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Show 00 1 LINED Upwards of Two Million Dollars Needed to Build Roads Outlined by Commission. Com-mission. Upon Utah's roads and highways .approximately $2,000,000 will be spent in 12 months, starling July 1, if the state road commission's program as approved Tuesday by the commissioners is not halted by national defense needs. The commission favorably passed upon 22 projects on the federal aid program, calling for a total expenditure of $1,485,710. with the national government providing provid-ing $1,123,714 and the state supplying supply-ing the balance from gasoline , taxes. Also approved was the secondary program, with 10 jobs planned at an estimated cost of $384,500, with the federal government furnish- j ing $196,650. j The entire program wag forwarded for-warded Wednesday to the federal bureau of public roads. With the j bureau's approval, the road com- aaission will advertise for bids and the first work will start immediately immedia-tely after the opening of the fiscal fis-cal year on July 1. While there is every indrication that the program will be carried out. Chairman W. D. Hammond emphasized that all prijects in "which the federal government is a party, may be held up because of national defense demands. The federal highway act of 1940 provides that the commissioner of public roads "may give priority of approval to, and expedite the construction of projects that are commended . by the appropriate federal defense agency as important impor-tant to the national defense. Box Elder county drew the two major plums, with $143,360 set aside for modernization of the Sardine canyon road from Mantua io the Cache county line, a distance of three miles, and $143,360 for the realignment and surfacing of six miles of the Garland-Plymouth road. Of particular interest to Salt Lake and Utah counties' motorists is the widening of the Point-of-the-mountain link, with 3,784 miles of highway affected, the plans call for a 68-foot wide road, with a 26-foot oiled center course, touched on each side by 11-foot cocrete road and 10-foot gravel lanes forming the outside shoulders. should-ers. The point-of-the-Mountain improvement im-provement will cost about $135,000. Salt Lake county's only other project on the nearly $2,000,000 program calls for the construction construc-tion of a seven-mile road linking Magna with the Brigham highway. The estimated $70,000 project pro-Tides pro-Tides for oiled surfacing. A 40-foot highway centering at Nye's corner and extending to Utah Hot Springs and to Wilson lane will connect the Ogden supply sup-ply depot with the Ogden ordinance ordin-ance depot and Ogden air depot at Hill field in Davis county, the 3.6 mile project will cost $56,360. Elimination of some sharp curves and general reconditioning of the 1.5 miles highway between Kays-"ville Kays-"ville and Layton will cost $113,-360. $113,-360. Making a bid for the travel into in-to Messa Verde National park, the commission set aside $110,000 for, the improvement of the toad join- ing Monticello with the Colorado, state line. Completion of this pro-1 ject will give Utah a highway of j the same specifications as the; state of Colorado has constructed to ifs border on U.S. 160. I Among other projects on the regular federal nd program are: Box Elder county line-Wells-villa, Cache county line-Wells-000. Continuation of Sardine canyon can-yon improvement. |