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Show 2 Counties Urge Fast Road Work Delegates from the Utah and Carbon Car-bon county commissions waited on the state road commission Tuesday jto discuss plans for pushing construction constru-ction work in the Spanish Fork canyon. can-yon. The Utah county boaird through County Commissioners Owen Snioot and Neil Dahle took a flat stand in favor of pushing construction work on the Utah county end of the project as rapidly as federal funds will permit. per-mit. i The county stands ready to match federal aid up to the full extent ot money which qan he raised from the Tnax'mum of three miles state road tax in carrying ahead tna construction work in the canyon Mr. Smoot told the state road commission The Utah county delegates contended con-tended the state should open up a road through Spanish Fork canyon before carrying ahead any more fed eral aid construction east of Price, Carbon county was equally insistent that the federal aid funds concentrated concentra-ted as much as possible in opening up the road west of Price. Henry H. Blood, chairman of the state ro;;d commission out.ll'ic-d that the state conte.nplates making provision pro-vision for the Castella Red Narrows j construction in 1928 and if funds can be reached also to buibl the Nolan to Beaver ere 'A- road at lh-3 head ' f the canyon. The former project, it was tentatively estimated would cost about $250,000 while the latter would take $ I .'.0,000. In the event the federal aid budget bud-get would not cover both items, Sir, Blood said .the plan was to givo precedence pre-cedence ol one year to tbe Castella-Red Castella-Red Narrow section but expressed a v iirngness to have this order reversed re-versed if the two county boards requested re-quested it. rommission Saw 'VVoodhead aad John Mathis and Road Agent E. C Fee made up the Crtm county Delegation. |