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Show "IT'S TIME TO WAKE UP" MUCH time and attention was given " to good roads legislation in the last session of the legislature and after i its adjournment the claim was made that this state administration was now ' i prepared to do more for the permanent improvement of the roads than all previous pre-vious administrations combined. Why not? Hadn't they reorganized the road commission, substituting elective state officials for engineers? And did they not repeal the law providing for a party? par-ty? annual appropriation to the several sev-eral counties of $108,000, and provide in its stead for a road -bond issue of $2,000,000? They were surely dealing with figures on paper some five months back, but so far the poor devils out in the sagebrush -haven't been able to realize five cents on the dollar on the promises that were written into the 1917 statutes. The cow country contingent con-tingent are still using the sheep trails for highways and according to certain members of the state road commission they "ought to thank the Lord for that." We understand that a. group "of representative rep-resentative business men are leaving the city, to visit the Uintah Basin in the interest of a proposed railroad. Perhaps they will be able to put it over this time and if they do it will be a blessing. But unless they are dead sure of their ground, they had better be careful what they promise the natives . over there. The inhabitants on the reservation res-ervation have been fooled so often by railroad promoters that they have grown a bit chary. Of course, nothing would please them more than to see a real honest-to-goodness railroad laid down before their eyes in the basin, but they would be very well satisfied for some time to come if they would just have decent highways. And so we venture ven-ture the assertion that if, instead of promising the natives a railroad, the Salt Lake delegation could honestly assure as-sure them that the state road commission commis-sion is awake to the situation and will build a permanent roadway from the railroad into the reservation, their words would fall on more willing ears and a rousing welcome would be assured. as-sured. It is said that they are to carry a message of cheer and kindly interest from the governor to the citizens of the basin. The probabilities are that the return message will be more to the point. Goodwin's Weekly. |
