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Show Payments should be made, by Check, Money Order or Registered. Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the postoffice at 8alt Lake March 3, 1879. Act under of the City, Utah, Ness Bldg. Salt Lake City, Utah Phone Wasatch 5409 311-12-- V 13 . RICHFIELD PA VES THE Road Problem, a problem that must be solved soon gjis. to attain her proper place in the sun, and a gotten up on good roads by the Richfield cei club, is the best idea and suggestion that has ever ddeed along these lines in the history of this state. stale talked about good roads and have made many be-.t all our past efforts sink into insignificance as comas advocated by this live organi-jsines- s pile proper solutionRichfield Commercial club. men the h gjpklet iwliicli is made up in a neat and compact information gathered from all the large road of the country and contains reliable facts and Dad building. It also shows how this state can adopt program in which time every important highway in ld be paved at a saving of thousands of dollars, yes, the 80,000 automobile owners of the state. A cross fflof a permanent paved highway to extend across the Obast to west and from north to south, will not only Jcedented prosperity to Utah, but taps the center of lion. We wonder why our larger cities did not awak-iar- k road before. The road represents a paved cross Ijfcur state. Beginning at the east there is Vernal, icMyton, tapping the rich Uintah basin ; Price, Emery, Salina, Richfield, Marysvale, Beaver, iodarrison on the west boundary of the state, and then uld continue nearly directly west to San Francisco, mt conditions we go west from the northern part of stead of the central part, and miss the center of our This prospective road then starts at Logan and to Brigham City, Ogden, Salt Lake City, Lehi, Am-Jf- :, Provo, Payson, Nephi, Ephraim, Manti, Salina, dar City, St. George and on to Los Angeles, Cal. Iius be seen that the members of the Richfield Com-Ejf- o have carefully planned a cross road running the larger cities of the state, and which roads also very heart of our great scenic wonders of the She which can only be reached over poor dirt roads e Fortunately for Richfield, that city position almost at the cross section of the Big s solu-Dspect- us S. man-jjjjrit- au-ente- rs -- Hunt-vKlegat- e, WA Y that the stock would be over subscribed. Why then is it not just as good a business proposition to the state! We have our fine office buildings, our fine schools, and the state capitol is a won- derful building. We have built them all upon a business program. The road leading to any one of them is just as essential. Good roads bring in business and harmonize the people; bad roads kill business and even keep neighbors, strangers, because they cannot visit each other. The road solution is by far the most important matter coming up before the legislature and each and every member should give this subject his careful attention and study the problem. Let us do away with much of our waste and unimportant commissions and bureaus and put the money into good roads, an investment which means something to the state and which will make us richer in the end. The cost of an article is of little consideration. The important thing after all is, How much have I got left after all bills are paid! It is better to pay. $2 per bushel for wheat and have the money to pay for it, than have wheat selling for 25 cents a bushel and not have the money to purchase it. If every automobile owner would keep an exact account of his auto expenses, gas, fuel and upkeep, while traveling over gravel roads, and compare those costs with the low cost over the concrete pavement, there would now be over 80,000 enthusiastic owners of machines urging the legislature to take immediate steps to construct paved highways, which would save them millions in fuel and depreciation. We earnestly urge every commercial club, and every other club, in the state to back up the Richfield Commercial club and put over this paved cross. Several years ago Governor George IT. Hern spoke of just such a cross for our state. BUSINESS LEGISLATION. Senate Joint Resolution No. 2 by Air. Lewis tends to constructive and business administrations of our larger cities, and it is legislation which is in vogue in all large cities of the east. The resolution provides for the appointment of a joint committee of the Senate and the House, to prepare and submit to the of a bill tourist traffic and is also depriving herself of Sixteenth Legislature of the State of Utah, a draft amendor bills providing for a constitutional amendment or orts and essentials for which there is little or no in countravel which we could get in constructing such ments providing for joint city and county government ties of the first and second class. ilrouldpay for the cost of construction, but the people If such a bill was passed, this county could do away with i must advance the money. It is simply a business D'atid if we have faith in our state we will build the much duplication work in all offices and it would be possible under the consolidation to reduce taxes and still have more can be had under the present double ,ved. TOLL road could be laid along the lines sug-i- s money to work with than been a common question among business men has It week in one system. be raised could the money pamphlet, why it has not been done before and big men of the east have 8 proposition to build the road, and it is safe to say occu-"abl- j cx-ouri- st |