Show to besaent be spent on caryon canyon road agree on continuing salina canyon highway from west slope work on the salina canyon highway will be continued from the west slope with an expenditure of an allocated for 1938 1 it t was announced by charlton chariton chairman of the sevier county commissioners following a meeting of emery and sevier county commissioners held ayi friday day in in the office of the state road commission in salt lake it is expected the work will be started next spring although a dafin te time has not yet been set sel nine miles of road from the be ginning nning ri of the forest line and up the c canyon anyon have already been brought to a gravel surfaced standard and the new project should should complete the road another G G or 7 miles up the canyon onto the flat it is estimated by the clief chief engineer of the state road c commission E C knowlton mr reports although the road will then lack about 20 miles I 1 of being completed to an improved standard the bad stretch over the hump of the canyon dangerous because of narrow roads sharp and blind curves will be eliminated the importance of salina canyon from the standpoint of industrial I 1 1 and tourist traffic cannot be overestimated the canyon forms the lowest pass over the wasatch ran range ranc c and should therefore hold I 1 an enviable position as a year round road its importance was emphasized recently by frank G mai tines who has made a study of roads for the associated civic clubs of southern utah when he said that highway 10 through salina canyon is the route designated by the government as a military highway to run from nova scotia to lo long beach with highway 89 now designated as a military Ilig hway starting at the canadian border and continuing to the mecan mexican border the salina canyon highway nigh vay is an important issue and would be danger in delay should plans be changed and dangerous points in the canyon neglected upon invitation of the sevier county commissioners mr martines accompanied them to salt lake to attend the conference and mr air seeg miner stated that his knowledge of roads was very beneficial in bringing the two factions together for promoting general welfare by relinquishing sectional rights to having funds now allocated us nd fd on the emery county side of the highway emery county was promised a project for oiling of five miles of road between Cast ledale and perron ferron and right to the next allocation for expenditure on the emery county side of the salina canyon highway prior to the conference held in salt lake a conference was held three weeks ago in salina by the commissioners of the two counties and civic leaders at the request of the salina lions club sevier county commissioners commissioner attending the salt lake meeting were mr and delbert hansen of redmond woodruff sylvester of elsinore the other co commissioner was unable to go |