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Show MIDLAND TRAIL IS GIVEN A BOOST Fifty thousand dollars for the construction con-struction of portlon.-i of the Utah link of the Midland trail were appropriated appropriat-ed by the state senate yesterday. Of this 86i000 will be expended on tue eastern portion of the road through the state, and $15,000 on the western rortlon The appropriation was contained In a bill Introduced In the senate by Benner X. Smith of Salt Lake In its original form the bill appropriated the funds onl lor road construction and lmpro anient of the state high way from the Colorado-Utah Hue to Colton In Utah county Senators from Weber. Davis and Box Elder insisted that the route of the highway lx- d Ignnted through their counties in the bill and that $15,000 be appropriai .) for the western outlet of the Midland trail through Box Elder county This amendment was recommended by the committee on highways and public I lands and incorporated in the bill I passed bv the senate Route Designated. The official route of the Midland trail through Utah as designated by the bill through Utah S designated by the bill is from the terminus of the Colorado highway at the Utah state line near Grand Junction through CIs co and Thompson In Grand count) through Green River and Woodslde In Emery county, through Price and I lei per in Carbon county, throughKyune station, Colton Soldier Summit Thistle This-tle Junction Spanish Fork. Spring ville. Proo Pleasant drove Amerl fan Fork and Lehl In Utah countv through Murray and Salt Lake in Bait Lake county, through Farmlngton and! Kaysvllle In Df!!s county. through Ogden In Weber county and through Brlgham City and Kelton in Box El iier county The rnone on the eastern portio i iof the route will he spent to build a canyon road connecting Helper and Colton at a cost of about $20,000. and In improving the road from the Colorado Colo-rado line to Price The $15,000 for use on the western end of the route will be In the impro ement of n i n . -miles of road through Box Elder count from Brigham City to the Ne I vada line. Fund Will Grow The $50,000 fund will be augmented greatly bv private contributions and bj appropriations bv the various! counties The revenue of Grand lounty is small, but the commissioners commission-ers have promised to do their best t assist the state In the construction! of the road through that county. The enterprising ESmery county toik ba i lnu teams In readiness to work oo th-road th-road Just as soon as the bill becomes a iaw. They Will donate the use of the teams and the labor of 100 cltl j ens for the next two months In the construction of the road The counts commissioners of Carbon county will vote to duplicate any funds expended by the slate In the county and one I i iiizen has already announced a personal per-sonal contribution of $1000 to the. road building fund. Good roads enthusiasts do not hope to build an Ideal road for the $50,000 but they do hope lo be able to Iron out several bad places on the road and place it in six h condition It Will b? more comfortably and pleasantl traversed and to establish the route in the future By private contrlhu lions and countv appropriations they hope lo inerease the fund for the I tab link of the Midland trail to $100,000. W hen the bill came up for passage yesterday President Gardner took i he floor and urged that Spanish Fork he Included among the Utah cities through which the route would pas?. Bj going through Spanish Fork, Pres- I ulent Gardner said, the road would be abou k mile longer than originally original-ly intended, but the road would do better and easier to maintain In addition ad-dition It would bring (he transcontl nentr-1 tourists In close proximity to the Strawberry valley reclamation project. The amendment was Inserted. Insert-ed. Senator Charles Cottrell. Jr , of alt Iike wanted the route officially designated rs the Midland trail in the bill. Several senator objected to the name becoming a part of the bill and (Vie amendment was lost Senator L. B Wight of Summit wanted the bill to specify that each countv expend as much as the state In the construction of the road. It was shown that sucli n provision would be n hardship on C.rand nnd Emery counties, whit h had much of the road and but very littb levenue This amendment was lost Senator C A. Person of Carbon made a long talk in favor of the bill. He aald that In July representatives of the American Automobile associa (km would be here to insDect tho l'tah road and if thev found it tn good condition and capable of being made into an excellent automobile highway they would undoubtedly designate it as a portion of the transcontinental route He said that the association i had levied a tax on manufacturers of automobiles for improing th transcontinental trans-continental highway and this tax would net $10 000.000 for this purpose, much of which would doubtless be spent in Utah After considerable discussion the bill was passed, with only Senator I W Funk of Cache otlng In the negath e |