Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-27

people 10 Dullu cnu pay lOr Sucn fnlle OIL
road; the District OF Columbia, 1.459
people to each mile: Massachusetts, has
164 to each mile: New Jersey, 127: Ohio,
50. Utah has people To each mile;
Idaho. .; Wyoming. s. Colorado. II;
Nevada, g.
We are entitled to conclude. then.
that IL a horse can draw on a macad-
amizcd road nine times as much as on
sand OF In mud. that while Idaho. Wy
oming. Colorado. Nevada and Utah arc
hauling with difficulty one ton, eastern
people can haul nine tons The argu-
ment does not stop here. for to haul
nine tons VIC require nine men. nine
wagons. nine teams, nine harness
equipments; nine times the expense OF
feeding horses, wages for nine men.
and the expense of upkcep to same.
Added to this Is the accelerated disad-
vantage OF market and time of transit,
all being vital considerations.
Good roads of the eastern states af-
ford the farmer ready access to tho
early season and carly morning mar
kcts. add annually to his net prospcri-
ty. while his neighbor. remote from
hence nothing represents his annual
net earning.
HAULING SUGAR BEETS.
Last year Utah and Idaho produced
$50. 900 tons Of sugar bcets, which, when
refined, made approximately l94eOo'VVO
pounds of sugar. Dcducting the price
paid the farmers for each ton oil peets
raised IL cost Utah and Idaho nine
times as much to transport this crop
as 1t would have cost Massachusetts
Rhode Island or any other state having
good roads over which 10 trans
port farm products. which can 90 50
nine times az chcaply and easily as
western states Beet-raising Is but one
of the varied Industries OF cur western
states. and, applying the same logic 10
the mining Industry the tonnage hau'
increases to over twelve times this dis
advantage.
Tho actual loss annually from crops
produced will do for the western states
all and more than for eastern states
while standing on the $3,OOO00o stecI
bridge spanning the Ohio river at en-
cinnati recently. L saw an lnouseii"l
procession, loaded with all xmas o'
commodities, going from CoVinstol
XIV, on one side. to Cincinnati on thI
other. There was nothing uhusua
about the variety of vehicles or LOADS
they carried, but there was an unusual
fact that all the products of the neigh
borhood, coupled with the industry
thereabouts. had fully warranted inc
expenditure of 100000 on one bridge
and near by scores Of others almost
as expensive. The butter and eggs the
garden truck and farm products large
ly built that, as also the notable struc-
lures SPANNING the great rivers OF eve
ry other city advanced in industry and
commerce as they are,
Every city west of the Missouri river
nj
has the same opportunity as those ol
the far cast, and with the wealth. OIL
our mines. our sugar beets. and Varieo
farm products, we can build roads as
they do in the east
Chicago can have fresh eggs 1or
breakfas st delivered 30 miles in less time
than the Davis county farmer can drive
I'm from the Hot Springs. The same
applies to all products.
MILLIONS FOR PLEASURE.
Rural townships in the east have
school routes whereby the citizens take
turns in gathering the children in COM
Portable carriages, and with ease and
dispatch carry them to and from
schoolhouses, at whatever distance.
The millions annually being spent fol
pleasure over the highways of Europe
invite us to build roads and share the
benefits.
Three hundred thousand automobiles
are being built this year by eastern
manufacturers, but how many of them
we will own, tax and enjoy In tho west
depends largely upon the building OF
roads upon which the owner will risk
his expensive machine.
One of the best-known road SUBJ
stances is imported from South Amer
lean and other foreign countries. OF
the water thousands OF miles distant
while in Uintah county. Utah. there j:
almost a limitless supply. California
built road to her deposits and Is to-
day supplying Salt Lake City streets
We need IL and the world wants to buy
It, Can't we build a road to 1t? Every
state in the intermountain country has
mutual interests and the bond that has
made firm the union OF states must bt
strengthened by the mutually of oul
common interests. The civilization OF
our times demands action and the
golden empire of the west invites us tc
Join hands with the east. whose roads
have led to the present monuments ol
her industrial greatness.
Late in the afternoon Gov. Spry re-
ceived word from Gov. Brady of Idaho
that he could not be present Gov
Brady delegated to P. G.. Johnston OF
Blackfoot the task Of reading his pa
Der on Friday.