The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-01-27
i EXCITEMENT I'M
TILE CONVENTION
Delegates Up Over Resolution Introduced
by Mayor of Ogden Favoring the Building
Great State Highway.

The Salt Lake Tribune of this morn
ing contains the following account of
The proceedings OF the Good Roads
convention In Salt Lake yesterday:
The reason why the rural districts
voted against the erection oil a state
| capitol in Salt Lake was because Gov
crnor Spry vetoed a few road appro-
/ priation measures last winter. That
is the testimony of r. w. King OF Mil
| lard county
All this came out when William
| Glasmann of Ogden introduced the
following resolution.
Resolved. That IT is the sense OF
this meeting that the Legislature Of
Utah be required to build, under the
direction oil the governor and state
engineer twenty miles of macada-
mizcd road a year. beginning 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 was per-
mittcd Mr. Glasmann opened the
debate, after a suggestion had been
made that the building should begin
in the ccnter OF the state rather than
at Salt Lake.
While Salt Lake is not the geo.
graphical center of the statc.' said
Mr. Glasmann, 1T Is the center OF
population, the center Of finance and
OF bnsinees activity. And we fellows
have got to recognize that fact when
we come down here. We IN Ogden
don't like TO do It, but we have to,
whether we like II or not
Gasmann and Salt Lake.
II you take the country within 4
radius OF 100 miles around Salt Lake.
you will have the people that pay
three-fourths of all the taxes
IF We start this road IL will be their
money that Will start 1t, and II will
be their money that we will finish 1t
with
IF we start II In the middle OF the
state you Will buck up against lobby
from Salt Lake that you can't beat.
What we want to do is to bleed old
Salt Lake as much as we can You
farmers want to come to town In au-
tomobiles and not In OK teams and
mule wagons. 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 Bush OF Tooele said the road,
IL 1t were built only north and south,
would never reach him.
Other delegates spoke ON the reso-
lutions
Unlimited Asphalt ouarres.
In the discussion j r. Sharp of Car
bon county said that he was unouali.
ledly In favor of the resolution. He
said that Utah had the best mate.
rial in the world in the great asphalt
deposits that extend all over the Uin-
tab country and reach as far eastward
as Rock county in Colorado He said
that at Sunnyside there were walls OF
1000 and 1000 feet thick
The rock, he said, was heavily Inn
pregnated with oil, and was far supe-
rlor to the sandy asphalt that was
being brought from California There
is enough asphalt material In that de-
posit, declared Mr.. Sharp. to build the
fipBco'o huNiphol bl6hh lIOul NEW
York 10 San Francisco. and then there
would be enough still to complete all
the roads in Utah. He declared that
the cost would be cheaper by far than
crushed rock.
DR. Fred w, Taylor OF Provo speak.
ing for the Commercial club OF that
city. said Provo was unqualifiedly for
the resolution
You should get it into your mind
firmly, fiXedly." said Dr. Taylor that
sc per cent OF the travel is over 4 per
cent of the roads. II you grasp that
you Will view this proposition differ.
emily
II am only country doctor, but for
twenty years | have been dragging
myself through the mud. It's time
something was done. and | hope To
heaven that something will be done"
htr. King OF Millard then told about |
why the capitol question had been op.
posed by the farmers. Mr Gla6mann
arose to answer some of the questions
raised.
Waste OF Money
Well began Mr. Glasmann, "Pve
been in the legislature in this state.
business comes up every session.
was In the legislature ten years ago.
and we appropriated $4,000 The leg
islature has been appropriating that
much every year. But where is It?
What has been done with Il Have
the roads been improved any by the
appropriations? Not Dit. Why. !
when | Travelled through this state a
year ago on little political matter.
! found the roads In Kane county as
bad as ever Gentlemen, 1t is a waste
of money.
"But / want to correct an impress
sion that seems to have been gaining
ground here, that the resolution pro
poses 10 take away the county appro-
priations. 1t does not. This resolu-
ton morely provides for the building
OF something permanent. not to patch
up something that can't be patched.
why, gentlemen OF the country. II
Salt Lake wants you to take its
money for your roads, take Il /
take all you can get They pay
the taxes. not you. My friend
from Morgan county complains.
What does he complain about? Didn't
the people OF Salt Lake and OGDEN
pay four-flfths OF the cost OF. the road
from his section so he and his neigh.
bors could come to Ogden for their
market? Sure, they did. What kicks
he got coming?"
Governor Spry Explains.
Governor Spry took the stand.
III had my way about IT," said the