Show some good suggestion s professor J H paul in a communication to the lie news e endorses very strongly the joia ion expressed by that diat paper the other day that tile the conser conservative yative citizens of the state were not nol in i il fravor of increasing the taxes for a building which they rightly or wrongly t 1 regarded ay orn cornsi ti mental rather thian xie necessary cessa r y he adds that although lie be is inte interested interests resti ud i in n property the capitol hill bill which would have increased in galut by the proposed v building yel yei lie he belie es I 1 that fiat the money of 01 1 tile lie state ariti be spent to greater advantage advant 0 aire o V just now pro paul says say s 7 utah has hap about twenty nil mil lion acres of dry land awaiting r reclamation e by the application of a little fd water to supply this water will require dequire reservoirs and these the state must build aided to some soine extent by tile the federal govern government went tile the cost will run into many millions but the returns to the state and people will he correspondingly largo large ard aid will represent many timet s the outley necessary for the construction of reservoirs it seems probable ae that within to a few years flie state Stale could offer irrigation farms to is us citizens tit at from 30 to 5 50 per acre equal in actual value to irrigated lands that sell tit at present f froni ronis roni s t to 0 p per r acra a c r a n nd d still make a profit of f from ro in 10 to 20 per pei acre on oil every d such transaction five million acres thus would dinean me in from to profit to the state it would also mean that every young man of energy and ambition could tit at ordinary wages soon oon acquire a farm farin that would make him iti independent dependent Is this an ail extravagant supposition any skeptic is advised to cori consult sult the civil engineers edginee rs who have mude made a study of this subject and then judge for liim himself self us as to the immediate feasibility of if 4 such buch a project nevertheless this state can not expend expand say ten millions for t mst and in addition five million for a capitol building rhe hie talk of erecting the latter battel structure for two and a half million is almost preposterous the city hul hall cost a million del lors at a time when building was nearly 40 per ant less expensive X I 1 P than it is today an all the state must have a building larger than the city and count building but even if the bosl could bo limited to two iwo and 11 half million it would seem to be better economy to build reservoirs for the reclamation of the dry land first and to erect the capitol building later on oil almost every valley in ii alfh b is inc menaced by floods floody s actual or imminent and the state has iio no money y with chih 0 to remedy it a condition that is a danger to so many communities a and ti d i is s wholly un unnecessary necessary and easily preventable floods can be controlled or prevented if the state has the money but theres the rub if the state should bond itself for ton ten tuil million doll dollars ars with which to re reforest fonest all the cooler elopes jl canyons and plateaus of the wasatch range with pities pines and the lower plateaus and valleys with then floods would soon become impossible an n perhaps twenty five years th the e state would have standing umber timber worth possibly 50 MO but it would then have aso which is of more inore value than money the mountain and valley parks the rainfall and he die dew which the vegetation would attract the birds the health healt li the joy f life found only y in ton fori ats areas in the midst in of the desert the beauty of groves tile the feeling of safety safely from floods in a word many 0 of the things which are more inore exo excellent ellent w uld then theil ie be ours and the state might well bond itself to build good roads which tax the farmer and through him all the rest of us about a on every ton of produce haul hauled ea 0 o market or of freight hauled to the mills in this dry climate we are arc entitled to the best foadie in 11 the world practically all of them run through agricultural di districts and it is said to cost the farmers 25 cents to haul a ton toll a mile on oil them tho the average haul baul of farm products is nine miles according to the estimate of the department of agriculture the cost of hauling a ton a mile on oil the roads of france is seven cents centa w to tran transform our roads 1 from 11 I 1 bad to good would cost an im 1 I 1 cinense s um sum of money an ail attempt 1 1 I 1 4 to i lase aise the necessary amount F I 1 by taxation taxat ion of land in a terin of years w would uldra use oud prote protests r ts frona from ev every e ry er in in the country yet this S could be done simp y by ii narrowing all the country roads from froin their present averaged average wi width edth of 60 ft to 30 ft the aver I 1 width of the bie ge german amaji country road is from 20 to 30 feet J hy via ti narrowing them one half balf we could raise enough 0 mo mon n ey to build tho the finest rock bed ded roads in tile the world simply by selling thi this s land to the owners of abutting property theia with a very s small mal 1 bonded edness in addition utah could without auy added financial burdon burden construct and maintain road better than even the excellent ones of continental europe why not lot bond alie lie clale for something that is productive of revenue to the state why not for good roads for state fisheries for res er ur for state libri libraries fries or for i insect ex termination extermination |