Show GOOD nODS Good reads should be the pride of every ev-ery state and every county and township ship in the state Weber county can fl boast of better roads than most any other county In Utah because of the policy pursued by the present counry i court The county issued bonds some Vtivo or three years ago and the proceeds I so far have been applied almost exclu I slvely on the county roads A tramway engine and cars with several miles of track was purchased and the work of road construction has been greatly facilitated fa-cilitated thereby The policy having once been fixed it is tj foe hoped that l future county courts will follow if lip and extend the present system until every village and hamlet in the county is connected with tho man roads by good byways well macadamized so that any season of the sear farmers can go to and from mar lest despite the mud t No better means offers of employing labor in a public Way than by dbuildinE and if favors are evenly distributed taxpayers will complain less than at any other expenditure of public funds Utah is particularly adapted to the encouragement en-couragement of roadbuilding leciuse of the village farm system vhirh prevails pre-vails here and which should unjpr no circumstances be abandoned At the I Chicago expositipn this village farm i system attracted a great leal of attention atten-tion And economic agricultural cx pents declared that while the land in Utah together with the irrigation system sys-tem made this system specially appropriate i appro-priate that aside from that fact t was decidedly the best means of farming when the holdings were small and that I I the result was to be hIghly cormriended Prof Sanborn formerly of Logan was especially interested in thesubjot of I good roads and his reports on country roadbuilding are very valuable Heals He-als favored village farming and illustrated j illus-trated the methods eniployed in a very elaborate way by maps and charts that attracted worldwide attention The new state of Utah should be S lided by her sister on the north in 1 This matter of roadbuilding The state voted to construct a system of roads into in-to every section so that the people could have the means of going to and fro at once without having to wait the I slow process of county roadbuilding and in two tr three years mote one can i dme freely all over the state on good nvllkept roads With proper encouragement from the state to stimulate the counties to arftlon < in less than ten years Utah can be the pride of the Union so far as roads are concerned Good roads are more essen thaI than public buildings Hence Weper county was wise to spend her moneyon roads n nn II A WALKERS FUNERAL LKERS 1Enu The funeral of fhe late H A Walker J took place yesterday afternoon upder I p the auspices of Weber Lodge unler A F A 11 Lincoln Lodge No 9 Queen City No7 Ogden No 2 Knights of Pythias and the druggists assacla lon of this city from the Presbyterian church The remains were buried in Mountain View cemetery i I was one of the largest attended funerals that has taken place in this tis dty for a long tme The deceased 2 was well and favorably known to a i large circle of friends all of whom iinltod with Ihis bereaved family in mourning his loss air Walker has resided in Ogden for several years but haa long suffered from that dread disease dis-ease consumption Some six weeks ago he started with his family to make an overland trip to Arizona in hopes that his health would improve but death overtook him at St George Mr Walker was in the drug business in this city LOCAL BRIEFS The city was especially quiet all day yesterday I Farmers who have choice apples hav as a rule stored them away waiting an advance in the market Inferior In-ferior goods are quite plentiful The people of this county came to the I rescue of the sugar factory as one man and they would go without sugar I su-gar rather than purchase the imported I article I The chamber of commerce meeting I at the secretarys office in the Reed V hotel this afternoon at 4 oclock should j I not be neglected 1 d Killarney with Miss Katie Emmett i Em-mett will be the attraction at the Grand this evening Killarney is J something in Ogden that is usually well received |