9.4 miles of maOgden to Hooper, tract fdr cement conflate pavement undertaken in tha county on a acale Scenic highway, a boulevard which and the pioneers when they entered may look upon Mt. TtmpanogOs and mountains canyon ao 8a Hair Beach on the 13 per cent complete. (The highway In 1847 aa the first white the silent signed: d thto of MLishor of the Great Salt lake, over the cadam ; project agreement valley peak all the canypns sur- settlers. sufficiently comprehensive, to bring will link together grading through Logan and for 4 short Nebo, both among the highest peaks Saltalr speedway back to Salt Lake culverts, embankment and on either side Is already paved. 1 Important 'rexulta. Next .year will aee rounding tho valley, not to mencomplete; two courses of rock each' From Parley capyon the highway of th Wasatch. Th great silver camp, city. Th entire highway will be cent complete. Wellsvllle to Mantua, about IS the completion of d part of the road tion Utah' great Inland sea, the Great leads into Lambs canyon, one of the of Park City Isplainly as Is miles In length and practically all of about 90 per visible, 18 Antelope - Manila - Lynnwood. miles: survey under wy: nature of Improvement . Lake. Tho Alpine Scenic highway least known but withal on of th alao th largest .copper camp ln th the road to now open save that link Salt program Inaugurated will provide a boulevard without a most picturesque canyons In the state. world. , county; 76 per cent One may between Lambs canyon and Mt Ma- miles In Daggett road. prSpenl improvement aurfaced earth, canyon. ' Bingham complete; earth rival. Oregon and California boast of Cllmblrg up Lambs canyon the tour- look out upon the. Great Salt Lake jestic, - Considerable road though ultimately th road is destined during the last 10 months t waa Tremonton to Bgowville, 33.74 to be hard surfaced. Early thto year the taxpayers of the their great boulevarda j,nd drives, but ist obtains an unobstructed view of tne and the several Islands within that don thto year, but th building larger pert milea; survey ' and - field work comMantua to Brigham City: the nature city and Utah's mountain top highway will whole valley. Th trail lead" through body of water, not to mention the Jor- of It waa previously open, authorised lmiinjce eounty pleted. of the foundation Is such that a good far eclipse anything in either of those a veritable foreat of pines, firs and dan river, connecting the Salt Lake possible its improvement at amaking miniMorgan county loop, 34 miles; surroad already exists In thto canyon, of 81.600,000 worth of bond which states. Also tt will afford th tourist quaking asps. nat- with Utah lake a few miles to th mum of cost. tb Following its For entire 76 per cent complete. length vey tBoxelder) and th county to at pres- made these big Improvements possi- an opportunity to visit every point ural contour of the mountain th road eouth. will the highway eventually be sur-Paragoonsh to Orton, 21 mites; surent devoting Ite energies to connecting ble. Leas than half of the money has of Interest within the- - valley In a will go to Ih summit, then drop lows Salt - Lake. countr with It vast faced with macadam. , vey complete. P the herd surface road with Ogden been a little and paat th head of Mill Creek farm acreage, through the heart oft Five miles of the day. In expended to date, but wonderful single Sigurd ta Burrville, 21 miles and and Salt Lake City. canyons ar unrivelled for canyon. Then it goes again to the top) which th tourist passes during the Lambs canyon was gradedhighway Utahs this Notum to citnesvllle, 19 miles; parts year .. ... Brigham City. J.1S miles; bltulithlc result have been accomplished. their natural beauty. In no other oMh ridge, following thto to th top remainder of th trip, stretches out When it was announced that Balt part of the country can such wonder- - of Mount Majestic. It will pass Lake before the eyes of th observer stand-- 1 oq a cement concrete base; contract (Continued on page twenty.) ( (Continued on page twenty.) The nit pr-ir- em i '! i- at, g 1- -t f. c V Io i, 4 m. tt slor; ? I: Im-rhe- en VN nt ar -- ua fl4 Frloo-Emor- road-bulldln- s ed .. A' J 18-m- ill It ter nd iva nd in ral u ed of rr ta l pr of m tio er- - uet e w feu 'at&'&z: "-tar- rai tei Wa-aat- the im- - on-th- 1 :h ilch lt ch - II-m- .. ty ar - - e, . t - ar be-In- - - Layton-Kaysvtll- - i BIG north-and-sou- ROAD PROGRAM OF SALT LAKE COUNTY th Tel-lowst- d, T 18-fo- ot k T - n. ot - ar k -V ' snow-cappe- dla-tsn- ee m . . t t I y |