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Show How the County Commissioners Neglect the Road to Bingham Editor Tribune Bingham, In common with the rest of the world, Is rapidly becoming be-coming addicted to tho automobile habit, and even longs for Its quota of motorcycles, motor-cycles, for It is a speedy city, any way you take it. and. generally speaking, takes nobody's dust. When Hying machines ma-chines become the regular thing. Bingham Bing-ham will, beyond a doubt, take the lead In utilizing them as a means of locomotion. locomo-tion. This Is not visionary. It has reason rea-son to long to fly with "the sightless couriers of the air." Take a trip over its only outlet (except the railroad) and you will know why even a priest or the temple tem-ple could not possibly throw a vision, on that road; though one who "see things" might see stars while trying to hang on to a wagon seat. Not that this road Is the very worst ever, but there hardly over was one as bad between two such terminals as the great mining ramp of Bingham and the famed holy city of St. Brlgham. The rocky road to Dublin was a drenm. As to traveling In anybody's dust, that had to bo qualified. For lo. these many years Bingham has been taking dust and dirt and promises from successive boards of county commissioners, and with a meekness hard to understand made no protest that went farlhor thnn skin deep. Jn the matter of revenue-giving It has ben like a big sponge, that the county authorities have not hesitated to squeeze, with painful regularity and persistence, while there was a drop to be wrung In tho way of poll taxes, licenses and county taxes. And lo, tho district has nothing to show for it of mure valuo tlmn Its miserably neglected water courses and washouts called roads. The revenue that has been squeezed ! from Bingham district In excess of tho ; value of alleged Improvements returned i would build an asphalt pavement from ' its limits to the Redwood road. And then some. The Redwood road, which connects with the slate turnpike at Murray, Mur-ray, Is creditable. Being discreditable lo the Integrity of the county, this can not be said of the magnificent avenues sur- rounding the Mackcy demesnes and other favored sections not less holy. The eleven miles of road between Bingham Bing-ham and the Redwood thoroughfare Is specially referred to In this article. Numbers Num-bers of mining and business men of Sail Lake venture over it in their aut03 dally for the sake of an outing, preferring to risk the probability of ruined tires and other mishaps rather than make the trip In prosy railroad cars. This disgraceful eleven-mile stretch of county road has in tho years past ruined hundreds of horses and sent tho caravans of freight wagons and other vehicles to tho scrap heap. To this day It follows tho original unsurveyed pack trail, picking pick-ing Us dovlous way around hillocks, over patches of half-buried rocks, hummocks, mudholes and dust wallows throughout its length. During the years that the Yampa smelter piled up alongside of this road an ugly-looking mountain of slag, that the smeller people, being cramped for dump room, were anxious to have taken away, it might have been used for road building. No material Is much better for the foundation of a turnpike than this slug, and as It lies just out of tho limits of Bingham the commissioners could havo put It on the grade with a down-hill haul all the way. But Mr. Mackcy was busy building turnpikes elsewhere. With a good road of easy grade loading load-ing to It Bingham would bo visited by scores of autos every day. ami it would soon double the number of these vehicles It now owns. If "the party that does things" had been plnced In power In the 'county two years ago there Is no doubt It would now bo doing for Bingham what It has been and Is doing for Sail Lake-giving Lake-giving It improvements that were Ignored by tin- blighting old church parties. Bingham should got a move on In Its own behalf. No need to tell lit? people what the American party has done for the capital city in half a dozen years. It excites the admiration of not only all Utah, but of the world. J. B. GRAHAM. Bingham, August .1. |
