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Show ROCK PILE FOR COUNTY AND CITY The coun(y commissioners this afternoon aft-ernoon are making a tour of the mountain moun-tain country in search of a place where plenty of rock Is available to be crushed for use in macadamizing the county roads. At the session of tho commissioners commission-ers Monday, they determined that the sheriff should be supplied with a patrol wagon and that the county jail birds should be compelled to do service ser-vice on the public highways, during their incarceration. This means that they must have crushed rock to 'handle. A crusher is at hand and the commissioners are determined to find the roclv Hence their present mission, mis-sion, Commissioner Madscn says that the city owns a tract of mountain country coun-try in Tavlor canyon upon which plenty plen-ty of rock is found. lip thinks there should be a joint movement on the part of the city and county to establish estab-lish a stockade at the mouth of Taylor Tay-lor canvon. which is immediately oast of the" city, In which to place jail subjects of both the county and city to crush rock for the streets and comity highways. Mr Madseu se N that there Is no road like the macadamized macad-amized road, It being a question with him whether it Is not better and more profitable than the asphalt pavement. A conference will be had with the mavor with a view to establishing the "rock pile" on the city's property in Taj lor canyon, to be used jointly by the city and county, |