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Show Road W ork as Relief Measure, Huge jole SaysMinersvilleMan Minersville, Utah, Dec. 21, 1931 The Milford News: The following letter may be printed print-ed if you see fit, but in any event I believe the facts should he presented to the proper parties so that this end of the county will be assured of its share of road work and other work paid for by money appropriated to be spent for the general good of the county as a whole. As you are of course aware, there was an appropriation made by the state road conumission last, summer or early fall for express purpose of "Relief of the unemployed." As I understand un-derstand the appropriation, it was to help tide, through the winter, men with -dependent families., who were out of work and who were almost forced out of sheer necessity to appeal ap-peal to charity. In fact in this community com-munity there are quiet a number of such men and I presume Milford is in like circumstances. The money was alloted to certain sections of the Beaver County State road in such a manner as to give each community a chance to work. Beaver had their allotment, and Minprsville, Adams- ville, the Flat and Milford were to work from the reservoir west. A committee was appointed in each town to receive applications for work and pass on the applicants. The Minersville committee's figures indi- cated that between $30.00 and $40.00 'v. had been alloted to each applicant and everything apparently was okay, everything except the most im- portant feature, the weather. The Beaver work, done with money appropriated ap-propriated at the same time the oth-r oth-r money was designated, was prac-ticaly prac-ticaly completed, before any effort whjatsoeter was pud f,orth ;on the lower road. Even after the committee commit-tee was appointed it was weeks before be-fore a survey was made and the work was started. I was in Beaver in early October and called at Mr. Robinson's home and ask him for a job on the road. He stated that the work on that section, meaning from the Dam down would begin in about ten days, and that he intended using men from this end of the county. He stated that the only thing that was holding him up was the equipment. Now it is certain that the money was appropriated at that time and Mr. Robinson no doubt had instructions to begin the work or he would not have told me it would get under way in ten days. In the meantime the Beaver work progressed and nothing whatsoever was done on the lower vvork until the ground was so badly frozen that it could not be plowed. There are a lot of people, practically destitute here who are wondering just what what held up the work for two months, and why both sections of the road could not have been worked at the same time. Due to the nature of the appropriation, the fact that there is no other work available in the county it seems an outrage that such work could be procrastinated. It is true the work will probably be done when the ground is in condition, condi-tion, but the thirty or forty dollars that was alloted each man would have come in mighty nicely for winter wint-er clothes. Our county commissioner states that the work was to go fore- ard regardless of weather, that it was purely a relief appropriation and that 100 per cent efficiency made no difference, but I suppse the Suate) Road commission had something to say about that, neverthel jss the work ceased the minute they- found the ground would not break satisfactorily. satisfactor-ily. This end of the county should register re-gister a protest with the proper parties par-ties regarding this incident, and profit pro-fit by this experience. While the above may not be exact to the day, at the same time the facts speak for themselves and I am sure you and every other lower county citizen will agree with me that as far as we are concerned the so called "relief appropriation" appro-priation" is a huge joke. Respectfully Yours, F. E. Hall o . |