| Show spoor outlook for roads in sanete san ete the road building project in san peto pete county in which sevier county is highly interested seems to be off for the present season although the bond issue for the purpose has carried with an overwhelming majority we read in the manti 11 messenger fessenger the state road commission does not state so in so many words but the atmospheric pressure and the shape of the moon points to such a phenomena in fact it has been felt for some time lime by close observers that the manti pigeon hollow project would not materialize this season in the first place we were told by the state road commission that it if san pete could not furnish her portion of the funds when they were needed we could just as well forget about the project we got busy and carried the bond issue with a boom and on record time but a few lays days before the date of the election a letter was received by the county commissioners from mr bennion stating that if khe bond issue did not carry the road commission would give mt alt pleasant five blocks of paving and it there was any money left it would be expended on the manti pigeon hollow project after the bond issue carried the commission reported that sanpete stood in grave danger of losing the federal aid on our project because of a lack of draftsmen now the excuse is that prices are too high and that wo we are waiting for a rate on sand and gravel from the point of the mountain tho the tact fact remains that although the county commission and the delegations from sanpete who waited on the state road commission early in march and received the assurance that it if sanpete would furnish her portion of the funds noces that the commission would bo be ready to advertise tor for bids as soon boon as the bonds wore were voted and push the work to completion that the county has come through with its part ot of the program and voted the bonds on april 27 yet here we are at june 4 and no advertisements tor for bids yet and with the very great probability that if bids are advertised for when they are received they will be rejected as being too high in au an effort to get at the truo true status of 0 the conditions the messenger directed the following letter to the road commission and received the following reply |
