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Show WATER IS ALLOWED TO OVERFLOW ROADS W. "W. Calder is an enthusiastic, auto-mobilist auto-mobilist and likes good roads, but like many others he fails to see why the authorities do not do their duty and prevent farmers from running irrigation irriga-tion ditches all over the highways instead in-stead of on their farms. It is generally gener-ally understood by e v e ry p e r s o n w h o drives a motor car that somewhere in the statutesof this state there is a law which declares it a misdemeanor to allow al-low one's twitch to overflow the highway. high-way. 1 Now Mr. Calder comes forth and declares de-clares that farmers , are breaking the law by flooding highways and that officials of-ficials are not doing their sworn duty by arresting such farmers. He further gives the data to prove his contentions which are: That on last Sunday, while driving to Provo over a certain section of the state highway, improved with i the peorjle 's money, near the small sta-i lions of Oreit and Snow, just north of the city of Provo, he discovered irrigation irri-gation ditches' spreading water all over the highway, instead of on the adjacent adja-cent farms. He does not think is proper and naturally registers a protest.. |