The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-17
TO REPLACE TRAIL
BY AN IDEAL ROAD
Prominent Men of Utah Lead
in Movement for Salt Lake
Ogden Boulevard.
Continued From Page One.

Ings and machinery at the state prison,
who will have charge of the convicts
assigned TO road construction work; r.
Il. Lyman and State Treasurer David
Mattson, of the state highway commits
sloni W. ID. Beers, state road ronstruc.
ton engineer, who viii probably direct
tho work of improving and rebuilding
the road through Davis county; Mayor
John s. Bransford, G.. s. Burton, Frank
Bottcrlll, Sam Ii. Sbarman; Fred Shar-
man, w. ID. Rishel and Ii. r. Postc of
Bakersfield, Cal, Il prominent good
roads expert. The trip was made from
salt Lake in three automobiles. two
furnished by the Sharman Auto com
pany and one by the Boiteril company
At Bountiful the party was Joined by
NJ. NJ. Whitesidcs. chairman of the
Davis county commissioners; John Ford,
member of the board OF Davis county
eommHsi oDers; Charles Bennett. Davis
county road commissioner: Amos Cook.
mayor of Bountiful: j. II. Birmingham,
city marshal AT Bountiful; Joseph A.
E.ldrcdge, president of the Bountiful
Commercial club, and J. H. Grant.
Welcomed in Ogden.
The Bountiful people, in a fourth
automobile, continued with the other
good roads people to Ogden. At Ogden
they were welcomed by Mayor William
GlasmanD, M. S. Browning and other
prominent Ogden citizens. They all
went to the Weber club, where an in
formal conference was held.
AT this conference ii developed that
with what would be expended by the
state and the various counties Of the
state. nearly $4,000, 900 would be spent
IN road Improvement and construction
during the next two years. OF this
amount Sl20,0O0 comes from the direct
20 the state highway COM
mission. This will be apportioned to
the various counties of the state which
make application for money for road
building. In order for the county to be
eligible TO participate in this fund 1T is
necessary for it to appropriate money
from Its treasury for road construction
and Improvement. Counties of the first
class must duplicate the appropriation
made by the state for road construction
Ill those counties. Counties of the sec
ond class must appropriate one half the
amount apportioned to those counties by
the state. All other counties must ap
propriate one. fourth of the sum appor-
toned by the state to those counties,
Division Of Expenses
The recent state legislature au
thorized bond issue of $260000 for the
purpose of road construction and I'M
provement Of this amount So 900 will
be apportioned to each of the twenty
six counties of the state, outside of Salt
Lake county. Each precinct of every
is authorized 20 levy special
tax not to exceed five mills for road
majority of the taxpayers vote to in
crease this tax greater levy may be
made.
The value of convict labor on the
roads of the state is estimated at $3.50
600 per year. The state will furnish
the convicts for road work to the coun-
ties making application for them. The
state will clothe the convlcts, provide
shelter and guards for them and tools
will be required to pay for their meals.
This will amount to only 80 cents per
day per capita.
After the conference in Ogden the
good roads men returned to Salt Lake,
stopping en- route at Kaysville. Here
they were welcomed BY j. G. M. Barnes,
president of the kaYsville Commercial
club; Senator Christopher Burton, Jr..
and other prominent Kaysville citizens. |
At meeting held at kaysville MI;
Barnes and Senator Burton announced
that Kaysvlle and Davis county were
in line with the good roads movement,
and would assist materially In the eX,
tensive road improvements planned,
Spry Springs a Joke.
Governor Spry startled his audience
by declaring that Davis county was go
ing wet He relieved the tension when
he said that Davis county was soon TO
install a new road sprinkling system
that would be one of the best In the
Mr.. Barnes suggested that ii
Davis county were "wet," perhaps the
rest of the state would come to Davis
to spend its money.
At Pennington the party stopped for
dinner at tho Commercial club, where
they were the guests of Mayor a. l..
Cook. Here the Davis county commits
sioners announced their plans for an ex
tensive sprinkling system for the roads
of the county, Governor Spry told of
the plan to establish two camps for CON
victs employed in road construction.
One camp, with forty or fifty convicts,
will be at the northern end of the coun-
ty, and another force of like size will be
quartered at camp in the southern
part of the county.