| Show FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR MIDLAND TRAIL WORK seven tenths of sum available from the state to be expended from colton east to the colorado line fifty dollare dollars for or tho the i of the portions port tom of thi the utah link of the midland trail the transcontinental tra automobile highway and which will run from ocean to ocean were appropriated by the arnato last friday of thie thirty five thousand thou aind dollars will be expended on the eastern portion of the road through tho the ecate and fifteen thousand on the western por per it ion I on the appropriation was contained in a bill introduced in lit tho the bonate by bonnor X smith of 0 salt lako county in lie Us original form the bill appropriated tho the funda funds only tor for road construction and ment meat of the highway trod front the Col colorbio and utah hue line to colton in utah county senators from weber davie davis and box elder rider that the louto of the highway be descg bated through their counties in the bill and that fifteen thousand e f 1 ilare bo th appropriated for tho the western outlet ut of the midland trail ahr through h box elder county this amend amendment mt wae by the committee an highways and public lands and incorporated in the bill by the IK TA tho the official route of the hidlard trail through utah iu as designated liy by the bill ka from the terminus of tie vie colorado highway at the utah state line near grand junction colo through cisco and thompsons Thomp sons in grand cou rity through jill oreon green allver and woodside Wood elde in emery county through price and helper in carbon bounty through kyune ayune colton soldier summit thistle junction spanish fork prove provo pleasant grove american fork and lehl lehi th utah county through murray jund salt laire lake city in salt alke county through farmington and kaya aulo tn in davie darls county through gla ogdon la in weber county and through city and kelton in bar bid zmer or county the molloy on oil the eastern portion of the route will be spent to build canyon road connecting helper and colton at a cost of about twenty abound dollars and in imar improving v the road from the colorado ilie ilke to a price the fifteen thousand dollar dollars for use on the western end of 0 the route will be in the improvement of ninety milea miles of desert road toad through box lider elder county from brigham city to the nevada line from the colorado line to helper the road la is now a fair one the money appropriated by the state together with contributions from good roada roads and the money ap by the coun county tili i foi road ampro foments it ie Is bel bellevo belle levid will bo be ample for the improvement of the road rom eo so that it will bo in good lon ditton new lucid nine milos of new now road between helper and colton are th tia road through colton to provo la is a good one and the road between provo and salt lake city la is excellent from salt lake city to ogden with the exception of a mull 11 stretch in david davis county which will be ro re motil by the alvis county connela is Blo loners ners the road ie Is ideal the route follow follows a fino fine macadam road in weber county and the excellent convict built highway to brigham city westward from frigham city the road is u scarcely arcely Bc passable at present but will III bo put in n bood shape with the fifteen thousand thou nand dollars appropriated by the mutate and the county appropriation for the purpose the fifty thousand dollar ind will bo be augmented some by private contributions by the varlo conn coun ties the revenue of grand county la Is mail small but the commis alonen promised to do their beet best to adalet the thel state in the construction of tho the rood road through that county the an n ter emer county folk have a hundred teanis in noM to A work on the road just as eoon soon ia is the bill becomes a law they will A donate the use of the tams it la Is said aid and the labor of a citizen citizens for the next two to months mouths in the construction and improvement the rond road the county ore era of carbon county will vote t tn n duplicate any funda funds expended by b the detato in the county it la Is promised and has already announced personal contribution ot of a thousand dollars from rom jesse knight to the roid building fund la in carbon county count Is I 1 odest utah county ie to not asking for or any appropriation from the state to improve the road through that county it la Is already in good condition but the tho commissioners aim to spend considerable on the road to make tho the utah county link one of the boat stretches stretch ce of the road the road row through salt lake county li ii practically perfect while that in pavla pavia hila has only one bad place the davis county cammi commissioner will spend several thousand dollars this spring making lie its portion of the road as good as poe possible sible the people of weber county can only appropriate prop a little more than usual for f r fl he 0 maintenance of fine macadam cad m road as it ie Is at present almott perfect box elder county la Is one of the banner road building countley count lea of the state the county has bloed fifteen thousand thou zand dollars by tax to build tho the road to the nevada line and with the tit fit teen thousand appropriated by the state a road that will le passable in sae ous will be built start of flood work good roads enthusiastic do not hope to build an ideal deal road tor for tha fifty thousand dollars do llara but they do hope to be able tu to iron tron out several bad places on the road and place it in auch such condition it will toe more comfortably and pleasantly traversed and to establish leh the route so that it can be more boully improved la in the future dy by pravate can contributions tribu and county appropriations they hope to increase the fund for the utah link of the midland trail to a hundred thousand dollars when the bill came up for paa sage president gardner took the floor and urged that spanish fork be included among the cities through DP which the route would pass dy going through fork gardner aid said the road would be about a mile longer than originally intended but it would be better bottel and easier to maintain in addition it would bring the transcontinental tourists in close proximity to the Straw strawberry borry valley reclamation project t the amendment was inserted fair to t all courides senator chart charles Cot cottrell troll jr of salt lake wanted the route official 1 designated as the midland trail trall by the bill several senators Bena tore objected to the name becoming a part of the bill and the amendment was lost senator wight of summit wanted the bill to specify that each couett count expend as much as the state in the construction of the road it was as shown that such a provision pro would be a hardship hard on an grand and emery counties which had much of the road and but very little revenue the amendment was lost senator sen aitor iverson 0 of carbon made a long talk in la favor of the bill lie ile said that in july of the american automobile association would be here to inspect the utah road and it they found it in lood condition and capably of being made into an excellent automobile highway they would undoubtedly designate it as a portion of the route lie ile eald said that transcontinental route ho said that the asso association clation had levied a tax on improving the transcontinental highway and this tax would no net ten million dollars for this purpose much of which would doubtless be event in utah after considerable discussion the bill was pawed with only oaly senator funk of cache voting in the nega live on state road Commis aloner joseph jonson jensen mid and W 11 II thompson of the A I 1 A dark clark contracting company at salt lake city are at this time in eastern utah looking over the country and locating ro roadways they rill all ba be here several weeks and before returning will have decided on routes and of cost of the same they 6 ived tved in price last thursday evening |
