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Show y THE WEEKLY REFLEX, KAYSVILLE. UTAH of other things dear to the hearts of tenance is in operation, will stand up been staged anywhere in the Union under ordinary traffic m a very sat- on the question of road location. The the dwellers of Nephi and Juab. . manner. In a state such as present state road commission came Now, when the shades of night had isfactory with extensive outlying dis- into the controversy when its memUtah, l TM-- INLAND PRINTING TO fallen, and there was darkness in the tricts where roads are urgently need- bers were suddenly taken from the W.' r. ZT PERSON. E4iUr land, the scribes and those who were ed, it would seem to be a correct pol- peaceful paths of private pursuits and C. A. Err EASON, AhmUU tAiUm with them, were taken to a great hall icy to build a greater mileage ol drafted into the service of the state about a year ago -- It was found that gravel surfaced roads rather than m mwpJUm mmttrr fibmrr II, where there was dancin? to the muof curtailed hard surfaced mileage f Um Aet previous state administrations and sic of cymbals, string and .reed inMil, at KTilla, Utah, under ol1 road commissions', to in had adopted the order more reach highways, Starch I. 17. struments, and the scribes danced and the people. Wendover route as the best western made merry with the daughters of Every time a mile of hard surfacei connection for a federal highway. NeAdrarticiac rate m appllratlna "is laiJ, it means that somewhere vada indicated its willingness to join road Nephi, even until a late hour. in the state there are three miles ol! at Wendover with the road to be conadvance in $2.00 per year Now on the morning of the followSubscription unimproved road that, with the same structed by the state of Utah with ing day, which in the language of the expenditure, might have been brought federal aid- - Competent engineers repTELEPHONES modem is called Sunday, the scril.es up to standard as to drainage, grad- resenting the Federal Bureau of W. P. Eppamaa, Na. tl C, A. PPB, Na. 114 were placed in the fire chariots of ing and surfacing, if the gravel, sur Roads, as well as engineers of the Oltra Na. 14 state road commission, passed upon the Nephi tes and taken to a place faced type had been adopted. It does not necessarily follow that the two routes in question and so far in. the fields of La van, where wise the districts which are given standan. as the records indicate, unanimously men experiment with growing wheat, gravel surfaced roads are to be for- approved and recommended the northalfalfa, barley, peas and potatoes, re- ever barred from the benefits of the ern, or Wendover, route. The federal bureau demanded a western outlying only to moisture which falls higher type of construction. As e method let to the coast, and insisted upon a from the clouds for watering the matter of fact, the of the federal aid funds of construction is recognized as being fiortion to Utah being-se- t same. These men have great knowl- economical apart for and, in general, advisable. e edge of the mysteries pertaining to By construction is meant the construction of this highway. It the of a gravel surfaced was felt that it would be necessary to The Board of County Commissioners plant life and convinced the scribes road, building with provided work a that proper drainage give preference to projects which is to their great help are to be commended on thefr decision and as structures a first stage, this would expedite the completion of an those who till the soil in the regions road to be. used until such time as adequate system of interstate highlast Monday, to make a strenuous where there is not much rain. Chief traffic conditions demand a hard sur- ways. As matters stood prior to this effort to eradicate noxious weeds faced highway. When that time ar- time, there were two north and south Feterson, from the county, or at least from cer- work in director of experimental rives, the structures and drainage, highways through a great part of the to the spoke agriculture, tain portions' of the county. the grading and gravel base can ali state and connections were made on scribes and instructed them concernbe used with little or, no 'loss in the the east boundary line with Colorado Certain weeds are costing us thouthe value of his men construction of The- sands of dollars each year, among ing asked the of the work higher type of and Wyoming, but there was no conof the scribe. road. This plan of road building apd support is necting federal highway running west Nehich are the burs. Instances are In the afternoon of the day the being followed in some of the most from Salt Lake City. It was deemed mot lacking where large clips of wool scribes were taken again in fire char- progressive states of the Union, even imperative, for very good governhave sold for several cents below marwhere funds are more abundant than mental reasomi, that such a highway iots, to the place where men of Nephi they are in Utah. ket price for the only reason that it and Moreover, this is be constructed to reach northern NeZion have placed vast ..machinery in line with what we see in railroad vada and northern California." It has was full of burs. If the commission--er- s for the manufacture of wall cement, building. For when the been felt in some sections of the state instance, succeedthen, even in eliminating wall plaster and plaster of Denver & Rio Grande railroad was that the road commission in deciding The paris. 