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Show COMMERCIAL CLUB HOLDS BIG MEETING Sentiment Favors Bonding County for Good Roads Officers Urged to Do Everything in Their - Power to Obtain Results MAYOR FAVORS PAVING MAIN STREET Prof. Hyrend Outlines Junior Commercial Club Plan to Keep Mail-Order Money at Home The Milford Commercial club held an enthusiastic and harmonious meeting at the State Bank last night. The president, J. R. Pearson presided pre-sided and C. A. Arrington was appointed ap-pointed secretary pro tem to take the place of E. B. Jorgensen, who was unexpectedly called to Lund. The first speaker of the evening was Prof. Bates of the" high school, who in a few well chosen words expressed the hope for closer relation rela-tion between the high school and the business interests of the town. He said they could and should be of more aid to each. other and ended his remarks calling upon Prof. Hyrend of the Commercial department of the high school to give in detail what was hoped for by the school. Prof. Hyrend then took up the question of cooperation and outlined a plan whereby it was hoped that a large part of the money sent out to mail order houses might be kept here in Milford. Considerable discussion followed, which was participate1 by Bishop Burns, C. C. Sloan, Chas. Gustafson, C. A. Arrington and others, oth-ers, but owing to the fact that the hour was getting late and there was another question to be discussed, the question was laid on the table 'till the next meeting, when it wil' be made a special order of business. County Commissioner Orin Burke of Minersville was called upon to open the discussion on the road ques tion. Mr. Burke had jtyst returned from Salt Lake, where he had beer in conference with the state -road authorities au-thorities and members of the legislature legis-lature in regard to state and federal aid. He reported tliat there might "become available at once for use ir Beaver county, $95,000 of federal aid money and $75,000 state money, but Beaver county would be expected to put up a large amount to go with it in order to get any, as the federal Hid was conditioned upon a like amount being raised by Utah. Whether this was to be raised entirely en-tirely by the counties or only partly by the counties and the balance by the state was not quite clear. Also this federal money could be used only on-ly on post roads and the only post road in Beaver county was the one from Beaver to the Nevada state' line via Milford, Frisco and New-house. New-house. Commissioner C. C. Sloan said that the only way Beaver county could get this money would be to bond the county and also to work in harmony with the state road commission. com-mission. State money can be used only on state roads and the main slata roads in the county are the Arrowhead Ar-rowhead trail and the Beaver-New-house road. It also developed that there is a sum of $200,000 available avail-able for Utah to be used before December 31, 1921 for forest reserve roads. A portion of this might be obtained for use on the Puffer Lake road, but for every dollar the V. S puts up, some one must put up anoth er dollar. Mr. Sloan also said that the county commissioners were considering con-sidering the question of bonds, and at their last meeting they had delegated dele-gated Commissioner Parkinson to go to Salt Lake and get all the Im-fnrmntion Im-fnrmntion available. The commission ers will hold a special meeting about the middle of the month to go farther far-ther into the .question. He thought that a bond issue of $100,000 might he nut tin to the people for this consideration. Karl S. Carlton of the News came out strong for good roads and cautioned cau-tioned the commissioners present to be sure and give every part of the county something out of the bond money, as all parts of the county would have to pay the taxes, and if it were necessary to make the bon-1 issue a little larger, it were better to. do that and have all parts of the county feel they were properly ta en care that bond issues were more apt to fail of approval by the voters because they were too small, and but few got what they wanted, than if they were large and everyone got something. Quite a number took parUin the discussion, among whom were Treasurer Treas-urer Clinton, C. T. Woodbury, Mayor May-or Cottrell, C. A. Arrington and others. oth-ers. Mayor Cottrell brought up the ; question of city street improvements Inaving. gutters, curb and sidewalks, stat'ng that the city clerk was getting get-ting information as to best methods j and approximate cost. He said he would he able to make a report on the subject soon. A resolution was unanimously adopted commending and encouraging encourag-ing the stand made by our offlcehs in their efforts to get better streets roads and sidewalks. After voting the Junior commercial commer-cial club of the high school to full membership in the Milford Commercial Com-mercial club and extending them a hearty invitation to attend its meetings, meet-ings, the meeting was adjourned. Everyone is "cordially invited to attend the lecture to he given Friday Fri-day night at the opera house by V. S. Peet. This lecture is the first one to begin be-gin under the direction of the Com mereial club and should be well attended. at-tended. Statement of Federal Aid Funds for Uso on Utah Post Roads. Under the Federal Aid Road Act of 1916, Utah will have available from the Federal Government be-, tween now and December 31st, 1920, $854,252.25 for use on Post Roads, and $200,000 for. use on Forest Roads. Under the Bankhcad Bill Utah will have available before December Decem-ber 31, 1920, the additional sum if $1,987,630.71, making the tota Government Aid, the sum of $3,041-S82.96. $3,041-S82.96. In order to make this amonut available, the State of Utah is required re-quired under the provisions of the Act to duplicate this sum, or $3, 041,882.96. No part of this money can be made available for the construction or improvement im-provement of any roads except those over which United States mails are transported. This prevents the improvement of the hard surfaced road from Logan City to Payson except by funds raised by the counties alone. The State bonding limit based on the assessed valuation of 1918 was $9,600,000.00. In 1918, $875,395.38 was collected collect-ed by State Road levies In all of the Counties of the State, an average of approximaely $30.00fl In each county. coun-ty. This can be assumed as an average aver-age of what can be raised annually from this source, most of which is required for expenditures in maintenance. |