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Show Good Roads For Cache. If thero Is one thing that Is badly needed by the farmers of Cache County, It Is better roads, and how to get them has been a great problem for some time. Good roads cost money and evidently the necessary wherewithal where-withal lias not been handy In this part of tho State. Other counties have good roads however and, It seems not altogether impossible that Cache's could be Improved A certain township we have in mind had at least one energetic man who was thoroughly Inoculated with the Idea or good roads and what that man has been ablo to do might bo duplicated dupli-cated by others as energetic. T,hls township of which we speak had-vos bad roads to start with as could well be Imagined but undaunted by tills, our good roads advocate went to work, and the first thing on tho program was to Induce the county board to buy a gratel pit; then ho urged every farmer farm-er to haul a load of gravel homo every time ho passed the pit and put it on thejroad in front ofjiis own farm. Once begun, tho farmers saw what an improvement gravel Is over the annual an-nual scraped back, wormout earth. Tho board then purchased two moro pits In different parts of tho township and, at tho suggestion of our good roads advocato, offered $1 a day to farmers with teams to haul gravel In the winter and place it on one side of the road ono winter and on tho other sldo the next. The first winter tho farmers turned out strong, and the town had to pay for 2,700 days' work, which was a big starter. Each year for several years tho township has mado an appropriation of from $1,000 to $1,800, and today practically all of tho roads of tho township are graveled. This is a cheap but a sure way to get better highways, not, of course, equal to those scientifically built by the use of road machines, but a big Improvement over scraping tho dust and mud from tho ditches into tho roadway every year. |