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Show THE TIMES-NEW- NEPHI. S, UTAH "The Relation of the Press to Utah's State Road Program" As It Was in Colonial Days ', BY HON. HENRY H. BLOOD Utah State Iload Commission roads where they will do eral Bureau of Roads has just In common with other states of the ties and on re- diverting an undue amount of the alUnion, Utah has undertaken an amb- most in furthering the general plans cently approved the state's designa- lotted federal aid to this project, but itious The ulti- of the which looks to the tion of 1430 miles on the 7 per cent enough hus been said to indicate the mate purpose is forprogram. the government, buildinggovernment These roads traverse the necessity for action in allotting these of improved highways for system. the state and the counties to construct general use. The state road commis- most populous sections of the state, funds. Indeed, had the commission a connected system of improved1 high- sion makes no allocation of funds to and when improved will serve coun- refused to do so, it is not impossible ways that will reach every important counties or localities as such, but ties having about 95 per cent of the that the federal aid program in the center, and that will provide the maxi- initiates projects in conformity with population. state of Utah would have been mum of local service, as well as form the 22 brought to a halt, and it is not unscheme. The commission to time the about general Up present Interstate and Intercounty trunk lines as at present organized makes no diC cent of the primary and secondary likely that no other projectsthiswould Oa v-l reof highways. The interstate roads vision of the state, but attempts to per has been constructed under have been approved until are to form connections at state lines administer its affairs with due regard systems had been granted. quest In addition standard specifications. with similar highways being con- for the interests of all concerned. In this discussion, no attempt has to this, there are now under construc- been structed in adjoining states. made to cover all phases of miles 80 surfaced roads of tion gravel Federal Aid Roads In this stupendous undertaking, the 15.8 miles of concrete paving, Utah's road building program. Time and not permit. But it should be said federal government has enlisted the Utbh has a 'total road mileage of eight bridges with a total cost will corservices of the best engineering skiW 24,057 miles. Of this total, 3148.5 and of $1,120,000. The 1923 program in- that the present road commissionof its r.-vin the country. Every phase of are state roads, the balance coming cludes 143 miles of graveled roads dially invites your investigation y is being made the subject of under the head of county roads. The and 19 miles of hard surfaced pave problems. Our records are open to scientific study, and roads constructed federal law, approved Nov. 9, 1921, ment, in addition to the mileage now you, and we invite your constructive today are far superior to those laid a limits government aid to 7 per cent under construction. The cost of the criticism. Your function is to isinform best few years ago. Congress has been of the total road mileage, or 1684 graveled roads will be about $1,136,000, the public. Your influence when you give out, as you liberal in its appropriations. It is miles. This mileage is divided into and of the hard surfaced roads, $600,-00- exerted aim to do, correct and upnot quite seven years since the Fed- primary and secondary roads, the priproposed for construc- always Your relation eral Aid system was inaugurated, and mary to be interstate highways' and tion inProjects 1924 and 1925 will involve the building information. to our problems, therefore, is an imin that time the Congress has appro- the secondary intercounty roads, with expenditure of $1,928,000. no difference in the construction priated or authorized As a matter of general information portant one. The public is entitled to know, through your publications, totaling $540,000,000. About half of standards on the tw classes of roads. the following tabulation of road ex- what is being done by the road dethis sum has been paid out for work It will thus be seen that federal aid penditures is given, covering the can be applied on only about half the period since the organization of the partment, as well as by other state accomplished, the bala If we have information available for payment for work now total state road mileage. The Fed state road commission in 1909: agencies. that yon need, it is yours for the in progress, or will become available as new projects are initiated during asking. Total Expended Someone has said, "There is nothing Total Expended Total Expended imrai years itfza, iai!4 and 1925. for Construction ear for new under the sun." It seems that Maintenance for and Maintenance Construction Government Participation 2 Not segregated $ 653,615.33 $ 653,615.33 even road building by government aid The plan tinder which this vast road Not segregated Faneuil Hall was formally dedicated March 14, 1763, when James 839,358.86 has come down to us from antiquity. 