| Show UTAH mormon trail Illg hway promised A safe automobile highway over tile old mormon trail from henefer to the this Is the place monument at the mouth mauth of emigration canyon has teen been promised by the th estate state road commission the highway will follow tile the original wagon trail left by the mormon pioneers who first entered salt lake valley 99 years ago the construction money will come from the department part ment of publicity and industrial development funds the 1 entire 14 mile stretch oi of road will ivill be within a state park area and Is expected to prove an import ant w ath tha jha monument and the acre park at the mouth of the ahe canyon it Is in the center of 0 this park on a knoll that the this Is the place monument will be erected the park will be of 0 the mountain type and plans call for the planting of 1000 trees shrubs and flowers fl work on the park has already started on selling job in washington twelve prominent pi eminent are in washington this week on an important selling job that of r ill n g the new secretary ot of the interior and the new commissioner lioner of reclamation the importance of carrying out water development program in washington aro are ora bundy president of national reclamation association william R wallace president of utah water users association ed H watson state engineer engine br roscoe boden baden chairman of central utah project clyde hess weber county commissioner melvln dark clark utah county commissioner john N neff salt lake county engineer leon christensen vernal representative senta tive of central utah project lon watson secretary of utah water users association T W jensen secretary of associated socia ted civic clubs of southern utah senator mitchell Ml moab and attorney general grower grover A giles during a five day meet the delegation will discuss sharoo share of JC the colorado river water ifie the central utah project and the following smaller projects ejects gooseberry sanpete county joes valley emery county hurricane washington county three creeks deaver beaver county Sta neker draw near vernal ty sic near jensen hardware at blacksmith por fork cache county randolph on bear river in rich county and elbow reservoir ln in kane county salina salana canyon highway 11 urged in an effort to bring to completion i the salina canyon bagh highway the carbon county associated industries and others are taking up the cudgel to winthie win this long sought improvement A private individual has promised to aid the project with a gift as a nucleus for a fund to brin bring 9 continued on I 1 last ast page spotlighting utah continued from page ono one the road to completion carbon and deaver beaver county res identa maintain that the salina canyon road la Is a most important cutoff cut off tor for all of 0 southern utah that main una line buses will traverse this section when a suitable highway is completed and that tourists coming and going from california would prefer to be routed ted through carbon county utah tax income lugli lugh A total of Ii including special tax collections I 1 individual n and corporation taxes were received by the state tax commission during march the highest ever received in the history of 0 f utah the lifting of gas ration rationing ing helped to up the tax taa ta A receipts and motor vehicle registrations also showed a six per cent increase over last year tourists are traveling tourists are already on oil the move the U S national park service reports twenty four thousand seven hundred forty eight persons visited the grand canyon area in III march as compared with only the previous the grand grana canyon Is just over back fence in arizona and most of these tourists bisted southern national parks during march statewide cleanup Clean up Vp rushed hushed the church tion committee commit teo and the centennial commissions statewide cleanup organization are in perfect coordination in ther cleanup activities tivi ties in preparation tor for the 1947 centennial the centennial commissions representatives ara are laying the groundwork tor for unified cleanup cooperation in every utah com mu muril ity ty and the church has written te all stake and ward authorities to cooperate with the commissions il Is activities 1 salt lake city suddenly enthused with the necessity for cleanup has started a campaign of her own 11 bier I 1 the ie job ob of cleana cleaning ng U up p utah is seeli seen as a tremendous one e and ad if IE it resul tsin nothing more than I 1 removal of mountainous piles of manure from corrals near the state highways into the fields where it belongs a major battle iii against one form of ugliness will be won |
