Show PIKES PEAK ROAD ROADWORK ROADWORK WORK VORK TOBE TO BE RUSHED Highway Engineer Advocates Use LVe of ot Basin Asphalt 4 Rocks Hocks Between Vernal mitt Miton Iton us as n a Tt Tool 1 tRoad t t. Road Hood forces force will be at work all winter on the Utah end of ot the Pikes Pike's Peak to ocean highway highway high high- wa way according to Information brought to the offices of ot the state road commission by B. B H. H Pow Fowle Ie Jr district engineer for the commission commission com com- mission mInion with headquarters In Price The state slate forces under Mr tr Fowles Fowle's direction will devote their attention this winter especially to the road between Vernal and K I Kranch Kranch ranch which is Just across the tho Utah-Colorado Utah line The distance as traveled now is two thirty under a new survey Bun this is II shortened shortened short short- ened to twenty-eight twenty miles The survey was made by by Engineer George orge A A. Gregory who reported to Ira U R. R Browning state road engineer engineer engi engi- neer last week that the maximum grade on the route will be G 6 per percent percent I cent and that there Is only about aboul feet of that grade Mr Air Gregory Gregory Gregory Greg Greg- I. I ory also reported that the new route will nill eliminate a bridge at Road Hollow Hollow Hol- Hol low and that the expense of ot reconstructing reconstructing recon recon- recon recon- I this bridge alone would pay lJaY tor lor me tae cost can 01 of me toe route at that point Year through Hand Rond Planned With this section completed the Pikes Pike's Peak highway will wUl be open through Utah for the entire year except In the Wasatch range where the snows get too deep Mr Fowles Fowle's jurisdiction along this road extends from the Colorado line to the eastern boundary of Wasatch coun coun- ty The road from K ranch to Vernal Vernal Vernal Ver Ver- nal connects with tho the road fro from Vernal to Roosevelt Myton lyton and I Du-I Duchesne Duchesne Du Du- I chesne about sixty six miles in all I which will next year be improved with federal aid it is expected at least to the point where a good foun faun foundation j dation elation will be laid for a subsequent hard surfacing J From Duchesne two to F i j P tl Wasatch county line the state forces forces will get the road next I season into first-class first condition It Itis Itis is expected by Mr l Fowle The distance distance dis dis- I tance is about thirty-five thirty miles t From Fruitland to Heber the road is a forest road now under contract and partly completed cOmpte ted The work so far done places the road In g good iod condition for the entire time that the snow will permit its use The distance bet between wen these two points is nine forty miles From Heber City there is a choice of routes into Salt Lake Lale and work is being dune dure on each Use of Utah Rock Rod Urged Mr Fowle advocates the plan to toT toTy Ty try T out some of ot the Utah natural rock asphalts asphalt on the road between Vernal and Myton provided It is found that they can be used to ad ad- vantage vantaa Samples are now being log prepared to be he submitted to the lb testing eating of the United Untied States State bureau of public roads of fir rock asphalts asphalt for tor this thia rod road d. d ben benthe len lenthe the he deposits deposit in Carbon county conaty In be- become 1 Income come samples sample o of these al also also al- al so ao will be forwarded Utah now ha has one of the four hot plant plants or or tho the l af of nt- nt concrete which were we in the tho army surplus equipment end vero Viera distributed d by the burr burden bu 1 of public roads Director W. W H. H MacDonald of or the Bureau found that there theM WHO about forty applications application for far th these e tour lour plants each of or w which lob soh is worth approximately 2600 O. O Since tea JQ man many states state desired then them he decided ed to grant grint the requests request tt In the he order order order or or- der of priority State Stute Gets Get PUnt Four members member of tte the board of or f the tho bureau awn aj 0 were Vere la to Wa Washington about the time It became became be tie- came known that these plants would be available for state nee tue received the plants plant Kt tro ro rothe the state road engineers engineer fi o 0 VIrginIa Virgin- Virgin Ia la Maryland Mar Pei Potty nia and nod Utah Mr Fowle eta j i a n r I- I tion with Mr Uro Bro tg 1 or r beuse lu be use of this hl plant in tm ui district Ho lie was WIlS told however that it U would probably be bo sent first to Ogden can tan yon o 0 |