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Show ROADS US H00PE8 WILLBEJMPROVED County Commissioners of Weber Meet Appropriation of District Dis-trict Taxpayers. Special to Th? Tribune. OGDEN". Fob. 7. The offer of the taxpayers tax-payers of the Hooper district to turn over $S00 of a fund originally collected for another purpose, to the Weber county coun-ty commissioners for road repairs, if the county would appropriate a similar amount, was snapped up by the commissioners commis-sioners at the regular meeting this morning, morn-ing, and Instead of appropriating SSOO. the commissioners authorized the expenditure ex-penditure of ?1000 on the county roads at I-iooper, the work to begin immediately. The commissioners formally adopted the plans for the new steel bridge' to be o reeled across Ogden river at the mouth of Ogden canyon by the Utah Light and Railway company, Jn place of the one destroyed several weeks ago by un Ice slide from the pipe line of the company. Admitting Us liability, the light company com-pany had its engineers prepare plans for tho bridge to be erected in place of tho one which was wrecked. Tho plans for the new bridge show a structure of modern mod-ern design, to be built almost exclusively exclusive-ly of steel and to have a five-ton greater capacity than the old bridge. A number of other routine matters were transacted by the board at the regular reg-ular meeting this forenoon. |