Show TOl FOR GOOD ROADS UDUSE BILL NO bY lr t Rob Roberts erts an act In furtherance o of good oads In the state Is I measure measure that Uta t contains much or of merit It If it should become a law Jaw It js Is le to be lieve that it would reb lt inmany In fro t a s of r th the commonwealth alth And everybody who has had tile the misfortune over them during c certain s or of the year ear knows ws that they stand hi sore need or of Some ot of the salient features dt the Roberts bill are The working ot of con convicts sentenced to serve ten ears yeats on the roads and an appropriation appropriation or of 1000 to count lit in all nh to be used only on condition that the county spends alike a like sum on the roads Many ran people ivill un undoubtedly doubt edly to tl tlc convict labOr tea fea turo tUrc It seems to us that such objections can only be or of a s charac character ter Time The convicts In road material and in putting it down as contemplated b by the bill would be dOln doing that which w uld not t b done by free labor This for the reason that the counties have hae not the nion money y with which to employ tree free l or he pro provision vision islon that each county must spend as a mud much as the state s Is 18 an id d on one It is a working out ot o othe the that only those should L be helped who h Ip s Another c excellent feature time tho bill billIs I Is the provisIon that before any tn work worl is done In whole or in part at the ex cx pE Pease or of thE state all estImates es spec specIfications and plans for such work must bo be submitted to and and approved by the state engineer This wil In a large measure t tho graft that has so often orten played it a part partin in the use or of state f lands for road pur purpose purpose pose County have a little habit or of giving the work to po political utica favorites and they never care car whether it is well done or Sometimes indeed the work is not done at all but the r favorite sets gets the money mone The bie biennial n appropriations for or roads and bridges In this state have thus become ina measure mini miniatures of the rivers amid harbors bills pa passed ed by congress coun s rep representative or representatives in the legislature are adjudged good or bad representatives acc according as they get much or little ot of the roads and bridges fat Four Utah Lake We Weber Webar bar ber Cache and at I least cast 75 per cent of the state taxes There is no equity equit In taking the money from these counties and distrIbuting it in other counties the returns are I out of all proportion to expendi expenditure ture The Roberts bill bilI will in a meas measure ure nrc solve sole this problem It starts with aU all the counties on an equal footing I If some or of the counties do not use their appropriatIon on th the dollar for tor dol do dollar dolar lar basis counties may apply for more of the money and If there are more applications than mone money a pro rata distribution is provided for |