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Show RLESS THE MAKER OF ROADS. It used to be tho fashion, a few years ago, to cuss John C. Mackoy for spending county money in tho improvomont of Fourteenth South, and its oxtonsion from Stato Street to Garflold. Peoplo said John owned a farm out west some- whore along that road, and by inference charged him with all tho crimes-from graft to garrotlng because ho made a good road there. It didn't scorn to occur to thom that other people owned farms along one side or tho other of that road. It seemed beyond them to realize that a good road is a public blessing. They Just laid it up against John ftfackey that he was personally bonofltcd by tho expenditure of county coun-ty money. For my part I wish ho had owned a farm on overy road in tho county, and had improved all of them with public funds. Ho couldn't own thom without contributing ,to those funds. And ho couldn't make the road without betterment of the county. It was the same way when Billy Wilson was commissioner of Weber county. It is undisputed undis-puted assertion that Billy,, owning tho Hermitage Hermi-tage and other property up Ogdon Canyon, caused the building of that splendid road which is tho biggost advertisement of- Ogden ono of all Utah's chief charms. But if it took a man personally per-sonally interested to persuade tho county into making that improvement, then it should bo tho policy of overy country to oloct a man owning land on an unimproved r.oad and tell him to improve it. In tho long run, this county owes John C. Mackoy a debt it never cn pay and the ugly thing about it is that tho beneficiaries don't seem at all inclined to settle. |