Show ILI DIU 13 US 1 I all benlor angi set tit office of the fed road formally public ld of cattle gate duchesne Da chesne 1 of the government laet last inspection boppe action trip with 1018 Mil tact tant tate state road engi abed in the b be a has ba coat cost 30 now wm will be to Vir inter anter time the 1 bior ay sla tance in auch tile 10 money and I 1 I 1 its TW tot it involved have little t IT tullis ot of the gov pervice over the road la Is fabits to sad 11 hopes to evolve 11 II 11 u the time now is deep L by clicked up tip the history ot of road with the office 16 nna and found effs 1 to be b the tile fact facts in the e ibe atrit federal aid pro gate of athil led vexatious it 1 gate duehesne Due besne road the til ja project undertaken ia in byl nong ig the mot most vex rays in the early day days aid id for pott post road a some whit strict interpretation was placed on ado t deaia definition ton of A post road and A ai a result it wa was held impossible under the federal ald act as is it then them too tool I 1 for the f federal e deral gove government to participates participate 1 in t construction 0 a St ruction of man many y of the main highway ays of the state thu this wan was for the reason that the main traveled hig way ways usually were paralleled by rail brads and the mail teas was carried by rail rather than on the highways it t was found fiat tat only email small sections of ome of the dost im roads it in th aki state were used in the transmission of the malls mails and ana thede only by the rural route card carriers ers however the united states mail ii it i the uintah basin was at that lime time going partly by way of price and to fo part of the ye ar it at least by way of the cattle oate Dueh Duth cene esue road the eligibility of of thie this road to federal aid therefore was never much if at it all in doubt needed in war the rd however had even greater claims claim on the consideration of state and federal governments at that time the nation was then at war every effort was being made to encourage agrical tural the abille ability y of the uintah vintah basin to produce food for the nation the allies ind and the soldiers was known bitt the possibility of rt ting the food to market wae was limited by the ho transportation facilities hence the ua uce ssU essit of devel developing oling a line of nas as stressed saed aul let laps for this reason as rauch as its any oth ahr r the castle gate duchesse Duch esue road wa was named ai as federal aid project no 1 and every haste was urged in getting it u under n de r way r T the b e r road on daw was as found to be 44 af 8 miles long preliminary engineering wa was done and finally the agreement entered into although the routing routine for doing such work was at that time all new and dif faculties kl kept apt cropping up at every step in the procedure the project agreement has been amended somewhat from that original ual I 1 ly y signed but as it now stand stands the road vay ay is estimated to coat cost or 44 a mile in addition there were bridge structures to cost bringing tea tho tv total tal estimated cost up to 13 the remainder of the then state ad ministration fund was pent spent la Is efforts to get et this roadway completed but nee net essitt for changing chi nging plans ignorance of proper procedure impatience at what cere were considered unnecessary regula ions error errors in engineering and anil inspect tion and failure to follow orders caused all sorts of difficulties variety of labor some of the work was done by coa con borne was done by the bbate di re t oui ct labor was usel on part of abo ib roal an annl I 1 in toe tite meantime costs kept creel IN ing up until tile road has ae he dually cost probably or twice as much as is was mas first estimated t the difference in the cost has bas been borne by the state almost altogether most of the road was in Duche duchesse sae coun ty and that county was unable to eon con tribute any large amount amounts the state road however had bad avail able the from the ala of road told bonds and this fund was d dawa dawn awn on from time to time irlia ali rosa was practically completed and has been in use since before the administration went out of office however it was known that expenditures would have to be made malle before it wa was 11 in a shape to be accepted d by the federal b burean breau under that body controlling the in a itte the mc antime has been since the tile r road ai is being eon con necessary nece bantly 1 tid I to bar acary y traffic tr erfie pr during the summer months administration had held no tl present funds to draw on but the f federal state of f it its government had bad withheld part allotment goe to thu road and it wa was found that tm would bu be A to complete the road to the satisfaction n of the federal engineers the present administration had a very carefully detailed estimate made of the work t at would have to be done on the alid and this ibis year this vas was carried out the road Is now therefore in tip tap top shape and in such condition that the federal engineer has accepted icv it which meane means that as eoon soon as the necessary vouchers can tan be put through the state wilt will be reimbursed to the extent of boat 23 COO |