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Show MEETING WILL HELP INTERMOUNTAIN ROAD H. H. Hays, general agent of the pas-eager pas-eager department of the Wylie Permanent Per-manent Tamping company of Yellow stone park, who haa returned from attending at-tending the good roada convention at poeatello, Ida., aava Utah stands to receive re-ceive much benefit in the wav of improved im-proved roada aa a result of these eon vantiona. Mr. Hays aya the convention at Poeatello waa a very auereasful one in every respect. About 200 delegatea were present, ha aays, and they represented repre-sented cities aa far west aa Winnemuc-ra. Winnemuc-ra. Not., north to Boaeman. Mont., south aa far as Park City, Utah, and east into Colorado. Mr. Hays ad-dressed ad-dressed the convention on tbe subject of the Yellowstone park roada, generally gen-erally acknowledged to be without a peer in thia country so far aa mountain roada are concerned. Theae roads were bnilt by the government at an expenditure expendi-ture of 1.800.000 and tAS.OOO haa been appropriated thia year juat for aprin-kling aprin-kling theee roada. One of the feature, of the convention, conven-tion, Mr. Have aaya. waa the appeal of Jamea. II. Brady, former governor of Idaho, and other good road enthusiasts, that the government give the millions of acres of ita land bow idle to the making of good roada, fteveral important resolutions were adopted at the Poeatello meeting, all of them looking to the improvement of intermountaia roada. |