Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-02-17 | Page 33 | Need Better Roads and Auto Routes

I NEED BETTER ROADS I AND AUTO ROUTES j Motor trucks seem to offer the only I hopo for a solution of our transportation I prol.h m. Very shortly we may hope that there will be many automobile truck fre'.ght lines in operation. Not only will I tills give ureal aid in carrying on tiie in- creasing pressure and volume of busi-j busi-j ness and so fill an imme iiate need, but it will exert its influence in other directions. direc-tions. The t ranspoitatlon of persons in Ipas.senier automobiles will increase a'onc j tiie same routes a nd fur t he same rea-1 rea-1 sons. Ail this will give a tremendous impetus j),t' the good roads movement. It is no l' lomrer a ipiest ion of whether we wa nl good roads or not. Now we must have nood roads If n-ir work is to he carried on. Many rural communities which have suffered by oemg o-"f the main line of the railway v. ill find themselves on through mo 1 or rout s and be Galvanized 1 into new life. If the problems of fuel 1 can be solved, as tliev seem likely to solved, these now motor routes bid fair, to be permanent. .Milestones.