Show Three counties join in push For early road construction A organized pitch was made Tuesday in the office of the Utah State Road Commission for an early construction of Highway Indian Meeting with the board in Salt Lake City were officials from and Uintah including representatives of the Chambers of Kiwanis and Lions clubs and 3 Heading the delegation was CHIT president of the Roosevelt Chamber of nc i c e. who acted as spokesman for the group and few basic reasons why the p o posed connecting highway between Highways 40 and 50 should be pushed by the roa 1 1 Only Access Road In representing the major points the delegation told the commission that Highway when would be the only highway in South and Eastern Utah connecting the two the two Upper Color-i to Glen Canyon and Flaming now under are there will be a greater need to have a highway to connect these two great potential recreation areas with Yellowstone National and Highway 33 is the only natural one now being le told the Another important point was the need of a highway that CO lid be by thirty-three I oil service companies that have their base locations in the Uintah Basin and now travel weekly to Grand and San Juan oil fields In performance of their jobs weekly per could be saved in and all the traveling would be done in where a greater percent now is in This represents a great loss in taxes and sale of commodities and services to all of Timber Industry Noted The delegation told the commission of the impending growth promised in the timber and pointed out that transportation of these pro-See S baek page THREE COUNTIES From Pae ducts was solely dependent on highways with no railroad facilities presently Attracting larger contingents of tourists to the Basin and Southeastern Utah was the other major point to the commission The was told how better highways connecting the north and south would entice visitors to and keep them an extra day or when the Indian Canyon route was All Utah Should Help The delegation concluded its presentation by urging the Road Commission to use other state funds to build the and not depend on secondary money from Duchesne and Carbon where the road is located Others from Duchesne county included in the delegation were William PI county commission Wesley R and Ted of Ray Horrocks and Neill From Carbon county were Commissioners Steve new and Louie and representing Uintah county and the Vernal Chamber of Commerce was their executive Lawrence Were Sympathetic Members of the commission present expressed appreciation for the unity shown by the and assured the group that it was their desire to see the road completed as soon as They reported was allocated in to secure right-of-ways and for engineering purposes on the Carbon county This is in progress and will be completed this spring Taylor commission also told the delegation that start had been made last fall by their department on a survey of the Duchesne county side and that this would be completed as soon as they were able to reassign a crew to that area The Tuesday delegation from the three counties was the result of nearly fifty years of controversy over Nine Mile and Indian A recent study and survey by the state road engineers favored Indian which brought about unit and cooperation on Highway |