Eastern Utah advocate. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1895-1915, 1914-10-15
CAUSE OF BETTER
ROADS IS URGED
BOx ELDER RECEIVES PRAISE
FRoy SPEAKERS
Every County Of Utah Represented
~ Convention Held In zion--cov-
crnor spry Pledges support TO the
Good Roads Movement.

Every one o. the twenty
counties Of Utah was represented BY
n delegate at the good roads COM en-
ton at Salt Lake City last 1hurrdhy.
The meeting. called for the purpose
Of giving rousine boost 10 the cause
Of better highways IN this stRte. wAs
presided over BY W. y. Jensen. pssfi-
dent Of the Salt Lake Commercial
club and principal promoter of the
gathering.
Jenaen pleaded the cause Of good
roads IN his opcplng speech aud asi,-
81 delegates from other parts Of the
state 10 take home the message tina.
they should profit BY the examine %
Iiox Elder county. which was crisa.
croased by roads % the best type and
where every facility ~ extended 20
the farmer for transporting his PROF.
uctH 90 market
The building OF railroads he dc-
clareL. followed the building % good
foads-the tonnage figuring IN ''fana-
portation records 81 each district was
the principal Item considered ~ the
railroads In passing upon branch iine
projects
AFR. Jensen said that he would bond
the counties and impose a tax fof
road building and declared that a
complies system 81 good roads would
save much money 10 the farmer and
country merchant In the long run.
Governor Addresses Meeting.
Governor spry pledged hls support
10 the good roads movement and de-.
ciarcJ himself heartily In favor Of
any project looking 70 the hcttsrment
lof highways within tne state. The
governor nid;
what We are more In need OF now
than anything else IL system OF re-.
pair work for roads already conatruc.
ted. box Elder county has taken the
lead In this work and has developed
such systematic methods that the
cost Of dragging roads IN that county
| n but aevcnty-fivc cents a mile. This
IL a remarkably low cost. but the
sar1e thing can be accomplished In
other counties Il the same efforts are
lput forth.
much OF the money spent Cor
good rssds al present Il wasted by
reason OF the farmers destroying the
roads through over-irrigation. We
ARE corrtrntH being told Of shortage
LOT water. yet In every irrigation dis
ltrict % the state there n hardly n
road that has not been ruined by the
flooding from irrigation ditchen Men
who do this sort Of thing. who allow
water from their lands 70 destroy
public property. should be prosccu-
ted 10 the full extent OF tho law"
The governor fi,id that ne was glad
10 see the good roads nplrlt growing
IN the state OF Utah. hut added that
Utah Vas not tagging In tho matter
Of road building. IN fact. he anid. out
side OF California this state has spent
more money Tor good roads than any
other state In the West In conrlu.
sion Governor spry said;
Il am IA favor OF counties bonding
themselves for The purpose OF build
ina good roads. tho same an Bon Ell
der county has done. This county n
Eolne a. the good roads movement In
the right manner aud will realize
most profitably ON lie t2oQ. 900 invest
ment There IN no reason why tho
other counties cannot do the same
thing. The outlying districts are the
most In need OF good roads I am
with you In this movement"
G. y. Adams OF Salt Lake. W. n.
Harvey. commissioner OF WAaatch
county; william Mecka mayor OF
Kanab. and Thomas Judd Of 81
George were among the other speak
ers TO give a boost 10 the good roads
movement.