| Show TO IMPROVE ROADS OF representative CITIZENS HEAR wellington LOUCKS good roads associations special train will visit ogdan and may give demonstration at a meeting held at the weber club last evening action was taken which Is the beginning of a movement for better roads in weber county there was a large attendance of representative citizens of the county and all were united in favor of the plans outlined by wellington loucks organizer of the good roads association who was present the meeting was called to order by 0 B gilson president of the webar club mr loucks then addressed the meeting setting forth the history of the good roads association and telling how it was given birth while mr dodge was attending in des iowa a meeting of the charities and corrections association dealing with the health an etor mation of the criminal class v that meeting mr dodge proposed that criminal labor be used on the public roads but the matter met with objections from those who were present who said that such a move would militate against the honest laboring clas so immediately mr dodge set about to find an avenue of putting in operation his ideas as to the necessity of improving country roads and the manner in which they should be improved the result was that the road department part ment wan made a part of the national agricultural department and out of that has grown with the government assistance the good broadi association in states that have given thought to the matter poll tax has been abolished as a fraud and a farce and in different counties where prisoners were used they were used on the stockade plan mr loucks aid that there were over miles of roads in the country of which only are improved new york has appropriated per year for the improvement of its roads and there la now a proposition on foot to form a permanent fund of for the permanent improvement of roads texan has raised over in bonds tor good roads in addition to the states named mr loucks gave a long list of states that have taken the matter up and are working along the i lines suggested by the leaders of the movement the speaker stated that the god roads special would reach ogden on mav mr loucks said that it was essential that the people here bear the expense of those aboard the train for the day they were to be in ogden which would amount to the matter was taken up by those pros mt by first organizing and judge dee was made chairman of the meeting warren watus secretary and fred stevens treasurer billy allson then stated that he favored the proposition RS did joseph william van alen 0 B gilson and county commissioner madsen archie bigelow then moved that an invitation be extended to the good heads association to meet with the people of ogden on may the motion was unanimously carried on the three sessions will be held at 1030 a m 2 p m and p m ogdon will be the third stop from chicago mr loucks spoke entertainingly of ahe attractions of ogdan and especially complimented county commissioner wilson on the magnificent driveway up ogden canyon he said that be could hardly understand why with suc i a fine example before them the people had failed to build similar roads the county inasmuch as it h ad been demonstrated that there was an abundance of fine material such as limestone and cementing clay to be found in the mountains iho next meeting will be hild evening next at which time the different committees will report bialer it may be arranged to havo the good roads train with all machinery aboard stop here and construct a model mile this train carries crushers screens road making machinery and those aboard pay heir own expenses and simply ask the lo 10 cu committee eliat the material ca tho construction of the road be and common labor paid for mr loucks fald that they had already induced the railroad companies to make reduced rates for ogden on the day of the convention on the 0 may following are the names of the committees appointed at the meeting hold last evening C R official secretary of the organizing committee committee on invitation william glasmann C R hollingsworth T H davis william van alan joseph stanford n II 11 goddard 0 B gilson 0 1 stilwell finance committee W G allson J C nye J W abbott committee on arrangements 0 B madsen aiex brewer T H carr A P hebbs A B mosley A P biec low will burt committee AH members of the weber club and the following preston blair harriott L B hiim mond roy da id mckae W ij stewart warren lyman skeen plain city george W bramwell plain city charles ogden llonart arat weber N montgomery north ogden M L mar liott marryott Marr lott A R C smith north R 0 north ogden I 1 M nelson huntsville thoma weber henry fu ler liberty A M van der vlies og dou W J parker roy john C child roy L W shurtleff lff N W bostaph E J marshall jesse cowets hooper W G braeun pleasant view alma ieves uintah L J taylor harris hilll 0 john T beebo tempi 0 short parr west archibald dr west weber lowe willard prank Stratford 7 wll fon J J cortez birch creek william stimpson birch creek chairman of each together with the ot fichs |