'these weeds from certain of our to approve the Wendover route, was nVrow captain of the company, one Doctor f.'11 rails an undue amount 'of the aland small and light thoroughfares, they will have ac- Ellerbctk, told diverting using of the his- cheap something As de- - lotted federal aid to this project, but business was equipment. much But the good. complished of the enterprise, the method of j veloped and income increased, it was enough has been said to indicate th should go farther There is a tory manufacture and that the product was changed from the lower type to the necessity for action in allotting these state law under which, every property into distant lands, even to higher type of railroad construction, funds. Indeed, had the commission owner can be compelled to eliminate shipped with heavier rails, standard gauge, refused to do so, it is not impossible San Francisco and San Djego, where and witj?. standard IIow that the federal aid program in the noxious weeds from his own property, it was used exclusively on the great many years it would equipment. have been before state of Utah would have been or else have the cost of someone buildings. From the plas- Utahs coal fields in Carbon county brought, to a halt, and it is not untines doing it for him charged against exposition ter mill' the scribes Journeyed to the would have been opened up had the likely that no other, pro jcts would him, and collected as a tax. insisted on the increased have been apprpved until this recamp of the forest rangers, which promoters that would have been nechad been granted. expenditure Every property owner would be ies in the canyon under the snows of essary to have laid and equipped a quest Hi this discussion; no attempt has kwtter off in the long run if that law Nebo mountain and to the east there. standard gauge road at first is A oen made to cover all phases of Were inforced to the very letttr, be- of. Again the feust was spread, un matter of cphjecture, but it is safe Utahs road building program. Time muse weeds detract trony the pro- der the to say that by using the g will not permit. But it should be said open sky, and the scrib3 were ductivity of the soil, harbor vermin again filled with the choiest of vi- construction in this one railroad ven- that the present road commission corf of all sorts, and generally detract from ands, furnished by the Nephi Plaster ture the coal industry of Utah was dially invites your investigation Tf its developed many years earlier than problems. Our records are open to the value of the property. Farm bur- company. It Is in this beautiful can- otherwise would have "been possible. you, and we invite your constructive taus, municipal authorities, chambers yon, in the shadow of Nebo, the sons The single track railroad' is con- criticism. Your function is to inform of commerce, and all other organi- - and sidered the proper thing until the traf- the public. Your influence is best of to come Nephi play - cations and individuals which have in daughter fic becomes of such density that dou- exerted when you give out, as you summer. Here they have their the welfare!" of the country at heart ble tracking is justified, when the always aim to do, correct and uptents, their' cooking fires and their additional building information. Your relation should with the commisexpenditure is made. to our problems, therefore, is an imcouches. sioners In. their efforts to eradicate this same reasoning to one. The public is entitled And it came to pass, that when the theApplying portant road building program in Utah, to r at least the more objectionable of our know, through your publications, darkness of night had come again, it would seem that the policy pro' .Weeds. is being done by the road dewhat the went to by the state road commission as well as by other state 'The burs have been mentioned be of snibes which the the new temple posed is justified by the traffic conditions partment, of If vye have information learning people agencies. Nephi that exist. This does rot mean that that tonse.they are of tpoTe immediate con- - and the province of Juab have it is yours for the need, ypu just no further hard surfaced road will be aeijuenee. just now, but what threatens completed at a cost of 175,000 sheckles. asking. in laid ths state. It will be necessary Vto 'be- a thousand times worse than There is nothing Someone has for the education of their sons and and desirable to complete links in the new under the said, sun.r It seems that are the morning glory, the poi'burs, is snid that this temple chain of hard surfaced highways, no- even road building by government aid Jt daughters. son the Canadian thistle, of tably the one between Payson and the has come down to us from antiquity. learning is the finest in the land of Juab and some others, which are getting county line and at the Riverdale Utah, and the scribes think it is so. crossing. There may be other sec- A rhymester, who delved into ancient be which vent should eradi'.started, and In the great assembly hall of the temtions where the traffic demands the history for a parallel case, gave to this: cated regardless of cost. Iaroukin ple of learning, the sons and daughters higher type of road, but in general Tinn-ait Is felt that conditions in the state OLD4JUY A of Nephi gave a fine entertainment demand that greater road mileage be CAESAR WAS WISE to their visitors. Thirty-fiv- e youths constructed with the somewhat limwould be well for Davis county (boy scouts) of Nephi and Juab played ited amount of federal aid funds avail- When Caesar took a westward ride, also 'to take action in the matter of on instruments of brass and reeds and able at this time, leaving to the fu- And grabbed the Gauls for Rome, noxious weeds. Many farmers could What was the first thing thatthe did in much volume and great