Inter-Mountain Republican | 1909-01-16 | Page 4 | One Effect of Good Roads.

r 0 OXE OP OF GOOD Good roads will build up tho the country countI more than the they will Salt Lake Every good road In tho the country makes the country more moro more inviting ing InS more profitable Every extension lot of good roads will mako make tho the now unoccupied unoccupied un- un occupied 1 land bettor worth orth ownership t and cultivation The moro more good road j the more houses the moro people themore tho the more property o of value Consequently tho the more the tho of good roads Is advanced tho the bl bigger ger proportion of ot tho the wealth of tho the state will be found In tho the out An l lA A As a tl consequence tho the bigger burden 1 of ot the states state's taxation will bo be taken m up and carried by that part of or the commonwealth awo away from Salt Snit Lake county Instead of ot this county having one- one third of tho the people of ot tho thu state It it will with the Increase of population following tho the extension of ot good roads bc omo one fourth one fifth one fIfth an even a smaller ratio This city will wil grow with Hh tho the growth oC or tho to state o or of cour course e. e But when this tins city has t two o hundred thousand pIe people and the state four tour hundred thousand this city and this county will m cease to bo ho o so largo large I an cl clement ment In the property owning tax paying making law portion of ot Utah And every overy section of or tho the state I will bo the better for the wider I or diffusion diffusion diffusion dif dif- dif dif- fusion of ot population of ot wealth of ot activity acU and of ot Interest t. t Good roads will win bo ho a blessing to over oven L I tIle the remotest portions of or Utah