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Show load Building Made Possible Spanish Fork Canyon Road Project to Receive Immediate Attention by County Commission. Commis-sion. Visit of Delegation from Five Counties to Governor Ceorge II. Bern Brings Signature. Construction work on the Price-Coioiado Price-Coioiado line highway, amounting to more than a million dollars, and a $200,000 road improvement project in Spanish Fork canyon were made possible Wednesday, March 11, when Governor George II. Dern signed the gasoline tax bill, raising the tax to Z' cents per gallon and adding .ffiOO.OOO to the state noad fund each year. Tlie additional amount will bo used 'for the most part in matching federal aid money, three dollars federal fed-eral money for each dollar of state money, and w'il be used for th 1 huild-ii; huild-ii; of Utah roads. Utah coun.y conn-:n's conn-:n's -!. nei3 have expressed their will-ii;g::e will-ii;g::e s to ip::t up $50,000 for the nra.pcsed federal aid project in Spanish Span-ish Fori; canyon, to be matched by 5150,000 of federal money. Actual con.;; faction wo:k is expected by July l;;t. An appropriation of $4,000 'raised by Emery county will be used for the surveying of the- project from Price to Colorado, and as 100 per cent fed-eial fed-eial aid assistance is assured for this work further expenditure on tlie project pro-ject will be unnecessary. Surveying of the piece will be started without delay but construction work will probably not 'he started this year. A delegation, of 'more than 100 per-.::ir..-: from Cai'.jon, Utah, Emery, Grand and San Juan counties met with Governor Dern March 11 and urged him to attach his signaMre to the gas measure, which he did rm-mediaiely rm-mediaiely after the session. The delegation del-egation included practically every commissioner from the five counties, civic representatives 'and members o various social, business and in-duislirial in-duislirial clubs, the following being present from Price: County Commissioners Com-missioners John A. Mathis, F. T. Bennett Ben-nett and Saini Woodhead, 'and Road Comniissioner Ed. C. Lee represent-niig represent-niig the county; Sheriff Ray Doming, rr. Charles Rnggeri and Dr. F. F. Fish, Kiwanians; Comer P. Peacock, iion Stein and Carl Nymnn, chamber of commerce: and Harry Kecne, Ro-larian. Ro-larian. Slate Legislators J. E. Pet-tilt Pet-tilt and W. E. Anderson joined Hie li legation in Salt Lake and attended the meel iiig. The amount that the tax will bring, based upon the expected sale of 30,- 000. 000 gallons of .gasoline during the pi :iod from April 1, 1925 to April 1, 102(5 is $975,000. Motor vehicle tax. based on a ten por cent increase over 1924 is $534,000. The amount io lie asked from counties Is $373 -45!). 49, making a total amount of $1,883,059.49. Of this amount, 55 1 0,599 will be used in maintenance ',!' the present mails; $737,500 will go io the sinking Cm ml and interest; admin ad-min i.-.l ra I io.n of the commission will gel $00,000; administration of the s.rrelary of slate will gel. another -rOo.noo; state highways, which wil, r.ol g t federal aid will receive $200 -ooo, h aving $2S5,000 to be use, in Ilie construction of the federal aid roads on the throe-to-one basis. The delegation which visited the "overnor Wednesday o.f last week gut together in Provo Tuesday morning, IViiirch 10th, and adopted a re-sol u-Ciin u-Ciin strongly urging 'the state executive execu-tive to sign the ,gas tax measure, "rc' di'iit. Conner P. Peacock of the Price Chamber of Coinmer stressed ill" importance of the Price-Xlrand lunclioii highway, as also did Dr. F. F. Fisk, president of the -Price Ki-wanis Ki-wanis (dub. Preston G. Peterson. hairman of the slate road oommis- inn, was made chairman of Hie meel- ng. The visitors enjoyed the hopi-lality hopi-lality of the Utah county com-mv-.sion at a luncheon at the county i.i'iimary, after which they visited he steel plant at Ironton. Following the session with tlie gov- rnor. March 11, the delegation me;, ".itli tlie slate road commission and h-cusscd plans for going ahead with ... wrvk. The commission was re-', re-', nested to prepare estimates on the o:-t of the proposed Spanish Fork lonyon road.- Price News-Advocate. |