839,358.86 fund is to be expended is one of co- 1915 4 $ OtU, the patriot, delivered the addrei in which he dedicated the hall to 40,555.81 381,839.55 422,395.36 A rhymester, who delved into ancient operation between the federal gov- 1916 99,103.41 846,038.16 history for a parallel case, gave vent the "Cause of Liberty." Town meetings of the Revolutionary period 746,834.75 ernment and the states; that is to 1917 114,211.44 732,347.03 to this: 618,135.59 say, it is basically a 1918 228,108.59 Faneull hall In Boston, the "cradle 1,325,770.90 CAESAR WAS A WISE OLD GUY 1,097,662.31 the states to furnish halfproposition, the total 1919 504,003.00 3,047,566.65 2,543,563.65 of liberty," probably of greater his- pushed northward from the Carollnas cost of the roads and the government 1920 426,361.41 3,740,252.21 When Caesar took a westward ride, 3,313,887.80 the other half. However, in the pub- 1921 torical interest than any other build- by the British. Cornwallls finally made 212,253.02 2,601,865.60 And grabbed the Gauls for Rome, 2,389,612.58 lic land states an allowance is made 1922 ing In the United States with the ex- his way Into the peninsula between the 193,376.03 2,375,191.69 What was the first thing that he did 2,181,815.66 for unpatented lands, which, of course, ception, perhaps, of Independence Tork and James rivers, where he es To make them feel at home 7 are owned by the government. For its Is to be restored to tablished a base of Totals hall, Philadelphia, loads $1,817,975.71 $14,766,426.08 he $16,584,401.79 Did supplies at York- increase the people's ownership of these lands the govern!ts original Colonial beauty and com- town. And forbid? ment pays to the states additional liberty sums of highway. It might be interesting No; he dug in and built Good Roads Types of Road pletely fireproofed as soon as certain to be applied on road building costs Lafayette was about twenty miles Utah has constructed a exto indicate what other states are do- That's what old Caesar did. details of arrangement can be com- awiiy and In constant touch with in proportion to the amount of public tensive mileage of hard very surfaced ing in this respect. A consideration pleted, the Christian Science Monitor Washington, who was waiting Inforlands within the several states. Utah roads and the demand for a continua- of comparative road mileage will show Did Caesar put the iron heel states. Ralph Adams Cram, chair- mation regarding the French fleet. is one of the large public land states. tion of this policy has in some sec- that in Utah the policy of building Upon the foemen's breast? man of the city planning board, has u una state receives irom the gov- tions been quite insistent. It has been hard surfaced carhas been Lafayette wnnted to attack the enemy, feel them highways Or did he try to make ernment 24.8542 per cent of the total found, however, that the allotment been Intrusted with the work of archi- but Washington deemed such a movethan in any other That Roman rule was best? cost of federal aid roads as the public of federal funds is' so limited as to ried further of who as president tect. It was he The following tabu- What did he do to make them glad ment premature. land proportion of the cost. This is make it impossible to meet all of the lation willstate. the Boston Society of Architects, Washington finally effected a Juncin effect a special road tax paid on requirements for thi3 expensive type connection: prove of interest in this He came their lands amid? of bad Frank Choteau Brown and several tion with the forces of Lafayette, makHe built Good Roads in place government unpatented lands, and it others, worked out the plan In detail ing an urmy of 10,000 men, while CornThat's what old Caesar did. is turned over to the state and apData on Proposed 79 System as of December 20, 1922 several years ago. This was approved wallls hud about 7,500 bottled up on plied as part of the state's 50 per cent Milea He built Good Roads from hill to hill Federal by the mayor at that time and $05,000 the peninsula, his only hope being of road costs. This 24.8542 per cent 7 Total cent of , Miles Lower Good Roads from vale to vale. per Highway Miles (Mileage added to the government's 50 per appropriated for the work. It is this from the assistance which might come Mileage System Paved Macadam Types He ran a good roads movement sum that is now to be expended under to him from the British navy. Vigor48,000 cent brings the total government per- Colorado 72 166 3,360 3,360 1,944 kale. the Rome all Till Idaho got 40,200 2,814 2,772 - 52 1,587 the jurisdiction of the mayor In fulfill- ously pressing the siege, Washington centage to 74.8542, and reduces the Montana a home. to told the folks He buy 67,100 26 11 470 4,697 state's percentage to 25.1458. Only 4,637 ment of a campaign promise, with a secured from Cornwallls overtures for to ruts Build roads their rid, Nevada 22,000 one other state in the Union gets a 34 . 