Show MAIL TO UINTAH BASIN this present season and the coming summer and from now on give promise of the heaviest hea vilest traffic ever known tho price to myton wagon road though this road has received but little attention from the otate since it was designated a I 1 state borough fare it is today the only road into the uintah basin over which a reasonable load can be handled and only eight miles of the road between price and myton can bo called bad road today while the other much advertised routes are almost impassable and will be for months to come it ja is said to be moret hari probable that the helper and duehesne mail will soon b be diverted via A the price to myton r road 0 ad for several months and aad bagi beginning n ning in the near future so about all that will bs b really necessary to make this thia road suitable for au to mobile traffic is the usual method of dragging to fill the ruts made by heavy traffic while it was as soft from melting snow shipments of gilsonite are regularly in transit into price from the raven mine at fort duchesne and a larger output is being arranged for and new nev machinery elli nery has been installed to make the increased output possible the vintah uintah asphaltum company during the past anter has done many thousands of dollars worth of development work it ai the old castle peak mine and Is new hoisting ore for shipment and will install a line of caterpillar gasoline trucks to handle what ore cannot be handled by the limited number of teams available for the purpose sacks pre are this week going goin gout out in larga quantities for sacking the ore manager bruce A magnan has ordered platforms prepared hy by the mckune forwarding cornand company at price for handling handlin gAnd wring storing the ore product when mien ears cars are not available for loading to the eastern markets and for export there is at present a heavy demand for the product tit at A high prices and the uintah Aspli asphaltum altum company has signified a willingness to donate a thousand dollars to road improvements north of price if the state and county officials will put the fhe highways in good shap for traffic this road has never received the dragging common to state broads though it is the most traveled by heavy traffic of any in the OW county and brings more revenue in into tr 0 carbon county than any other two roads at the present t time i hiie and promises to be about the only avenue of commerce fea sibel for months to come between grand emery and carbon counties and the uintah basin settlements mckune forwarding company says it finds it the only route at present over which do it now service can be maintained with the settlement and town merchants in the north country who are ar e now routing most of their supplies through price in care of forwarding agents uncle sam is said to be keeping his eyes open to developments over this road which has haa a record of mail service by wag on three hundred and sixty five days in the year for several years with but very few delays even in the hardest of winter travel when other loads were impassable and yet little attention and less outlay for repairs has aas been given this big artery of commerce for years past by either the county or sta fe road officials for the benefit of all concerned it is to be hoped that politics will be for once overlooked and this road be given the once over it at least with the assurance that the revenue will justify any reasonable expenditure to make it as good as many thoroughfares in the sta stat t with less than half the traffic robert mckune of price yester day had a letter from D L carmody secretary of the myton chamber of commerce in which that gentleman says we are again makini making efforts ehora to get our end of the ariceto ceto itar myton I 1 road in shape ana hope that the p people ed of price will be able to carr carry y yut their plan to es a stage line between the two towns if such h a move is is made the business ne men of myton will back price up and will take stock in addition to giving their moral support this proposition is vital to price as well as to us and ana we are more than willii willing ig to do all in ili our power to aid yo you u sun price |