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Show Road Commission Meets With Lions j About Highway 6 -JwsJwaL Highway 6's Prospects Look Bright from Reports The state road commission and W. C. Campbell of the Federal bureau of roads met in Delta on I Thursday night with the Delta Lions Club, Millard county commissioners, com-missioners, Representative Freer, Delta City officials, and n delega- I tion from Ely, to discuss Highway 6. The group was guests of the Lions Club at a special meeting called by their president, Fenton S. Gardner. The meeting was turned turn-ed over to Layton Maxfield, of the state road commission, who introduced intro-duced the members from the commission, com-mission, and were; Ray Leavitt, chairman, W. L. Anderson, assistant assist-ant chief engineer; M. M. Moffitt, chief locating engineer, and Sherman Sher-man Fiack, district engineer. Mr. Maxfield called upon Chair- man Leavitt who said, "Highway I 6 will be a drawn out affair . . . $2,000,000 a year is available for this type of highway, and it is not sufficient when it is divided up for all the Federal Aid roads." He pointed out the Highway 91 was losing 60 of the traffic out of California at Barstow, because 91 was worn out, and this traffic was going through Arizona instead of through Utah. He said, "Money spent on highways is an investment invest-ment and not an expense, and we must build and maintain good roads to induce the traveler to come through Utah. Mr. Campbell, the representative of the Federal bureau of roads, said, "Lf the people of Utah and Nevada want Highway 6 placed on the Federal Aid System, it will be approved in Washington." Layton Maxfield spoke of the difficulties confronting the road commission with their limited funds, and the opposition from other sections of the state on the routing of Highway 6 thru Delta, but that they were making every effort to have the 89 miles west of Delta to the Nevada line placed mamm on the Federal aid system and , brought up to that standard. He said, "Delta is the hub; it has a first class road coming in from Holden, one from Oak City, the Eurkea highway needs but little improvement to bring that up to standard; the Rocky Ford bridge will complete another feeder road from Nephi; also Delta has one of the finest airports in the state. The completion of the highway to Nevada Ne-vada will make the picture complete." com-plete." The Nevada delegation of six men, J. W. Grant, C. E. Horton, Le-Roy Le-Roy Vowles, W. C. Goodman, Robert Rob-ert Pritchett, and Jim Borchert, all of Ely, stated that Nevada's Chief Engineer Allen, "was 100 behind Highway 6 and its final complettion." They were most enthusiastic en-thusiastic that matters have proceeded pro-ceeded to the point that application applica-tion has been made to put it on the Federal aid system. Representative Freer spoke, and praised Mr. Maxfield's work in accomplishing ac-complishing so much for Millard county. Commissioners Gardner and Morris stated they they were behind Highway 6. Golden H. Black, mayor of Delta, said the City Council was anxious to be of help in any project that would aid Delta and Millard county. The meeting was turned back to Lion President Gardner, who thanked those attending for their excellent cooperation. The meeting meet-ing was concluded with a feeling that the prospects of Highway 6 looked the brightest since its conception. |