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Show BOISE ALSO WANTS THE MEETING Ogden and Boso aro in friendly rivalry at Logan over the naming of the next meeting place for the Good Roads' convention, now being hold in me vitcno vuiiey metropolis. mo contest will bo decided thin evening. Attendance has been largo at all the sessions as well as at tho entertainments en-tertainments provided by Logan pco, plo. Governor James IT. Hawloy of Idaho arrived In Logan today He was mot at Cacho Junction at 2 o'clock b an automobile party. The govornor will address the convention. Govornor William Spry roturned to Salt Lake yesterday. He expressed regrets that he could not remain longer. A- G. Batcholder of New York, chairman of tho executlvo committee commit-tee of the American Automobile association, as-sociation, dlBouBsetl federal aid for roads. He complimented highly pco-plo pco-plo of the lntormountaln west for tho progress they are making In tho matter of better highways. He said the country s becoming thoroughly awakened to the necessity of a system sys-tem of national roads oxtending across the contlnont, connecting tho entire country with the system of roads now under construction by states He declared that ns soon as the United States provided tho country coun-try with a proper system of national I highways there will be migration of ' people of the east to take up homes , In tho west. A paper by Professor William Pet- f oraon of Utah Agricultural college contained suggestions as to tho best , materials for road construction. He roferred to tho large deposits of oil shales In Oneida county. Ida . and In many sections of Wyoming as being excellent material for road building, yet little used. He said in part- "It is cheaper to haul Sherman gravol from Wyoming to put on tho streets of Logan than eo haul lake gravel from Temple hill. The ono thing till association should stand for Is that material used for road construction should be of such a na-turo na-turo as to mako the road permanent It is far hotter to build a short per- manont plcco of broken stone road each year or a road of other good ma-lerlal ma-lerlal than to scatter our efforts over the whole country and accomplish ! nothing definite. ! "I think also that first-class road ! material should be acqulrod and held by the stnte or county and not be nl- i lowed to pass Into tho bands of prl- vate Individuals or companies for prl- E vate gain." K |