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Show Gunnison Road Program Starts In Early Spring "There is every reason to believe that active work on the building of the gravel and cement through Gunnison, Gun-nison, Centerfield and Axtell, known as project 57, will be started within the next sixty days. Bids will be asked for shortly and if approved approv-ed and accepted there is little question ques-tion but what work will start by early spring. During my recent visit to Salt Lake I conferred with officials of the state road commission and I was assured that there would be no delay in starting the project." Thus spoke J. W. Jones, former mayor of Gunnison. Mr. Jones spent last week in the city on important business matters for his bank and incidentally took up the matter of the Gunnison-Axtell Gunnison-Axtell project -with members of the state road commission. Mr. Jones stated that the plans as submitted by the engineers for the project had been approved by the state and government and that a portion of the money for the building build-ing of the highway had been advanced by the county commissioners and that altogether the chances of early work and completion were favorable. fav-orable. With good weather and the completion of the plans, work, in so far as the gravel and grading are concerned, could be started with the opening of spring and through this a big advance would be made in time for cement laying. Carl A. Erikson, resident engineer for project 57, has been advised to compile right-of-way descriptions both through Gunnison and Axtell, where changes will be made from the old road. Mr. Erikson is completing com-pleting this work at present and when the plans are ready he will file the data with the county commissioners commis-sioners and the officials of this city. Rights-of-ways are to be arranged for at the north entrance of Gunnison Gunni-son and provisions will be made for running the road along the railroad tarck west of the postoffice at Axtell. The proposed road courses along the railroad track below Axtell and will emerge below Willow Creek and then connect with the old road near the Sanpete-Sevier county line. Included in this project will be the building of a gravel road from the north city limits of Redmond to connect with the gravel road at the Sanpete and Sevier county lines, i, Citizens of Centerfield and those who favor good roads are to ask for an additional appropriation so that a portion of the highway through that city, a half mile at least, will be of cement. The request of Centerfield Cent-erfield is just and all boosters here will back up up the neighbors to the south. It ' seems hardly fair that Moroni, Ft. Green and the section known as the East Wing, which includes in-cludes Mt. Pleasant, Fairview and Spring City to get their quota of cement roads and cut Centerfield out entirely. In as much as Centerfield is on the main highway and has the big sugar factory, travel is necessarily neces-sarily heavy and her demands are worthy and should be granted. The matter is to be taken up with the state road commission and the cour.y commissioners at an early date and if possible the half mile cement through the city to the south will be included in the project already accepted. |