The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-06
NEGLECT OF BINGHAM ROAD.

Our communication Yesterday morn
ing on the neglect Of the road TO BiRg-
ham. signed by J. B. Graham, who
knows the situation thoroughly, deserves
careful attention Of the people Of Bing-
han and of the voters both in Salt Lake
City and in the county outside IL is
well understood. in fact il Is matter OF
easy observation, that for the most part,
from the beginning. the county road
money has been absolutely frIttered
away TO no purpose except 70 keep the
roads in about as bad condition one year
as another The money has been ab-
sorbed uselessly, we might fairly saw.
for the most part absorbed by favorites
who rendered practically no service in
real ad-mahng. For the past few
wears, while Nh Maekay has been COM
missioner, he has made roads from the
city 10 his own premises and few 9th
er favored ones have also been given
good roads. 10 more or less extent. but
the greatly travelled roads. unless there
was some special pull TO draw money to
them. have been sadly neglected.
The road TO Bingham, as explained
BY Mr.. Graham. simply follows the old
meaudcring trail of the first prospec-
tors. IT was never properly laid out
as a road at all. II has never been
rightly worked as road: never i'm
proved as road. IL is simply botch
and Exhibit \ OF the yearly neglect OF
the county commissioners OF the prop
er performance of their duties.
There is no doubt in the world but
that good road from this city to Bing-
ham would be the most frequented pub
lie road in the State. and the most gen
orally useful of any. Bingham would
be made practically e suburb OF Salt
Lake City through the speedy automo-
bile if q good modern road were laid
out and constructed. Automobiles
would be going there at ali hours of
the day. Teams Of all kinds needed in
the commerce and transportation Of
this region would find the proper facili-
ties for their operation.
With road such as there ought to
be TO Bingham. it would be easy TO
take tourists out there at any hour OF
the day in automobiles and show them
mining operations on a scale more ex-
| teusive than they could see anywhere
/ else in the world. so far as valuable
metal mining is concerned IL would
| be a great treat for tourists If they
could take two or three hours of here
and in the meantime run out 70 Bing'
| ham by automobile and see the great
mining operations there. They could
on the wav. If the road were laid on
| this side of the river. see something OF
the smelling operations; and If an'
other road were made smooth and easy
to travel from this city 10 Garfield
then some OF the most extensive smelt
ing operations in the world could be
put on view for the delight aud ediG
cation OF tourists.
But il Is idle 10 expect ANYTHING OF
this Kind with the present crooked. neg
lected road leading into Bingham. The
making OF roads in this coanty has al
ways been a political and personal mat
ter. never matter OF economies, oi
good transportation or Of service 70 the
public. But we shall second mos
heartily the proposition that Bingham
is entitled TO a good highway TO anc
from this city; and until it does ge
such a highway, neither Bingham no
salt FAKE City will reap the benei