The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-01-28
H. salt t1akc rrlbune Of this morn:

proceedings at the Goto ''''' con
vcntion Thursday.
,cuuam Glasmann, mayor oil ogden
IRA Ia n fighter when ne Sets any
SUI In his head In which he believei
ts right. Up in ogden they say
Iso, GIasmann is all the while being
INo,od 10 something or other because
no Is the only man In town who ever
starts" anything
Mr. GIasmann started something in
,,o Good roads convention Wednesday
80 he introduced a resolution call
,, mon The legislature TO pass a law
,,IdInq for the building OF twenty
Pns- of permanent highway running
.th and south from Salt Lake every
oar mill the Idaho and Arizona boun'
dam lines nre reached
Tbis resolution came up again
Thursday. Mr Steele OF Iron county
moved a substitute resolution that the
i"et.lature enact 4 law providing for
tho surveying and plating OF perma,
1a,, state roads. the number of miles
~ which to be built each year in ac-
oardnnce with the amount OF revenues
Tho state has available for the pur-
Eliminates Two Countiee.
Mr. Glasmann spoke to this substi~
,ute He offered to accept an amend
mont that the resolution read that
weber county and Salt Lake county pc
excluded from the provision of the
law.
II want to start this permanent
road somewhere. but / want TO start
n at once Some OF you fellows have
col IL into your head that Salt Lake
and Weber counties are behind this
business with some kind OF an Interior
scheme OF their own.
Now, gentlemen that Is not so.
y,ant TO tell you that Weber county is
building q magnificent road from the
Davis county line TO the Box Elder
county line. and doesn't need any help
To do IT, | am told by the mayor of
salt Lake that the city Will build, not
a macadam road from Sale Lake City's
limits to the Davis county line. but an
asphalt paved highway Mr.. Mackay,
the county commissioner. has just told
you that Salt Lake county has good
roads TO the south, and therefore |
take II that Salt Lake county Will take
care OF the southern end OF the coun-
ty,
Therefore. gentlemen. i amend my
resolution excluding Weber county and
Salt Lake county from the operation
oil this proposed law. And am WILL
ing to start at the Utah county line
on the south"
This outburst was received with
great applause.
Wants to Start.
I'm the last fifty years" continued
Mr Glasmann, "the sum of moro than
three millions Of dollars has been ap.
propriated for roads in this state.
Where is 1t Show me what benefit
this has been.
III We had started fifty years ago
what We are trying 10 start now,
wouldn't we have road-lots of them
In this state that We could be proud
of And ! want TO tell you. gentle
men. that II we don't start now. right
cow. we Will be as bad off as we were
fifty years ago. And that's no lie.
Gentlemen, / am in earnest In this
matter. Those who thought | intro
ducod this resolution yesterday just TO
give an opportunity TO myself and
lot of other fellows TO let off steam.
are mistaken. | never was more earn
est in my life. know what good
roads mean, and | am for them. and
this is the time TO begin. II we can't
build twenty miles a year. let's build
one, but let's build that one we'll Let's
make a start In heavens name
Legislature Not Dumb.
IF you don't like the word ma
cadamize. cut IL out Macadamlze
may mean anything II doesn't mean
HAT any particular kind Of material
is 10 be used, nor how 1t shall be put
on. Let's give the legislature some
thing to say about IT, They're not
ienoramuses. They know what is the
best method and where is the best
place.
But | want TO tell you, gentlemen.
that If we don't specify what we
want-precisely what We want-we
Will get nothing. You know enough
about legislatures to know that this
VIII be the case II has been the case
always when we have asked the leg
lsature for something and left 1t to
them to do the best they can What
We need to do is TO say what We want,
End then get it
To Let Appropriations Stand.
Mr.. Olasmann realized that all the
opposition directed toward his resolu-
ton had behind IT the jealousy of the
rural people with reference 10 their
biennial road appropriations
Now, gentlemen said Mr. Glas-
mann. III | put into this resolution
n provision that this plan we have
suggested Is not to interfere with any
regular appropriations for roads and
bridges-such as YOU have been get
tiDg-will you accept it2"
But 1lr. Steele would not accept it,,
and the matter was temporarily dis
posed OF when motion prevailed that
the Glasmann resolution and the
Steele substitute be sent 10 the COM
ton.
Salt Lake City. Utah, Jan. pa
noble highway connecting the capitals
Of three western states Is the vision
conjured by resolution adopted by
the Good Roads convention today IL
reads:
Resolved; That this convention
do mcmorialize the legislatures of
the states of Wyoming. Utah and Ida
no 10 pass such laws as shall be ncces-
sary for the laying out and construct,
Ing within these several states a road
10 be known as the Trl-state highway,
connecting the capitals of the states
OF Wyoming, Utah and Idaho, and TO
that end appoint committee OF three
from each state from the delegates