Show sounds good to Us just about aboul two hours houra before tho ahe legislature adjourned senate bill and introduced by senator joseph finlinson of lemington and which would make the gunnison lovan road a state highway passed the senate body the bill was passed to tile tho engrossing clerk and saturday the measure was signed by governor george dern which made it a law the little measure however had some time in getting over originally a bli bh was introduced in ili tile the liole house by representative hickman being behig known as H B no this meu mea sure was arranged by the state road commission and others interested in the movement the bill passed the house and went to the senate ltv it was sent to the committee and came out with amendments which would include mothr roads for some reason a action was delayed until the last moment moa mea when a now new bill was introduced eliminating a sanpete San pete county project the mt pleasant moroni highway tho the now new bill was sent to the house at 4 and immediately went into the hands bands of the committee and was reported out favorably when the final vote was taken oaken it was unanimous with one exception representative senta tive D N beal of bt ephraim voting and working against tile the passage cf the measure just as soon as the house ot of representatives senta tives had declared for the now new law the bill was hurried to the senate chamber and at seven the conference committee took the bill and at nine this committee reported favorably A final vote was taken by the members of the senate at ten and there was not a dissenting vote even senator IV V D candland who at first opposed the bill for the reason that it lid did not include the provision forthe tora the mt pleasant project voting yes the tifft to establish reestablish re the secondary cu co anty road as a state highway was not accomplished with any ease some seven years ago tile the road was taken from the state highways and for some reason it was declared a secondary county road at least there was seldom any work done by the county inasmuch as thousands of travelers going to salt falt lake lahe wished to save time by avoiding tho the ag miles extra drive by going through sanpete San rete pete county a move merit ment was started to havo have the legislature redesignate the road as a state assato highway for fully thirty days J W jones president of the local llona lions club and ruben christensen Chrls prominent in state political circles worked faithfully and stayed on tho job until sicto victory r y crowned their ef efforts forte lal gallit lit and richfield marysvale Marys vale and many of the towns south joined in the tight fight and it was through the persisting efforts and the plain hatate statement of facts that the die legislative legislative body was converted that road should be included in tho the state highways under the now new law the road will now be kept in passable condition and it will be possible for residents of the southern part pari of utah to now go to the capitol city and make a saving of both money and ml mileage leage gunnison Gunn lson valley news |