Show Questions u Answered II at Highway Hearing Morgan Ready Summit Would Gladly Wait Vail for Completion i If residents of Morgan and Summit counties Ogden business business business busi busi- ness circles and Hill Hm Air Force Base officials had their choice choke the Interstate Highway from Echo Junction to tc Ogden would be completed before the section from front Echo to Wan Wanship hip is even be- be gun These sentiments were brought out at a well well attended attended hearing in the North Summit High School auditorium m Monday afternoon Officials of the State Highway Commission explained ex ex- planned the routes of the two highways Interstate 80 and 80 N 80 N and showed maps and slides of the region Summit County farmers expressed regret at the loss of so much fertile meadow lands business men sense a 25 per cent loss in revenue from tourist trade because the tho highway will leave the Main Street Ogden will appreciate completion of the highway to its marketing and industrial center Hill Field needs an outlet through Weber Canyon Morgan C County is anxious to have a fast and safe road to the lower valley Only the Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce not represented represented represented re re- presented at the meeting might have expressed a desire for completion completion com come of the tho highway through Coalville I Ernest II H. patch Balch this regions region's representative on tho the Commission Commis Commis- I sion directed the meeting which maintained high level of civility throughout He was introduced I I by Richard Van Winkle chairman of the Commission Tells Impact I I 1 I C. C Taylor Burton director of ot highways told of the impact on onI I the national economy of the Interstate Already spent U ne ue II I said sald is 70 million and plans califor call cali for added adde expenditure of million Edwin Johnston assistant In charge of planning told tod of needs and pans for tor the Interstate Rulon Ballard deputy director of engineering showed slides of various Interstate sections in this area Henry Hellen chief planning engineer detailed with maps s and Illustrations Just what is planned locally He Ire said the commission had Investigated a possible route up Chalk Creek but it 18 was too costly He said the decision togo to togo togo go west of Echo dam was Vas made because of cheaper construction and greater ease in hitting the interchange Coalville In Sight He showed how an interchange interchange inter infer change just west of Coalville will allow tourists to leave and re rejoin rejoin re- re I join th the highway and pointed out the fact that the highway la Ls laso so elevated that Coalville is In plain sight Still undecided he said is the route through the spinal ridges opposite Taggarts Under consideration consideration con con- is ia a per mile 70 per hour method two tunnels a a. mile 60 method over the ridges and a mile 50 alternative a sweeping curve I Maurice Boyden chairman of ol the Summit County Commission showed how the tho county's population population tion has decreased and feared upkeep up keep of the Interstate would be bean bean bean an Intolerable burden to the county Burton explained that the tho state handles maintenance and the county may take over old roads if desired Taxes Lost Emerson Staples Summit County County Coun ty clerk cited the effect of Wanship Wanship Wanship Wan- Wan I ship Dams Dam's construction with Rockport Lake flooding out the I town of Rockport at a loss Ices of 27 21 families and In n assessed valuation for the county Echo Reservoirs Reservoir's construction cost the county in assessed valuation valuation tion lion Mr Staples noted Jooe Joseph Toone Morgan County commissioner and Russell Porter Morgan mayor were concerned that property owners affected be given every consideration Coalville Mayor D. D L. L L Johnson noted Doted that landowners are paid yvell ell rell for tor property taken over by highway jobs but no settlement can be bo made for tor loss of local business business business busi busi- ness revenue Coalville City Councilman Coun Coun- cilman cUman Robert A. A Williams echoed by stressing that smaller communities com corn m l should be given Ifen full tull con con- for tor tourist revenue loss loaa f for r possible tax revenue loss Joss and andIn andin In the general planning of the exact route mute Bernie Diamond manager Of ot tho the Ogden Chamber of ot Commerce stressed tho the importance of SO-N SO to to tort the lite ie economy o of Ogden In III marketing mar mar- keUng industrial and military Ugh light Short and Sweet et Colonel Hubbard trout from Hill Air Base Daw made the shortest shortest- and mo most potent speech of aU all Highway N 80 Is la very import important ant to us Mayor Johnson suggested that at atIt it would be a 4 a good thing Jf If officials of or facials facials' I could make Coalville a trade In exchange e for tor the loss of or revenue from re routing build a highway from tram the Chalk Creek road to the Mirror Lake road Lawrence LaWTence Wright of or Coalville I decreed the loss loaa of ot land and wa we weter te ter whoa when the highway la is moy moved 4 I I I II I I to the opposite side of the valley vaHey from Emery to Echo Howard Taggart Dewey Taggart Taggart Taggart Tag- Tag gart and Denny Sargent combined forces to ask for tor a full commercial access road or complete damages with settlement three years In advance advance advance ad ad- vance for their station cabin camp market and mink ranch In Morgan County Albert Gibbons of Wanship said that construction of the first phase of Int mt SO 80 has already deprived deprived de doe him of his his- best pastureland pastureland pastureland pasture- pasture land and has caused his best spring to go dry I Wins Applause Copley Walker of C Coa Coalville o a l 1 v vi i l il l e brought out the only applause of the day when he expressed a wish that Int mt N 80 would be completed completed completed com com- first so that Summit County farmers to be deprived of their farmlands could use use the the lands as M long as possible Why cant can't you stay on the theeS eS east t side aide where the good highway lIs is now 10 located from Echo to Henefer Henefer Hene Hone fer for asked Blaine Elaine Moore of Henefer Why destroy all that beautiful meadowland when you already have a route up on the t ench 1 Officials again agam explained that the proposed route is tentative and may be subject to change They said that engineering pro problems lems involved in n using old highways high high- ways ays for lor a base are too technical and Involved to explain at this meeting Milo Marsden manager of ot Deseret Deseret Deseret De- De seret Livestock was assured there will be an outlet for tor Heiner Canyon Faces Shut-out Shut Willard whose cafe and motel at Echo have bave already been moved once and who now faces laces a complete shut shut out ut suggested mild mildly mildly mildly ly that it would be nice if he could have an inlet and outlet for trucks and traffic Other speakers were wore Barbara Hortin of Coalville seeking Information Information In In- formation about the street in Coalville Coal ville vine which will lead to the Interchange interchange interchange Inter inter- change and William H. H of Echo Veran Moore of Coalville and Lyle Brown Drown of Hoytsville asking details While tentative dates for completion com com- of the tho two highways has been set for tor 1962 and 1963 oW- oW officials daIs ciale emphasized that much depends depends depends de de- upon the timing and the most hopeful guess of interested persons was closer to eight rather than two years |