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Show Grading And Base Work Progressing On Neola Highway WORK on the Neola-Roosevelt road, although far Jrom being completed, is progressing satisfactorily, satis-factorily, according to State Road Commissioner Willard A. Day, who made an, Inspection of the project Thursday morning. The road, Mr. Day reported, has been graded to a point about six 1 miles north of, Roosevelt, and . materials for the ' bed placed along the graded stretch. Expectation that : "the road might be completed before snow fall, voiced at the time' bids were opened, have been dispelled by the Road Commission. Grading and road bed work will continue until bad weather orders a halt," but oiling will not be;undertoken until next year. ', . "The Neola-Roosevelt road, whsn completed, will be a thoroughfare thor-oughfare the people of Duchesne county should be proud of," Commissioner Day said. "It will be up to standard in every detail with the best roads In Utah." Mr. Day explained that in the construction of all new roads the State Road Commission follows the practice of laying a substantial substan-tial bed before surfacing. He pointed out that placing of a suitable base has been responsible respon-sible fpr the general improvement improve-ment qf Utah, highways which have been built or repaired in recent years. "The base used qn Utah's arterial highways is be- ing placed qn the Neqla--loGse-velt road," Mr, Day advised. The Neola - Roosevelt road, when completed will link the two communities com-munities with a 24 foot oil surfaced sur-faced highway. i BACK from an official trip to New York, Commissioner Day proclaimed Utah's" main highways high-ways as comparable to the best he had seen in any of the eastern states. In commenting on secondary or farm to market roads, which admittedly constitute the life line of Utah's economic structure, struc-ture, Commissioner Day stated that travel over such roads, many of which have been little improved, is an expensive procedure pro-cedure for the traveler. Mr. Day referred specifically to the Uintah Uin-tah Basin in this disclosure, pointing out that the cost tq individual in-dividual Basinites who must traverse tra-verse these roads is far in excess ex-cess of the costs incurred by those traveling surfaced secondary secon-dary roads. Automobile depreciation deprecia-tion and high maintenance costs were shown to be the results of traveling poor secondary roads. Mr. Day based his findings on recent highway research studies. In addition to reporting on the T 1. T-l 14. 3 ondary road studiesCommission-er studiesCommission-er Day announced that bids had been opened for the new bridge across the Uinta river at Rand-lett. Rand-lett. However acceptance must wait until the right-of-way has been sanctioned by the Indian Service. Mr. Day reported the low bid for the Randlett bridge as $20,538. |
