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Show H TIME TO GET MAD! SOMETIMES there is justification for good, healthy anger and resentment; sometimes it serves a H good purpose to get right mad all over and tell ()coplc who arc trying to impose upon us "where to icad in at." We believe such an exigency exists H right now with the people of Iron and Washington H counties in their relation to the State Road Commis-1 H sion. We never were in such a predicament with our H roads before. The road between Lund and Cedar H City is a state road. It is also a Government Post H , road. It is the only route, practically, on which the H people of Iron and Washington counties have to H ' depend for the freight, express, mail and passage B back and forth to the railroad. It is and has been M for practically a month or at least a considerable H portion of it has been a veritable bog hole that H to use a popular vernacular, "would mire a saddle-M saddle-M I blanket." Scarcely any freight has been moved for M a month, and with 500 tons or more stacked up in H the depots or occupying cars on the siding, the road H is refusing to accept shipments for this section of H country. The people are insisting that the truck men H bring in their stuff in which they arc in sore need, H . and when they try their machines are stuck in the H mud and have to be deserted and the drivers walk fl for miles to find shelter. Mails fail to make connec- H tion a good portion of the time, delaying important H correspondence. The mail contractor has nad to H resort to horses to move the mail at all, part of the B - time, and has been forced to pay as high as 75 cents H per hundred pounds to get the parcel post mail hauled H 33 miles. H And while the people of the southern counties B . are here in this predicament, facing actual suffering H for the want of merchandise that they cannot reach H on account of road conditions, they are comforted H with the thought that the state road commission and H the federal department of roads spent practically the H entire summer and fall in surveying and resurveying, H estimating and dickering back and forth as to kind H of road to build, cost per mile, and method of con- H" struction, without ever arriving at anything definite, H and they are still at it. Just now the ball in this in-H in-H teresting little game of lawn tennis is on the federal H roads department's side of the net and we arc waiting H for its return to sec what the next counter will be, H while the people suffer on account of the woeful in- H efficiency of these departments. H In this way, and in the construction of a power H line paralleling the Arrowhead trail, considerably H approximately $68,000 of Iron county's allotment H of State road funds, amounting to $110,000 has H been spent, only about $8,000 going into actual road H improvements. What little relief wc have obtained H has come since C. H. Bigclow, a practical road man H and engineer, was placed in charge. H Don't you think it is about time the people of B southern Utah got mad and gave the road officials H to understand that they were-not going to endure H this sort of thing any longer? A public meeting, or H meetings should be called at once, and vigorous pro- H tests forwarded to the persons responsible for this H inefficiency and delay, with a demand that they send H trucks and equipment to Lund by rail at once and H surface this road so that it will be of some service H to the eight or ten thousand people absolutely dc- H pendent upon it. H (ten |