Show MT PLEASANT WOULD BE A COUNTY SEAT Manti ManU Editor Accuses the North Sanpete Town of Having Aspirations From the Manti ManU Messenger The Mt Pleasant Pyramid of last week expressed great displeasure at M th the designation of the state San Emery pete road via Ephraim cany tn m. n. n This notwithstanding the fact that the dis distance distance dis- dis tance from Mt Pleasant to Castle Caslo If Dale Is 24 miles shorter via Ephraim than tian via Hunting canyon calou We do not often indulge in In post postmortems postmortems postmortems mortems or we might sug suggest est that ha Mt 1 is waking up about three years too late Apparently their efforts efforts ef forts at county building the past ten years have been more more than positive They have exer exercised much care in preventing Manti building a anew anew anew new court house something that Mt lit Pleasant cannot hope to ever get In the mean time they have overlooked overlooked over over- looked Ephraim's winching cinching the foresters forester's office something we believe believe believe be be- lieve Mt lit Pleasant could have had fat foi the asking and something worth more to a city than the county seat by building a foresters experiment sta tion And this same station is now a strong fa factor tor In inthe the the designation of the state road The The Pyramid al also o complains of th the fact that during the past two eal Ephraim has used 23 of th the road funds f for r the county while all an the cities of of the county north of Ephraim have been allowed only 18 13 i Our only an answer to this is The Messenger has always advocated a law compelling all aU boards and communities com com- communities handling and ng the public funds to publish their full proceedings Dont Don't you are right Some of our oldest states consid consider consider- r it a 3 good investment in in- vestment Some day Utah will reach that conclusion though probably after many expensive experiences ti tl Sa aske e asked Governor Spry to ord order r all state road work on the road stopped t temporarily and of course the G Gov v did Why not The state did not intend to do any work there this fall but but- the government did did and and Is doing It |