Show heres your chance boys or girls either A gold medal to the bov or girl between the ages of 10 and lo 10 who writes the best composition not to exceed words on the repair and maintenance of garth reads is to bo awarded by login waller page director office of public raids united states department of agriculture washington D C all compositions mut be submitted to sir page before may 15 lohsand lOl Sand the medal will bo awarded as soon thereafter as the compositions can ba graded the composition may be based on knowledge gained from books or other sources but no quotations should bo made after man years experience in dealing with the public road situation of tho country it is air pages belief that ignorance on the subject of repair and maintenance of roads is as much the cause of their bad condition as any other one factor it is expected that the competition n ill bring about a better understand ing of the subject of repair and maintenance in the rural districts many children living in tho rural districts have experienced the disadvantages of roads made impassable through a lack of proper maintenance and it is expected that their interest in the competition will stimulate greater interest among the parents bad roads have prevented many children from obtaining a proper education and have even prevented doctors from the side of euial patients in time to save their lives any child between the ages mentioned attending a country school may compete only one side of the paper must be written on each page should bo numbered the name age and address of the writer and tho name and location of the school which he or she is attending must be plainly written at the top of the first page the announcement of the competition has been sent to the superintendents of schools in tho rural districts no further information can be obtained from the office of public roads ting announcement should be plain to everyone and all children will thus start on a bisic of equality from the domce of public roads U S dept of agriculture ri washington D C F A the spanish american war veteran who had both legs amputated a year or so ago is a result of disease contracted in that campaign is suffering much douglas white of the salt lake route and an engineer of that line are due here soon to examine the alic route proposed for tho cidad cidai lund branch of the bait lake route fl although tho question of grade will not be duh cult vet the matter of adjusting rights of w iland alic surveys ro ay iy prove to be hard pi cedar cor de cret S L pearce andrew bert Mc and i mr who arrived here saturday left monday for bull valley mr avera was a prominent eguro in bringing goldfield nevada to the front and he goeb to bull v alloy to look over alie gregerson Gre gerbon and other properties in that heltion mr who is a mining engineer and expert has a vcr engh opinion of bull valley and lie lias succeeded in interesting mr mars to look it over W I 1 gates and parta been working on alic state wagon road for several months returned home sunday iliev have completed the work chev had in hand and mr gates now awaits instructions from the state road engineer fo further mr gates says the state convict camp has been moved to bellevue Belle vuc where the foice will bo nearer their w ork he reports good work being done on alic load and who have been over it report T it as wOnder funy t c f v A |