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Show COUNTY SHOULD PAY LEVY, CLUFF HOLDS SALT LAKE. Feb 18. In an opln-! Ion given yesterdav by H. H. Cluff, attorney at-torney general for Utah, the coutity. j rather thttn Ihe stale should pay the assessment levied ago Inst state roads bent fitted Jj drainage dietrici formation. forma-tion. The opinion was given upon re- quest of the state road commission- The state road commission, had been billed by Sevier county for 5 $ 3 3 3 lev-led lev-led acalnst the state road in 1921. because be-cause of benefy;. totaled at $1!9V L'" aliened to be fleflved from the formation forma-tion of e drainage dlstrlst In Sevier. I The state road commission referred the question of Its liability to the attorney general who asked W. A. Hilton, assistant as-sistant attorney general to investigate.! Cooperative agreement between I Washington countv and the state road i-ommlMlon. covering proposed Im-' : provementa on he Klon National pari. 1 htffhwaj between Anderson a ranch and Ash creek, has been signed by the jenuntv. which also Is selling the $50.- ; 000 bonds voted pome time ago by the county. This road is expected to be made a part of the federal aid road iirograni for l'tah this year. The Washington county authorities however, are moving to withdraw the j proposed project from Washington to St. George and to substitute therefor 11:5 miles of road north from Ash-creek, Ash-creek, covering the portion now serv- I ed by the long dugway over Bla k ) ridge. Plans and specification for the Smithflebl rossroads section of the j state hlghwnv In Cache county w-ere approved yesterday and forwarded to th bureau of nubile roads office at Ogdcn for further action. |