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Show oil and sand practically eliminates wear, and makes the road absolutely permanent. I understand California has already spent close to $30,000,-000 $30,000,-000 on this class of roads and is still at It. The people there say these roads are the best Investment the state has ever made. Would Open Big Territory Utah lcnd3 Itself especially well to being "decorated with tho concrete cros." The north-south road would traverso tho moBt populous sections of . the ' state, including all of the larger cities. Tho east-west road might well go through tho Uintah country, which Is frantic for an outlet out-let to Utah Instead of to Colorado. The cress should be built wholly at tho expense of the state. Counties Coun-ties or other local communities can use all their road money In building branches or "feeders," so that every section of tho state would have the benefit of this great highway. I respectfully submit this scheme, not only as a compromise in the Ensign En-sign peak controversy, but as a far-reaching far-reaching plan for tho development of the state. 600 MILES CONCRETE ROAD THROUGH UTAH , Senator John Dern Suggests Cross 'K" Ranch to Nevada Line, and From Idaho to Grand Canyon (By Senator George H. Dern.) I have seen In the newspapers that It has been proposed to erect a croBS on Ensign peak, and that the suggestion has aroused some opposition. oppo-sition. I have no desire to enter Into In-to the controversy, but I Bhould like to suggest as a substitute a cross that would be approved by every " Utahn, regardless of religicua belief. It would be a larger cross than the one that was to surmount Ensign peak. It would extend from the Idaho line on the north to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado on the 6outh, and from Colorado line on the east to the Nevada line on the west It would be sixteen feet wide, and would be built of concrete. If some of our people 6hould derive de-rive satisfaction from the symbolic significance of having such a cross placed athwart the map of Utah, surely nobody would begrudge them the pleasure, for we could still all unite In the opinion that It would be tho greatest and most unique highway that any. state had ever built. It would be a road that would instantly become famous the world over, hence It would have a tremendous tremen-dous advertising value. Would Attract Thousands It would be a good Investment, bo-cause bo-cause it would not only have the civilizing civil-izing effect that always comes from good roads but because thousands of people would come here every year with, their, automobiles to ride over it and revel in the sconic wonders won-ders that It would disciose. "Go to the Grand canyon by automobile from the Utah side" would be the slogan. These tourists would spend from one to three weeks In the state, and they would leave dollars here against cents left by Lincoln highway tourists, tour-ists, who dash through Utah as fast as they can. It would furnish transportation facilities to communities that are now more or less Isolated, and It would give a wondenul impetus to the development of potentially rich counties that are now languishing because be-cause they are cut off from the rest of the world. Motor-truck haulage over such a road would be the next thing to a railroad. Utah is about 340 miles long and 270 miles wiae, hence this "scheme 'would mean building some 600 miles of concrete road. In some places such roads are being built for $6000 ,.er mile, in others for $8000, so it might cost the state of Utah $5,-000,000 $5,-000,000 or $6,000,000 to complete the system. This a good deal of aiouey, and some people may shrink from the magnitude of the undertaking, under-taking, but we should remember that Utah has just spent nearly half that amount for a state capitol, which, although a joy to look upon, will have no such utility as a great, permanent per-manent road, running the length and breadth of the state. A 40-year bond issue would make the scheme feasible without being unduly burdensome. bur-densome. j We are now spending great sums on dirt roads each year. They are good for a few months and then jthey have to be rebuilt, or they become be-come barbarous. I have just returned return-ed from an automobile trip to Mil-ford Mil-ford and Beaver, and enroute I saw some horrible examples of tho folly and wastefulness of building' dirt roads. . Concrete roads, properly built, require very little maintenance work,, and ' th e California idea df sprinkling them with a thin layer of |