Show HELPER DUCHESNE-HELPER ROAD TO TOB HE B KEPT OPEN OIEN NEXT WINTER BY U. U S. S SAiD AND AND STATE JOINTLY The rhe following information with reference to winter road roa conditions into the Uintah basin comes from Salt Lake J. J T T. Tullis superintendent of the stall mail I service on the stage line route between the Uintah basin and the railroad at Price or Castlegate In Interviewed In- In the state road commission with reference to efforts to keep the Helper Duchesne-Helper road open all winter The road crosses a 11 somewhat somewhat somewhat some some- what high saddle but otherwise is preferred to the Price Price-Myton road by which route the city of or Duchesne is cut off from the main line The Price Myton road is hard on equipment equipment equipment equip equip- ment and also costly to keep in passable passable passable pas pas- pas pas- sable condition but for practically all winter it is possible to get across by this route Last winter the Helper Duchesne-Helper route was closed for several months The count county of Duchesne in which the principal mileage on this road I Ties lies is unable to do much toward i keeping the route open Mr Tullis ruins I pointed out that the maintenance of oC the service is costing the department about a year ear I He thought that the state ought to assist in keeping the road mad open at I least The state road commission is without without without with with- out funds at I present resent for expenditure on road maintenance but it was suggested that it might from its I war surplus supplies furnish suitable suitable suitable suit suit- able equipment to keep the highway open if Ir the government go will mann mane this equipment and pay for the gasoline Some such arrangements will probably be tried out |