THE thic STATE ROAD roan since the str streams earns bave have been so high the state road south bouth between the city and mill creek has been impassible for teams which has been a great inconvenience to the traveling community as well as to those residing in the city who own farms in that vicinity there was no remedy for the evil as it was con sHered impracticable to repair the road till the water subsided for the last eight or ten days the water has receded rapidly and the mud has dried up so far that those these whose duty it is to see after the matter have made the necessary arrangements to have the road put in repair immediately and thara there is a fair prospect that it will be in a condition to be traveled again in the course of a week several jobs of turri lurn the worst places were let on saturday last amounting in the aggregate to some fateen ef teen hundred dollars and others will be let on friday hext next as will be been seen by reference to the advertisement in an other column when those jobb jobs are done the rod road will be quite passable for some time to come tho iho it will require an outlay far exceeding the available means of the county at present to make a durable road across that low flat section of country extending six miles bouth south of this city the expense of keeping up that road heretofore has been great and much of it caused ca ed by the carelessness of individuals who in irrigating their lands have suffered the water to run over ithe the road instead of turning it into the ditches when they had done using it and some have gone so far as to cut deep ditches across f it without complying 0 with the statutes in relation to making midges etc why men are so lawless in reference to these matters we do not know and in our opinion it if those persons who take the liberty to cut impassable ditches across the public roads with out making good and Buffi sufficient clent bridges over them hem were made to honor the law in such cases made and provided by boin bein being 0 compelled to I 1 ay the damage sustained by their unlawful acts they would quit then them after a while try it some of you who are complaining it will do D no harmit harlif harm barm it it doos no good