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Show $100,000 TAX FOR f ROADS IS ASKED I Salt Lako, July 10. Headed by I Jcsso Knight and Col. C. E. Looso, ' I 500 ot the leading citizens or Utah H county liavo potltloned tho county H commissioners to levy av special tax ot $100,000 to bo used In tho conduction con-duction of hard-surfaced concroto roids. Tho application recently itaged In Utah county over tho proposed pro-posed bond lssuo ot $750,000 for hlgli-class pcrmanont roads, and gives promise, It Is said, ot bringing at least partially favorable- results. Tho proposition for tho Issue ot bonds In tho sum of $760,000 went down to defeat, but by tho narrowest narrow-est of margins, less than a score of votes telling the tale. Advocates of the oxpendlturo of tho best part ot 11,000,000 In highway Improvement are firm In the conviction that U was only because of tho lack of a full understanding of the merit of the projects In view that tho bond proposal failed. Want StAto Rood. There was also an Impression abroad, It Is said, that, the state could be Induced to build such roads as Utah county needed out of tho (2,000,000 bond tssuo provided for by tho last legislature. Tho Idea led many voters, It Is claimed, to think It would bo bad business for tho county to burden Itself with such a debt. An appeal was sent to the capltol at the time urging that the governor or some other state official como down Into Utah county and clarify tho situation by making It plain that the state would not apportion any uch largo sum to uso In road construction con-struction In Utah county. No speaker speak-er "B campaign, however, emanated T'rom tho capltol, although Governor Bamberger while In Utah county on other state business was consulted by several leading Utah county cltl-iens, cltl-iens, According to II. F. Thomas, ono of tho Utah county commissioners, tho petition, for a $100,000 levy for por-manont por-manont roads Is looked upon with favor. Mr. Thomas said tho difficulty diffi-culty lies In tho fact that bucIi n sum could only bo collected from tho taxpayers tax-payers as a, part of the- stato fund 'or road purposes In Utah county, and having beon thus obtained, Its wpendlturo would bo at the dlscre- tlon ot tho stato road commission. In the past, he said, dirt roads of no lasting quality have been tho order In Utah county, and no more of these aro desired by tho good road advocates. advo-cates. Money has also been spent more or less uselessly In Utah county, coun-ty, It Is snIU, on canyon roads. Will OUcuss Levy. Joseph lllrlo, Btate auditor, and Ira II. Drowning, stato road engineer, will meet with tho county commissioners commis-sioners of Utah country In Provo today. to-day. The proposed levy will bo discussed. dis-cussed. If an understanding can bo reached whereby the Utah commissioners commis-sioners and citizens will bo allowed to choose tho road construction on which the money Is to be spent, It Is most likely that the commission will decide to make a substantial levy tor roads, although it may not think It wise to spend as much as $100,000 on them at present. Even a showing In miniature ot the advantages of hard-surfaced concroto con-croto highways, It Is believed, would soon convince residents of the county coun-ty of their worth and value, and would serve as an opening wedgo for a better fate for a revived proposal to issuo $750,000 in bonds for permanent per-manent roadways. |