Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-07-06 | Page 29 | Good Roads Data by Tire Maker

GOOD ROMS Olid BY TO MAKER' President Gates of Gates Half-sole Factory Cites Statistics. Declare West Must Get Busy on Permanent Highway High-way Program. "Of C.SiXViV nulos of highway In tho United tnt of . possibly j por cent 1m Vrtvftd. The othor SS por cent have only a dirt surface. Add to this tho fact Unit th rv&ds paved almost a tt mo inaoadau. or asphalt, snd aro helni? rnpldly pround out of existonoo lv the now domain!- .which are bet:i? I'laot'd viion them, and it is iuito plain that we will have to got busy." Siuh Is tho opinion of O. M. Gates of the Gates Tiro company, makers mak-ers of Half-solo o:jiir.p5. "Pei'oro the war we wore perhaps not faliy aware of our inadequate preparation. prepara-tion. In those days, it Is reckoned, wo were paying a cash penalty of $:i'4.000.-000 $:i'4.000.-000 a year In connection with the transportation trans-portation of supplies from farm to market. mar-ket. Nobody, as f.vr as I know, has made an attempt to cast up tho account since 1?14; and I hesitate even to jruoss at what we are nrobably wastir.fr now. with the multiplied demands brought first by the need of feeding our allies and now of feedir.s almost the whole world. Tho farmer is not fail in it, either in Utah or j anywhere else; if anyone fails, it will j be we who do not provide the facilities I that he absolutely must have, in order that he may put his time upon the busl- I ness of ra;sinsr food, rather than transferring trans-ferring it from country to city, "A loner, narrow road is better than a short, wide one. A piven sum of money will prov'de for a nine-foot concrete or brick roadbed one-third Ion per than for a fifteen-foot roadbed, and will ko exactly exact-ly twice as far as a hiphway twenty feet wide. The principle which is hemp emphasised, and riphtiy si. by tho committees com-mittees escaped in studvir.? the subject, is to pet 'I'rm somewhere to somewhere rather than to he able t'i waddle more or less between 'he terminal?. The cash pop to the end of the road. "But now improvements are poinp forward for-ward apain. The governments of the United States federal, ft ate and county coun-ty re planniner to invest Si per cent ni'tre in 1915 than hr.s ever been spent before, and nearly twice as much as in The year 1917. The enactment of the federal aid road on is hut one evidence of the povernment's willinpness and determination de-termination to push the matter as it deserves. de-serves. "Such development Is necessary. In order to provide faculties for the growth and prosperity of Utah and the west, bad ro.ids musr trn. They must disappear in a hurrv. JVural express has already nroeressed to a pratifyinsr decree; but If this method of transportation, the Initial Ini-tial effects of which have so recently startled the traffic world, and to which H. S. Firestone, president of the Firestone Fire-stone Tire & Rubber company, is lendinp so powerful an influence, is to attain a deeTee of suocos any'ronc like whp t is to be desired, paved hiphwavs will have to become the rule. The berinnines have . hpon splendul. Tt the duty of evr citizen to support ewrs movement that looks to the consummation of all such Tro1eets. to kep h:s congressman at Washington constantly in mind of his wishes, and to 'talk up the subject at ever;-" opportunity."