Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-19
Keep to the Main Highway
BY GOVERNOR ELECT WILLIAM sppY

nothing will come up to cloud tho is
sue. and attempt to tack on lateral
roads TO tho general proposition.
To attempt To build lateral roads
in the opinion Of MIR, Spry win swamp
the whole movement through over
loading It. One circumstance alone
Will compel this md that Is tine fact
that the expense and multiplicity II
claims for attention, once the matter
of laterals il opened, Viii block al
progress.
The plan therefore most likely to
, be urged, is that the route OF n main
state highway be selected, and that
work on building ii be commenced
in Logan and III ST, George. and that
the effort OF the state. and all the
money the state can put onto roads
aud bridges, be used next Year and
tho year after. under the state agents.
to perfect this highway through all
the counties it touches. These would
be Cache. BoXelder, Morgan Weber,
Salt Lake, Utah, Sanpctc, Juab, SEWER.
Pluto, Garfield, Iron and Kane. The
route OF course would follow the pre-
sent main highway. known as the
State Road"
Such a state highway. macadamized
| with n firm bottom OF ledge rock,
topped by finer rock, would ha,'-
| monize the Utah system with that Of
| other western states. Colorado has re-
Gently built such Il road, while the
| government in Yellowstone park has
| perfected to splendid point the
science of making them.
BOOSTERS IN UTAH
In Utah the agitation began this
year i'll earnest by well directed pub
| licity campaigning under tho auspices
Of the Salt Lake Automobile club.
| Joined by the Weber Good Roads assoc
citation. Their meeting at Farming
ton was followed by immediate acti-
| witty i'll Salt Lake, Weber and Davis
| counties for Il good road between Salt
Lake and Ogden. Another rally in
| American Fork resulted in a policy
| of building up of the Utah county
main road. which worked in
| different success owing to tho
| element of rivalry that entered,
one part of the county being anxious
| that lateral roads come in if any
! system of increased TAX be resorted
| to-
AS expressed in the Republican plat
form, sentiment for good roads took
the form OF the following pledges
| upon all save two of tile elected leg
islators. And these two Democrats
have equally binding pledges on this
issue on the state platform under
which they We're elected: I'VE favor
the enactment of laws runs the Re-
publican platform. providing for a
Sss'L'iiiilIC HCllul oL lliSa i
/ throughout the state, ana for the
J adoption Of prompt and vigorous
methods of building good roads by
which the state and various counties
| thereof shall cooperate to the very
| desirable end that system OF we'll
constructed, substantial and well kept
/ highways shall be made in every part
Of the state
And it is on this platform plank
that the future policy will rest,-with
this reservation,-that the first pro-
blem is TO get one good state road,
and then do the branching off that
each section Will earnestly desire and
that often will be OF great benefit.
d. r. Roberts Of Logan has five
bills for the Legislature to consider.
dealing with All phases OF the road
question and the ways to administer
road finances, material, and labor.
These will no doubt be submitted as
the legislatures first point of attack
in this particular field of its pro-
blems.