Southern Utah & Northern Arizona Road Association collection
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the road improvements of the Southern Utah & Northern Arizona Road Association between Hurricane, Utah and Fredonia, Arizona, and connecting Zion National Park and the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. The material collected is from 1914-1922, while the bulk of the material is from 1921-1922.
This collection is arranged in three series.
The Correspondence Series contains correspondence from the Union Pacific System Railroad Company and Southern Utah & Northern Arizona Road Association, formally known as the State and Grand Canyon Highway Committee. They are arranged in alphabetical order and chronological order within each folder according to the dates written.
The State Highway Use-Fee Series contains papers documenting the names of the workers with the amounts designated to be paid to the State Road Commission by January 1, 1915. The workers documented how that would be paid; either in cash, labor, or amount of baled hay, in tons, to be donated. They are arranged in chronological order.
The Accounts Ledger Series contains an original ledger documenting the financials of the State & Grand Canyon Highway Committee in the years 1914-1918, and later re-named Southern Utah & Northern Arizona Road Association in the years 1921-1922.
Dates
- Creation: 1914 - 1922
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open and freely available to researchers during Special Collections hours or by appointment. Researchers must complete an Application for Use and show a photo ID prior to accessing materials.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright restrictions may apply. Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be obtained from the Special Collections and Archives.
Biographical / Historical
The Southern Utah & Northern Arizona Road Association officers in 1921-1922 were David Hirschi, President and Chas B. Petty, Secretary & Treasurer. Committee members were J.W. Seegmiller and J.C. Roach of Kanab; Robert Jackson, Moccasin: E.A. Farrows or Fredonia; J.H. Galligher of Short Creek; Henry Cornelius of Virgin; Joseph S. Snow, and A.L. Woodhouse of St. George; William Mace, Samuel Leigh, and C.J. Parry of Cedar City; G.B. Williams of Kanarra; Albert Anderson of Toquerville; Morris Wilson, Jr. of La Verkin; Walter Ruesch of Springdale; and Marvin Terry of Rockville.
In 1922, improving the road between Fredonia, Arizona and Hurricane, Utah was completed. The workteams were paid $6.00 a day, and men without a team $3.00 a day. The men boarded themselves and fed their teams. The total amount expended was $365.00. Eight culverts were installed, totaling the project at $500.00.
(Information: WASH 072 Collection.)
Before the creation of the State Road Commission, short sections of main streets had been paved, especially in big cities. For a considerable period, continuation of this program and policy was carried on by the State Road Commission as rapidly as funds could be obtained. With the assistance of the $6,000,000 bond issues of 1917 and 1919, paved surfaces were constructed along the main streets of most of the communities in the heavily populated areas of the Utah.
With the use of state and federal aid funds during the 1920s and 1930s, all-weather road surfaces, generally the oil type, were provided through practically all of the important cities and towns. In nearly every instance, it was considered proper that main street locations be retained and suitable connections provided. This philosophy was followed even in those instances where it was obvious that a more desirable through-road location could have been adopted which would have bypassed the community street system entirely. All during this period, road and street location policy was based upon the principle that wherever feasible an improved road should be built to and through all of Utah’s towns and cities, linking them to a connected system.
Knowlton, Ezra C.: History Of Highway Development In Utah. Utah State Department of Highways, undated.
Full Extent
6 Files (6 folders in 1 gray legal document case)
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Abstract
The Southern Utah & Northern Arizona Road Association collection consists of one original handwritten ledger and loose papers documenting the road improvements of the Southern Utah & Northern Arizona Road Association between Hurricane, Utah and Fredonia, Arizona. The collection is from 1914-1922.
Arrangement
The Southern Utah & Northern Arizona Road Association collection are arranged in three series. Series 1. Correspondence, 1921-1922. Series 2. State Highway Use Fee, 1914. Series 3. Accounts Ledger, 1914-1922.
Genre / Form
Geographic
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Tammy Gentry, Special Collections Paraprofessional
- Date
- December 2020
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Utah Tech University Special Collections and Archives Repository
330 Holland Centennial Commons
225 South 700 East
Saint George 84770 United States
(435) 634-2087
specialcollections@utahtech.edu