Show A 1 I 1 rn allu 1 T 7 nn I 1 iff iff IN rm clym ana 11 SUN 1 rual U be 1 ce CHIEF ENGINEER PROMISES ROAD WORK ON US U S 40 DR A L BEDLEY BEBLEY AND WALTER P COTTAM ADDRESS convention WEDNESDAY EVENING K X C wright chief engineer of the utah state road commission must combat in the ever changing methods and improvements made fiade in road surfacing lie ile explained how the automobile industry grew up almost over wight but the great demand and need for roads and highways could riot not be supplied with such rapidity in 1891 1894 there were four automobiles in the united states in 1896 a speed of 10 miles per hour won the automobile race but in 1314 1914 there was an entirely new problem on the hands of the government to build broads smooth enough to allow automobile aport travel heavy enough to support weighted machines surfaced so BO that they would not be slide slick when wet graveline Gravelin Lr roads it was the cry of the people a few years ago to have graveled highways in 1929 many anany of the tha highways were graveled including highway 40 and the road commission heaved a sigh of relief and thought their work w was as done for awhile ile but that tali fali down in calibo california nia an oiling process had been tried out and wa was proving successful members alel of 0 the utah state road commission inspected it and were plea pleased seI with it they returned to utah and plunged into the oiling ot all graveled roads in 1930 their job was just beginning thug thua it goes always something il new ew something better and it is impossible to change all highways overnight outlines road improvement on forty from heber hebe city to the colorado line it is miles of 0 which are not hard surfaced or oiled to complete road work to the eastern border of utah will cost the state this is impossible at the present time because of lack of funds for money anoney available is money and must be used almost entirely tor for labor which requires that the state must supply mate trial however road work is underway which will insure within a short tinie time an asphalt highway between roosevelt and myton and front from ft duchesne to the halt half way hollow where the test piece of asphalt surfacing begins the ten mile stretch of asphalt rock road recently constructed east of fort duchesne as a test mr air wright said is proving a fine piece of road work dr beelee sneaks wednesday Even evening inz dr A L beeley professor of sociology Boci at the university of utah and dr walter P cottam of the university of utah wore the featured speakers of wednesday evenings program dr cottam cotharn displayed an interesting collection of colored slides of rare flowers of all species and described conditions under which j each grows |