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Show ROAD WORK GOING IF GOVERNMENT APPROVES Tiiitri: TiioiHM) Doi.uum i"oit t XTI.i: flTi: HK.ltUAX. 1'eeleral Torcst Sen lit' OfflelaU mill state' nml County People (citing To-gether To-gether On Plani In Varloiit Sec-tloni Sec-tloni or ftah -State Itewul Commissioner Commis-sioner Morgan Denies An) friction. Plate and federal officials havo agreed on tho apportionment of the mutual appropriations to bo expended upon roads leading up to mid through the national forest reserves In Utah This agreement vera reached nt a meeting held In the office" or the state road commission last l'rlduy. Confirm itloti of Hie agreement was sent to I P Kneipp, chief of the for-estrj for-estrj office nt Ogdcn, In a letter written writ-ten bv i: Jt Morgan, slate road en-glncr en-glncr Tho trouble, was that the government gov-ernment officials wanted to spend tho Joint federal and state funds, amounting amount-ing to f 1 20,000, within n smaller area than the state laws would Isgail) permit per-mit The state road officials wished to spread Hut expenditure over n larger urea so that ever) count) that contained national forest reserves would be benefited The fuhnij officials of-ficials flnall) assented to this low, providing that their decision would be approved nt Washington Morgan, on request, therefore made a )itopsl of the slate s plan for apportioning the fund, n copy of which vvlll lie sent to Washington with recommendations from tho forcstr) officials. If the for-rstr) for-rstr) officials' agreement Is sanctioned sanction-ed at the uatlonnl cnpltnl three thousand thous-and dollars will bo spent on the road 1 from Cdstle date to the town of Duchesne Du-chesne I .Morgan Makes Stnlctiienl. 1 II It Morgan, stuto road engineer, wi)s tho relations between the Unite el Klatese park officials and the state road board are of the most cordial character ami a. published statement that there war friction was greatly ro-gretteel ro-gretteel b) Morgan, Ho said Salurda) "The Impression that there Is miy disagree dis-agree metit between the stato road teimmlssloii and tho local furcstr) officials of-ficials i Incorrect Harmon) between the forcstr) officials nnd the stato commission has existed nnd exists now so far ns wo know l'rom tho standpoint of economical construction, construc-tion, it would be belter to spend larger sums In a fewer number of places but none of tho counties) In Hie state tan raise iiimpurutlvel) large sums ot money to co-oprruto with tho federal officials for tho Improvement of forest for-est roads to the exclusion of tho moro Important roads In tho valleys, nnd thiiefore, wo huve found It necessary to urge the forest officials to permit of smaller expenditures on tiny 0110 project mid 11 larger number of projects proj-ects In order that the money available for the state might be obtained ' ProMMil I'tuli ltMiidliurc, Under present laws tho state and nation appropriate similar sums for the Improvement of rond In mid adjacent ad-jacent to fetlcrul reservations. According Ac-cording to tho proposal submitted b) tho forest officials thli sum given herewith vvlll be spent In tho various counties of the stato by the federal government. As tho stale give an eiiuul umount the total sum lo bo spent Is doubled. The government offers lo spend In the Ephritlm-Or-unguvllle project, Enter). (5000, Sanpete, San-pete, 1C000. Ccdur-!ong Valely, Iron, 15000, IjiHul-l'urudox, Kan Juun, ftooo, l.ogiin-Oarileu City, Cache, 110,000, ltlch, $1600, I leher- l'rult-land, l'rult-land, Wasatch, 13000 Pangultch-Tropic, Pangultch-Tropic, 13000, Kevlcr-Covo Port, $5000, Custlo anto-Duchesne, 13000' Estiilaute-WlndT, 13000: Huntington-li'iilrvluw. Huntington-li'iilrvluw. Sanpete, 13000. Total for 1817, $52,500. Ill 1918 theso sum are offered! Eptirulm-Ornngcvlllc, Emery, $6000, Sanpete, 16000, Kamaa-Stockmore, Wasatch, 16000, Duchesne, $6000, Cidur-Long Vallo, Iron, $6000, Kane, $3000, Ixignn-Oarden Cll), Cache, $16,000, Hobcr-rrultland, Wasatch, $3000 Pangultcli-Tniple, Garfield, $3000, 8ovlcr-Covo Fort, Millard, $1000, Kevler, $6000, Cnstlo Oato-Du-channe, $3000, and Pnlrv lew -Cottonwood, (taupe tc, $3000 |