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Show FOREST SERVICE TO HELP IN ROAD WORK The forest service will co-operate with the state on a "fifty-fifty" basis in the maintenance for the next two years of the Cedar-Long Valley, the Ephralm-Orangeville and the Logan Garden City foreBt roads according to an agreement reached between th foreat service and the state road commissi com-missi nn. The forest rcfads mentioned aro built, for the most part. In difficult country, and in each Instance reach high altitudes, where snow lies heavv In tho winter and where summer cloudbursts sometimes cause heavy damage The roads were built with the understanding that maintenance was to be undertaken by the state, and the state passed the obligation on to the counties traversed However, until un-til the surface of the ground readjusts read-justs Itself to tho new conditions, and until experience has shown tho nature of the repairs to be made, a considerable consider-able amount of the maintenance work amounta practically to now construction. construc-tion. For this reason the concession from tho contract agreement Is mado by the forest service. |