Show CHIEF OF offal of PUBLIC to CONVINCE holds that salina canyon highway is no main aitery of travel at the commercial club huncl luncheon held Al monday onlay the highway through salina canyon again came up for discussion cus sion this discussion having been precipitated by some letters which v aich had come in reply to the re resolutions solutions passed se some time ago by the club and sent to the state road commission and to tile the utah congressional delegation in washington D C among the letters received the most interesting one was f from congressman don B colton in aich chich mr caiton explains that T H macdonald chief of the bureau of public roads of the department of agriculture is not quite convinced of the fact that a highway through the canyon would be a main artery and also I 1 j ob objects ejects to this road on account af q f the fact that it bould u cot cost co t many hundreds of thousands ind and perhaps a million dollars and is not connect inz ins with any any main road of the federal aid system he finally agreed however mi colton says to instruct engineer B J finch of the ogden dib office to have a survey and an eti estimate mate made and to submit his reply at the earliest possible late date in an from the state road commission chairman henry E blood lenies denies the accusation made in the resolutions res that mr finch is hostile to this part of tile the country states state that there is no animosity in any place and assures the club that the matter will be taken up by tile the state road commission in their next conference among other letters letter was one from the th emery county progress a neus nes paper published in ca catle castle tle dale where in ip ill B roberts the editor advises the club that the people of emery county have been so frequently disappointed appointed eI in regards to the salina alina canyon highway that they have loz lost continued on page eight chief of bureau of public roads hard to convince continued from page one all coura courage e but if the commercial club will push the matter they again will put on oil their fighting clothes and help to the best of their ability after some discus discussion ion a motion prevailed to refer the mat matter er to the road committee antl and there being at the time no road committee in e existence ds tence the old committee harln having resigned the directors direct ois of the club anere ere requested to consider a appointment of such a committee immediately sheriff V M Fali fairbanks banks reported in in the matter of improvements on the county building and transferring the county jail to clio the east of the building that the county commissioners have accepted the plans and specifications and bids for construction have been called for so these improvements are well under way anti and the commercial club has to be given credit for bringing about these changes the matter of the annual banquet banquet tendered by the club to the senior senio boys of our high school was referred to the entertainment committee with power to act chairman jonathan lloyd of the entertainment committee announced i that a big commercial club lance dance will anvill be given at the anona wednesday may mav N 2 W L warner wamer reported the outcome of the recently held conference of the city council committee with the study club committee in regard to the proposed park and advised the club that the places under consideration for this purpose are the so bo called count county block across the road north of the courthouse grounds a part of th the C cit city y farm tile the baseball park the n natatorium and the half block vi est cst of the peterson bank building the club decided that the president appoint a 1 committee of three to cooperate with i the council and the study club le ie garding the park the entertainment program was furnished by miss aliss maxine erickson who played two violin solos with nith miss bliss amaza lloyd as accompanist director sterling K heppler presided |