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Show Post-War Road Program Is Set Up At Beaver Meeting A comprehensive program for post-war highway projects waf set up Monday evening at an all-county all-county meeting held at Beaver. Held in the courthouse, and continuing con-tinuing until a late hour, the meeting was attended by all members mem-bers of the highway planning committee, by Sheridan Fiack of Cedar City, district highway engineer and by County Commissioners Commis-sioners E. G. Joseph of Beaver, Elmer Marshall of Minersville and W. G. (Smoky) White of Milford. After considerable discussion, the following program was adopted adopt-ed and will be submitted to the state highway commission for approval. ap-proval. I. Highway 21, from the Fish Lake Forest boundary on east to the Beaver-Millard county line west of Milford, excepting those portions already brought to federal fed-eral aid standards. S). Graenvdlle (loop, Minersville loop and Cates loop, federal aid secondary roads, as a group project. pro-ject. 3. Milford north to Millard county line, a county road. 4. Beaver creek-toed road. 5. Minersville ' to Iron county line, approximately 4 miles, a county coun-ty road. 6. North creek loop road. 7. Highway 21 into Adamsville. 9. Granite Pass loop road. 10. Cougar Spar road from a point on highway 21 at Fouts pace to Cougar Spar fluorspar development. develop-ment. II. Beaver airport road from a point on highway 91 to airport. 12. Minersville to Nada, by way of Hot Springs. 13. From point on highway 91 to Lee ranch, by way of South creek. 14. Farm roads adjacent to Beaver. Bea-ver. The county had been requested to submit two secondary highway projects and one county highway as the first three projects on the program, all three to have equal priority. It was agreed, without dissent, that those parts of highway high-way 21 not yet brought to federal aid standards should come first on such a setup. Next, as a secondary sec-ondary highway project, would come the Greenville; Minersville and South Milford loop roads, and these were grouped as a single project though it may be that these will not go through as such. Unanimously selected as the county road project among the three having equal priority is the 13-mile stretch of road from Milford Mil-ford north to the Millard county line, paralleling the Union Pacific railroad rightofway. Millard county authorities are reported to be ready to go all out for bringing this road to a high standard all the way from the Beaver county line to a point near Deseret, and thus western Beaver county people peo-ple will be afforded a highway route northward without the loss of time and gasoline necessitated by the out-of-the-way route heretofore here-tofore traveled. Project No. 5 provides for improvement im-provement . of a four-mile stretch of road extending from Minersville Miners-ville south to the Iron county line, where it will connect with a pretentious pre-tentious . project set up by the Iron county planning committee. Designated as No. 3 on the Iron county program, this project calls for an expenditure of $240,000 on the 24.6 miles extending from the Beaver county line to a point on highway 91 a short distance north of Cedar City, and is understood to call for a 20-foot oil-surfaced read the full 24.6 miles. Beaver members of the planning committee brought into the discussion discus-sion the Fremont Pass road, to connect highways 91 and 89 from a point on 91 a short distance south of the Beaver county line. Since the route of this road lies in Iron and Garfield counties, it is impossible to set it up on a Beaver Bea-ver county program, but the Milford Mil-ford menVbers of the committee pledged themselves and the various vari-ous organizations they represent to do everything in their power to push the construction of this road, which Milford people are equally anxious to see completed, affording, afford-ing, as it wilL a direct route for Garfield and Piute farmers and stockmen to the main line railroad shipping point at Milford, besides furnishing local people with a distance-saving route to Panguitch lake, Bryce canyon and other points . on highway 89. Little or no help can be expected from Iron county on this road, however, as they are interested only in the- 26.2-mile connecting road north of Para-gonah, Para-gonah, which they have set up for an expenditure of $524,000. East-end members of the Beaver county highway planning committee commit-tee are Mayor Homer D. Thompson, Thomp-son, David R. Pearce, clerk of the county board of education, and Kenneth Barton, former druggist. The Minei-sville member is Frank D. Williams, former state senator, and the two Milford members are M. H. Pool, president of the town board of trustees and David S. Williams, representing the Milford Lions club. |