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Show U S. REQUIRES I FULL ROADWAY; Efforts of Cache County to i Reduce Width Discour- I aged by B. P. R. T'nder the federal highway act, passed November 9, 1911, ail roads in (Im Interstate or primary system shall I not be less than IS feet In width ac-1 oordlnt 10 an announcement made to-day to-day by 13. J. Finch district engineer; of the I'. S bureau of public nail.". I This Width is minimum and the) question of the width of roads In the State oame up recently nt lxigan when plans were formulated to construct -a certain stretch of road by limiting thn ul.ltb of'the pavement to 16 feet. By this method the Cache Valley boosters expected to pave, the road from Smlth-field Smlth-field to the Idaho line With regard to this pha-se Mr. Hindi In writing an answer to Howard C. Means, state engineer, en-gineer, said In pant: "In view of the fact that this road will be a part of the primary system ..1 the state, on which federal aid funds will be expended, it is deemed lnadvls-Inhlo lnadvls-Inhlo to, reduce tho width of tho sur-I sur-I facing to 16 feet- j "The following Is quoted from the ' federal highway act of November 'J. , 1 B 1 1 1 " That all highways in the primary of Interstate system constructed after j the passage of this act shall have a right of way of nmplo width arid a ' wearing surface of an adequate width 'which shall not be less than eighteen feet, unless, in the opinion of the secretary sec-retary of agriculture, it is rendered I Impracticable by physical condition.-, exCBSBlVQ cost.s, probable traffic requirements re-quirements or legal obstacles.' "In the opinion of this office none : of the qualifying clauses apply to dils I project." I The Cache county officials had hop-I hop-I ed that tho "probable traffic, rcqulrc-' rcqulrc-' rnents might be found such as to make .the wider width unnecessary n which case it was said thnt the courj y would I be Ju.ftlfied in adding slightly to the I expense of the project and constructing a paved highway all the way to the i state line. I Tho state share of tho money 00 j per cent, will be made available by , Cache county from Its road bond is- j sue. |