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Show ROAD CONNECTING UP TWO COUNTIES Emery and Sanpete Counties Go After Wha1 They Want and Success Comes Forest Service Helps. Unrtur the direction of the tint ted States forest service, a road will be built across the Manti National forest, connecting Lmery nnd Sanpete counties. Whoa completed the road will represent an expenditure of approximately thirty thousand dollars. Announcement Announce-ment to this effect was made b Chief Forester Henry S. Graves at the second session of the district foresters conference held at Salt Lake City last week, ami which was quite largely attended by state officials, forest service men and citizens of Sanpete and Emery counties. The road will extend from Ephralm to Orange-ville. Orange-ville. The road U to be thirty-six miles long nnd runs for twenty-two miles ncross the mountain rnnge which is included within the Mnntl forest boundaries. This will be the only moans of vehicle transportation between Emery and Sanpete counties for a distance of sixty miles. The grade of the new road will be not over G per cent. The rond has already been designated as part of the stijte highway by the slate road commission. The service started a preliminary survey of the road early in the winter and has now mntle available immediately two thousand dollars for construction purposes. It is cstlmntcd that the road will cost about thirty thousand dollars. One-third of this amount is to be paid by the state, one-third one-third by Sanpete nnd Emery counties and one-third by the forest service, out of the fund of 10 per cent from national forest receipts which are annually spent on rond trail work in the states from which the receipts nre secured. Complain of Sanpete Toll Koad. Jesse D. Jewkcs, state treasurer, and Prof. Ilichard H. Lyman of the University of Utah, returned to Salt Lake City last Saturday Satur-day from the conference of mayors of Northern Sanpete county at Mt. Pleasant. Jewkcs and Lyman, who attended the meeting as representatives of the state rond commission, reort that complaint com-plaint wns mntle that the toll road in Cottonwool! Canyon extending extend-ing from a point near Mt. Pleasant to the Dcserct coal mine properties prop-erties is working n hnrdship on the residents of that county. The toll road has been controlled by the Samuels interests for thirty years and a fee of fifty cents a wagon trip has been charged. The road passes through an attractive section of the county. It has, however, nt one point a steep grade which could be greatly reduced. Promise was mntle to those who attended the meeting, according to Jewkes, that steps would be taken to eliminate the toll and to gratle the road properly. The toll road complained of forms a part of the one to be built between Orungeville nnd Ephraim across the mountains from Emery to Sanpete a feeder or connecting link, as it were. |