Show registers a kick on san rafael bridge site GREEN RIVER 1 utah 1 oct 29 arti 1907 editor emery co progress hoping ou will publish in your paper a few facts and companions compa relative to the attitude of our county commission ers toward taxpayers of green river I 1 send you the following for publication about four years ago our legislature to build a bridge over the sai rafael river and the abutments were put in this was as far as the work went because the ap prop atlon was not sufficient for further work the last toward build ng i bridge over the san river with the understanding that those mot interested were to raise more for the same purpose it appears that the was pro only to secure the sl according to the Pro gres some time ago there was only 1 available what was done about the it was dec ded to build the bridge not on the abutments already built but at a point some aix oix miles up the river where it will benefit only one or two ranchers the rest of the ranchers and land owners who outnumber the others six to one favor the old site as being decidedly more convenient and practical from evry point of view the old site is half way between the falls and the mouth of the river it is a location made by men with a know ledge of the requirements of the people and also pf bridge building on this river the petition which I 1 placed before the county commissioners was rejected be cause of an earlier one favoring the new site the one favoring the new site had perhaps signers but most of them were those who had no knowledge afi the state of affairs or that good abut rients had been built in a better location there were not a hundreds were qualified to ign this petition there are only about half a dozen teams i hat cross the desert by way of the new I 1 site the mail goes across the arver six miles below the proposed location all sheep and cattle take the sime trail I 1 don t know what kind of poetry or hot air was given to our commissioners to make them decide as they did I 1 asked them to appoint some bisin er ested deop e to look into the matter hen but now as for ourselves we have and will not it we have a consideration for the people living outside of town those who use the bridge not those who neer travel through this locality shall those who own nine tenths of the property who pay taxes and have a vote be turned down because of a petition afi A bridge signers at the new site will never withstand the water of the san rafael should it be placed there the commis loners should be held recon sible in case of failure it is rumored that the con tract for build ng the bridge was let before it was advertised in the paper I 1 this may or may not be true but the progress said that a certain person who was a practical bridge builder would build the bridge some kind of an ex cuse was necessary to make a pretense at fairness the state gives 1500 if the is raised now we suggest a remedy I 1 don t think the contractor s bid was more than 1500 for the new bridge let the pro and of the state money be kept this will cover the contract give us the i and we agi to laise more to finish the bridge at the old site what can tax payers think of a set of county dads that bring affairs to such d pass being victims of circumstances we will have to make the best of it with the poor timber we have on hand hoping foi a profitable change I 1 am respectfully D S GILLIES |