| Show un JR J R SHARP ADDRESSES aft aes aft no 0 W N M 0 aft 04 M M 0 THE C U M U 0 I 1 1 IN T U U M M M M I 1 aunes SUNNYSIDE utah march 15 to the honorable board of county commissioners price utah sirs the ra railway ilay company have hae long since adopted steel ages or concrete abutments 0 over er all its crossings of price river in carbon county during last reals eais devastating floods those steel uc tures firm as the everlasting lasting hills stood on their gelid id foundations mute witnesses to the wanton anton wreck reek ging under tinder them of every sand anchored wooden N dge owned bv by the people of carbon county the railroad saved saed all the people lost all what commentary om on the wisdom of the people had your predecessors predecessor 3 in as the rail ay com abny ny have done sold bonds of the county to the amount ich they ha have e wasted on wooden bridges bonds bear lp interest at the rate of 5 per cent with mth 5 per cent ad 11 ional for a twenty year redemption and had they implied lied the proceeds of such sale to the building of steel ea bridges on concrete floors where every vear bear they iffie 0 ve built or repaired wooden bridges on foundations sand all our bridges v have hae been paid for no now id d would have come out of our annual floods as un thed as the bridges of the railway company are to ty Y and more they would have saved a further aunt now irrevocably lost sufficient to have ed cd a sa system stem of concrete culverts and drains along country roads which years ago would have dried t every that now blocks the way of our far rs to their home markets in our beai bealby by mining aps ps and still more they would never have witnessed spectacle of stores in price our county spat and geographical center of our agricultural district eked with the hay of the sevier and the grain of ha nor w u they ever have been called upon to exin why the farmers of carbon county like their fel rs s of emery have elected to become mere raisers ot of erne seed voluntarily abandoning to whomsoever hes it the twenty menty dollar hay the 2 50 oats the eat at and the two dollar potatoes which the half a ilion lion dollar monthly payrolls of our mining camps are looming coming from other counties yea even from other ites tes they would never have been humiliated by the plain now facing them that the farmers of bon county have declared louder by their acts than word ord that lucerne seed at fourteen cents per pound he only farm product which they can haul with profit r carbon bottomless and bridgeless roads such uch condition cannot long survive without bearing lit it it imposes burdens untold on every consumer in i county farmer and miner alike it lias has ceased to a problem that presents but one view its serious cassion cus sion has long since leaped be beyond ond the circle of the 11 informed inform cd few and is lampane now in every home homec out of that discussion now the people are fast com to the parting of the ways they are calling for problems unk unknown noNn alternative commissioners it has been reserved for you meet that call and you have met it as you should bouncing noun cing all the primitive methods of your arede ors chich hae stran strewn n our rivers banks with ith the beckage of a generations wasted work you have callin consultation an eminent engineer to advise you in rehabilitation of that work you have asked for mates on bridges that vill endure to take the place bridges that have hae washed away in hose estimates estimate 3 you have favored none from ar treek areek unto nine mile from colton unto mounds ur promised benefaction falls on all alike those estimates involve the expenditure of thirty usand dollars and you ask the people now to vote is is sale of county bonds to that amount will t ta y aport you in that call and why not pray look to youl records commissioners Is t written there that your road appropriations added bour account have exceeded ten thousand liars annually for a decade back and more while e annual interest on the bonds proposed pa pacing ing too priA principal cipal in twenty year yea is only three thousand liars why should not the people awe you their support such a call does civic honor ring in that word TAX id d civic shame in INTEREST and shall the people herbay ther pay three dollars called a TAX which like st oddy ashes off in every ri than pay one dollar TEREST in bonds aich which promise bridges that will ind nd the greatest floods are there thae among the think you who N ho uld spurn the credit which is ours in the boundless alth that nature showered here would they shame our national government for selling bonds which step byster by step as them have hae mounted into billions lif lifted ted her f front rom vas vassalage balage to the bover eighty of earth if such there be and had their dark age virtues ruled then E H harriman and james J hill had worn u or n and left to trapper generations vet et to come the moccasins of davy crockett and of diniel daniel boone ale ate the people ignorant of our mighty wealth they have seen our railroad as local narrow narron guage rescued from receivership by winter quai tors coal the have eon it broaden to a standard guage when castle gate coal opened up and aw taw t its length stretch to the oceans east and west est its Sunny bide and clear creel leaped into the field and now they see it doubling its track as kenilworth and hia hiawatha atha and our younger companies strip foi work and did that ra railway ilay like our country wait for revenue to hasten that stupendous grow gron th had it done that its road today would be as bottomless and s as the wagon roads of carbon county are instead it held its surplus revenue as interest sold bond on bond as openings for its greater growth arose u until a year ago there fell into its coffers from its sale of bonds a bum that mad it at a bound the sole trans continental rail railway ay of this mighty land nor