Show wholesalers WH OF UTAH U TM MUST MU ST SOON WAKE UP CLUBS OP HALT SALT LAIKE TO MAKR EXTRA THAT ANOTHER doea NOT KIND FIND aln tail BASIN ROADS IN IX THE TIIE SHAPE tiley ARE in construction and mainton maintenance ance work on the state highways during the past year the state road commission supervised the expenditure 0 ot 65 of which was wax spent in the construction of new highways the balance of ia fu caludes the sum expended for main qunance of state highways and other miscellaneous expenses by counties weber county had a greater portion of work done in than any other county in the state with expended sanpete county la Is second with a grand total of sa while carbon Is third with and utah fourth with county had spent on ion construction work and a total of duchesne county bad had only tho tile paltry sum of 38 01 pent spent on an construction work and a total of only it looks very much ag as though the great uintah basin got the raw end of the deal last year form the state roa road d forr only as the link of road through the uintah basin with her vast mileage Is in kept up will tho the state of utah prosper as she should the state should make some provision in some way that large sums of road money is spent in this vast inland empire whether the sp arcely settled countries can put up all tho the money required or not and not spend so much money whore where the roads are already good in every sense of the word money spent on the roads of du chesno and uintah county will re turn to salt lake and ogden ten fold and more it seems a short sighted policy of the state to leave this rich section to their mercy because they think we are forced to trade with them when only a little more work on the roads between the wholesale center of grand junction and the rich section of craig colorado will put us in touch with colorado and denver which Is bidding for our trade colorado could well step stop in and complete the short milage of roads from vernal to the state line fa for the returns it would bring to her in the timo time before we get a railroad from the salt lake side some day salt lake merchants and wholesalers may wake up to the fact that they have been mighty short sighted in their policy ot 0 everything being spent on roads in ili their section of the state they should also rem ember that when a railroad does come it taps colorado as well as salt lake city our future growth should be ibb an incentive to build good roads heir their way yes build roads if you want to keap us loyal |