Show representative Vi BRIDE GIVES RESUME OF WORK OF legislature si TO 10 CLOSE DISPUTE OVER TAX APT TO RESULT IN INCREASE IN GASOLINE TAX WILL RESULT IN construction OF IMPORTANT INTEREST ROADS IN THIS nus SECTION rh times independent in thio this wick pleased to be able to rubbish it lei let tor ter from representative J G 6 mcbride I 1 wherein grand county s member 0 of the legislature summarizes the work of t the he state to date dato and anti point out the legislation that I 1 particularly affects grand county mr mir BleD ride if to specialty interested interfiled in corint securing cu rint th the a enactment of a rno asure proposing to and the state toad road curn mission a tho the tuu ra tr agulino suline tax a to ute thi adili tio il at funda funds derived from the gas tax on road in the devint thi this measure li is passed the tato state will immediately take up the instruction of road connection with catoe included in these pro posca roada roads aro are tie tl e alikes peak highway through grand county and the ex antion of nid irmith to monticello and thence nt ast to in an junn juan counti 11 stati I 1 has lia corked diligently dIli Kintly luring th brohun ion to inning inma up for tho the rond bill and it la is confidingly lidl ered that tho tile legislature will enact it the measure conits to final voto vote following Follo wint ie is mr nir maurides Mt NU Urides Brides letter bait salt lake city utah P y ti 22 I 1 linn boob utah tile I 1 he Sixt eith legislature is two tto chirds past anil and as friday feb 20 wag the last day on which bill bills could le IM introduced it is 1 safe to its suni that there will bo lie no more nice mea uren to como come before the tile consideration of thia this body A bill can wy now be I 1 only by the conent of the house hou and it will dav hao to be a measure ine auro of merit and im ini net that can thu tha I 1 hix hin bouso ha has UK tir distin distinction cit III of 0 laak 1 about sixty I 1 ell bill bills to come ill baun fol it than the house of tho th lut last anil and I 1 consider conti iler that tea fea tuie tule very nery I 1 had hoped that the number of mca meal eurea lutes intro dut aund td kulil be one hundred ices less but aith alth sixty less 18 we nio are snaking pro iram in the tile right direction it has I 1 een m my contention all alone along that wr we have enough lawe laws on statute book no now for many of are not acel A vcr er great of the mi nua agurs eliM at this session bs all but modin tire re net nt new nt at eions c and of existing law las 3 clarifying and strengthening statutes to so that OILY i may be rendered morr just jut and more encore able the bounty anik 1 in which moat most of th the e people of grand county cowit are in terest terestea cA 11 is till still very greatly up in the air because a of the fact that the Wool prowers and the ati association ar art very ery biddi let apart in their views ae as to how much bounty there should be or whether there should be any bounty at all one faction in the ool growers association as us wants ant all the bounty ex as bounties to vate ate trappers anil and another faction wanta wants all the gonei of the special levies on sheep monel an and I 1 cattle turned i lover to the biological sure of the government to be expended along their appropriation from the I 1 government on trapping and poison ing campaigns campa igna by government overn ment hired trappers and hunter hunters ae As a compromise measure they have haie recommend I 1 ed to the legislature leKi lature that a levy of on mills mill on cattle and horses be he divided fifty fifty between a state bounty on predator animals and cooperation with the biological survey thi this measure has been introduced in the senate and Is till still in committee it provides for the payment of G per heid on co coyotes otea and various other amounts on other predatory animals the state taking the when pre dented for bounty this arrange merit is not what we me m want ant at ut all and the house cd committee will endeavor to amend it very materially how flow far awe we can ret get with it I 1 a matter of the legislature realia ing that the inon mont for them ies les comes entirely from the pockets of sheep and cattle mm always tries to provide for these interested part lea just the that iny they want but these interests are to widely apart in their view views and iona that it is impossible to provide a law that will ill be satisfactory to any 0 one ne of them it will no doubt result in the enact me nt of a comproni comp romi allea measure and i while compromises have favorable result results in most cases it is doubtful if it will tx be so in the matter of of perhaps the great greatest cst interest to our people is tho fate of the yas vase olinc oline tax bill which provid 5 for the of the prevent law which ta that thu the en gas tax shall bo be uso d only fur maintenance so that this a gas tax money can be fur for and construe coni truc tion and further provi doe tor for the leing of nn ili additional cent per ral gal lun ion on gasoline it 11 ie is that this additional cint will provide an annu 1 I luni suni of about 00 which will tako take care of entire fedrial aid apportionment of about per annum making avail illo an a I 1 annual instruction fund of N ly 1000 00 in about three iare lars time thu this will con fruit the in atvin van outlying counties the tile one ones mont most interesting inter to ue us being the sun san ju jinn juin in anil ani grand county count connection connections in ban juan county the he proposed ont rution is in from where the pree pres int cint c construction leduex oil off on the moab monticello rond road 1 I think it is in jhb vicinity ity of pt piter hill through it to monticello and cast of through th IK lAx kerb to the colorado ainu other cioce of construction embr embraces acts that P portion of the road between thu the ellry carbon county line just east of prue prie through en em iry county and on east through grand county to the colorado line thi of rond road is the longest of nn on of the still ghate ta connections and involve in olves ho he expenditure of oer mir IL million d dollars olla r a in the next three year years these explanation will give ou borno idea as to the importance of this pas gas tax bill to nil all the people in our section of the country that I 1 am plying gning ivery ounce 0 of f my tup so port and every possible pos sille assistance auis tanco to thi passage 0 of f thil this measure goe goes without saying it ie to far superior eu ito to my original plan for getting relief for our road situation in grand coun t and for t that hat it wag was up to me to get behind thia this modem movement ent with all ull my strength in the event of its the state road commission comm lion assures me that an as the funds a accumulate they will be put to work on all the state t connections a as nearly ly IV aa as possible and that no one of the seven counties to untie affected will have the advantage over any an x other county this is it fair ind and just arrangement provided it is carried out and I 1 an am goiti positively aly ansfred asrun d that it will be eo 90 carried out moet of th the e work that ia is done by the legisla tivit bodies ie in done in the ommittee room roo me and that which takes place in the house sessions eee eions to it in trout part the result of committees findings find inRa alone along with wit h a lot of froth and verbiage th ehte commit co amit tees res meet in the mornings at noon and after the ions and some I 1 time times after nig ht to you can see that the life of a legislator is not one con sinuous round of pleasure I 1 1 the aptaker ha has served notice that the houlb hou must have coal completed its it work ork by midnight of the day so it is 14 a w w will adjourn sine die on or before midnight of the of march that is n as it should be and I 1 am ure sure that alth although pugh most of the members by that time will have gotten a leas peat and lasting la benefit from their aegle lathe experience not one of them will all object to voting lae ae to that last motion to adjourn J it haa has been roy MY sincere and earnest purpose to satisfactorily the interest interests of grand county and its people in thin session of the legisla lure ture and euch such will continue to be my tn davor kavor to the end sincerely Sin cerel erch J G MCBRIDE re pren tatie from grand count |