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Show OFFICIALS APPROVE ' MANY POST ROADS Hnrd Surface Road Huckhom to St. (Jeorge and Lund to Cedar Are Included. i TOTAL AUTHORIZED EXPENDITURE $4,850,000 Practically Two Million Dollars to be Spent in Iron and Washington Count ies. Which Probably Means Cement Concrete for the Most Part. (From Deserct Evening News.) Post roads projects totalling over mjUOflW have been approved by the i state road commission and by B. J.I Finch, district engineer for the fed- j eral bureau of public roads for the 1910 and IMO program. The roads to be improved will aggregate npprox-j imately l00 miles. The counties in which the roads are1 to be built will be required to put up 10 per cent of the total cost. The total federal government appropriation appro-priation available for pout road work in Utah in the two yearsris $2,841,-; 0U1.92. This is conditioned on the state and local authorities spending at least a like amount on the two roads. The program as already approved therefore, leaVes something like $800,-060 $800,-060 available for extra cost of projects pro-jects in the program, or for other projects. pro-jects. The list as already approved by the state commission and Mr. Finch, whose headquarters are in San Francisco, Fran-cisco, includes post roads bn which some work has already been done. In a few instances the expenditures contemplated con-templated are already nearing completion. com-pletion. The entire program follows: Castle Gate to Duchesne, surfaced earth road; length 45 miles, serving a population of 4,100 persons; estimated esti-mated cost $131,182.10. Ogden to Hooper, macadam road; length, 0.6 miles; estimated cost, $U,-340.44. $U,-340.44. Lund to Cedar Koad. Lund tb Cednr City, surfaced earth road; length M miles; serving population popula-tion of 6,062 estimated cost, $100,000. Price to Kmery, sections of earth, macadam and bard surface roads; length (i.'i miles, serving J), 280 persons; estimated cost, $550,000. Thompsons to .Moab, surfaced earth road; length 66 miles; serving population popula-tion of 1(120 persons; estimated cost, $100,000. Moab to LaSal, surfaced earth road; length 24 miles; serving population of 225 persons; estimated cost, $08,000. LaSal to Monticello, surfaced earth roud; length 66 miles; serving popula- jL tion of 600; estimated cost, $104,000. Monticello to Blanding, surfaced earth road; length 25 miles; serving population of 950; estimated cost, ' $72,000. Cedar City to St. George. Cedar City to St. George, hard surface sur-face road; length 5(5 miles; serving - " population of 8,370; estimated cost, $672,000. Delta-IIolden-Kanosh, 33 miles, surfaced sur-faced earth and 22 miles hard surface sur-face roads, serving population of 3,-836; 3,-836; estimated cost, $326,000. Duchesne to Vernal, hard surface road; length 61 miles; serving population popula-tion of 13,920; estimated cost, $732,-000. $732,-000. Heaver to Milford, surfaced earth road, now nearly completed, length 33 miles; serving population of 4,400; estimated cost, $39,600. Tremonton to Snowville, surfaced earth road; length 48 miles; serving V population of 1,800; estimated cost, I $100,000. Cedar City to lluckhorn. Cedar City to Huckhom, hard sur face road; length 35 miles; estimate. I cost, $420,000. Panguitch to Kanab, surfaced earth road; length 72 miles; serving population popula-tion of 2,790; estimated cost $200,000. levari to Scipio, hnrd surface road; length, 28 miles; estimated cost, $.'.36,000. Mainline to Bluff, earth road; length 28 miles; serving population of 660 estimated cost, $33,600. Marysvale to Panguitch, macadam road; length 66 miles; serving population popula-tion of 6,072; estimated cost, $330,000. Junction to Escalantc, surfaced SB Vflh BkssiiBflHBBnnanBBBsssBsai earth road; length 66 miles; serving population of 1,600; estimated cost, $125,000. Parugonah to Orton. I'arugonah to Orton, earth road; length 29 miles; serving population of 500; estimated cost, $31,800. Milford to Ncwhouse, earth road; length 25 wiules; serving population of 350; estimated cost, $30,000. Richfield to Hanksville, earth road; length 140 miles; serving population of 2,588; estimated cost $168,000 MorgM CitjT, Littlctown, Peterson, Stoddard to Morgan City, laaradam road; length 17 miles; serving population popula-tion of 2,770; estimated cost, $102,000. Prom Wyoming state line via Antelope An-telope and Manila to Liuwnod, earth road; length II miles; serving population popu-lation of 500; estimated cost, $21,01)0. |
