The daily sentinel., 1912-05-06
$4,000 Needed
From Junction
To Build Road
What Grand Junction must put up. ........

If the decision to be handed down
this afternoon by the state supreme
court on House Bill 200 is favorable
to the use of the "prol barrel road
appropriation by the state highway
commission it is very likely that S.
coo from the amount apportioned to
Mesa county will go to the improve
ment and construction of the Para
doX-Grand Junction road. Public
sentiment is highly favorable to this
| division and it will probably be made
ut about that figure. Hopes are
held out by those interested in he
matter that the commission will add
TO that appropriation a little more
from the general highway fund.
On the presumption that this
amount can be secured and that the
county commissioners will live up to
their promise to erect the Gateway
bridge and make a cut around Nine
/ Mile hill above Whitewater. there
will be needed to complete the work
on the road at least $4,000 more.
OF this amount the people and bust
ness interest of West Paradox are
willing to put up $4,000. and it Is
believed that as much more car be
raised among the mining interests
on the route of the road who need
the highway to haul ore and machin-
cry to and from their properties.
When all is said and done it will
cost the people of Grand Junction
not more than $4,000 or So, 900 to
make this city the supply point for
the Paradox and to make II the
shipping station for all the ore and
farm products of that resourceful re-
gion.
'This is the situation exactly" said
Barton w. Marsh, today. 1--WE of the
Paradox must have road out. We
must have an outlet for we cannot
move n peg in the way of progress
until we have a wagon road or IA
steam road to Il railway station in
some other direction than we have at
present. We have come to Grand
junction as the most favorably locat-
ed of all the other routes proposed.
Grand Junction without competition
can have that road if the business
men want it. If Grand Junction will
give 81 where the Paradox people
give $50 i'm proportion to population
the road will be built in iiffy. ~
the best, however il will take Il sub
scription of $1,000 to construct and
u.
so far as can be Judged without an
engineers estimate. If Grand june
ton does not want the road bad
enough we will, perforce, go some
where else. We have proved our
case on the proposition that Paradox
will be the making of the city which
secures its outlet. That is matter
of statistics that will convince any
body. Ii is past time for boosting.
and is now time for action. VIII
Grand Junction take advantage of her
oppOrtu unities or nOt?''
This afternoon Mr.. Marsh with
George ]. d. Williams and others
met with the county commissioners
to discuss the Gateway bridge ques-
ton. No answer was ELECTED. but II
is supposed that the board will keep
its promise to build the bridge and
make other improvements.
Mr.. Marsh and Mr. Williams. in
their recent trip over the road, have
found better route for the road
south of Gateway than that now
proposed. They believe that it will
be more advisable to follow the Do
lores river on the bench than to take
the line which has been considered
heretofore. They believe it to be a
cheaper and more advantageous
route