The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-27
WHY CAPITOL PLAN
|NCENSED FARMERS
Good Roads Delegate Says They
We're Angry About Road APP
preparation VetOes.
NEVER HAD INFORMATION
ABOUT REAL SITUATION
Resolution Presented for Build
ing of Permanent Road by
Yearly Installments.

The reason why the rural districts
voted against the. erection of state
capitol In Salt Lake WAS because Cow
ernor spry vetoed n few road appropria
ton. measures last winter. That Is the
testimony OF R w. King of MIllard
county; After Governor Spry had ex-
plained that the state last winter ap-
propriated more money for roads than
ever before In Its history, twice over. II
was admitted that the reason why the
people had voted against the capitol was
because they had not known this.
therefore. the question OF whether the
state OF Utah should have q capitol COM
porting 10 the dignity OF the state re-
solved itself into n matter OF petty re-
venge upon Governor Spry because he
did thing which the people didn't know
that he had done, but thought he had
done differently.
Furthermore. It appears from the dis
closures made at the good roads conven-
tlon Wednesday that thousand dollar
appropriation for road repairs In Millard
county is OF Importance surprising that
OF giving this state~-the only state in the
union that has none-a capitol building
Glasmann IS Proposed Plan.
All this came out when William Glas-
mann OF Ogden introduced the following
resolution
Resolved, That 1t Is the sense Of this
meeting that the legislature OF Utah be
required to build. under the direction Of
the governor and state engineer, twenty
miles OF macadamiZcd road Il year, be-
ginning at. Salt Lake, and build an equal
number of miles north and south each
year until the Idaho line has been
reached on the north and the Arizona
line on the south"
BY unanimous consent. two minute
speeches on the resolution were permit
ted Mr.. Glasmann opened the debate,
The building should begin in the center
OF the state rather than at Salt Lake.
While Salt Lake is not the geographi-
cal center of the state. said Mr.. Glas-
Is M "a
center OF finance and OF business activity.
And we fellows have got to recognize
chat fact when we come down here. We
In Ogden don't like to do It. but we have
TO, whether we like 1t or not.
Glasmann and Salt Lake.
radius OF 100 miles around Salt Lake. you
VIII have the people that pay three
of all the taxes;
IF we start this road it will be their
money that will start It. and II will be
their money that we will finish 1t with,
If we start 1t in the middle OF the
state you. will buck up against a lobby
What we want 10 do is to bleed old Salt
Lake as much as we can. You farmers
want TO come to town In automobiles.
Let's get together and make start"
NJ. NJ. Steele Of Iron county said 1t
would take thirty years for the road to
reach his section OF the country, NJ. NJ.
built only north and south. would never
reach him.
Other delegates spoke on the resolu-
lions.
Unlimited Asphalt Quarries
In the discussion j. r. Sharp Of Carbon
county said that he was unqualihedly In |
'avor of the resolution. lie said that
Utah had the best material in the world
n the great asphalt deposits that extend
al over the Ulntah country and reach as
p1 CT Itre,~1 DFclr ,t,yG G,,f f-~I, a.
lie said that at Sunnyside there were
alls of it 1000 and 5000 feet thick.
The rock he said. was heavily impreg-
latcd with oil and was far superior TO
brought from California There is
enough asphalt material in that deposit. |
declared Mr.. Sharp. TO build the pro-
q San Francisco, and then there would |
,c enough still to complete all the roads
n Utah. He declared that the cost would |
&c cheaper by far than crushed rock.
DR.. Fred w. Taylor Of Provo speak
ng for the Commercial club OF that city.
aid Provo was unqualihedly for the
You should get 1t into your mind
irmly, fxedly." said DR.. Taylor. that
6 per cent OF the travel is over 4 per
ent OF the roads. II you grasp that you
Glll view this proposition differently:
wenty years ! have been dragging my
elf through the mud. It's time some
nlnS was Done, ana ! hope to heaven
hat something will be done"
Mr.. King OF Milard then told about
Why the capitol question had been op-
osed by the farmers. Mr., Glasmann
rose to answer some OF the questions
aised.
Waste of Money.
WELL" began Mr Glasmann. "Tve
cen IN the legislature In this state. and
know how the road appropriation bust
ess comes up every session. l was in
he legislature ten years ago and we
ppropriated 5000 The legislature has II
cen approprating that much every
ear. But where Is II? What has been
one with 1t? Have the roads been I'M
roved any by the appropriations? Not
bit. Why, when l Travelled through
ls state a year ago on a little political
latter, ] found the roads in Kane coun-
Y as bad as ever. Gentlemen IL Is a
aste Of money,
But / want to correct an inpression
lat seems TO have been gaining ground
ere, that the resolution proposes to
Ike away the county appropriations LII
oes not. This resolution merely pro- |
ldes for the building OF something per
anent. not to patch up something that
mt be patched,
why, gentlemen OF the country. II Salt
AXE wants you to take its money for
)ur roads. take It-take all Won cav