Show qa appropriation made for cedar canyon road action follows agri agreement cement with state road commission conditioned on forests appropriating like amount an appropriation of to le t used in improving the cedar candor road was made by the board of county commissioners et at its regular aneel ing ine monday of 61 this week the condition under which the appropriation is made is that a like amount be put up by the forest service in the event this latter amount can not be secured then the countes coun tys is to be expended by the state road commission on other projects within the county the appropriation resulted from r meeting of the commissioners on th fourth of the month with the state road commission in salt lake city p r which the latter gave the impressio that unless iron county showed mon moil evidence of a disposition to coo cooperate the state would make no effort for further projects in the county failure of the hie county to lovy levy 1 i satisfactory stats state road tax only i halt half mill instead of the three milk asked for and refuse at a meeting ir october to appropriate for the ceda canyon road seems to have been cause of the state road attitude atti tude the mae members of the road commission said they felt when they asked for in october that it visa vas important in to this section and to the stati that the cedar canyon road be improved that its present condition k i such that tourists are being scared away prospects tor for forest money w a that time to match it seemed favorable but doubt is ia expressed now con berning its being available the county commissioners have taken the attitude that improvement on other roads in the county were more urgent and their levying a substantial county road tax rather than i f big state road tax was tor for the purpose of having something to say aboul which roads should receive attention relative to any further state boac program for the county about the state commission was asked bj the local board the latter was advised that federal aid road funds are received by the state only every two years and that the commission can not plan much in anticipation of abebe funds receipts for 1929 and 1330 1930 have already been budgeted and beyond that plans are indefinite so little information concerning future plans for iron county could not be obtained PT |