Show vir inn roll POLL TAX collection it h now being made ironi from our citizens by tho the road or of tho the poll tax and the those 0 of officials ficiala I 1 por ienco difficulty ia exalting oia payment because ot of the ho ignorance igno inci ranco in ia which the public we are kept ol of tho the uses to which the money is applied tho the poll tax by act of tho legislative assembly is collected lor for road purposes and in salt late lake county it if paid maidby barall oll who liri are subject to tho the tn tit would amount to per annum annon this land be ba applied to building end repairing bri r adges in the county keeping roads roada in repair and conduct edg me tho the water flowing no itice irom from the iho co in permanent channels cha anela abat work la is not efficiently or properly done to fall tho The roads are arc imps impassible ablo halt the year are arc constantly going to decay flames 3 washing out anil and private property properly serious damage from tho the water inter flailing oiling fi now courses and carrying out ont portions tt of cultivated lots lota tho the ronis and bridges in this county aro are in ia chaotic condition nud and the most discouraging feature buthe of the business bus inosa is ia that bit tho the money neuilly nunu illy expanded produces prod no improvement tho the payment of the poll tux tax three dollars annually by each able bodied malo is ia a trilling trifling matter many grumble over the et action and pay it as too ant a matter to lo make trouble over a largo proportion by ono subterfuge or another manago to evade the payment but th the trust of kc the bo roads leading in in and out of the city in good repair is is ol of vital import importance ince to all as all are ire interested nto rested in ia hiving having farm rm products prod nott atad d other supplies freely il ought brought in nt at all seasons of 0 the year anil and c corn am muni cation kept open for who livo live outside ot of the city to have access to our city merchants nt at all times the tight right way to perform this thill work would be ba to have a competent engineer employed by the county on a sufficient salary who would bo be the ito adviser ot of tho the county connly board and should have haro direction of all the worl k dono done upon the county roid rol ds the tha now experienced lind and which everywhere defeat the chaotic efforts brought to bear is 13 in ia keeping the be water ia m its ita proper daring the spring it is constantly conel antly finding now new con conrady racy washing out oat and tearing down antl and rendering worthless caa all the labor that has boon perr performed ormed and this because of the ibe utterly inefficient character of tho the method that is ia pur macd too many temporary bri bridgy are built which arg atra ag 7 ing 0 buus 1 0 IV IQ u too ninny many main roads iro kept open which aro are at certain na s gans of 0 the year impassable is u a canstatt cona con tact struggle between the seventeen roil road mam supervisor a and tilo the elements and nd up to this present wiling tho the latter ime have always borno borne off the victory A beginning is ia wanted ot of bome permanent system wo believe tint that engineering skill could retain a portion ot of tho the water which tiow now runs to witto waste in tho the lakes and upper land and thus obviate the drouth which boea eo Badly adly afflicts the city during the ho summer months then we require channels faced with concrete to prevent kiash asb outs ani aal hold boldt tho the water which flows florb through them instead of attempting to keep up the two or three tarca hundred bridges and viaducts which are merely lai hii I 1 the booso soil and have the quality of the blacklegs little bolor now you teo see it now you dont see BO it a beginning bo be made by building a lew few upon a solid foundation of masonry capable of resisting tho the utmost pressure birc that can bo be brought when tho the flaw is ia the greatest we iivo lavo have not to 9 go 0 into detilla details but can merely point out tho the general features of the only correct and economical plan tint that should bo be pursued tho the work as it la iiii now nov done clone u is desultory incoherent and just intended intended to moot the i pur of the mot moi ment eich each of the seventeen road supervisors we TO believe we are correct about tho the number hu has a district assigned win lim nod and bo 16 is expected to carry out napoleons military poll policy toy and mike the ha war support itself if LO lie is H successful in collecting the tax from a score or so eo of victims vlot imis ha h 0 has a little fund ia a me lia boj poj pocket ot with which to ti go to work lie pur 65 6 5 a few two inoh inoa planks and a few pounds or of nil in sao and marshaling his host of two iwo day naera who py pay tho the tax in ia labor he bo stilts starts on out to put in a flume or raise a now bridge tho the work is is done ifton a Iss bion there being an entire luck lack of mechanical skill in direct director orand aal lands hands end and the ho first heavy rain raia or tho the more mere flow of water washes away away mat all the work and the conviction is again painfully upon Us his mind of tho the total depravity of inanimate things ihen the way these men keep keel accounts with the county board is some come what amusing A supervisors ptsy pay aa u two dollars a day r and ad bo howorko works for the county wo we will suppose litty fifty days in tho year it he is in collecting money from the roii real dents of lis hu bo 10 is led to ply ja ia ch cash and charge the amount in ia his big i OZ current clarren with the hie county but bu 1 if labor is ia tho tb only commodity be can procure ho ho ro bolm buraas himself b i easely by letting tua two day r in men ca work upon hu his own pre property ako tko ia inherent herout of such inch a beetem is apparent ti t ta i all the supervisor is his big own treasurer lets contracts to hime himself elf accepts his own work and the then a audits his hii ow own it accounts at stated periods those road report to the co county anty board and as many MADY of them hem am a ro unlettered rustic rusti cs Band and the sole Eole a otmen men composing the county board rd amro likely tc acl bo be as crude in ia theia iberi of account the vos the leader can seo beo at A glance how bow utterly without protection the public interest is lafland lait tand and he can dieso lieso L once understand why the condition of OC our roads is EO 10 lamentable andin and sati factory occasionally 0 formally tho be chai chunga ngang Bg will be get act to work upon the roads but it Is questionable whether their unpaid labor is u not dot nu an absolute loss to tho the county ioui four or cro guards 1 tro 0 to a prevent ilia m dined fraini running away avay and if wo we figure costol coltof abero guards willi alio damigo done coite to tools by bahe tho wo hite a beauvier licaTi cr lill bill than ilia ha laor labor ot of le ilio it soca payment ot of poll tax is a rendering 0 or f tribute I 1 and we ast sto all and id the oil only remedy lies in D method propone lylla by to a tho the players ti t infirm it we must Uto iuca lo officio alo aia 1 I interest who alo belong to sympathy and od religious belief boli efto to the present nail and who abiol I 1 it no ilin ein to adopt a ow gentilo |