The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-29
ROADS MOVEMENT
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pears that when the committee on reso-
lutions me! a committee on permanent
organization also met. There was
good deal Of discussion IN the com"
mittce on resolutions about the organi"
cation OF the intermountain associa-
lion. and finally it was agreed that the
intermountain association g organlZa'
ton be left to the committee on perma-
nent organization. II was the under"
standing, so it was said afterwards,
that John Dern was to have been made
president of the interstate organiza'
ton. But the Idaho. people evi-
IDENTIFY "beat them to it. and nom"
mated Mr. Sherman of Twin Fails lda,
AS the arrangement finally turned
out, Salt Lake has no representative on
the executive committee of the utah
association, Mr.. Cannon beng resi-,
dent of Forest Dale and Mr.. Cahoon OF
Murray, Willard Snow, Salt Lake
county's vice president, is resident or
the county districts also.
For Commissioners Meeting.
The suggestion was made and ap-
proved by the convention that it was
the sense Of the meeting that con
yention of all of the county commns-
sioners Of Utah be called for the pur..
nose of discussing the best means OF
attaining the desired end-better roads
II was not stated who should call tins
convention, nor when it is to be called
ported Friday were some who had come
late. L. G. Moore Of Emery county,
for example, started from his home a
long while ago, but owing to good
roads, as he put it, he did not arrive
until an hour before the convention
adjourned. When he made this known
he was roundly cheered: As further
mark Of recognition, Mr.. Moore was
named vice president for Emery county.
Peter McKinnon, road commissioner
of Rich county, reported that his county
had expended, during the year, Sl5Oo,
mostly for repairs.
A bonding plan is being agitated IN
Beaver county, according OF Orson
Blackner Of Greenville Mr.. Blackner
also reported that Beaver had spent
about $4,000 in 1909.
Work in Sewer.
Old Sewer, whose roads have prob
ably been "cussed' more and harder
than those of any other county in the
state, came to the front with an eX.
cellent report. Road Commissioner Taft
July /, 1908. and July l, 1909, Sewer
had expended $4,000 on her roads. Ten
miles had been graded and eight miles
graveled. Good bridges had been built
across the Sewer. which, while they
were not Of steel, were nevertheless
substantial structurs of saw timbers,
with rock abuttments. Mr.. Taft said
that the people of Sewer were enthu-
siastic for good roads, and that when a
ers for men and teams, there had been
a response so willing that the commits
sioners had been compelled to put out
n "stop' order. And all this was at
50 day, too, half Of the ordinary rates.
It indicated, snid the Sewer man, that
the people of his section wanted good
roads and were willing to make sacri-
fees to get them.
Road Commissioner Brown Of Tooele
reported that his county had 400 miles
of road and had spent $372S.42 last
year,
NJ. B. Steele of Piute said his county
had spent $4,000 on roads and bridges,
$4,000 of which had been spent for n
bridge across the Sewer.
Delegate Sanders of Wayne told Of
the difficulties of road building and
ter. in Wayne. He said the people were
enthusiastic about good roads, but the
eternal problem was how to build
bridges and roads that would not be
swept away by the floods. Ten bridges
had been built in his county during the
year, he said
The Resolutions.
The chief feature of the resolutions,
Of course, was the proposition TO tax
automobiles, the money raised thereby
TO be used for the construction OF in
termountain highways. The states of
the Pacific coast were invited to par.
ticipate in the future conventions of
the association. The preparation of a
memorial to congress by the governors
of the various states and the memorials
TO the legislatures were items of inter
est, The plan to ask the government
for n million acres of land for the
benefit Of good roads is calculated to
bring in large amount of money The
ing power. in future conventions is so
restricted that all OF the states in the
lntermountain association shall have an
equal "show.'' The resolutions pro-
vide that each delegate shall have one
vote, hut that no state shall have more
than thirty votes.
At the conclusion of the conven-
tion's work Chairman Dern made a
brief address in which he thanked the
delegates for the consideration shown
the chair, and also declared that he had
never presided over a gathering of
men, or had ever been n delegate TO
convention, more capable of handling
the subjects before them than were the
delegates to this gathering.
A vote of thanks was rendered Mr..
Dern, Secretary Cannon, Mr.. Jennings
and all who had assisted in making the
convention the success it had proved
to be.
Mr.. Dern announced that he would
take under advisement the matter of
appointing members Of the memorials
committee and that he would advise
his appointees by letter.
Only One "9ROMo oUINiNE"
That Is LAXATIVE BROMO QJJININE
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