Show BEN BLOW l MANAGER VICTORY HIGHWAY HERE Utah Is Weakest t Link Between New Fort Voik and und San Francisco Members Secured l hi III t Uintah Basin Ben Blow manager of the Victory H Highway association tiou spent a few 1 days in the Uintah basin stopping at Vernal Roosevelt tou M it and Duchesne At each place he conferred ed with the commercial organizations and se secured Victory Victon Highway memberships memberships memberships mem mem- totaling around Each membership is 5 The headquarters of the Victory Highway are In Topeka Kansas and naturally the work centers from that point As explained oy uy Mr 11 Blow the Victory highway is a memorial memorial memorial memo memo- rial to the world war veterans and is the greatest memorial ever eyer undertaken undertaken undertaken under under- taken by a people in honor of her soldiers The road reaches from San Francisco FranCisco Francisco Fran- Fran Cisco to New York At each terminal terminal terminal nal a bronze statue of a soldier willbe will willbe willbe be placed facing each other where the road crosses an any state line a smaller soldier a at t attention will be placed At each county line an American eagle will be placed and the names of the gold star boys bos on ona ona ona a tablet It is expected that means to erect such memorials will be raised raised raised rais rais- ed by women's clubs club and Legion Auxiliaries The fhe roads through Utah and aud Nevada Neada Nevada Ne Ne- vada ada are the weak links in the highway highway high high- wa way and if left to their own resources resources re- re r sources it might be years ears before paved roads could be secured because of the great length of oC roads and few i people to support same And here was the Interesting part of Mr Blows Blow's remarks The government in her road building plan puts up 74 and the state 26 of oC ever every hundred spent on primary prima and land secondary secondary secondary sec sec- roads Such counties as Uintah and Duchesne Duchesne Duchesne Du Du- chesne cannot build man many miles of roads so Mr 11 Blow proposes to deise devise devise de de- vise ise some means whereby eastern financiers will donate the money necessary necessary necessary essary for the state to take advantage advantage advantage advant advant- age of the governments government's offer orter While in California he expects to secure money woney to help in building roads through Nevada where worse taxing conditions exist he then Intends goIng go going go- go ing lug east and put up Utah's needs to mottled men and expects their financial financial finan finan- cial support in getting the government government government govern govern- ment aid The Victory highway is the most direct trans-continental trans route It is already the best marl market et route in the United States with paved roads from New York to the he Mississippi 1 river It Is the most scenic route with the themo mo most t side attractions for the tour tour- tat Much luch work Is to be accomplished which will take time before all things can be accomplished Bureaus Bureaus Bureaus Bu Bu- of information will be estabi establIshed established i lisped along the way 0 o 0 |