230 1,540 1,520 Rome to possible addition of several thousand a surrender on October 17, and arall led roads Until New Mexico up 47,607 25 3,332 777 3,257 larger percentage of help from the Utah did. dollars. Caesar old what That's ticles of surrender were finally agreed 24,057 229 120 1,684 federal government, and that is Ne1,655 The countless layers of dirty yellow upon. The artillery, guns, accoutre46,320 16 3,243 3,234 1,590 vada, where the proportion of unpat- Wyoming If your town would make itself pulnt now on the building are to be re- ments and public stores of every deented to patented lands is larger. While there is no doubt that hard many years it would have been before The center of the map, moved, revealing the original brick. scription were to be delivered to the That state receives federal aid to the surfaced settle down and roads are desirable and even Utah's coal fields in Carbon county Where folks will come Bricks In the face of the building that victors, the officers to retain their total percentage of 87.2258. where a density of traffic would have been up had the And live in plenty's lap; have become damaged and apertures Since the exhaustion of the state necessary and the Soldiers to keep their warrants that type of construction, promoters insistedopened on the increased If any town its own abodes that have been filled with putty or private property of every kind. road bond funds, the- counties have it is believed econthat would the rid, nec- Of poverty greatest would have that been expenditure been called upon to supply the amount omy will result from the construction cement will be replaced or mended to have laid and equipped a Let it go out and build Good Roads I'romptly at noon on the day agreed wllh specially made new bricks and upon for the surrender, October 19, necessary to match federal aid allot- of standard gravel surfaced roads in essary Just like old Caesar did. standard at a road is first gauge ments. the wooden and cloth awnings at- the gates of the fort were opened and districts and localities where the traf- matter of conjecture, but it is safe Engineering Costs fic is not so great. In general it to say that by using the tached to the lower story that now a detachment of American Infantry e The generous help given by the may be said that four miles of gravel construction in this one railroad ven- PLANT SURE DEATH TO RATS disfigure the building will be replaced and French grenadiers entered and government has made necessary call- surfaced highways can be built under ture the coal industry of Utah was by an Iron veranda with a glass roof possession. Two hours Inter, at ing into existence thoroughly organ- government specifications for the developed many years earlier than Would Seem It Mjht B Utilized to In Colonial design. A fireproof stair- 2took o'clock In the afternoon the enemy ized road departments in all of the same cost as one mile of the best type otherwise would have been possible. Rid the World of a Most way will replace the present one to marched out, with colors furled, to the states. The federal aid plan demands of hard surfaced highway. Assuming The single track railroad is conthe auditorium on the second floor and tune "The World Is Upside Down." Deadly Enemy. 0 that this organization shall be effi- mat concrete highway will cost the proper thing until the trafa better passugewny constructed to cient and well equipped to handle the per mile- and the gravel surfaced sidered Washington dispatched with nil the rooms above which for years have hnste his trusted adjutant. Col. Trnclv "Why not raise your own rat immense volume of work incident to highway $7,500 per mile, inclusive of fic becomes of such density that double the is when , of tracking justified, been occupied as headquarters and Tllghninn, to Philadelphia, where the the economical expenditure of state drainage and structures in each in- additional poison?" the Philippine bureau expenditure is made. and federal funds. The result is that stance, and assuming further that science is asking the people. museum by the Ancient and Honorable Continental congress was sitting. The to in Utah, as in other states, the effort money for road construction can be Applying this same reasoning Its name la "dloscora hlrsuta Artillery company, founded in 1C37 as young soldier took the long on road the has been to secure skilled mei, had at it will be seen that the building program in Utah, blume," and It grows wild throughout the Military Company of Massachu- horseback. Riding practicallytflpnight specialists in road building work, $22,500 spent on each mile of the hard it