Show OF 00 06 Jilt 4 estion of vital import ance to this state f nil ADVOCATE GIVES SPACE PROF VIEWS advocate is in receipt of a eustrom t eUS from prof richard R lyman j f 16 engineering department of LV diversity sity of utah and in which professor shor calls attention to an at by himself in bulletin no 3 f J utah engineering F eneri 1 station construction and 3 avi nance of earth roads the nn being one of ital imbor raf I 1 14 asmo jo all residents of the thesta state teat at me e the great moral and rei N herewith here ith presents the gen s views without endorse professor lyman writes ire M bated abed in the bulletin the earth 0 when constructed and well ined will be bo much of every ill oad since it is the first step N be taken bhea hea any other laditi maali oad iti constructed i Ii It would not have you think that am aLAP posed in any way ay to the conion on of better roads where where so 11 s possible in bait aake city lit t lake county in ogden and NN 0 I 1 county in logan and provo roads mav very properly and be built but there is a ques 11 my mind whether the state wom give any further financial as wivis 11 in the construction of these awo oad than to properly grade form aw the earth foundation or 4 ewt V same which is in itself the broad f inai that if n inose those ano who are edin in good roads will unite wil lETort ort to ha e earth roads conid at once the results will N ill be ing to all concerned P itina on road building will be fi I 1 n those addressing professor r in in care of the university of arti 3 iree idree Z with most of who r e to improve our public highways in this that le sj lem blem is a most important one not in sympathy with ith the T at most good roads enthuse I 1 IA putting forth to have our 0 D militate te even attempt to construct 6 system of state of asphaltum of tarred gwm of ordinary macadam or jS gravel p w attention to the first cost P roads and then to the more a M a M lit point the cost of main a rn m bahem hem I 1 believe the position a M the right one namely that a M e V could not raise the feces a dmn r ads to maintain in good conie 11 M n extensive system of had P M ut throughout the state fifth if th e c tua I 1 constructed and paid i in p a ill the be beginning inning tal pie ae must be ti trained until they I 1 a M ilythe he importance and necessity P ra ehlig g good things before they kilting ng to pay for them and it n flag in ament that the people here na trained in load toad building wt learn by actual experience cy invested in good roads nO before fore they are willing illing to in jary largely in them I 1 am 1 oil iuna u 1 v vinced on that the way j ea the solution of the road effis ima hf fis is to train the people in the ai tation tJ tM ution tion and what is still more rent in the proper amainte leao the ordinary earth road irth rth load toad that is dry and sm smooth is a good i load oad and in this country a road carrying only the traffic ic which caseb over the average utah ro roid id can in my opinion be kept epton jn good condition nearly all the time and in fairly good condition all the time at comparatively small expense for maintenance for the reason that such a road if kept hept smooth and in proper form will drain well and thoroughly if an earth road is thus kept free from great quantities of moisture it cannot be froen frozen and therefore afore cannot be rendered soft and bottom bottomless lebs in the sprin aprin of the year as poorly construe and poorly maintained earth i loads oads at aie e 1 I desire to see the earth road constructed fit filist bt the earth road well maintained second and the better classes of roads constructed later |