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Show Gunnison-Levan Road Made State Highway Just about two hours before the state legislature adjourned, senate bill 141, and introduced by Senator Joseph Finlinson of Lemington, and which would make the Gunnison-Levan road a state highway, passed the senate body. The bill was passed to the engrossing clerk and Saturday the measure was signed by Governor George Dern, which made it a law. The little meausure, however, had some time in getting over. Originally Origin-ally a bill was introduced in the house by Representative Hickman, being known as H. B. No. 144. This measure 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. It was sent to the committee and came out with amendments which would include in-clude other roads. For cor.ie reason action was delayed until the last moment mo-ment when a new bill v. as introduced, eliminating a "Sanpete" county project pro-ject the Mt. Pleasant-Moroni highway. high-way. The new bill was sent to the house at 4 o'clock and immediately went into in-to the hands of the committee and was reported out favorably When the final vote was taken it was unanimous un-animous with one exception, Representative Rep-resentative D. N. Beal of Ephraim, voting and working against the passage pass-age of the measure. Just as soon as the house of representatives re-presentatives had declared for the new law, the bill was hurried to the senate chamber and at seven o'cliock the conference committee took the bill and at nine o'clock this com mittee reported favorably. A final vote was taken by the members of the senate at ten o'clock and there was not a dissenting vote, even Senator W. D. Candland, who at first opposed op-posed the bill, for the reason that it ! did not include the provision for the Mt. Pleasant project, voting "yes." The fight to re-establish the secondary sec-ondary county road as a state highway, high-way, was not accomplished with any ease. Some seven years ago the road was taken from the state highways high-ways and for some reason it was declared de-clared a secondary county road at least there was seldom any work done by the county. In as much as thousands of travelers, going to Salt Lake wished to save time by aviod-ing aviod-ing the 16 miles extra drive by going go-ing through "Sanpete county" a movement was started to have the legislature redesignate the road as a state highway. For fully thirty days J. W. Jones, president of the local Lions club, and Ruben Christ-ensen, Christ-ensen, prominent in state political circles, worked faithfully and stayed "on the job" until victory crowned their efforts. Salina and Richfield, Marysvale and many of the towns south, joined in the fight and it was through the persisting efforts and the plan statement of facts that the legislative body was converted that road should be included in the state highways. Under the new law the road will now be kept in passable condition and it will be possible for residents of the southern part of Utah, to now go to the capitol city and make a saving of both money and mileag'e. |