ture the second stage of the construction the hard surfaced road. To make them feel at home? use the grazing privilege of their best drums, and there were readings and Did he increase the peoples loads farms were it not for the burs along harmony, The Wendovcr Highway songs. And liberty forbid? the fences and the ditches. Editor No talk on roads in Utah would be No; he dug in and built Good Roads And again, in the rear of an Reflex. without some mention being Thats what old Caesar did. ipothecary shoo, the scribes were fed complete made of the Wendover road which has on the most delicious frozen creams been approved for fed- Did Caesar put the iron heel just recently and fruits, where they were the eral aid by the Hoi, Henry C. Wal- Upon the foemens breast? guests of Scribes Wood and Gibson, lace, secretary of agriculture, after Or did he try to make them feel who record the doings of the Nephites one of the most bitter fights that has That Roman rule was best? on the pages of the Times-NewAnd Continued from Iage 1.) so ended the second day. Scribe Portland so ended the labors And it came to pass, that on Monif the first duy. day, the second day of the week and Now it came to pass, at the close the third day of the gathering, the df dav, a great feast was spread scribes arose from their couches in at the House of Forrest, and the loud-pn- g the House of Forrest, partook of the nun of Nephi and their wives sat morning meal, finished their business at meat with their guests, the scribes. m the Hall of Kivvanis, filled their The tables were laden with th fat tanks with gas and radiators with of the lard nnd there were smgi and water, and aped away over the coninu.-Jfurnished by the fair dunsels crete trad to their homes in the Valthe Nephites. The Nephites ame ievs of the Mountains," feeling that it n their places and told of the glories .a well that they had visited with of Nephi, the triumphs of tbnr man- the people of Nephi and Juab. And is ufacturers, the success of their farm-vr- it canto to pass ;u the scribes left tb wisdom of their cd'u-s- ' nrs. the portals of the city of Nephi the latho virtues of their children, the captain inscribed thereon the singlet Avhen tw.tuty of their nio'jnta:n., and scores ward Mizpah. Hrflrx Sljf ffirrkltj r.MuM ht Cj'STATt , What did he do to make them glad He came their lands amid I He built Good Roads in place of bad .Thats what old Caesar did. " Until all roads led ud tCp Thats what old Caesar j?6" If your town would make f, The center of the map He built Good Roads from hill to hill; Where folks will come knj Good Roads from vale to vale. And live in plentys lap-IHe ran a good roads movement any town its own ab.d Of poverty would nd Till Rome got all the kale. . He told the folks to buy a home, Let it go out and.bu.fi Gcvwt Build roads their ruts to rid. Just like old Caesar d i . f -- Asscmna pt two-stag- Noxious' Weeds two-stag- . move-xnen- t" -- more style then ever, here, in Hart Schaf fner & Marx suits . two-sta- -- more good nver style theyll find here, saw than .the newest and best features; easy fitting coats or trim waisted models; Nolfolks, sport suits, in English and Scotch fabrics; rich colora ings and great values - milk-wee- young men d, $35 to $50 . It EDITORS' OP STATE GATHER AT NEPHI s. Banish Drudgery Welcome Leisure II. II. BI.OOI) ADDRESSES EDITORS ON UTAHS STATE ROAD PROBLEMS that Continue from Page 1) in Utah the policy of building mountain Mato. The following tabu-har- d utfaetd highways has been tar- - lation will prove of intereM in this riod nut her than in any othei inter- - connection: While there is no doubt that hard faced roads are desirable and even whore a density of traffic :ecosi.ry warrant? that type of construction, t is behoved that the greatest ocon-om- y will result from the construction of standard gravel surfaced roads in districts and localities where the traffic is not so great. In general it may be said that four miles of gravel surfaced highways can be built under .government specifications for the sane cost as one mile of the best type cf hard surfaced highway. Assuming that concrete highway will cost $30,-pe- r. rciia and the graveb emrfaeed h.ghway $7,500 per mile, inclusive of drainage ard structures in each in-- stance, rand assuming - further that jnoney for road construction can be -- iad at 5 ft, it will be seen that the -- Low Summer Excursion Rates To points east and west daily .beginning May 15th. the dirt and fuss of cooking methods, and all the tiresome bor of cooking over a hot stove, you Gone s, t Union Pacific old-fashion- spent on each mile of the hard surfaced road in excess of the cost of the gravel surfaced highway calls for an interest expend.ture of $1,125. If vie assume thatannually the annual maintenance cost of a gravel surfaced road is $250.00 per mile and that of a hard surfaced road $125.00 per nnle, there would be a saving in favor of. the hard surfaced road of $125.00 per mile per year, which would leave a net excess cost to the public of $1,000 per mile per for the hard' surfaced highway. year So far as experience has shown in this Mate, araHt-nrust-fre admitted That we have not had either type of road in ue long enough to reach definite conclusions), it would pptar that a well constructed gravel surfaced road, where the patrol system of main-- Return limit, October 31st. select your ELECTRIC RANGE An electric range cooks while you spend your time at things you like to do. The heat is easily adjusted good results are sure. And with an electric range you have no soot, no smoke, no fumes, no ashes, and no kindling. 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