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Show BEAUTIFUL DRIVES NEAR CITY MARRED BY FAULTY CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS With Mountain of Shale Accessible, Highway Leading to Mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon Is Constructed of Loam and Is Now a Sunken Roadway, Strewn With Boulders and Broken by Numerous "Chuck Holes," All Because the System of Road Building Is Poor and Intelligent Intelli-gent Effort Is Lacking. One of the moat beautiful panoramic drives in the want, If not In the entire country, la that from Bait Lake City to the month of Big Co a- n wood canyon, paat the historic old paper mill and to the Big Cottonwood Intake of the city water system, thence westward over tke Holllday cutoff and homeward paat the trim and weU kept farms and orchards and the beau tlfnl country homes of city dwellers who are so fortunate aa to own their acres and their oat of town residences The trip, which can be made in two hours at a apaed so moderate that one has ample time to see the wonderful vlst enchanting in lta beauty, and without infraction of the moat rigid of speed lawa, la one that should t-tract t-tract thousands of tourists, and would give them the beat possible lmprax " slon of this city and this valley aa a place for homes and for pleasure seek era. But there is the drawback of bad roada the grain of sand in the eye that robe the trip of three-fourths of its plaaanre. The run aa far as TToIlidav is not bad, save that the rolds are jasper- fectly constructed anil for temporary needs only and are not built for per manency. With and loan: (.the nat-ira! nat-ira! earth) tor tae, and with mure loam dumped on the top of this ami leveled without proper drainage grsilc, these country roads naturally deterio rate quickly and are soon, with but little lit-tle uae, worse than though thev were left in their natural conditio!!. The so called " improvement " serves onlv to undo the efforts of nature to make a passable thoroughfare. Road Construction Ia Faulty. For example, the road eaat of the heaa-tiful heaa-tiful country home of Lewis S Hills Is In a bad condition tiecause It was not properly prop-erly r-nnstructed and was not built for service. This road, by ordinary usage of a comiwratively small volume of traffic, la considerably lower In the roadwav t in OB either side, and the drainage is. therefore, to the roadway lnsteud of from It. The wheels of the vehicles have pressed to the sides the gravel with which the road Is occastonslly strewn, with the result that when the sides are dry the road Is still nuiddv Bach pool of standing water Is oulcklv converted into s deep rut. which causes all vehicles passing over them to jolt und Jar In a most discomforting manner. man-ner. Aside from the dleccniferf. the useless use-less wear ami tear on vehicles sad animals ani-mals Is a point worthy of consideration. Tii. 1 ii ,.f Hi. ,1 1 i - e 1m murre.1 unnre- . !ably v this had atretch of roadway Krtirn (lie L. ri IUIIm iir-. villa southward, south-ward, past the beautiful ountry eatatus "( Mayo; Samuel t Park. City Commls-. Commls-. -toner Ovorge r Keyser, H. Walter Walker. George I V Alder. H. L A. Cul-mar Cul-mar and others, to Knudson mill, where the road hranchea to Big Cottonwood i n yon and Brighton on the left and to Murray on the right, the road Is In the identical condition It was fifty years ago. a when It waa a cow trail. Oood Material Available. A mountain of shale la less than a half rnlle distant to the east. This Inexpensive Inexpen-sive and durable material, ldeni for r ; I building, has not been utilised by the road commissioners and the workmen employed by them- Along this stretch of road the driveway Is In aome placea crowded with detached houldere, ranging In size from that of a man's flst to a foot or more In diameter. Some of theee are scattered along ( edges, some In the wheel tracks end others oth-ers in the horses tread way, adding to the discomfort, inconvenient' and In some Instances to the danger or tne roan. Culverts here snd there cross the road-wsy road-wsy at elevations higher than the road Itself. Theee "thank you mi'inm" do more to promote bad languaxa and to ruin tires than can be eastlv appreciated, while the strain on heavily loaded hrsea Is Increased many fold. With the expenditure of a comparatively compara-tively small amount of Intelligent labor and the use of proper rosd building mi-terlala, mi-terlala, permanent thoroughfares that would be a credit to the state and a delight to those who traverse them could be made In one eeaecn. Follows Wrong System. A wrong system lias been adopted and followed, however. In road construction and maintenance. Along these roads, with excellent gravel, sand and shale nearby In h bunds nt auuntlttea. lonr stret' hes mey be seen where the roadway has been leveled off and then heaped up In the middle with ordinary country loam, over which a little gravel has been plsced. to sink quickly from sight In the loam, with no permanent benefit to the road. In other placee where gravel has been used etones ranging In slae from 'that of a big potato to a foot or more In diameter are strewn with the sravel de-etroylng de-etroylng the road Itself end meklng the highway uncomfortable for travsl. In other placee where the road has been graded similar stones have been uncovered un-covered and left exposed. Whenever s wheel striken one of these and allpe off. a "chuck hole" Is formed. Then at the first shower the chuck hole le filled with water, which disintegrates the road still further, until the hole is of large proportions propor-tions and that part of the road le ruined. |