Show INCOME FROM A VEHICLE TAX As has been suggested a R. vehicle tax In Utah would bring a big revenue to the state and would at the same timo directly benefit most greatly the very people who pay tho tax There arc are probably thirty thousand wheeled I vehicles of all aU sorts sorts barring barring bicycles in bicycles in Utah I I Thero There are ten thousand bicycles There arc are probably a thousand automobiles Inthe in the tho state This estimate Is arrived from the fact that there are 61 In Salt Lake county There are arc OO in Ogden CO GO in Logan 60 50 In Provo 24 in Brigham City and anti tho balance of ot the tho state will bring tho number up to a thousand easH easily Thero arc are farms In Salt Lake count county Every farm is represented b by at least one wagon Enough of or them have ha more than one to bring the total nf ot In the county Ul UI to I In Salt Lake City there are arc GO 50 express wagons 50 passenger wn wagons ons 50 public lUbliC carriages On Ozi the basis of oC the farms there are aro probably ably abb wheeled vehicles other than bicycles In Utah county 2 2500 in Cache 1700 in Box Elder 2300 in Weber Therefore In tho five counties there aro are ver very verr likely wheeled vehicles and It will not be extravagant gant to assume that there are 1000 1 In tho the balance of at the state or Of courso course the number can with some labor of or searching statistics be absolutely determined Good ro roods roads s are arc a benefit to oYe every one of the thee thc e vehicles ari and to the men who own them Good roads make malC travel ca caier and faster fasler A bad road destroys a vehicle much more quickly than does a good road A bigger load can be hauled on a good than on a bad road Suppose a vehicle tax of ten on every overy automobile and ono dollar on every wagon and twenty five cents on every bicycle Tho The revenue derived would be bo over forty thousand dollars donars ina in ina a year It would go So a Ion long hong way to improve the roads of the tho state And the tho advantage antage of oC the a system stem would be that tho the roads of ever every section would get et the tho benefit of the expenditure xI The rate hero here suggest Is no more than a n suggestion It Is la cr very likely too tod low But Dut the tho amount of revenue derived year after year w uld work miracles with the tho highways highways high high- ways of ot Utah And the whole people of ot every section would reap the benefits of tho the new road 1 law aw a |