Show keeping state roads open costs A month maintenance including keeping the asato highways open during the winter months m la is costing the state state a month commissioner henry IL H blood said saturday resumption of traffic on all highway art arter erets els has now been made although n some few cases it Is necessary to haul automobiles by over snow slides and drifts he said eald depth or 0 the snow on su sum minds mUi is more severe this thia year than at tiny any time during the history of the department and during the period of february 12 to 20 snow now slides made extremely hard the work of the state department lie he continued on the castle gate to duchesne road there was reported a maximum of four and one halt half feet of snow usual of tenton ten ton caterpillar snowplows snow plows with the aid of ane cne government caterpillar would normally have handled the situation at this point but more than sixteen n sno snow slides near the summit have made an extreme condition and a large force of men are engaged in clearing a mile of slide on the road it is reported it was at this point that one man was killed allied during the recent uintah basin was only denied service for a few days comres commissioner blood said at all other times including the present the mall mail and other trucks are being pulled over stretches whery ahei g show makes it necessary it Is expected according to latest reports that all traffic will bg be able to get over on its own power after sunday the same condition as exists on the duchesne 6 road is to be found at strawberry valley on the heber bieber duchesne road the commissioner said during the past weeks snow storms it has snowed almost continuously at this point and depth Is reported to be seven feet at the head of daniels canyon fifteen slides are reported in this one canyon ranging from ten to fifty feet in depth and from to feet in length these slides cowle tely block the road at present but men and teams and the giant state rotary plow was expected to reach the summit of daniels canyon saturday night it is hoped to have the road open in a week parleys canyon road was blocked for twenty four hours the commissioner mis sidner reported the rotary plow was dispatched to the blocked section at 10 oc loick friday night and by 6 saturday night the road was opened to park city city commissioner blood said that without the rotary plow it would have taken the department a week to open this stretch of road on the heber to provo highway the snow was reported very heavy averaging from three to tour four feet on the level slides in this canyon blocked the railroad but not the highway two tenton ten ton caterpillars are kept at this thia section to remove snow frony the canyon in sardine Sard lne canyon the regular road crew were able to cope with the situation and the road was kept open all of the time soldiers summit road ladnow Is now reported open the road was closed to traffic tor for several days following the snow a week ago the osden ogden to evanston highway reports a heavy snowfall traffic was being pulled through drifts along the road automobiles being unable to navigate the highway on their own power while the storm was reported to have been general throughout the state no trouble has been experienced in southern utah and no roads have been reported blocked the important paved roads are now equipped by working night and day immediately after storms end and able to remove almost all of tho the snow enow before it becomes packed the commissioner said by this the danger of slippery roads Is kept at a minimum |