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Show HQ DEPUTIES IRE GIVEN MUCINS Professor R R Lyman Im parts Advice as to Building Build-ing of Highways Valuable suggest ons and advice on the care of roads was given the county road deputies yesterday afternoon at the meeting held n the office of the county commiss oners It was the first meeting of its kind e er called by the road supervisor Deput es from prac tically every road d strict in the county attended The county commissioners the road 6uperv sor the county sur vejor and other ofhcials interested in road building were present Professor B. B I vman of the TTni vers ty of Utah a men ber of the state h ghway comm ss on v as the pr nc pal speaker talking on the subieet of how best to care for roads ao as to guard against detenorat on and the beat methods of bu iding new roads Concrete is the com ng mater al for construction of countv roads in d s tricts where hea v traflic is found he declared Salt Lake county w II have to adopt tl e mater al in the near future for all ts pnnc pal h ghways, he thought as the onlv permanent solution of the good roads question He urged the dep ties to pay par ticnlar attent on to n a ntenance of roads One shovelful of earth and a few m nutes t me at the r ght moD ent w 11 often Bave wagonloads of earth and hours of time in repa rs later on Watch the 1 ttle ruts and holes and el m nate them as fast as they appear he advised Proper dra nage of the roads is essen tial to the r upkeep he said since t is water and frost that do the greatest damage |