Show milford mil ford Pr editor replies on favoring oring troad T road on no 6 the milford news milford utah oct 9 1938 friend beckwith I 1 was sorry to note your attitude toward the T road proposal by which delta and milford would be connect ed with nevada by a common road taking oft off from a delta adelta milford high way as disclosed by a recent issue of the chronicle and hope that it Is due to a misunderstanding rather than otherwise as I 1 want to believe that this proposal will solve a biffi cult highway problem in this lar area and give us two standard roads much sooner than would oth berwise be the case at the same time not affecting your pet highway pro eject no 6 in any way the tee road proposal met with instant and enthusiastic support in milford from its inception and the milford lions club Is on record with the state road c lunis sion endorsing an early and complete investigation of this project no doubt it is part ly due to our suggestion that the en aen gi party is now in the held field or soon will be to investigate this routing in concentrating on this T connection with nevada instead ot of the separate routings from milford and delta I 1 realize fully that delta will be making concessions but so will milford out of it should come two splendid roads that will really put eureka delta and milford on the highway maps of 0 the country as suring as it will the standardization of the key delta milford stretch ot of road in a sate safe and fast route tor for through traffic between los angeles and salt lake at the same time there will be plenty of ot of the more leisurely type of traffic to utilize highway 91 to its sate safe capacity and your highway 8 6 traffic will not be affected in any way candidly I 1 personally feel eel tha thau this highway 6 is vastly over rated in what it Is going to do for eureka and delta as compared with the pos ties of this 91 loop connecting delta and milford and rather incline to the idea that it is pretty much an attempt by high pressure experts to pull the legs of highway boos much as was the pikes peak ocean to ocean highway association which collected generous numbers of 25 memberships as the writer well re hemf fimbers mIm bers and did little else be that as it may however the tact fact re mains that the routing of 0 that high way will not be affected in any way by this other project I 1 might add though that even it you tap the trav el of highways 40 and 50 with this highway 6 you will not be getting much tor for the combined traffic ot of those two highways amounts amount s to 0 0 only ny agh about one third of that on h highway way 91 the tapping ot of which will vill really mean something to these towns at the same time our own people will be bene fitted greatly with the bring ing to a standard basis of this high way 91 W loop since the dawn of th the a autom automobile obile era tor for instance mil lord ford deop people e every time they have made a trip to provo or points north have been penalized nearly two hours in time and a commensurate amount of gasoline that they would have saved over the route which now sens possible of realization wont you give this matter further study and then get in and boost tor for ra the T road combination if it ad opted assures us of both roads and much earlier than would otherwise be possible and will do mere more to make these towns than any other one thing that we can visualize alize yours truly david S williams editor L R fournier of the telluride power company was in delta wed on business |