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Show GOOD ROADS TO BE PUSHED HERE H per la I to The .Telegram.) CXJDKN. Aug. "ijood roada" li the alogen of the rV'eber county coinmieslon-era coinmieslon-era and they hee declar&l that thv will carry tha Idea to a complete fruition. Much money has alradv been npnt In macadamising the highway between Og-den Og-den and the IjsvIs county line, which was recently made part of -one of the great state hlghwsys through the county and It la, pe r ha pa, as good a st rl p of country road as there Is In tha atate, the Ogden can von boulevard excepted, but more Is going to be done In the way of building roada within the next year than has been accomplished In tha past sev- eral years. At a meatlng of the commissioners ves-terday ves-terday it waa decided to get the co-operation of the atate road commissioner and y have an engineer appointed to take charge Ml immediately of the work of building tha J ' state highway that leada through Hunt- A. villa and the upper valley to tha Rich county Una In the vicinity of Bearer creek. Tha commissioners say they desire de-sire to begin work at tha end of tha Ogden Og-den canyon boulevard near tha Oaks and extend It as rapidly as possible, and that when tha road la perfected to the Rich county Una they will begin at the west end of t he road on the shores of the Onmt- Walt take -ami -macadamise tt to the mouth of Ogden canyon, thus perfecting per-fecting a atate mad across Weber county from the lake to the top of the mountains moun-tains on the border Hne of tha Bear River country. Tha other atate road extends from tha Davis county line through Rlverdala, Roy. along Washington avenue to North Ogden and on to tha Utah Hot Sprlnga, Just across tha Una Into Box Elder county. coun-ty. This road la In pretty good condition condi-tion at the present time, but it la to ba greatly Improved. The commissioners, aa a committee of tha whole, will today or tomorrow determine where a rock crusher crush-er shall be placed to crush rock for tha roada of the county. As soon aa tha site Is decided upon the machine wilt ba In-called In-called and the work of road building will begin in earnest. |