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Show I o Saratoga Road To Be Turnpiked Saratoga to lie Made (Jieat lteiort and a Valuable Asset to Lehi. Oeorgo Austin enmo down from Salt Lake City and met with tho Commercial Commer-cial Club, Wednesday evening. Tho club took up tho question of completing com-pleting tho road from Lehi through tho Holds to tho Springs, so as to mnko It a boulevard for both buggies and automobiles. Last year n committee from tho ciub associated with one from the fanners did several hundred dollars worth of work and grnded most of tho dlBtunco from the county road, near Israel Evaus' iarm , to tho Springs. The' county surveyor did tno engineering and many fences were .moved back, so as to mako It a straight four-rod Btrcot. Tho augur company did sovoral hundred dollars worth of tho improvements. llowovor, tho worst part of tho road was never complotcd, and It Is tho Intention In-tention now to comploto this piece of road, and when all completed tho county promises to take It over nnd maintain It, Tho committee will mako an effort to do tho Job early noxt wook. It Is suggested that every nutomoblla own. or contribute money sufllclont to employ em-ploy ono man ana a team for oilo day, which, with tho asslstauco jf twenty or thirty farmers for ono day ouch, would comploto tho Job. Mr. Austin stated that tho now owners own-ers plnnnod to mako the Saratoga 8prlngB tho greatest resort In tho West. That within two years street cara would bo running there, and that within llvo years hundreds of suburban subur-ban homes would bo built on thn lake front thero, and thnt tho resort would b tho most valuablo asset that Lelil over had. lor tho present It Ih planned to muko tho resort an attractlvu place for aulomobllo pnrtles from Salt l.uke City, but primarily n roBort for the uso of tho people of Alpine Stake. Ileforo this can bo done, however, It will bo necessary to put tho road in good condition. - |