Show communication editor news I 1 noticed an excellent article in the news nets ot of march estil I 1 agree with every section of that article up to and including no 9 although I 1 am not iu in lavor favor of earth roads mentioned in section live five except as it a cration for macadam roads to be built as soon is as money and time will deimit the great economy of good roads to the farmer can be seen in the following accepted statistics on the ho poorest earth roads not muddy but sandy u horse will draw twice as much its as he can carry on a fair road 3 times as much on a good macadamized ro ds nine times s much on a smooth plank road 23 25 times IS much on oil a stone 31 times as much and on a metal rails 34 54 times as much you see that money spent on good roads draws over interest annually according to the interstate intel state commerce erce commission report it costs the farmers of united states annually to haul baul their products to market this amount could be reduced to less than when hen we get better roads the public utility commission in section 10 where it presupposes that we will have a public utility commission and what that commission will do is bringing before the people of box elder county an incubus that they do not desire box limox elder county is perfectly able to manage the corporations within n her borders without haying having to turn over such control to an expensive political triumvirate appointed by the state politicians in power the churchman a who depends upon his wife and the preacher to do all of his praying and his church work is not a good christian I 1 do not believe that our state legislature will give the land hand that it now holda boldia over our corporations to three high salaried men to be known as a railroad or a public utility commission if the corporations were so disposed it would be much easier for them to work three appointed men than it would be a whole legislature elected by the people pennsylvania with her boasted railroad commission is the greatest corporation ridden state in the union anthracite coal sells at the mines to consumers tor for 2 0 00 per ton chile hile the same und kind of coal soils sells at the coal yard in philadelphia 90 miles away for 7 00 As to box elder county the total amount of 0 corporation assessments in hox box elder county in 1910 by the county assessors were 5 the same were assessed by bv the state board for the same year was 00 or in favor of the county assessor the taxes on the above as well as the extra county pro rate tax boxelder Box Elder EIder cou county nty m would lose it if she had a railroad or a public utilities commissioner such as spoken of gr and such as california an ami bome other states now have and all this would be in excess of her share of the expense of such a commission which is estimated at from to 00 per year yours very truly V S PERT PEET salt lake city utah march 6 1912 |