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Show GOOD ROADS SUGGESTIONS. We are glad to print the following, from a Tooele county citizen, on t he-subject he-subject of gooel roads, and to endorse with emphasis his suggestion that "political "po-litical aspirants and pollth al Posses should keep their handH off these things He-re Is Mr. James's letter Vernon. Tooela Co.. Jan. fi. i in ir Tribune: Noticing un article In the SOmlWoekiy of tho 2oth ultimo. "National Good RoadV this Is one of the greatest quebtl.na that face the farmer and the general gen-eral ruhllc. e:3d roads, good ?lreet, good sltawnlluL ll In true that t'tah made a vary bad move In rexurd to this prablam Ittsl summer Theo mjI Itlc u I naplmnts and political boSSSS should keep their hands oft those, things that can be done better by those of Imgcr notoriety Inaleud of so much hlKh-s'-undlng cti.en-tlon cti.en-tlon nnd railroad expense, why not put some of this money t,j build a test piece of good road In the State to pro c Its actual value io the traveling; public? A few miles of such a roud would be an actual object lesson that SVery bodj would take notice of, and when one community will have such a good road l be neighboring communities will see Its great benefit and they will soon be rivals In making ma-king one better And to commence, why not build a gool road between the town and tie railroad station, or sny other Important olnl ef tmfTiC. and as these aro added to from year to year the country will uoon have good serviceable ser-viceable roadi throughout Its main business ;ectlons. l""or the success of such a movement It seems to me that the people who have to continually use the roads for their buslni is should be the ones to take a leading; part In the good roads movement, and to make a stait In the movement for goood roads 1 would suggest sug-gest that if ther.- is a public roa.i correspondent correspond-ent in each' county they would bring the matter mat-ter before, the public through lh-lr cutintry papers and k who can make the nn.Kt fsasl-ble fsasl-ble plan for the improvement of our public highways. Y hy not have a goed roods convention In Salt I-aleo during tho next State Kalr. when lhe people from all over the Slate and from other States will be here and they could afford af-ford to attend ont or two such meeting! without extra expense? WALTRU JAM FS The suggestion for 0 Good Uoads convention In connection with the state Fair i.-. excellent. The further invitations invita-tions for practical means to get good roads, and to build some test pieces of modern roads, on the best patterns, are also good. The Tribune will make a suggestion just here and now, which Is In fact a renewal Of what we have proposed hitherto; whlcb 18, that the County oiiimlsisoners appropriate no more of the money for road repairs, but leave those to be attended to by the road su-pervlsore su-pervlsore In the several districts. The moneys usuaii appropriated for foad repair-" should be used only for permanent perma-nent work such as putting in Iron bridges, and adding year by year to model road-making. Even if no more than two or three miles a year of expert ex-pert road-making is completed, in the I course of years this would make first J class roads In many of the counties, j and the people would not be In the least discommoded; In fact, they would pay no more for the good and permanent roads than they now pay for temporary tempo-rary makeshifts and continual bad roads. Ttke Salt Lake county for an example. exam-ple. There has for thirty years been spent in money from public taxation aft average of forty thousand dollars a year. There Is $1,200,000 gone, with absolutely ab-solutely nothing to show for the money the ret-ids iverage worse than In former times. But that Is enough money to have made roads e(1u;l to the old Roman Ro-man roads, and enough mileage of them, so that there would now be no Good Roads question for the people of the county of Salt lake. |