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Show I BASIN TRIP JS OVER M ' State Officials Back In Zion After Visiting the H f Former Uintah Reservation By Way H , i of Price Little to Say. H . The committee of four of the five members of the state road H commission who made the trip into the Uintah country have ro- M , turned to this side of the Wasatch range, convinced of the needs ' of that territory for transportation, and resolved to do a consirier- H , nhlo amount of work in improving its facilities, says last Sntur- Elg day's Desoret News. The rosidents of the basin, which members BS of tno committee say is destined to become the granary of the Bf Rocky Mountain region, were assured by the commission that the D Hate will assist in building a good highway into Uintah, and also Kj that the 'state will do a good (leal of work on other roads in the dis- Dsfl trict. Bl , This much was announced by Dan IJ. Shields, who as attorney H general is a member of the state road commission, and who left H the other members of the party last night in order that he might H attend the meeting of the state Iraard of pardons this morning. G. D F. McGonagle, state engineer, also came home. Other members M of the committer, including Secretary of State Harden Reunion tf nnd State Auditor Joseph Ririe, in addition to Ira It. Hrownlng, m , ptate road cnginccf, arc today on a trip through Sanpete county. H They will visit Ncphi in Juab county and will go as far south as H9 Gunnison before returning to Salt Lake City. "We found the road from Price to Myton dry," said Shields. H "It Bhows the effect of having had no work done on it, and it will H need considerable improvement if it is to be put lit shape as the H chosen highway for winter use Into the basin. We held meetings B nt Myton, Roosevelt, Vernal, Duchesne, Price nnd Helper during Hf our trip, and learned the arguments for and against the road at B present used for the transportation of the mails via Helper and eeH'' 1 Duchesne. .... , .,, , H "The road from Duechesne to Helper is good, and will be a m route generally traveled In the Bummer, no matter what road may HE bo chosen for winter use. The only exception is nt the summit, m where we found it necessary to transfer for about ten miles over B- ,' n country that has an altitude of nine thousand feel. Personally, . I walked the distance, although a fojir-horsc team and wagon Is H ' . used in making tho transfer. It is a cold snowy country, nnd I 1 suppose there will be snow there for three weeks yet. 1 "The committee has nothing to say w yet as to its decision H over the roads to be built and the road work to be done in general. Hi except that we have assured tho people of that district that a road H into the basin is to be built, and that work will be done on other H roads as well. The people of that region are very earnest in the H movement for increased cropping." |