would seem that the policy pro the Island lowlands. setts. and day, he reached the Quuker city which has come to be recognized as a surfaced road in excess of the cost posed by the state road commission content Is dloscorlne, an The Faneull hall was formally dedicated at midnight on October 23, four days nf by the traffic conditions alkaloidpoison separate and very important branch of the gravel surfaced highway calls is justified which produces paralysis of March 14, 17G3, James Otis, pntrlot, ter the surrender. After his of engineering. Considering the com- for an interest expenditure annually that exist. This does not mean that the central nervous system. hard surfaced road will be delivering the hall to the "Cause of way with nil haste to the home of paratively short time since scientific of $1,125. If we assume that the an- no further The dlscora Is a tuber; looks like a road construction was commenced, nual maintenance cost of a gravel laid in ths state. It will be necessary Liberty." Then followed those town Thomas McKean, the of there has been wonderful progress, surfaced road is $250.00 per mile and and desirable to complete links in the potato and grows like one. It trVso meetings of the Revolutionary period congress, he rapped so president violently the and each year finds new and improved that of a hard surfaced road $125.00 chain of hard surfaced highways, no- tastes enough like the which gave the hall Its sobriquet. door knocker that one of the night methods applied to this work. One per mile, there would be a saving in tably the one between Payson and the "spud" to fool Mr. Hat for a moment. When the net was repealed In watch several blocks away hurried has but to compare recent construc favor of the hard surfaced road of Juab county line and at the Riverdale But It has a little reaction all of its 1708 the ballStamp was lllumlniited. On the over to learn the cause of the distion with work done five, six or seven $125.00 per mile per year, which crossing. There may be other sec- own. motion of Samuel Adams which turbance. tions where the leave demands cost traffic would to a be to net the excess convinced the that the years ago The government scientists say that George Iinncroft, the historian, says Soon the news was being proclaimed of $1,000 per mile per year higher type of road, but in general outlay for engineering investigation public nibble Is enough to kill a large "contained the whole Revolution," the throughout the city. The cry was and supervision has been a profitable for the hard surfaced highway. So it is felt that conditions in the state one A rat. without of proper preparatslice, Boston committee correspondence, taken up, not only by the watch, but far as experience has shown in this demand that greater road mileage be investment. whose duty was to "state the rights of by hundreds of citizens, In this connection, It might be well state, (and it must be admitted that constructed with the somewhat lim ion, would kill a human being. rushing half deOn the other hand It has been the colonists," was stationed there. dressed from their beds Into the street to say that perhaps the agitation we have not had either type of road ited amount of federal aid funds availfutermined that by peeling the tuber During the siege of Boston, the hall The bellman of the old statehouse was which in the past has been aimed in use long enough to reach definite able at this time, leaving to the costs of highway conclusions), it would appear that n ture the second stage of the construc and allowing It to stand In running was used as a playhouse. A play by hurried out from his home to announce against engineering water for a period of 24 hours the construction has not always betm well constructed gravel surfaced road, tion the hard surfaced road. General llurgoyne, "The Blockade of the were seen moving the patrol system of maindloscorlne content Is washed out and Boston," with British officers as uctors, In tidings; lights Wendover The timely or deserved. It is not meant where Highway the people were astir house; is in operation, will stand up tenance every atbeen this that has for be perfection ty prepared wae broken up at its performance by ns No talk on roads in Utah would be the vegetable may they had not been before since the tained, or that in the past there have under ordinary traffic in a very sat- In the same man human the news that the "Yanks are attack- day when the Declaration of Independnot been mistakes. On the contrary, stactory manner, in. a state such as complete without some mention being ner as consumption Is a potato. road which has ing our works In Charlestown." ence had been promulgated ; five year errors have crept into the work, and Utah, with extensive outlying dis- made of the Wendover fedWhen thus prepared It has a slightly In that hall Wendell Phillips made before. The costs may at times have been exces tricts