| Show STATE ROAD activities county commissioner F alan E roche was in town yesterday and in conversation regarding the state road which his firm Is constructing in the western part of box elder county he be stated that the road builders are now four miles beyond rosette and the recent rains have made the new road to that point hard as main street on monday the board of county I 1 commissioners and members of the state road commission will make a trip out to the camp tor for the purpose of 0 determining the route from immigrant pass and on to tacoma the old road went by way of bovine valley a low stretch which sometimes gets covered to a depth ot of six feet feel with water and which gives trouble at any time of 0 the year A feasible route has been suggested following the ridge from immigrant pass and on in a north westerly direction tor for a distance then veering south and coming to the old road at tacoma a at t which point all the bad places have been passed in the month of may the road gang constructed 33 miles of road 24 feet wide and with a crown that Is high above the sides which are cut away to permit drainage from the center the matter of placing the marking poles by the box bos elder commercial club was also mentioned and mr mr roche said that the posts would likely be set as far as Snow snowville ville for traffic Is now passing over the new road to that point from there on the old road Is still used part of the way and the placing of direction posts will not be done on that stretch until the entire job Is completed which will be sometime near september 1 it was suggested that preparations be made tor for a big excursion of box bos elder county bo boos ferB over the completed state highway or br lincoln trail when it is completed as the initial opening of the highway to traffic it if J Aw tAft se anilu lent can J b be e bently all owners owners of automobiles may be asked to furnish their cars and passengers will be assigned to each car the expense of the trip to be divided among the passengers the run would be made from brigham city to Alon montello tello nevada and return and it if a big company of excursionists can be booked it will be a tremendous booster for box elder county and the overland trail tor for it Is the con census of opinion of those who are in a position to know that the road thru box elder county Is the finest along the entire route and offers more scenic beauties beauties of 0 the kind that delight par ties traveling by auto mr air roche ventured we assertion that within three years after the highway is completed the road will be fenced on each side and growing crops of grain and hay will cover the now trackless prairie tor for all the land Is arable and the ibe overland trail will be an incentive to settlers to file on the land and make happy homes |
