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Show w IMF STATF HIGHWAY THE people of tin staie must hand it to Beaver county when it comes to a matter of fro'nl roads. Heaver has spent a good deal of money, mon-ey, matching state funds, in the improvement im-provement of their highways, and as they have a good formal ion to build roads over, they have the best stretch of loud traversed by the Arrowhead Trail in Utah. Juab county has some very good road, hut it does not, come up to tin- Beaver county road. Millard Mil-lard County has a lot of road to maintain, main-tain, and considerable of it is decidedly decided-ly poor. Salt Lake and Utah counties coun-ties positively outfht to be ashamed of the condition of their roads, Thaf are actually in worse shape today than they were six or eight years aj,ro, j with the exci ption of 10 mihw of pave meat in the suburbs of Salt Lake, and about a couple of miles adjacent to Pleasant ('rove in Utah county. Of course, there are stretches in both counties that are fairly food, but, for the most part they are full of lumps and holes and cobble rocks that are hard on tires. In Iron county the roads in dry whether are a fair average with the rest, but are not comparable with those of Beaver and Juab sountisa, which are practically all surfaced 01 constructed of decomposed granite, the very finest of native road materials. mater-ials. Utah county has the nerve to ili play a conspicuous sie;n at the southern south-ern portal which reads, "Welcome to Utah County." and then treats the tourist to a buffeting and shaking not surpassed in any part of the Arrowhead Arrow-head Trail above the Bellevue black ridge. It is a delightful drive, over tfood roads, for the most part, from Le Van, in Juab county, over into the Sevier valley and up past Hichfield to Joe Town, but Clear ('reek canyon is bad, and the nearer you approach the elusive elu-sive .summit of the divide, the worse it geta, particularly after n storm. The distance that way between Salt Lake and Cedar City is scarcely 20 miles farther, but the road through the Clear Creek pass must be Improved Im-proved before the road becomes popular pop-ular that way. Though the variety which the "loop" affords is a pleasing pleas-ing diversion and seems to shorten the drive. One of the first important undertakings under-takings after the war is over, should be the construction of u strip of concrete con-crete ritfht down through the state from LogM to St. George, when a drive the length of the state by automobile auto-mobile will become a reirt pleasure, and the saving to the state in the matter mat-ter of traffic of all kinds will soon repay the money required to build it. m |
