Show ENGINEERING VERSUS COMMON SENSE More and more it seems the white-collared white boys in the uptown offices could save the taxpayers a little money Were We're referring in this instance to the Interstate Highway engineers If they would bring their charts and prints blue out to the sticks and call in a few timers old-timers and pioneers they might not have to do things over quite so often The highly imaginary but much to be desired conversation might go golike golike golike like this According to the out lay-out the surveyors gave us Old- Old Timer the new highway will go right along this line What do you think Just fine except that right here theres there's a spring that's likely to bust out again any time and give you trouble And this section right here is clay underneath instead of gravel which might give you a bad time And over here why man you cant can't build a highway there That's just a slough a swamp Never hold up under heavy traffic As a matter of record these facts have been brought out in several instances In a spring as wet as this one the weak spots show up On the new Interstate between Wanship and Coalville a big hole opened up last week There is a spring under there More t than an a hundred thousand dollars will be needed to slope back the grades on the unopened Interstate up Echo Canyon they Canyon they are washing down too down too steep And on the proposed new Interstate between Henefer and the Narrows the road is routed over a swamp beside the Weber River the local residents will assure you They add there is no rhyme nor reason to this fact The highway will not hold up they insist under heavy traffic traffic and and now practically all the trucks hundreds a day are taking the water-level water route The powers who dictate the policies of road construction might well give an ear to timers old who were on the spot before the engineers were dry behind the ears Not on the prints blue might give to little to way a sense common-sense lets ask Old Joe I |