| Show PRESS UTAH ASSOCIATION Emery in Emery County Hanksville in Wayne County and Randolph in Rich County No roads however were built into the western desert Reflecting the conviction that tourism would becomemajor industry of southern Utah Garfield County in 1915 levied 10 mills for road-building The funds were earmarked for improvement of the route from Panguitch to Kanab link in that dayobjective of creatinghighway from the north rim of Grand Canyon to Yellowstone Park In Grand County not only roads but the need forbridge over the Grand River brought into focus the editorial emphasis of the Moab TimesIndependent The bridge when completed spanned not the Grand but the Colorado as that river had subsequently been renamed By 1917-18 with the nation involved in World War One the state boasted000 miles of highways and the final 12 miles of the Ogden-Salt Lake road were scheduled for paving As the decade of the 20s began 125 miles of Utah highways were paved future routes were being determined and the statenewspapers were trumpeting the need for roads in their respective circulation areas decision to build more allweather gravel roads and de-emphasize paved ones meant more total miles could be constructed Gravelled highways could be built for 000 per mile at that time paved ones cost 30 000 or more Typical of the controversy of that era wasNephi TimesNews expression when neighboring Millard County sought to re-route Utahnorth-south highway through Lyndyll the Tintic valley and Silver City What are the businessmen and citizens in general of East Juab County going to do Are we going to lay down and see this section of the state highway to California taken from us and handed bodily over to someone else In other words have we gone to sleep in East Juab County How about spendinglittle road money between Nephi and Payson on the route where the travel the past year from Los Angeles Sanpete County and Sevier County has been the heavi est on record So road-building proceeded with emphasis on gravel con 284 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