where roads are urgently need just recently been approved for Walcity was wild with Joy. most a have to Is said sweet taste aid C. Hon. eral and 1837. would the seem In to a be by correct pol Henry his first speech sive as a result. What is meant is ed, it Soon the cannon were booming. after of the a effect nuiid palate. upon Daniel Webster, Charles Sunnier and ngreeuble agriculture, mileage of lace, secretary that all of this has been incident to icy to surfaced roads greaterrather secretary of conthan a one of the most bitter fights that has At present one of the largest of the other famous men have spoken there. Charles InThompson, the development of the science of gravel ofi the homes rounds his gress, irt Union been the hard curtailed the In of schools staged anywhere surfaced mileage Tcmd construction. No big thing has government agricultural Ever since the Revolution, Fnneuil where the members were living, found The on location. the of road to in reach more order of question ever been brought about without cost highwi rs, Philippines Is making use of the tuber hull great place for popu- his errand of notification useless. The present state road commission came to kill rats and field mice, which are lar has been the ly experimentation: and in road build the peple. In Boston. group memgatherings when the into its controversy patriots were all In readiness for the to of citizens has the Hcht to Any ing it will doubtless be found, on incull a pubEvel time a mile of hard surfaced were suddenly taken from the proving an Increasing menace early morning session and eager to vestigation, that such mistakes as road is laid, it means that somewhere bers lic meeting there, free of cost, on re- hear the official paths of private pursuits and growing crops. have been made have been made in the state there are three miles of peaceful into dispatch from Washdrafted the service of the state quest to the city authorities. to better work in the fu iruide-post- s ington. with road the same about a ago. It was found that COUNT THE DUST PARTICLES ture. So far as Utah is concerned, the unimproved mightthat, A prayer of thanksgiving was ofhave been brought previous year state administrations and AT Y0RKT0WN 142 YEARS AGO effort has been to Secure the services expenditure, fered, several speeches made, and then as to to standard the had commissions up road drainage, grad adopted men best in ot the every department, the congress adjourned to the Lutherand surfacing, ir the gravel sur Wendover rout as the best western Scientists of United States Departand engineering costs, as well as ing How News of Glorious Victory Stirred an church where at 2 o'clock thanks Nefaced type had been adopted. ment of Agriculture Are Investifederal connection a for highway. items the other entering into work, the Land at the End of the were given "to Almighty t!'d for does not necessarily follow that vada indicated its willingness to join gating the Atmosphere. are subjected to the closest and most theItdistricts Revolution. which are Jtiven standard at Wendover with the road to be concrowning the armies of the United constant scrutiny. If it seems to In connection with the solar rsdlaby the state of Utah with Stntes mid Its ally with sll(eHS.,, those who are observers from outside gravel surfaced roads are to be for structed tho On October 23, aid. ngo, years the benefits of the federal Competent engineers rep-nn work of lhe weB,hor bnrenu, lidern were setit out In Ilspnt-of the organization that engineering ever barred from of to is federal Bureau over!" begun T .,.,,. -- ., ring every direction, herald r f a new em, r,t cry "The war costs should be cut, it is well to re- higher type of construction. As a resentingas the ' . . of . the' as well . method Roads, of fact, the , engineers through the land, but It was lint until the ilnwn of a democracy, whose Inmember that the Federal Bureau of matter construction is recognized as being state road commission, passed upon "V?un.t , ' V S, four days Inter, when the cilliciiit word fluence was eventually to permeateJloads demands high efficiency in that of so two routes m economical advisable. the ....." To make of in question and and, jar general, Cortiwallls' surrender reached the ever? path of the earth. Congress department, and no plans are ap- By at Washington. mosphers, the as meant records construction indicate, unanimously Continental congress that the ri al ceUv voted the thanks of the nation and proved until the requisite engineering the building of a gravel issurfaced approved and recommended the within osure the p nlr norththe count, the has been done. Inasmuch as the gov- road, provided with proper bratl'Hl began, says the New, Vrk honor to Washington, suddenly decreased, Huiu drainage ern, or Wendover, route. The fed- dust counter ernment is paying about The aci IhIiii with which the tiews appropriate a demanded out be