Show spotlighting utah development dei clop ment news features state hodul cload system 8 stem utah ranks third in the west in the building 0 multi lane or super highways according to an article on know your state government featuring the state road system in the current issue of the utah development news nenvis just published the article points out that during the past twenty years more than 2000 mlle miles have been added to the state rodd road system that the number of miles ol 01 0 paved roads has increased from miles up to 2865 miles all of this mileage and k type tipe of road improvement i has taken place during a period in ia which the average cost of a mile of road has increased from back in 1927 up to no in 1847 1047 since 1909 when the state road commission was organized have been spent on new road construction st and on maintenance of the highway system the the article Is emphatic in pointing out that contrary to what some have be believed lieveld utah has never lost nor allowed to go unused any money appropriated by the federal govern government meni for road work in utah there has always been ample revenue derived from the gasoi gasoline lne tax to io insure all federal money coming to utah on a matching basis now new road to auffet isako allocation or oc to pluto plute county has been made by the department of 0 publicity and industrial development tor for tl now new access road read into the national forest area above marysvale Marys vale this amount will be augmented 1 b bv 2500 00 from county atad road funds tile the new access highway Is expected to stimulate reopening ot of old metal mines in the area and create new tourist interest as the road will afford a new entrance to the hunting fishing and scenic areas in the putter puffer lake district the new I 1 road will bo be known as the horse horae heaven road lan lages and ciul divorces incienso Inci creaSo enso IR atall tho bureau of census reveals that for approximately every three marriages in utah butali last year there was one divorce there were marriages and divorces during 1946 for every 1000 population there were ore 65 divorces which was it a w 65 divorces slight increase over 46 for 1945 the marriage rate per 1000 population tor for 1946 was compared with tor for 1946 1945 surprisingly singly the divorce rate in utah Is slightly higher than the rit national fonal average of 43 per 1000 population and the marriage rate slightly lower than the national average of per 1000 steel rn increase crease COO per cent production of steel goods in utah Is ia six times that of the prewar pre war rate as a result of expansion of established manufacturing plants |