Show governor blood assures completion of highway 40 Fruit froitland fruitland land to vernal stretch cli to bei be completed this fiscal ye year r venial to colorado line forest ol 01 s section on next years road program with a yes answer from governor henry 11 II blood to thel their resolution asking if highway 40 will be completed to a 1 dustless ed surface between heber city CAY and the colorato Col oralo line by the close of fiscal year 1927 tile the highway 40 caravan da cis ravan made up of from tie lie uintah basin Ws Wi atch satch oni ailt and thoele tooele le ie turned to to their homes last friday evening feeling their efforts had been rewarded petition demands defini ic answer A group of nearly motor ats froin eastern and n rutih gathered ot at the cha nasr of colli Coin T merce ree in salt lake oty friday afternoon whee their automobiles to were with largo banners supplied by tho CIO chamber ol of commerce Corame ice btuch re d di WE DEMAND THE IMMEDIATE completion OF HIGHWAY 40 after parading in ili downtown salt lake city the cala caa van went to the state capitol foil tor i a conference with governor blood bloo 1 and the state road commission where they presented to the governor the following tollow tag petition for many years efforts have been made to secure the earliest possible completion of trans con federal aid highway 40 In numer we petitions and resolutions bave been submitted set J ting if fortl the importance of 11 tili highway to all of the people ot utah as well as tourists this transcontinental trans continental highway 40 wis one of the first to be tita ted and will probably be tile the last to be finished the uncompleted link being in utah from the head of daniels binyon east of heber city to the colorado line this year federal aid appropriations to fo roads in rutih are approximately 50 0 of which amount or only 5 has been appropriated for work on this still transcontinental trans trails continental rente 1 during these many years we I 1 have witted wilted patiently and have submitted numerous petitions highway 40 we ive have watched other highways started late and rushed to early stand iid oil surfaced completion uch such hi highways eways ottimer paralleling pim eling railway lines tor for long distances I 1 and with zith interconnecting inter connecting links 1 between parallel highways wo we therefore respectfully as that this question of the time of completion of highway 40 ito 40 an oil surface construction be submitted to the state road hoad coill coninis nis slon sion and we decare a yes or no answer ansbe an swe bo be given by them tol to I 1 us us as to whether this y v will bo be so completed by the end or of the fiscal year 1937 11 plans made thle answering m 1 the petition governor eri i air blood explained that the stretch ot of road between froitland fruitland Fruit land and vernal will be lir cright up to a standard through h a now under way aidi an a program to be gotton under way chis year the SO tiles between vernal and the colorado calr rabo line will be placed on next years program tor for hard surfacing ul land will be undoubted completed in that year june 1938 there remains 30 miles of road in daniels canyon dest design natel atel as forest road which will be switched as soon as aa possible to the feder lal aid system it was explained that utah wll will soon be able to certify that 90 percent of its fadeal tede al aid mileine is up to standi ird that will make it possible to add another one percent to tle federal aid system axt of the one percent will be the section of highway 40 between daniels caryon canyon nr ard Fruit froitland fruitland land which Is now forest road tentative approval app rovil for 10 this switch has alre idy dy been riven iven bv the U S bureau of public roads in ogden the road I 1 plan to begin realigning this aorl est roid road this year even before r V transfer is made and said that it iti would be possible to get work underway I 1 on this toad road next year thus highway 40 will be wv coil plated to a standrd stand rd by the end of june 1938 those who participated in tale caravan from roosevelt were ma M E lundberg mr air and mrs lynn orser jack john and joe mr and mrs C and C white mrs wilkins i K it peterson mr ant an 1 mrs george 11 II harrison arrison II walter waiter E atwood leroy bishop mr and mrs les lea mullins J V mclea mr and mrs merrill merrall wilkins mr and ajack mrs carl mr air slid and mrs jack cleiton Gl citon eiton ted hankston Hanm ston and IR R E miller ot of myton notification july 23 i 11 s 1 1 1 1 1 topeka kas fresh from his recent vacation in estes park gov alf BI 51 landon republican n nominee om I 1 for the presidency Is shown here as he returned for the special session of the he legislature and for his notification ceremonies july 23 |