Show associated civic clubs hold meeting at price saturday road conditions and prospective improvements and support of state industries were major discussions brought out in the meeting pledging unanimous support for a ulu liber of projects designed to develop tile the vast ast natural resources of the southern section of the state and investigations into other important matters were the highlights of the session of the associated civic clubs of southern utah heli held at price saturday and sunday of last week several speakers and members took active part in ili the discussion at the saturday afternoon meeting lind and much interest was shown in the various problems confronting not only southern utah residents but residents of the state as a whole F 11 richardson salt lake city member of utah water storage commission and leland kimball engineer for the metropolitan poli water dt district salt lake city explained a plan which aou would id result in bringing ample water for irrigation purposes from the green and colorado rivers into practically all of the southern counties an annual supply of 0 acre feet of water and between and hit allo watts of electrical energy would be derived through tile lie project it was us estimated the speakers explained tile history of the boulder dam dain act and its relation to utah rights ou tile the colorado river they expressed pressed esi a general feeling that utah may lose her rights through prior use by others unless sonic some immediate action was nas taken to protect them tile the project has boon been previously endorsed by the clubs and action was taken by L A vice president of allford Ml 1111 lford ford who moved moed that the matter be turned to the executive evec uthe committee with III instruction that it look to the formation as soon as possible of a statewide state wide organization to further the project A telegram was forwarded to representative Represent athe abe all murdock at washington urging that lie he do everything possible to clarify the boulder dani dam amendment so that rights to river water would be protected roads throughout the southern section of the lie state cattle came in fit for considerable discussion and rus sell hawking haw kins of neplir nepal chairman of the associations rond road committee stilted stated that at a meeting with the state roid road commission held recently bently in salt lake city that hody had promised to do everything possible ble in III the way or of completing such projects being sponsored by tile clubs prank frank a martine director from soler sevier county reported that two tw contracts were ere being lot let on oil the sallila canyon road ard that work would go ahead immediately sir mr maithies Martl Mar thies nes also urged that the efforts of the association continued on last page civic ca clubs u bs hold I 1 meeting at pace ance I 1 continued from page 1 should remain back of the retaining of the at escalante calante Ks e until the remaining OM feet of construction be completed on the escalante boulder road he stated that this thin route wits was important f from rom the fact that it promised to become a section of a future east west rou route te connecting the mear verde parle park in colorado as well as being a connecting unk between the outlying town of boulder and other points following an all explanation by 0 B E freer lynndyl lynndal Lynn dyl chairman ot of the millard county commission COMMIS SIDI that the section of road in question and and which had been presented to the club its aa a project at the march meeting in mildora was a county road and had nothing to do with the state road system the club to accept the project find and to give all po possible sible aid the road in Is a section running from delta tit in millard county to milford in fit beave county further road discussion included the urging of mr martines Martl nes that baat further improvement be done on oil highway 6 between eureka and delta find and that the state road commission ltv live up to a promise given some time ago ile he stated that tit in a meeting with governor henry 11 II blood friday he had urged that the governor intercede and urge that the road commission use rock lock asphalt from the mines near SunnY sunnyside side as much as possible in road construction when this matter was brought before the body con considerable sidera ble discussion cuss ion was begun on the support of industries within the state and some very convincing arguments were presented to those attending the meeting the feasibility of placing markers tit at various notorious and historic spots along public highways was discussed by the members and president sargent was instructed to appoint a committee to hinves digate the matter director henry jones of helper presented a project for the paving of 0 first west street through helper for thirty day notice he explained that the street has been add added ed to the state highway system and would be a continuation of highway 8 0 and 60 50 dr P F H R green director from Green river and howard sillman secretary of the Green river civic association discussed erosion control near the town of Green river during the discussion A W meg mag aleby price district graz grazier ler ex es that it would require special permission in order to utilize facilities of t the e gre nr er COO CM camp for this purpose walter F clarke was the principal speaker at the public banquet in the evening in the dining room of the price municipal building other speakers of the evening were mayor braken lee of price james M sargent of panguitch Pan gultch and jack richards president of the price chamber of commerce |