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Show COUNTY BOARD CRITICIZED BY TINTIC MAN Delay in Road Improvement Arouses Ire of Mining Operator i Following a scathing article written writ-ten by an "East Tintic Mining Operator," Op-erator," which. appeared in the last issue of the "Eureka Reporter," the board of Utah county commissioners commis-sioners today decided to carry on ,i x extensive road improvement campaign cam-paign leading into the Tintio dis- ti ict. Preston G. Peterson, chairman or the state road commission, appeared before the board and proffered the state commission's heartiest coopera-I coopera-I Hon in this and any other projects for road improvement. In commenting on the situation the "East Tintic Mining Operator" in part says : "Silent notation was undoubtedly made by many of the citizens of Dividend and Eureka, and I am sure by many of the Tintic mining operators, opera-tors, of the figures given by you last week as to the amount of payment to Utah county of taxes by the Tintic Tin-tic Standard Mining company for the year 1925. the stuendouin sum being almost $2:55,000. These same ones uudoulcdfy wonder at 'the small recompense Tintic Mining district dis-trict was receiving from Utah county's coun-ty's board of commissioners in the shape of improvements on the east side of the district j "What the people of Tintic Min-. Min-. ing district and the mining operators opera-tors of Tintic Mining district demand de-mand is good roads from Santaquin to the Summit, and it appears to me, one of the mining operators of your district, that the county commission ers are setting in utter defiance the rights of not only the people of Tintic Tin-tic District, especially the east side, but also those property owners in East Tintic" Mining district who contribute so largely to the support of Utah county. "As a suggestion : Let a writ ot mandamus be obtained against the commissioners of Utah county compelling com-pelling them to spend at least a ir. Hon of the taxes received for the maintenance ot a goou roau irom Sautaoiuin to the Summit. Everyone! Every-one! will recall that promises were made that the contractors who are working upon the new road across Copper Leaf hill, would have the same finished by October 1st, but Io! and behold, the contractors arc still on the job, and who can blame then when, as we understand, they are receiving "cost plus" for the work. . "Another suggestion: A mass meeting should be held, at Dividend, i and resolutions of protest lie en-1 tered, a committee appointed to hold similar meetings in 'Santnqiiin. Pay-son, Pay-son, Spanish Fork, Springville and Provo, all of which towns receive the fullest benefits from the peop:e of Tintic Mining district through purchase of merchandise in their respective re-spective towns, gasoline and oil for the automobiles while enroute to Salt Lake and intermediate places. "If the county commissioners continue con-tinue to be adamant to the appeals! of Tintic Mining district for a better bet-ter road, then a movement should ; be started at once to cut off from Utah county all of that portion of J Utah county lying west ot Payson by appearing before the next legislature legisla-ture and demanding the relief ( necessary from the almost tryan-nical tryan-nical and arbitrary actions of the j county commissioners of Utah coun-1 coun-1 ty ia not giving the western part of Utah county viz. East Tintic, any recognition in internal inipruve-; inipruve-; ments." |