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Show State Road Commission Idaho woul I seem to be suffering a-bout a-bout as much pain from the regular doses administered by her state highway commission as does Utah. The abolishment abolish-ment of this com n. -ion is the object of a bill just introduced in the Idaho senate by representatives of both political politi-cal parties; and we believe a like bill could be introduced and passed in the Utah legislature witn excellent results to the state mid the people who pay the taxes. We are confident of what would happen should the people of Emery countv get a chance at such a proposition, proposi-tion, and we believe there are other sections oi the state that have been treated just as shabbily as Emery. We have nothing to say against the local handling of the state road commission commis-sion matters, as they have been attended attend-ed to in verv good shape, but we have absolutely nothing of a favorable nature to say for the work of the state commission. com-mission. How long would a half-dozen bridges be left out on anv railroad line in the country? If those bridges were left out a moment longer than possible to replace them the railr ad would be a dead one in short order. Yet the people peo-ple of the whole cen:r.,l and southern part of Emery county have nad bridges out for 14 or 15 months at a time on roads that every hit freight, mail and passenger traffic had to travel and suffer untold risk of accidents in getting get-ting in and out of the washes along the road. And all this happened with funds furnished by our own taxpayers laying idle in the st.ite's coffers. A system of state highways is a necessary nec-essary thing and funds for such highways high-ways should be r.iise i and kept separate from county road funds. A state road engineering system is also a necessary thing to keep the different links of the state highways up ti standard. tiut there is not a single feature about the present road commission as a body that we can see in a favorable light. In the first clace the men who compose this commission are (or should be) too busy with the other dutses they are elected and selected to perform to be in a position posi-tion to say much of a competent nature about state road matters; and, second they do not, or will not, sense the true position of a people whose roads are its only means of getti i- about-their railroad, rail-road, if you please. Why not let the county commissioners take a hand in the direction of where and when bridges are to be put in or repaired and when snow shall be scraped scrap-ed off the crest of the road and hundreds hund-reds of dollars saved in maintaining the highway system? We'll guarantee the work will be done well and without waiting a year or two for the regulation regula-tion state commission ball of redtape to unwind before getting at it. And, though a few waterworks engineers might have to fool their n.vn bills, and a few others be forced to forego a few junketing trips to different parts of the state, we might as well have that money put on the roads where it be-, longs instead of elsewhere when there's no necessity for it. |