Show l c F on D. Bc B BIG Gm MEETING GREAT CONVENTION ILL WilL OPEN TODAY I Good Roads Boosters Coming Corning From All Sections of the State 4 CM- CM i M 4 M 4 r 5 4 4 I I. L. L W. W Page director of the tho 4 f United States Stales office of or public 4 4 roads road arrived In Salt Lake Lako last 4 4 night from Washington D D. C. C 4 to attend the Good Roads' Roads con- con 4 Mr lr Pago Page is considered 4 the best Informed man In t-mo t 4 United States Slates on roa road building and maintenance and since 1900 when he took char charge e of ot the time good 4 i roads division of the department built his of ot agriculture has up I service 4 4 branch of the time government nt 4 until It ranks with the forestry 4 service chemistry department and 4 4 others comparatively new 4 4 4 4 O D o. o 4 t M t M t M t t M M MM t M t M t M t t Q 0 QI I confess that I am not familiar with Cio present condition of Utah roads said Mr Pa Page e or with the tile I Good Roads convention at which I have havo been asked ed to speak I am glad however that Utah Is failing fulling In line roads movement which with Ith the good I find sweeping the tho entire country You know our works on educational educational educational edu edu- lines alone and we ar are glad hlad to give practical assistance wherever it i is asked The Tho only actual construction construction con con- work worle we do Is on tie tae forest reserves reser and reservations where the roads are constructed under our super super- vision that the I 1 am also glad to hear Utah legislature will be bo asked to pass passa a 1 aid measure for tor good roads Tho The best outline to my mind Is a an 1111 agreement on the part of the t state to one- one that It will pay for tor Quarter one third or one-half one of ot the tho cost of construction construction con con- and maintenance of roads In Ina Ina Ina county providing the tho county agrees a roads ro a 0 uniform to build the time on so as ns to conform with roads adjoining adJoinIng adjoining adjoin adJoin- ing from other oter counties Maintenance ANo tIo in is nry I want to Impress upon tho the Utah people that mat the construction of oC a road rond Is not riot by any means the time only timing thing necessary After the road Is la Is built It must be maintained Too often otten a road rond Is built and Is good for two years cars then it It falls Into bad repair and tho Investment Is 18 gone trone I am urn strongly In ii favor tn of ot the system as practiced In ii InFranco Ino Franco France o where a road read Is divided Into sections or cantons of or from two t to eight miles in length To 0 evory every canton cantor cantona cantora a man is Js assigned who goes over his section every day In the lie year and nod ro- ro pairs every rut or removes remove stones before before be be- fore rore they tiey can calm do any damage The Time question of or maintenance mt-maintenance Is la time the whole holo thing With a repair crew working there i Is no need of ot wide tires speed la laws laive WB and other regulations regul Mr 11 Pa Pago will speak tonight at at tho Good Roads convention con and will al also o show slides He ia goes gee j from here to San Diego Cal where the count county Is contemplating a a. bond Issue to Improve e its roads In reference to tho the Saltair speedway he said suld that his office would be glad to send an cn engineer to construct a apart apart apart part of the t-mo road the tho same sarno as It woula to start any public road rond In the state I I Tho TIm Good Roads convention which opens today In Armory hall hail promises I to be one of the best attended conventions conventions conventions con con- ever held In Salt Lake Ono One of the features o of tho the convention will willbe willbe I be tho the immense map of ot Utah prepared by D. D R. R Roberts of or Logan LoJan showing the tho plan of the Ute proposed state highway highway high high- wa way through the entire state and with reference to every overy cross road In every county Delegates to tho the convention began to arrive last night and when the meeting meeting meet meet- ing Is called to order today at 10 o'clock by Governor William Spry It ItIs ItIs ItIs Is expected that several hundred visItors visitors vis vie will be bo present All AU delegates aro are requested to be athe av nL the time Armory hall between and 10 and receive budges badges a. a a. a m. m to register The features of ot tho the morning session of welcome by will bo bl the tho addresses Governor William Spry and Mayor John S. S Bransford I |