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Show Utah's roads and says a recent article of The Tribune on roads in Millard county has caused considerable comment. The people there are objecting- to a $400,000 bond issue for roads, and recently, In a eo n fen-nee at T 1 olden, Mr. Lyman also expressed positive opposition to the proposed pro-posed bond issue, as he thinks the present roads there can be improved without the const ruction of a concrete road. "In my opinion," Mr. Lyman said, "it the United States government were constructing con-structing a road there it would be unwise to use concrete, where traffic is so light that an earth road will carry it in a satisfactory satis-factory way. 1 am opposed to issuing bonds for constructing a concrete road from the left side of Millard county to the east side, for the reason that the present road, if properly maintained, will carry tho comparatively light traffic with a high degree of satisfaction. "This is clearly demonstrated by the officials of 1 inckley, who, cut of practically prac-tically the same kind of material, have constructed and are maintaining through their city a highly satisfactory earth road. The traffic on the 1 1 inckley road is many times greater than that which passes over the east and west sides of the county. If half the interest on the proposed pro-posed bond issue were expended in maintaining main-taining this road, the road would carry the traffic in a highly satisfactory manner." ILIUM PRAISES raiKiifis Former Road Official Says Bear Lake Trip Is Like ! Boulevard Jaunt. 1 Roads from Bear Lake, through Lake-town, Lake-town, Randolph, Woodruff, Evans ton and Coalville, and Parley's canyon to Salt Lake constitute practically a boulevard, says Richard R. Lyman, a former member mem-ber of the state road commission and head of the civil engineering department of the University of Utah, who has just returned from an automobile trip over this d is trie t. Mr. Lyman says the only bad piece of road on the route is between IOvanston and Echo, and this, he thinks, should be rectified. Mr. Lyman takes a keen interest in |