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Show Who's Blocking Road Program? Cornea now liieinhers of the state road comiuiBslon and Its Engineer with another bunch of hooey to try to mislead the public In regards to who is responsible for the delay in starting the work on the roads in Salt (Lake County. The Inference of these gentlemen ? is that they have been unsuccessful ,ln efforts to meet the County Commissioners Com-missioners and undertake to make It appear the Commissioners are responsible re-sponsible for the delay. The facts are, the road commission laid out the County program and with the exception of the Saltalr project, the program was accepted by the County Coun-ty Commissioners several week ago and formal notice was sent of this acceptance. It is a well known fact the delay on these other four projects is no j fault of the county commission, but 'on the other hand this work is being be-ing held up to try and force the county to accept the entire proposal propos-al including the Saltalr loop. The county commissioners have taken the firm stand that they will not accept the "Pig In a Poke" offered of-fered them by the state road commission com-mission and their stand is backed up by an overwhelming majority of the citizens and tax payers of this county. A delegation Is now in Washington Washing-ton to lay the proposition before the Becretary of Agriculture, whose approval is necessary to any final action in the construction ot Federal Feder-al Aid roads. The right of way costs which must be assured entirely by the county should this new project be undertaken. under-taken. Is still an unknown quantity5. The so-called estimate on this cost was evidently made only to Saltalr. It is reported the survey of the proposed road between Saltalr and Tooele runs through the salt-sand beds of the American Smelting Company Com-pany and would damage their property prop-erty at least $100,000 by destroying the present source -of ftnting snnd used in smelting certain ores. This last gesture of the state road commission to shift responsibility respon-sibility for the delay to the country commissioners will deceive no one , familiar with the history of the past few months. |
