Show let Us prove our civilization next monday the leopla of carbon county are called upon to decide a momentous oue question whether the roads are going to bo ba improved im or whether they are to get still till worse than they are at present if this is possible the question will be decided et the poll when the question of cof issuing in 5 bonds will be voted upon if the bond bonds carry carbon county will get good roade roads roads that will permit farmers to haul their produce to market at i a pro profit fit and enable automobile tourists to get got through gla carbon county as well as a enable th the people of one part of the county to drive either bones horses or automobiles to any other part of the county the call for the tiec tion stipulates that every precinct of the county ia is to share in the appropriation tic thirty one thousand dollar nay may to speed spend on read sem seem a lot ef of money work in a little county but it is not much boresch for each individual when you remember that you have twenty years ix in which to pay it carbon coulty has fully people which makes the ap appropriation aaion about 3 00 a head hew or about 15 ca cents ants per head ead very little moley it per year to give a county good road roads and but little of this falls Is on the poor gnau it charged up so to hie his i Aae family on the basis of the number of children the denver rio grando will pay a large part of this sum 9 the mining companies will pay another big share and all property in the county rill stand its share for the man with only a house and lot the additional tax will be so mall small as a to be no burden at a taxpayers meeting held in this city meyeral se months ago the county 15 wara ars alikes by resolution revolution to bond for for road read work but on account of the h heavy eavy tax taxes t the he people are already paying the commissioners commissi onera decided that they would oly only ask for at this time A few years later the comity may ba prosperous enough to permit road building wit without houts bond issue in the east people have learned that every dollar spent for road work work is a permanent investment and taxpayers bare quit ticking kicking they are taxed for roads aa As a result the east cast has real highway highways here in the west we ire are just beginning to learn that the roads are ax an indication of the stall state of civilization possessed posse iud by the people and we hive have been a little alow slow about showing our civilization nert blondy monday is a fod good time to show the virld that we of carbon chanty want to be b considered civilized let lot us yete for better bettor roads resa resi and prosperity |