Show UTAH U TA H TO BUilD BU ILD FOREST ROADS WILL BE EXPENDED UPON UP UP- ON HIGHWAYS OF STATE DURING DURING DURING DUR DUR- ING COMING YEAR Appropriation Arrives Fo For 1924 Program Pro Pro- gram and Completion of Work Started In fn Last Few Years Will Be Carried Out Salt Lake City Carrying Carrying out of I Ithe the 1 1924 forest road program recently recent- recent ly y agreed to between the state road rond commission and the district forest orfice office of or fice flee is assured with the apportionment apportion apportion- ment mont of to Utah from the forest orest service highway nn and development development develop develop- ment fund It will enable the service to meet meeta a deficit of approximately needed to complete the 1923 budget Estimated requirements to finish last ast years year's work include for forthe forthe the he Kane county section of the Cedar Cedar- Long Valley project on the Sevier Summit river-Summit road and for the maintenance of all completed forest orest highways There was an under-run under on the Sevier-Cove Sevier Fort work of 1652 1 making the net deficit needed 48 48 The new ne program this year amounts to including the following for the Coal Creek canyon section of the Cedar- Cedar Long Valley road for the bridge ridge over the Provo river liver on the Kamas road an additional addition n al for the Sevier Sum river mit road for surfacing of the he Sevier Cove Fort for the Escalante road and for or maintenance of completed forest highways Some of this work will have to toe tobe tobe be e pruned The money available for forest development development de de- development de- de will enable the service s to carry arry on per cent of the budget r r vr ro f t i pm nr i er- er J u neo leave eave a surplus for purposes other than ban building roads and trails This fund available for road construction construction con- con only where construction will vill prove of material benefit in opening pening up up- up the forest resources while hile the forest highway funds maybe may maybe maye be e in areas not included in forest orest reserves as long as they serve serveto to Io o reach the forests Development fund allotted Utah is The road building budget for or the current fiscal year which began began began be be- gan last Tuesday contemplate the expenditure ex- ex of but of th this s 22 2 2500 will be advanced from the so- so called ailed 10 per cent fund fun which is independent independent in- in dependent of the development appropriation appropriation ap- ap proper The road development program embraces spending about on the he road from K Kamas mas to the head of the he Provo canyon about on the he rond road from Vernal to Manila in the Diamond fork 2000 on the Fish Lake road an and about for miscellaneous roads For road maintenance within forests forests for- for ests proper has been set aside has been allowed for trail construction and allowed for maintenance of trails |