The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-08

the paving of Ninth
South street as far south as Twelfth
South street. Work is also already
under way to improve the road now
Twelfth South and Eleventh East. at
the Sugar House corner, to the en-
trance of Big Cottonwood canyon,
distance of about sixteen miles. There
is already a large population in the
sections Immediately east and west of
this highway and the traffic over the
road is as heavy as that on many of
the city streets With the county road
House to Big Cottonwood canyon and
with a paved street from the heart of
the city to Sugar House, access to
Salt Lake from the south and south
east will be as good it can be made
and the roads in that section will COM
pare well with those in any part Of the
country.
The Improvement of the state road
from Third South to Murray is al
ready under way. The street car COM
pany has announced the completion of
plans for the extension or their system
in first-class manner to Murray and
Sandy and completion of the plan will
provide access also to Midvale, former
~ known as Bingham Junction. The
completion of this work will thus open
up another large tract of country to
the south and west OF the city. All
-Iabitants OF the immense tract in
Guiding the Bingham, Sandy and Muir
ray sections will thus be provided
with first-class facilities for getting
about and of bringing their produce
to the central market at Salt Lake.
Attention has been given recently to
the development of the country near
Garfield and with the location of the
new smelter at Tooele ii has become Of
almost imperative necessity to provide
access to the city for people from that
section Plans are now on foot and
viii be carried out as rapidly as pos
ell go If
the site of the Utah Copper company's
works at Garfield to Salt Lake. 1t Is
proposed to construct q first-class high
way as an extension of Twelfth South.
The line Of this street is almost straight
from the city to the Garfield plant
AT the present time the way lies
along Fourteenth South from Salt Lake
City for short distance and then in a
somewhat roundabout way TO the city
at the point of the mountain. The pro-
posed road along Twelfth South will
shorten this route by four or five miles,
1t is said, and add another splendid fea-
ture of the good roads movement to the
work already SO well begun. In addi-
ton to this the paving of Main street
from Ninth South to Twelfth South will
give access to Twelfth South. On the
completion of the roadway to Garfield
this will permit perfect trip from that
place to Thirteenth East near the edge
of the east bench.
Plans for the paving OF Eleventh
South from Main street to Thirteenth
East Will be another important ed
1unct of the new street plan A good
deal of the work belongs to the i'm
provemeuts which are being carried out
by the city. A large portion of the
work. however, comes under the iu-
risdiction of the county and hence more
directly under the charge of the state
commissioners headed by Governor
Spry, who Is known to be heart and
soul In favor of the undertaking.
Farmers Greatly Benefited.
Other plans are also under way in
different sections of the state The
| appropriation of 1000 authorized by
the state was intended to be used in
all counties which signified their de-
sire for improvements by filing with
the commissioners plan of the roa Is
which they wished improved before
| April Is. A number of the counties
| failed to file these plans and under
| the law are debarred from participant
! ing in the present appropriation The
sum will accordingly be divided among
| the counties which responded to the call
| of the commission
The plans submitted are now being
examined by State Engineer Caleb
Tanner and other members of the COM
mission. The scheme on foot compre-
hends q system of highways across the
counties interested from one city tC
another. The money appropriated will
| be utilized as far as possible TO i'm
prove the roads in those counties
| These roads viii be SO arranged as te