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Show ' MORE PAVING WILL BE LAID IN , ; I 1920JHANANY PREVIOUS YEAR Taxpayers Should Bear in Mind That These Roads Are Their Boads and They Should Take Enough Interest to See That I These Boads Are Properly Constructed and Properly ' Cared for After They Have Been Constructed. W.J.Sloan. I State Inspector, Interviewed. f Bill ,. , I Moro hard surfaced roads will bo laid in Utah in 1020 , Hn in nny year iirtho history of tho state. Unless plans of tho state road commission goes ngco the , main north and south highway of tho state will ho paved from payson io Ogdcn nndnqnrly to Brigham City before tho end of tho season. y H io addition to tho main stato hlgh'-Hur hlgh'-Hur nearly evoo' city botweon Drig-Htm Drig-Htm on tho north' to Pnyson on the Himtb Is olthor paving or preparing Htop" this year. Tlio paving through imrlcsn Fork will bo completed by lih last of July end paving in Lohl 1, already started, and that in Flea. Hftjt Orovo and Provo city Is duo tu Mwnenco within the next Tew """mi, while at tho prosent tlme a urge crow of surveyors are at work tht west highway through Lnko- riev, which will give Provo two pav- l highways to Pleasant Grove. I While It I ndmlttod that tlio cost Is high", duo to tlio cost of labor Bud mtte.'lal, It Is estimated that H tht cost will bo saved in ono yoar in I lit laving of tlmo, wear and tear on BrtiUver modo of transportation Is fl ued, tl!e getting of products to mark. I tt mora quickly and in a far bettor B condition than is posclblo over bad H roads, to say nothing of tho amount fl if nerves and profanity which will Hie tared, verily good roads mean fl prosperity. H The building of those pormanont fl highways should bo of special interest B ind pride to evory citizen of tho stato fl for they will mean, .much' In tho way , H of advertising, bul of ospoclnl inter- ' fl tl iliuuld they bo to tlio taxpayers. H Jn discussing" tho Intoro3t of tho B tnpayers In Iho better road W. V. OH Attn stato Inspector on tho Proyo H'Koeiant Orovcf' Hl, said &?, 'ft ;-Bt'Ht ;-Bt'Ht is sometimes a little (dishearten IliClo note tho lack of Interest which B tie taxpayers pity to, tho roads which' B Ut be,nK built for thorn. They do not llBtccmlo rcallzo, '' nt t least many of "B thm, that it is their tnonoy that la B building the roada, th'at they aro p.'T-B p.'T-B lag from 128,000 to moro than $30,T)00 H a mile for good roads, and yot some tyjfl c them show not the least bit of In- tirest. I will oven go farther and sny ' B ti-t from their actions, they do not . tare how their monoy is spent or tf B tacy havo a good road or not. tat Ht Illustrate: In moro, than ono case Bvt has como to my attention during tie last few wcoks fanners pormtt flB nrplus, or overflow wator to run Into flB.&oroad; t i noxt t0 imposslblo to flj .f' & Rood ploco of pavomont where fll titer has stood In largo pools for HlMw before tho pavement is laid, or HI viero it Is allowed to stand in pools IlB eir ,n wad nnd beforo the cement Hh "cured," not less than twenty-ono HUlt'P- Perhaps some or thoso farmers Hl not know that fhoro Is a stato law Burning it a misdemeanor to allow 'Bl or seopago water run on any iflj M'c. or othor highway, yot such 1b L fc law, and whilo I am satisflod that the state road commission doe3 not IB "' to subject any water uaor to a JM fao or Imprisonment, I Pear that ?fl tnUt action will havo to bo takon -fl tnlc, omo of them mend their ways. In order to properly "cure" concroto it.ls necessary that It ohould roraaln under water for not loss than ton days; yet como of tho mon who nro paying for theso roads think nothing of driving across and some ' times longthways ovor Ui'em beforo thoy aro open lor trnfflc. In doing this ono of two things happen, cither nitn aro cut In tho "dykes," allowing tho wator to run off and tho concrete Buffer, or If tho concroto is still vory "green" it is ruined. Like tho seepage seep-age or ovorflow water, thcro Is a law covering the injuring of nny public highway. I might mention sovorol other ihlngn which happon from time to tlmo which doen not tend to mako tho best .ilnd of a Job as far as a hard ' surfaced road Is concerned. Perhaps someono might nay: 'Why don't you watch' it and koep thorn off.' That Is easy .enough to say but It ono would otop and think that at times thero Is moro than a mllo of pavement under tho process of curing on a Job at ono timo and that it Is noxt to lmpossl-' bio, oven .when tho dontrnct prlco Is ovor $30,000 a mllo, f$r tlio contractor to keep watchman strung nlong tho wholo dlstanco Just to watch for someone" who might Injuro tho pavo. ment. "i do not itifuii lu i convoy tlio Idea that all of thoso who do th'o things whtoh' hn7o been mentioned Intonation Inton-ation ally do so; thoy aro clthor just careloa.vor thoughtless, phlch everyone every-one it may bo, or should it oven bo In. tontlonnl, it soems to mo that overy tnxpayor should make it his business .o aco that tho monoy ho Is paying for permanent good roads. 13 not wasted by th'o cn.'oloos or. thoughtless injuring injur-ing It."" i . . i . o |
