Show salt labors lakers boost for bettor roads 11 II D jensen president ident of the salt lake commercial club and W 0 stark secretary of oi the same organization and E H W ellis a good roads bloste from froin zion spent thursday night right in this city is as guests of the iho chamber of commerce the gentlemen were driving a huick buick car through from salt lake to colorado springs via the midland trail at the colorado Colo indo tado city they will be bo met by a bunch of colorado good roads boosters boasters bo and will travel the pikes peak route via meeker blecker and vernal to salt lake and the pacific coast the salt labors report thit thoy they found taj tb midland trail from salt lake to price in better condition than J hey expected tho to visitors wore were met at helper by two auto loada of member members of the chamber of commerce were taken to the savoy whore where they and a dozen of the members of the local organization enjoyed supper together it jt WM was intended to hold an open meeting of tho the chamber of commerce but no rio few of the members turned out that the meeting was held beld in the savoy dining room where short talks were mado made by jensen and stark and several of the members berkof of the chamber the gentlemen both stated that the way to get good roads in utah is to build good dirt roads and take tako care of them the state is till still too trio sparsely settled to think of pai rid highways they stated that thet the salt lake commercial club Is preparing to go before the next winter and ask that a large sum of money be raised either by means of beads or state credit to build several roads across the stat from east to west and north to south it was a mistake they thought for any region to work only for itself all sections must work together r for the beat interests of the entire e state we cant have too many roads and ill all sections must assist each other in getting them mr stark said it w was a mistake to blame either the governor or the member members of the tle state highway commission for the lack of otter better roads as these gentlemen were between the devil and the deep as it were in trying to please all portions of the state president marcusen also thought the road commission had leen too much criticised criticized sometimes the members thereof were blamed for things not their fault several members wanted to know soldier canyon loute to vernal could not bo be designated as a state road and thus be kept up by state money this thir r road could be kept open the year round while the colton road was blocked by snow three or four months in the year the visitors did not know the answer but promised to look into the matter the visitors left friday morning for green river where they expected to spend friday night they were accompanied to woodside by president marcusen E M peyton H A hart and T R mcmillan sheriff kolter has arrested joe burns late cook at the Ta tavern verri who is wanted at seneca kas for wife desertion and an officer is on the way from kansas to gab got the prisoner mrs 0 rice rice is is 8 down from saia sal lake for a vist wl her husband |