, 1920-07-01
Good Roads Idea
Is Successful
Much Was Accomplished and a Great
Precedent Established, Says 10
cal Good Roads Booster.

The Sun has received the following
communication from l. NJ. CONFESS, the
Platte Valley member of the advisory
board of the Carbon County Good
Roads Association:
E~ncampment. June 30, 1920.
On behalf of President l.. l.. Newton
of the Good Roads Association of
Wyoming. | want t. thank the people
of Saratoga and Encampment for the
way they turned out in answer to his
call. and for the great amount of good
work they did on that day.
In this end of Carbon county l should
Judge that not less than o bitches,
culverts, mud holes. w%ashouts. etc.
were put in shape, besides the great
amount of rock picked and thrown out
of the roads. THE BEST DAYS
WORK THAT EVER WAS DONE IN
CARBON COUNTY. is what County
Commissioner Robt. T. Wood called it,
and SO say We. all of us. This, too,
is just II starter. Next year we will
accomplish at least twice as much. with
the help of our experience this year and
better organization to aid us. | feel
that just as good work was done on
private roads Us on the main county
roads. The best part of it all was that
it was like using a fine-tooth comb
it cleaned up every little out-of-the-way
hidden trouble, that usually would be
overlooked.
Your county commissioners have
found their office very far from being a
snap this year. The road money comes
from the general fund of the county.
and because of the high prices of ev-
erything and the increasing demands
for road work during the past year, the
general fund. II the road and bridge
fund, which is part of it. We're very
heavily overdrawn last year, and Car
bon county was issuing certificates of
indebtedness early this spring. A little
larger tax levy last year would have
avoided this, but they acted with the
praiseworthy desire to keep the taxes
down and they kept them down n little
too much, not having enough money to
run the county. Consequently, they
have not been able to do the road work
this year that they would like to do,
or that the people demand.
Road work is very expensive these
days, and we are years behind in get
ting started at it in earnest, but now
that we have begun right, l am sure it
will 90 on.
Perhaps the work that was most APP
preciated of all was the dragging of the
roads, in spite of their hard condition.
| had not intended to mention the
name Of anyone, for the reason that
where so many did well it would take
a whole page of he newspaper to give
their names. But l believe that we all
ought to know hat Roy c.. Peck drag
ged Ii county oad grader behind his
truck down to Walcott on Tuesday and
back to Saratoga on Wednesday. This
road, by far the most used one I'll our
end of the county, was in simply hor-
rible condition from ruts and cross
gulleys. The only pity is that there
was not n rain to soften the dirt so
that he could have accomplished more.
Another year we will try to have the
date OF the Good Roads Day put for
ward at least a month, so that the soil
may be more moist and work better,
and also to avoid the attention of our
little friends the mosquitoes, who made
life miserable for many Of us and by
their entirely unsolicited attentions cut
down the amount of work hat could
have been don't on that day.
One more and very important thing