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Show CONSIDER CONCRETE ROAD jNJQXELDER , Highway Between Hot Springs and Willard in Need of Construction. Inspection of the road between the Ogden Og-den Hot Springs and Willard City last Tuesday by the state road commission confirmed the members of the board In the opinion that the most economic solution solu-tion of putting the road in first-class shape and maintaining it so would be the construction of a concrete road. Several years ago three miles of (he road In question was macadamized, the work being among the first done by prison convicts on tlie state roads. bater a part of it was treated with bituminous material. The inspection of the road the other day, according to members of the commission, com-mission, resulted in a discovery that it Is not standing up well and that an expense of from ?500 to $1000 a mile must be incurred in-curred annually for its maintenance in serviceable condition. This, it Is realized by ihe commission, would be more than the interest on the cost of a concrete road. At best tlie present road is not satisfactory the year around. A concrete road would be. H ia estimated that a concrete road along tlie way under consideration would cost about 12,000 a mile at the most to construct. con-struct. Tlie road commission lias tome to the conclusion that adherence to strict economy would demand that a concrete road be built as soon ns po.cs!hle. rather than that any more money be spent on maintenance of the present road. The matter is understood to be under consideration by the county commissioners commission-ers of Boxelder county as to whether or not a sufticient tax levy will be made to make the building of tlie concrete road possible. |