The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-02-23
GOOD ROADS IN UTAH.

TO dream OF what should be or what
is to be is all very well. Castles in
Spain have always been popular. Put
most people like to get down to pigs
is pigs" SO in the matter Of good
roads for the state of Utah most peo
pie of the state would far rather stick
to the earth than take a mind-aero-
plane and sail into castle of Spain.
However, taking the matter all ia all
castles in Spain become realities on
earth If the proper spirit is taken III
regard to them
Not even the most discouraging.
puckered-up pessimist and reactich-
airy would deny in the abstract that
good roads are good things. The uiffer
ence of opinion comes largely IN how
to get the roads; not on the roads
themselves. SO we believe that proper
hammering away at the chief idea
that good roads will have to come
will result, eventually, in the coming
of those roads and the proper solu
ton of the manner of getting such
highways.
The Salt Lake Telegram has a few
words to say on the matter, and brings
the subject quite near home to us.
The editor takes up comparative
cost of such roads between New York
on the one hand and what would be
the case in Utah. We quote the en-.
tire editorial just by way OF encourage
ment. in spite of the discoura GENE Mt
involved. o.
I'VE have all wanted better roads
in Utah; some of US have thought that
a first class road from Logan TO Pro-
vo and beyond would be not only a
great blessing to the state, but In
bringing the people oftener together
be a great commercial benefit We
have pictured that the Logan family
with its automobile could gently jog
down here in about five hours, take
in Salt Lake for three hours, then
run to to Provo in two hours and then.
leaving Provo at p. m, reach home ut
10 p. m. and feel that theirs has been
a jolly day. or course, like opportuni-
ties would be open to the people of
Ogden, Salt Lake and Provo. A Salt
Lake family could leave at D. M
in the peach season, run up to Brig
ham City, gather in a couple of boxes
OF peaches just picked, and be home
again by 10 p. m. and eat peaches and
cream until bed time There is hardly
any limit to the estimates of the pleas
ure such road could afford Then
could II be extended to st. George.
when cold snap came in the winter
there would be the comforting thought
that ST. George, with its balmy air
its geraniums and humming birds, WIS
Cniy a days ride away.
But the news from New York. or
rather the pitiless figures from there.
are bit discouraging The state has
expended fabulous sums on her reads.
as much more is alrea ly needed for
lepairs. New York City will have to
rebuild $50 miles of roads which nave
been destroyed by automobiles and
the cost will be $4,000 per nile for re-
pairs and $4,000 more per mic for the
coating, or, as they say there. binding,
OF the road with oil and some form OF
bituminous material; thai ON the so.
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vast amount of work must be done to
repair the damage caused by the au-
tos; that the AIS miles of new macad.
am road from New York City to BUT
falo, via Albany. Schenectady, Utica,
Auburn, Syracuse and other cities.
must all be done over at immense ex.
pense.
But then New York state has 5000
automobiles, which OF course have n
large wearing capacity. If they have
done up the New York roads In a year
It viii require hundred years for
the autos in Utah to do the same
4 thing here which IL encouragin. f,,,.