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Show Gunnison-Axtell Project Gets $50,000 Allottment Macadam Type of Road Is Urged By OfficialsHard Of-ficialsHard Surface to Be Requested Through City of Gunnison. -"The Gunnison-Axtell road project will be put through this year and just as soon as the county commissioners of Sanpete county will supply the necessary funds for the surveys, engineers will b-started b-started at once. If there is no delay the entire project should be completed by fall." This was the message from Preston G. Peterson, Peter-son, chairman of the state road commission, to the News office last night. Mr. Peterson, together with Howard Mens, chief engineer for the state road commission, and B. J. Finch, district engineer of the bureau of public roads, are in Sevier county arranging a program for the paving through that county. Mr. Peterson stated that an appropriation of federal funds, amounting to $50,000, had been provided for building the road from Gunnison to the Sevier county line on the south. A portion of the $35,000 county bond issue, allotted to South Sanpete county, will be used, and on the basis of 24-76 a little more than $13,-000 $13,-000 of the bond issue money will be used. Owing to the limited amount of federal aid that is available for Utah this year, and further, that some 29 counties in the state are clamoring for a slice, Mr. Peterson stated that hard surface roads on the Gunnison project would be out of the question. Gravel or macadam roads will be urged outside of the city limits. The type of road being urged by the state road commission will be built strictly to government specification, having a thickness of from six to eight inches and will be eighteen feet wide. When asked if provisions had been made for paving through Gunnison with the hard surface, Mr. Peterson stated that that matter mat-ter had not been taken up as yet, but would be before the project is approved. It has been intimated that an endeavor will be made to u: ; khe balance of the $35,000 of the county bond issue, approximate! S22.000, for putting the macadam road between Sterling and Manti. This, however, is rumor, but it has had the effect of inciting the :itizens of South Sanpete to strong opposition to any such program. With the announcement of the program given officially by the chairman of the state road commission and with the promise of having hav-ing the project completed this year, the members of the Gunnison Valley Development league, together with the citizens and the road committee, will shortly name a committee to visit the county commissioners com-missioners of this county and urge that no delay be allowed in supplying sup-plying the necessary funds to get the project started and completed n the shortest time possible. |