Show three kinport important ant road projects county makes important advancement van cement by the purchase 0 f modern road building machine the purchase of a new no 11 caterpillar diesel auto delivered this week marks a new era of road building for san juan county this is one of the best and most modern road machines yet developed and is capable of doing in two hours at a cost of approximately what would require two four horse teams all day and would cost approximately 2000 the selection and purchase of this splendid piece of modern road equipment was made only after a searching investigation invest gation and inspection spec tion of the best the market affords by chairman ralph bailey and commissioner ernest adams a few days since in salt lake boxelder Box elder and contiguous counties with this new machine it is proposed to grade and smooth the streets of blanding and monticello now listed as class B roads or highways ready for graveling to grade up star mail route roads all through the eastern precincts of the county and to be used in leveling and maintaining them in future tu re at the present time the equipment is being used on the streets of blanding and as soon as they are completed will be brot to monticello to perform the same service for this place while the cost of this auto is considerable it will no turn to page 16 column three THREE IMPORTANT ROAD PROJECTS continued fron from page one over in the improvement of our class class B or S secondary econ dary highways nl will make life more woth wo th while for every resident of the county As stated above the bland ng project is now under way and as soon as the streets are ready to receive it a layer of natural native gravel will be applied and topped off later with a thickness of crushed gravel when the state crusher is available work on the monticello streets will commence within the next 30 days and the gravel crusher wi will 11 be removed to this place as soon as it has finished a project now under way in grand county on completion of the monticello project prefect the crusher will be taken to blanding and employed empl oyei t tere ere this crusher is being leased f from rom the state road commission another important state road project is authorized just south of monticello for a distance of one and one fourth miles which will get under way after july first of this year present plans also call for the oiling of the new graded and graveled road from moab to blue hill at a cost of and the construction of a oo 00 project between blue hill and the la sal junction the completion of all these various projects will make a wonderful improvement in the roads of this section and it is only fair to give the present administration credit for the rapid improvement of our highways which have and are receiving more attention and modern improvement in four or five years than they had in twenty years previously and so the taxpayers ax payers are at least getting some ome returns from their money spent pent |