Show PERS ONAL COMMENT ON TIMELY TOPICS the colorado legislature has been having a parrot and monkey time lover the attempted passage of a pari mutual racing law accusations of bribery and attempted bribery of a newspaper for support of the bill has caused no end of investigation by legislative committees and it has bag just about disrupted the other deliberations libe rations of the colorado legislative body no matter what is said by the experts about the faun farm surplus sui plus and the advise to curtail crops there still is is no man so poor as the man without a granary full when out of a job the farmer f aimer may not be making anything but think of the poor wage earner who is out of employment the farmer farmei unless being the victim of drouth or hurricane is never an object of charity southwestern colorado seems to be an unrecognized quantity as far as 1931 1031 federal aid road funds go the state road load commission has failed to budget the extension of a single federal aid road load project in that part pait of our sister state for 1931 according to a conversation had with citizens of cortez colo last week just what that great gibat organ iza tion the durango chamber 0 af pf commerce Comm cice is doing or its part of the state we fail to see 1 from this distance we have just finished reading a lengthy deseTta tion on hard times past and present we have beert wondering crine for a long lone time just what acau paused d the present dl depression and how it could be remedied according to the writer of the article they are just a reaction from overly prosperous pa times 1 ak t norma normal 11 in due time without p political ic a 1 or kotlier 0 alic action be this as t may it does docs seem beem t that hat with all our modern linow kinow ledge some scheme should be devised to stop this great alov and ebb in industry it is rumored that the U S forest service has advised local forest foiest officers that there will be no money available adaila cilc for the construction of the elk ridge road load until after july I 1 we ve understood that there was 10 A available for this work if it has been shunted off until after july 1 the service and the corriv all ill lose half of the good that would have ie been done had the work started valo thi the winter moisture mo stura wu wa still jn the ground this spring but then it does not seem that tho the powers that lie be who ho sit ait in their ti often take cognizance of als pl ital aon cendt lations ions hw plait ini Z wok to td be doie under the heading life in moab twenty years ago in last weeks times independent is told of the passage P seagle of the bill in the legislature appropriating money to build the berdg birdge n cross tle the colorado river there with comment on the excitement m ant the nt caused think of it just twenty years ago ti there ere was not a mile of what we now call improved impi oved roads in the whole of eastern utah at that time it took a person the bettor better part of two days hard traveling to go to moab while today can with v ith case yes in in comfort in two hours or less if in a hurry burry twenty years ye ars ago people were beginning beR inning to homestead lands in san juan county when there was no possibility of shipping products to market at a profit today wo we have an improved auto road clear through the county a and n d last week a california truck toured the farms of the county purchasing poultry for the california market arket when farming comes back into its own its as it surely will san juan county will come with it we are no farther from market now than any other community com munty that is not lot adjacent to a big city |