Show i fi IONEY Y SPENT 9 ENT ROADS R JW lw milk 9 I 1 SHOWS afi 51 CHEAT REAT RETURNS im ALL A lf JU COUNTY L awa UM bl V thit the people of carbon county knew what they were jere doing when they voted the bond issue for bounty roads last tast ye hearland arland that they got ab about t what h a t they wanted anted is shown by thib r report port made by road supervisor P F S DLin dunlevy levy to the county comminie com printed in full in the news A advocator last week the report shows that the money was carefully spent under the direction of the commissioners and under tho the supervision of mr dunlevy A largo large share of money was used on an the route now known as a the midland trail which is the road used by through travelers but every mile is also of vast importance to local ocal travel and business and would have been worth the cost without il 1 taking the tourist travel into consideration aa As shown by the table comprising the greater part of the report published 2896 50 56 was spent around ca castle tle vate and up willow creek this road leads out from helper to the reservation reserva tira nd brings into this i county much travel and busin business esq which before went to tv colton the principal freight lines now use the new road and it is also the d mail route of the credited redi ted to help ei 2525 was spent on the road from price to castle gate a part of the midland trall 1 but also used by reser lion tion travel as most of the traffic in in eluding freight and mails starts from helper ane money spent will be returned to the county through increased bi business siness over the roads the rc read ad from price to helper is one of the most used in the entire county and every cent spent to put it in hrat class shape brings good returns the road fro to castle gate i is s now 3 y in splendid condition with thy exception of half a mile just above the half way house out of the ther funds charged to price some work was done on the road to castle dale and a small portion within the city limits in straighten ing out a street or rather matting making it of uniform width on a curve but a small portion of the work done on the soldier canyon road is entered in the charges for last year as most of the spent on tho the new route to the reservation will be paid for out of 1916 funds and will be largely paid by the state as tale the road is now a state highway this will bring reservation into price via myton my ton as explained in a recent issue east of wellington the work included the filling to a depth of three and one half feet a bad bog and heavy work in cat canyon directly east of wellington in the sunnyside Sunny side road district the mud springs cut off waa was built shortening and improving the Bl midland idland trail which is heavily used by local traffic the cutoff cut off oil ia is fire and one half miles long and eliminates criminates some bad road in flu thi hiawatha district much local work was done in putting the road leading to castle dale in good repair and four miles of new now road was built bull to black blak hawk the lat at ter eliminates the famous old cl 1 a ug sen hill nearly always impassable passable ini in winter and throws the road up on the bench it also includes some splendid work in the washes in the kenilworth district more than a mile of new read vas s built on the route to spring glen another mile of new road was built to soldier canyon and three and one half miles were built in the canyon which puts put 9 that section of the route in fine shape and easily negotiable with a car where before it was impassable with a horse and buggy every section of the county has been greatly benefited by the work on the roads and every incorporated to town ton n received some improvement at the hands of khe the county read riad supervisor and his gang the summary of the report shows I 1 that during the past year 14 miles of new road was constructed heavy work was done on another 14 miles four miles surfaced sui faced and general improvements made and maintenance work was done on 81 miles in addition to the ark rk done by the county thousands of dollars worth was done by the good roads boosters of price and other places the local of the midland trail asso amo elation did some valuable and ii beavy avy work above castle gate and the bridge at woodside was put in largely with donated funds other workers did much on the road to soldier canyon before the county gang got around to that section with the renewed activity of the local branch of the midland trail association so the live organizations at helper and castle gate and the aid from the state much more work is to be done season enthusiasts were greatly interested in the report in salt lake papers wednesday that the bill for 25 federal federal aid to roads had passed tho the house it will bo be fought in abe thy but is taken as the forerunner of large appropriations by the government to supplement county and state road work miss erma gibson daughter of arthur gibson of storrs and a student in the carbon county high school is ill at the home of bishop albert baynor with diphtheria her molher is here to care for her they have an apartment up stairs entirely away from the bryner family with an outside entrance and are under quarantine sam srim bibin of the lowenstein Lowens leio store of helper was a price visitor thursday day |