Show our roads what has been done what is now coming by john 11 II clark it has been only a few short years since those of us its who adventured oyer our roads with intent to transact business or to satisfy our craving for interest and change were preceded by a phantom sign at your own risk tile the expression clearance had a real leal and sor serious loiis meaning to us what with the snags boulders stumps band and brush that lay in waft tor for a lows low hung oil pan or axle many and acrimonious were the disputes relative to the value 04 0 a short handled shovel as against the standard excavating aln implement pl ement how lioio many prayers and how many pa paeans enna marked the safe passage of some mud hole or some bridge of questionable character caracter ilow how many of us ua were there that wasted precious gas and jeopardized 1 our immortality in fruitless efforts to avoid the disgrace of being teamed As AB the year dawna we no longer seek peril and adventure along our roads roads unless it be from the road hog and tho the irresponsible driver the str strings inge of freight wagons that used need to block our passage have given way to the fast moving truck the mud hole is almost forgotten excepting on some of our connecting or feeder roads the snag the stump the treacherous boulder have gane tho the way pay of tho the inquisition the winding curves are giving way to long radius curves or are being eliminated by cuts and fills gravel surface and in tho the more populous loua sections concrete have made us ua almost forget the slithering lurching and general hell bell bent proclivities of our clay sections dust which used to accompany ny us to our torment forment and danger la 9 being eliminated surely and efficiently 0 our local program while lagging behind that of other counties to the hiorth orth andrest and west Nest Is now definitely outlined ined and under way our favorable poll oil and weather conditions have hav een potent factors in the delay and diat t Ui at we have really embarked on ge program wal wo can forget aab 0 aul avd pon ourselves ours elvei the Ilene tits of what little has been one when coupled wid wah li the finished of pluto plute county and the teady eady progress of the federal forest ishway construction in kane county i sufficient to justify a uniform connulty of the work Much must be ild id in favor of the present system of maintenance where only a couple I 1 years ago we had a hit and miss stem and our comm communications tint dur were a question of low 0 w bucking power of our trucks idt cars or a reversion ts to the primie re with sleds and tennis teanis we wa now vo a rather uniformly excellent ad in summer and can depend on ing anywhere in winter with the chance or of having to use vols ovola and sweat on an occasional ift where escalante and oven even used to tie be content to remain ob 0 ty fald for weeks or months the adelb d now low continuously open liero aero the ifie folks of those communities any ally darlne daring visitor must of need of driving and can cuss 8 during wet weather they now have a oth lotfi gravel surface tropic canville and Henri henrieville eville folks who d to simulate seriously the cap ty of the Isreall tes for two three r months each year are now resell reed thanks to construction work the he county and the he forest servi service ice pled with maintenance work by state est we forget our present blessi and fall to strive for more let gain again remember what it used to we paid seventy senty five cents for i hundred weight oi of freight front from cavale or to that thai point all our n r towns town 1 paid cor correspondingly responding ly r the charge la Is fifty cents bolits this lit ht charge was a very direct tax our prosperity the saving of ly tarra IM ial conr third mac ant nt pm on total freight comes to a very udy tady each year we can expert expect a tier ter reduction with tho the finishing is ie road to panguitch Pan gultch our neigh on the south ben benefits eftis where wo we and the improvement made maintenance work and by federal truc tion have cute her original ht it bill fu fully ly forty p per or cent this is it if in actual moneys contri bilt to the road bulling drig fund would soon give ua its a gravel surfaced voy ay and later as needed a paved ugh lugh tare fare the saving however into the pockets ot of the through their dally daily living costs ii a tho the county again calls for or 0 0 amonoy to finance construe construction cioll lot let us its niber this athla and be generous to oui oil future greater comfort anti and gase ease of life the tourist travel that used to nd all venturo venture to its as an a 0 thin trickle Is now a growing stream and will soon be conio collie a 0 groat great and blead ste nd v river of profit alt to us its and pleasure to tho the traveler in the tall fall this year there will bo be another giant stride forward with tile the opening of the loos leoa ferry gorge gorc bridge aside front from the commercial aspects lot let its iia for a moment visualize the possibilities witch come collie to us as a direct gift wo we will bo be on oil tile the most direct route between the rocky mountain national park in ill canada and the southern loop conn connecting epting tile the colorado play grounds with those of tile the Sll Sita astas and tile the pacific slope this bouto touches direct or by short branches tho the following great attractions yellowstone salt alt lake tint tim pa fish lake bryce panguitch Pan gultch lake cedar 11 breaks zion grand canyon north and south the painted desert flagstaff mountains petrified forest roosevelt elephant butto dam connecting with the old trails route at either phoenix or flagstaff let us tin work towards this so that when tile the time comes it will be an actuality why let them go around ua lie when they can come to us |