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Show Gunnison-Axtell Road Surveys Are Complete Committees Confer With Road Officials and Promise Is Given for Early Action City Buys Jepson Property. With the surveys complete and new routings selected, all is no ' in readiness for submitting bids and starting real work on the Gunni-son-Axtell road project. H. S. Kerr, resident engineer for the state road commission, with his corps of assistants, completed the surveying survey-ing last Thursday and all data has now been compiled and is ready for submission to the federal engineers and the state road commission commis-sion for final approval. Preston G. Peterson, who was returning froma trip to Bryce canyon Sunday remained over a few hours and went over the proposed change in the state road on North Main street and the routing east from the City Park. In conference with the committee from this city, Chairman Peterson expressed himself as being highly pleased with the change, and while not in an official way, he tentatively accepted the plans and routings for the highway suggested by the committee. No definite time was set by the chairman chair-man as to when the work was to start, but he assured the citizens, and the committee that the program would be started just as soon as the plans could beapproved, and the preliminary arrangements completed. In addition to the mile of pavement that has been asked for, it has been officially announced that a steel bridge over the Sanpit ,h river at the southern part of the city, would be erected. The bridge will be of the same type as that built over the river at Christenbur- Mayor J. W. Jones and Reuben Christensen, delegated by the Gunnison Gunni-son Valley Development league, together to-gether with a representative from Cnteifield, conferred with the state road commission at Salt Lake last Thursday. The representatives from this city mapped out a program for the road campaign through this city and south as far as the Sevier county coun-ty line. In the requests made the committtee asked for a mile and a half of hard surface road through Gun-: Gun-: nison and Centerfield, a mije for Gunnison and a half mile for Cen-. Cen-. terfield. The plans for re-routing i the highway north on Main street in ' this city was also taken up with the state officials and met with hearty accord. ac-cord. In view of the fact that government govern-ment aid is short from a financial j standpoint, the citizens through the valley where the road program will be carried out, have accepted the macadam type of road, excepting through the cities of Gunnison and Centerfield. The road will start at the north Sevier county boundary and will extend to a point a f' w miles north of this city. For a distance dis-tance of a half mile in front of t'.e I sugar factory the committee sub-! sub-! mitted a plan of making the macad-! macad-! am road the full width. This plan was suggested for the reason tl ' the traffic is heavy there and is qvhte I badly congested during the early fail j and winter when beets are being i transported to the sugar factory. The road, according to government specifications, speci-fications, will be built sufficiently heavy to stand the heavy traffic it will be subjected to. Through official action by the city council the property at the head of Main street, owned by Mrs. Hannah Jepson, will be purchased and the street will be straightened. Negotiations Nego-tiations were concluded for the purchase pur-chase of the property last week. The house will be removed within the next ninety days and in ample time for the road building program. |