Show BOOST FOR BRIDGE the citizens of jensen hold a maas ma meeting committee appointed to circulate pet petition tion the people of bensen ausen and surround ing country vyant wanta a bridge across the it green river rive r an d t hey want it badly and they want I 1 luas as soon boon as they can let it in order orde to arouse some interest outside af f their own section of the county comity nd to get the ear of the le legislature Isla tur now in session cession in salt lake t ey held a big mass meeting last tuesday night and dlo dis A cussed the matter atter from every stanli stand point A c committee was waa appointed take cha change go of the advertising a aad d the cincel circulation ton of a petition the a committee la Is composed of WI william am neal cha c man warren I 1 F Dp billings lings hugh sn w gus emert andy and 0 W jarvis T he question ot the fa location alon of the br bridge dge is not of so uch importance at this time agthe bridge itself at after er e r the 1 h 0 legislature has DAB adade an to ite apa appropriation and after work be beg ns 1 will I be plenty of time to discuss the question q as to where it shall bo be lo 10 1 located t r in a long distance telephone conversation 0 W jarvis had this to say bay in substance senator brinkerhoff of this sen ben attrial district Is chairman of the committee of roads and bridged a nd and no ise hope to get him interested la in the proposition and I 1 believe he will glie give the matter serious consideration after we haie hae pointed out to him the great necessity of a bridge green river traverses utah for cor a distance of miles and how many bridges have we ne the nearest one from up stream is at green river oming the only one down stream ii 11 t elgin the bridge at the station c the de er rio grande railroad we are hemmed in here on three sides by mountains and no means of transportation at this time of the bear ear the river is almost impassable the ice Is not heavy enough to admit of crossing there is too much of for ferrying and impossible to ford I 1 remember that some time ago travel ers from colorado to the reservation were vere unable to coobs and for or two weeks they were compelled to camp before they could get over oer they had to bry supplies and they suffered all kinds of hardships during that long delay it is frequent that stock in trying to cross is drowned we hear of the drowning of cattle for miles and anil miles up and down don the raier only a short while back hundreds of dol lars worth of cattle were drowned up the river the snow boys here at jensen lost several head of cattle it a low few days ago teams are constant ly breaking through the ice when trying to cross the first of this week mr air Rasmus sens team and waon wagon loaded with hay went vent down through the ice and it took nearly a day to get them out we want a public highway through utah to colorado tle the amount of aral tran el from one state into the other demands it how are am ve e to secure it without a bridge routt county is building a state road to the utah line and it is now completed to within one and a half miles of us and just as soon as the weather eather is suitable the work will be resumed the county commissioners of routt county appropriated 1000 tor for the construction of the foaad mr jarvis and the other energetic jensen jense n citizens are not alone in want ing a bridge and with ith the proper efforts of all the people there Is no reason why the legislature could not be induced to make the tion vintah county has not been given the recognition by the legisla ture that it deserves ono on reason of that Is that the people haie hae not de banded it they are too quick to gle ghe up the best way ay to get what ou want Is to go after and keep at after it until aou ou land it Re presenta the john N daus of uintah county his hi pro missed to introduce a bill a asking akin kin for an appropriation let the people ire fire ittes into bem aud and not cot only into him but other members of the legislature insisting that bridge legislation and other legislation be ell enacted acted that will be of benefit to this county if you dont 0 at a A for f or w what at you TV want ant oc mcw w do yiu eap exp e expect p ct c t t to k gt t it the lisa aid d go gone n h hen what you want wl will I 1 1 1 m ha handed n d e d t to you i 1 a silver p player 1 la a er e r decide oni on w at a t you u wa watfa a t and then go put ut to get p t and b bobar ar in mind that this coun country ry wants want smore more mor than a bridge we want tit it an experiment perl peri ment eta ata alon on we w wan an irrig irrigation lot ion le legislation and we want t iwother the othe things let us go after them |