least of the coll sureties it tendered to redeem those bonds was its billion tons of virgin coal in carbon county and shall the people not sell bonds for county roads shall they flounder in the mud and see a coterie of speculators from another state lured hired by the wondrous markel markets them in carbon county mine mines sell a half million dollars worth of bonds to irrigate that patch of desert to the south of price the coloni colonists s is whom those bonds will beacon here will make that desert blossom as the rose think you the people do not know that our railway company with its kindred corporations pays three of our country tax leaving as the peoples share seven hundred and fifty dollars only of the annual interest on the bonds proposed and have you heard the railway utter a complaint at such a lions share of county revenue imposed on them has not the railway rather sent here at its own ex expense professors from our agricultural schools to teach e farmers modern modem methods in the conduct of their far fur is s to teach them how to choose the soil adapted best to every kind of hay and grain and fruit and vegetable that our climate fosters to the end that every acre sown shall bear the mightiest crop that science wed ned with nature can bring forth does generosity such as this suggest indifference in the railroads part to carbon useless roads or does it indicate that they N ill be content to ship the dainty packages of lucerne seed which threaten to become our only crop its tons they want not pounds its freight its not express they want ant to see our wagon roads road where here mud and rocks are wrecking our farm wagons loaded with a single ton smoothed and hardened till those wagons too shall speed as speed today their tenton ten ton freight cars of the early days with loads five times as great and for every dollar that the people spend to brinar about thai that coveted result the railway offers three why then should the people not support ou in this call for bonds did they utter a complaint when bonds were sold to build our district schools and yet again when almost every voter in the country cast his vote in favor of the bonds just issued for our county court house louse and do the people rue these sole remaining monuments 9 of their wasted revenue stately as the nations statue of lib liberty arty lighting with her torch the hidden treasures of thid this young freeland those schools and court house stand and beacon us away from carbon past bonds reared those while taxes reared the one roomed adobe school house and the wooden bridges that have worn orn and washed away aay Is there a farmer ignorant of this who lifts and sweats and groans beneath the burden put upon him hini by our useless roads does not the miner know who iho skimps and saves ard hungers from the unjust haulage taxed upon him for the products of the farm 1 will they not riot vote for bonds for better roads why commissioner they have waited through a weary gene generation rution for that call as they are waiting eager ea er and expectant for that other call for bonds for greater schools the question is not whether hether they will vote for bonds for better roads and greater schools but whether our continued on page four HON Js J R m e SHARP ADDRESSES A WL U L L commissioners U M U concluded from page one commissioners are brave enough to make the call for both and arc are you brave enough you have the revenue to maintain both if paid as interest on bonds you have recently established tb office of supervisor for our county roads and made pro ision for the payment of the to the county treasury by that grand master muster stroke for which the people bow to you you heap into their lap ten thousand dollars annually of revenue which the county never saw before that godsend now alone u will ill pay the three thousand dollars dollar interest upon the bonds for better bridges it offers too a like amount on bonds for greater schools and it will pay four thousand dollars further for the maintain ance of better roads and best of all it leaves you still untouched the thousands wasted basted e every cry ear on wooden bridges aich which could be applied in maintain ance of greater C r schools As cr crying ing aa as the need of better roads is that other need of greater schools we arc are not unmindful of the miracle which u aich our district schools have wrought we know our eighth grade children are the peers of any eighth grade children in this mighty land we see it in the music and the song in the gentler manners in the rarer tastes in the purer language and the chaster modesty and higher hopes which they are bringing home from school a and nd wreathing round our hearts and hearths would ou nip the bud just bursting into bloom its petals closing with the conscious tints and arid breathing off he the subtle perfumes which pressage pressa gc the tree of know ledges fruit for gods sake commissioners commissioner take on the courage which the th C sa sacred cred office given you implies imp liesl blot out the coun dark age now and let her modern history begin before the vote is cast for bonds for better roads ring out that holier call for bonda bonds for greater schools each leading town demands a high school now if that exceed the limit of the law then tender the last cent of credit of the people which the law allows pro vide at least a high school at our county seat and add provision for a modest college course an engineering class for our farmers sons and one in agriculture for the boys on the farm and for the girls domestic science sei ence a highter music and a class in art you now have revenue sufficient to maintain these first few fe you have in view the interest on bonds to build the high school with its extra college room chov the course courage of your office then make the call to for bunds bonds for greater schools and do ic let our modern history halt sincerely yours J R SHARI |