to western bureau structures a as and eral a first this dust precipiof line Itoehambeau, Ie Ornsse, and a day causing of the costs, and bearing in mind that road to be used until suchstage, time as let to the coast, and insisted upon a tated on the particles are waa received, old record disclose, wns was appointed for genernl thnnkns!v-Inwhere it has established construction stand traffic conditions demand a hard gin, nnd portion of the federal aid funds al- counted with s microscope having a not unlike that with which the Amerithroughout the Union, ards that have to be attained, it will faced highway. When that time sur ar- lotted to Utah being set apart for mtiKiilflcBtlnn of 1,000 diameters. On can people In November, 1018, greeted for Ood's prayer favors to the stnigellng need no argument to nhow that the great and It of this the the structures construction were of There Hun. the the highway. drainage, 3XK1 dust ciipittilntlon state road commission must maintain rives, bodies, executive Legislative patriots. would be necessary to quiet mornings a many as base was can and felt all that it the gravel grading cans and councils, its engineering department as a high be used with little or no loss in the give preference to projects which particles per ruble centimeter have no limousines dragging tin city corporations, private ly efficient organization. It is econ construction of the higher type of would expedite the completion of an hn counted, but on clear mornings old wash boilers about the streets, no societies, churches nnd other organUs- there but motortrucks, omy to do so. number the j ovorw l,p)m,,(1 Washington with road. This plan of road building is adequate system of interstate high-- following precipitation were well, here Is the story ! Use of Federal Fund bonfires addresses; being followed in some of the most ways. As matters stood prior to this, drop to IrKi. congratulatory of for the The long struggle ending were kindled on the mountain peaks. ,ont of the particles appear to progressive states of the Union, even lime, there were two north and south It is afelt that in some asquarters In was are more abundant than highways through a great part of the, ,,,tremr.ly fine minerals or organic Independence sight nfter the to the where funds there is misunderstanding Museum Gets Montgomery Relic. are in Utah. Moreover, this is state ana connections were maae on .v. ,.. .iirfAce. si- - hostile army had been driven from prtti' twe to be made of federal funds allot- they fine in see line with Colorado we with east in the what railroad the New brittle at sword of Brlst, Men. Richard of The Springboundary Jersey from Utah. csrbon From statements some unconsumed that ted to though 1.. . L . For instance, when the arm Ttr , , field June 23, 1780. The war. for the Montgomery of the Continental army, wyurninic, uuh nine wnn ii'f.hmi-- j buildtrm occasionally are made, it would seem building. fTV" & Rio Grande railroad was necting federal highway running wet to the who led the assault on Quebec and most part, was transferred that the idea is prevalent that cer Denver into Utah, it was a narrow gauge from .Salt Lake City. It was deemed 'In operations, and dlntoinsreous re- was killed nt the first dlsibargs of British the southern tndoubted-menta- l states, though tain definite portions of the fund built , observed, have been terlil and small and for very good govern-line, using light rails of Manhattan Island. control the ISrtttxh infantry on recem?er 31. tained belong to certain counties, or sections cheap which, arc such there a was businiss that As many psrtlrles de highway ;)y reasons, of the state. This is a mistake. The velopede'piipment. In 1781 t)at It 1775, was formally transferred to th believed Cornwnllls - while Nefor reach ss set and nuclei be northern to to income wa constructed increased, it large enough federal funds are allotted to the state from the lower type to the vada and northern California. It hai condensation. ar too smalt to he seen the South could be subjugated, espe- national museum In accordance with as a whole, and they are to be ex changed type of of sections the Mati in railroad heon felt construction. fom cially Virginia, the war would b won. the congressional resolution if 1 bru through a microscope with a magnify pended under the direction of the stat, higher heavier rails, standard gauge, that the road commission in deciding Ing power of Lafayette, with his army, was being sry 22. diameter. l,(xiO road commission, in cooperation wit with was to Federal Bureau of Roads, in locali and with standai d equipment. How to approve the Wendover route, road-buildin- ' g lit hMlki: 1 ! ja-i- road-buildi- !; 4 w J k 4 fey, 4 ;: -- " 0. 1909-1911913-191- 50-5- 0 inter-mounta- in ' side-ar- - two-stag- $30,-00- - 5, fin-Hu- g anti-slaver- y - 1 two-stag- ,..,, e , two-stag- three-fourt- - e I h g bnck-flrln- ) ,, 1 . : - |