Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1920-02-20
FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 20, 1920.
TIME TO GET MAD!
G OMETINlES there is justification for good, healthy

@ OMETlMES there is justification for good, healthy
- anger and resentment; sometimes it serves
good purpose to get right mad all over and tell
people who trying to impose upon us where to
head in at" We believe such an exigency exists
right now with the people of Iron and Washington
counties in their relation to the State Road Commls-
sion. We never were in such predcament with our
roads before The road between Lund and Cedar
City is a state road. 1t is also Government Post
road 1t is the only route. practically. which the
people of Iron and Washington counties have to
depend for the freight express, mail and passage
back and forth to the railroad. 1t is and has been
for practically a monitor at least considerable
portion of it has been--a veritable bog hole that
to use popular vernacular. would mire saddle
blanket" Scarcely any freight has been moved for
a month. and with 500 tons or more stacked up in
the depots or occupying cars on the siding, the road
is refusing to accept shipments for this section OF
country The people are insisting that the truck men
bring in their stuff in which they in sore need,
and when they try their machines are stuck in the
mud and have to be deserted and the drivers walk
for miles to find shelter Mails fail to make connec-
ton good portion of the time. delaying important
correspondence The mail contractor has had to
resort to horses to move the mail at all. part OF the
time, and has been forced to pay as high IS cents
per hundred pounds to get the parcel post mail hauled
80 miles.
And while the people of the southern counties
are here in this predicament. facing actual suffering
for the want of merchandise that they cannot reach
on account of road conditions. they comforted
with the thought that the state road commission and
the federal department of roads spent practically the
entire summer and fall in surveying and resurveyng,
estimating and dickering back and forth as to kind
of road to build cost per mile, and method of
strucon, without arriving at anything definite.
and they are still at it. Just the ball in this in
terestng little game of lawn tennis is the federal
roads departments side of the net and we are waiting
for its return to see what the next counter will be.
while the people suffer on account of the woefu in
efficiency of these departments
In this way, and in the construction of power
line paralleing the Arrowhead trail, considerably
approximately $4,000 of Iron county's allotment
of State road funds, amounting to ST. 10000 has
been spent only about So 900 going into actual road
improvements. What little relief we have obtained
has come since {. H. Bigelow, practical road man
and engineer. was placed in charge.
Don't you think i is about time the people of
southern Utah got mad and gave the road officials
to understand that they were not going to endure
this sort of thing any longerp public meeting, or
meetings should be called at once, and vigorous pro-
tests forwarded to the persons responsible for this
inefhciency and delay with demand that they send
trucks and equipment to Lund by rail at once and
surface this road so that it will be OF some service
to the eight or ten thousand people absolute de-
pendent upon it,