The Greeley tribune., 1910-09-22
WANT BETrER ROADS
IN THIS COUNTY

Omen letter to the Board of County
Commissioners:
Centlemep:-As citizen OF TINS
county and taxpayer | wish TO ask
vhy the roads of this county are not
IN better shape? Whose fault Is 1t
that 100000 per year makes sucn
little showing on our roads!
want to know and the people want to
know. Our roads are in poorer shape
than any of our sister counties. Are
Ne short of money. or short of man
agement?
am sure that every automobilist
and every other citizen who has q
chance to get over in Larimer county
and get a taste OF good roads would
like to hear from you gentlemen. 1
believe you owe it to your constitu-
ency to place the road situation
sQuarely before them and give them
. chance to remedy things II It Ia
not in your power. will cite one
case that can be duplicated by q
thousand. A certain bridge less than
= mile from Greeley on a road over
which nearly eight hundred vehicles
pass a day has square drop of
nearly eight inches at the end of the
bridge. This drop has been there
for the last six months. Every auto
must slow down to the stopping
point for it and every buggy, wagon
aad bicycle and still the damage
done these vehicles from such a Jolt,
to say nothing of the time lost in
-s1owing down for it would for each
days damage done pay man for fix
ing the place ten times over, and the
drop has been there for over six
months. wearing deeper every day
and more likely to be there six mon
tbs more than it is to be hlled up,
Judging from the past experience. 1t
could be fixed in less time than it
takes me to tell about 1t. might
- well go out and do it instead Of
writing about it, but 1t is not my
basiness, it is yours. Why don't
you do it? The people would like to
know why you don't do 1t!
A man with a cheap auto. a shovel.
hatchet. spikes. . few boards and
. saw could fix the worst jolts on
oar principal roads In q weeks time.
Suppose we try thi. experiment. II
II fails we have only lost about Ave
hundred dollars worth of auto. This
would be cheap experience compared
to our five thousand dollar roller we
boaght several years ago which for
Donths past has stood in the road by
Lncerne.
An experienced young auto driver
has Just been killed In trying to cross
tAs u P. railroad track at one OF the |
8ast dangerous crossings possible to |
make. But this same dangerous
eRossing in duplicated at Camfielc
snA one or two other places in the
esanty. Why should 4 county road
- made to climb to the top OF these |
great embankments instead Of rum
n1ng through them? Why gentle
Dsn. did you not see to It that the
sn0pany bridged your wagon road?
This would have left you . good
rad and . safe road. II this can
yet be done see that 1t is done. In
closing let me ask why 10 1t that all
he good roads in Weld county are
ost on the wild prairie where NO
money has been spent ON them?
Why is it when you break up these
roads and grade them II you hap
psa to leave some native prairie
Hext to the fence the teams will leave
Joar nice costly graded roads and
fDee the danger of a wire fence to
~ . smooth place to travel? Some
tlliag 10 wrong gentlemen. You must
k10W this ~ we'll Al I do. Your
Aethods of road work seems to me
DsRewhat antiquated- You are
aSiving the old county wagon in the
Euts that were made yearB ago by
farmer drivers. Pull out of the rut
1ee . while and We will nnd 1t
.0other travelling.
A TAXPAYER.