Weiss Highway (Utah) Historical Documents
The State of Utah has moved a step closer to taking control of federal public land when the Interior Department began considering the first of potentially thousands of highway the state has claimed under the repealed and outdated law known as R.S. 2477. But conservationists have unearthed evidence that the claimed county route -- the 99-mile Weiss Highway in Utah's west desert region -- was built by and for the U.S. government, meaning that it cannot be claimed by the state under the R.S. 2477 loophole.
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