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Show Immediate Action For Paved Roads Moroni and Fountain Green, two r.mall burgs in the northern end of Sanpete county, are putting foi th every effort to land hard surface paving, and from all indications given giv-en in dispatches, it seems that the efforts of the citizens will be rewarded. reward-ed. During the past few weeks the county commissioners, together w.'th the live wires in the two towns, have made several visits to Salt Lake a;id conferences have been held with the state road commission looking to the building of the strip of road. When the road bonds of the county were voted the northern end of the county, particularly the section between Moroni and Fountain Green, fwere allotted $35,000, and fearful that the government would withdraw its portion por-tion of the amount necessary to build the road on a basis of 76-24, the citizens got busy. Gunnison and the sout end of the county also have some $35,000 which was voted at the bond election. On the basis of 76 per cent by the government as to 24 by the county, some $140,000 could be available for paved roads through this section. With this amount, with conditions favorable, nearly five miles of road could be built. If there is any place in the state that needs paved roads, particularly in the winter months, it is right through Gunnison and on the south as far as Axtell. Even during the summer months this particular stretch of road the way it has been maintained, has been in a deplorable state and travelers from far and near condemn it and the condemnation was just. Next year Sevier county starts on a campaign to pave through the entire en-tire county along the state highway. Bonds have been voted and the government gov-ernment money promised and the wide-awake citizens are looking forward for-ward to placing Sevier county in a list that boasts of hard surfece roads. : With the Manti-Pigeon Hollow project completed and the Moroni and Fountain Green clamoring for rights and a strong possibility of them getting what they are after, and with Sevier county to the south with paved roads, it would seem that Gunnison Valley would fall in line. The time is ripe at this moment to go after the pavement and if this is done and the government and county commissioners convinced of the sincerity, sin-cerity, it can be put over and the question of rotten roads through South Sanpete will be forever banished. ban-ished. Let's all get busy and put the proposition over while the spirit of progression is in the air and before the government gets the notion of withdrawing appropriations for western roads. |