| Show TO DESIGNATE NEPHI KANAO A ROAD road hoad through clear creek creck can cannon on 0 connecting connect ing with Arro arrowhead thead trait Is second choice it was the sense of county commissioners ners and leading citizens of five counties assembled in richfield friday evening tor for the discussion of toad road matters with a view to obtaining a part of the federal aid money appropriated recently by congressional enactment that a highway r traversing the state from north to south leading from nephi over san acte e sevier plute garfield and tt kane aa counties to the southern end of the state between kanab and fredonia be designated as primary road the counties named and also wayne county will select committees consisting of the county commissioners and at least two representatives each from all city and town boards and aird commercial organizations in said counties these committees to go jointly to salt lake city for a conference Ie rence anith mi chief engineer bynch of the forest department and with the state road commission to impress upon them mbeni the wishes of the people in these counties the committees are instructed to do their utmost to have the highway so laid out designated as primary road and only if thoy they see that their suggestion is not accepted by the engineer and the I 1 commission that they propose a primary I 1 road from nephi through san pete and sevier counties and then over the he sevier cove fort road to millard billiard and beaver counties connecting with the arrowhead trail banquet at ati johnston hotel the board of the sevier county commissioners an and d the richfield commercial club were instrumental in bringing the representatives of of wayne sanpete San pete P diute piute lute garfield and kane counties to our city and the T visitors igors were guests of the commer acal club at a banquet in the johnston hotel president J H baker introduced judge H N hayes as toastmaster and under mr hayes expert guidance a most enjoyable was had bad with an excel leiff aprea d in which turkey was the piece de resistance vocal offerings the arlon quartet john hood and kenneth Henn etil hood with mrs anna cal lawya ai at the piano and a short but impressive address by mayor elect dr R garn dark clark dr dark clark spoke it ol 01 good roads as the first require i tn for a higher civilization and appealed to the representatives of the counties to unite and work hard towards reaching the goal of getting a share of 0 the money so liberally contributed towards road building P by the federal fc deral government the meeting in the file Coul courthouse after the banquet the attendants were nvere taken to the county courthouse to consider the matters under discussion cus sion geo gee peterson chairman of the board of sevier county commissioners ui sio ners kaers was elected chairman john hood secretary chairman peterson after bidding welcome to the visitors and expressing his satisfaction over the good at continued on page eight TO DESIGNATE NEPHI KANAB HIGHWAY continued from page one explained that according to information gathered from the state road commission and the federal engineer regarding the way in which the money appropriated will be spent in road building it is the intention to designate primary roads through the state from north to south and from east to west and to construct construe t those primary roads first subordinated to the primary will wil I 1 then be the secondary roads if we succeed in getting the road from zephi to the south designated as primary road it would increase the chances of getting the federal aid in the propof proposition tion of 7 75 5 to SO per cent to 25 or 20 per cent of county money the federal government will survey lay out and build the road and the eUli counties ties have to assume the obligations to furnish their small percentage of money and to maintain the roads after they are built A licely ion to direct the discussion into definite and circumscribed channels attorney E E hoffmann hoft mann offered a motion to express it the sense of those assembled to have the road from north of the state through salt lake city nephi fountain green manti richfield marysvale Marys vale panguitch and kaibab kanab to the state line between ka nab utah and fredonia arizona designated as a primary road and to select committees who should go jointly to salt lake city to impress upon ripon the federal engineer and the state road commission that this is the sense of the meeting mr bentley of the manti mant motor car co called attention to the fact that the authorities probably will designate as primary roads only such highways which properly connect with whit a main thoroughfare in the adjoining state and might find it not feasible to do so by way of kanab fredonia for this reason lie he wished the motion amended to the effect that if the committees should not succeed in having this route designated as primary road to propose the alternative from nephi to richfield and then through clear creek canyon connecting with the arrowhead trail A long discussion ensued participated in mostly by bentley dyreng meyrick and Bro icken of sanpete county ivie of wayne county jos F peterson 0 it and dr dark clark of sevier county and tebbs of garfield county and finally filially tile the motion of hoffmann hoft mann as amended by bentley pre prevailed selection of tile the committee tile the selection of the committees was left to the counties I 1 interested lite rested and a motion carried that tile the coulty committees should consist 0 of the county commissioners and at least two representatives each from all the city or town government the commercial clubs and other organizations of 0 the respective counties chairman peterson Pet erbon will keep in touch with the authorities ast as to an opportune time for the committees top to meet with theme them and will inform the committees of 0 the date set for the conference at leat least five days ahead of the time appointed county commissioner dyreng of sanpete county moved a vote of thanks to the commercial club which was ail adopted opted unanimously delegate robert hinckley oi of mt pleasant tendered an invitation to the hub club of 0 mt pleasant to have the next meeting there and after chairman peterson had expressed thanks for and appreciation of the good attendance the convention adjourned |
