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Show ROAD BUILDERS TO " MEET DURING WEEK Promoters of Good Highways High-ways Will Probably Congregate Con-gregate at Holliday. In order that Salt Lake county, and, for that matter, any other county in the state so desiring, may have a complete network of main traveled hard-surfaced roads as the result of improvements to be mads during the next five years, a monster mass meeting of those interested inter-ested in the proposition is to- .be arranged ar-ranged for some night in the middle of the week. The exact date will be announced by the state road commission Monday. The place of meeting will probably be Holliday. Holli-day. The proposition is to bring before the legislature the request that it be made possible for the state road commission, the county commissioners and abutting property owners in respective road districts dis-tricts as designated, to construct jointly the roads desired for the best interests of general traffic and to have these roads constructed in a most substantial manner. So far as Salt Lake county is concerned, con-cerned, the proposition is said to .be the establishment of trunk roads north to south and east to -west, linking up the business and residential sections economically and advantageously, both for business and tourist and suburban traffic. Such a system, it is pointed out, will do much to make accessible the nearby mountain attractions of Salt Ijake in a manner similar to that of Denver, with its mountain park system, and of other cities less favorably situated sit-uated than either Denver or Salt Lake in respect to natural attractions. Tho proposition -was discussed vester-dav vester-dav in an informal conference in the offices of the good roads commission at the state capitol, at which there were present James H. Moyle, Democratic national committeeman, who was on hand to represent property interests in Salt Lake county outside of Salt Lake City. Professor B. R. Lyman of the University Uni-versity of Utah, a member of the road commission, and E. R. Morgan, state road engineer. According to present plans Governor Simon Bamberger, who is manifesting great interest in good roads affairs, and members of the legislature will be invited in-vited to attend the meeting which, it is expected, will be held Tuesday or Wednesday night. Expressions of opinion opin-ion and of ways and means of accomplishing accom-plishing the niuch-deslred result of a permanent svstem of good roads in the county -will 'be solicited from citizens and state and county officials. |