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Show ROAD GUARD TD BEJWSTALLED County Commissioner Promise Railing Rail-ing on Pave4 Road Above Kapelle Hill. Is Dangerous Place. Several times this year cars have tumbled over that part of the paved road above the Kapelle Hill, a spot that is considered the most dangerous in the state. The place in question has a drop on either side of the road of approximately approxi-mately 50 to 75 feet, and there is nothing to warn the strange motorist when turning out for a car of the impending im-pending danger. A telephone conversation with one of county commissioners disclosed the fact that this august body is fig-uritig fig-uritig on widening the road at this point, and putting in some concrete guards. The work of getting the guards in place will start early in July according to the County Commissioner. Commis-sioner. In speaking of straightening out the last few miles of road leading into Bingham Canyon, this Commissioner said, "We have promised to have the work done before fall, and at this time that is our intention. We figure fig-ure that we will be able to start some time in July, and have the work corn- pleted before snow falls. ' This is all very good, and the people peo-ple of Bingham Canyon are in favor of it, but a good many of the natives of this town are from Missouri, and want to be shown. Let the county commissioners start this work, and then the people of Bingham Canyon will stand convinced, but up to that time, they will remain a little skeptical. skep-tical. It was suggested to the Commissioner Commis-sioner that the road leading to Bingham Bing-ham Canyon from Midvale, was one of the very few important roads out of Salt Lake City that was without lights. "Not enough houses on the highway," was the reason given, but the people of Bingham Canyon are of the impression' that 'it""wou1dn'f "be i bad idea to let the lights on the highway high-way be a guiding light to the world's greatest mining camp. The Redwood Road is well lighted, and so is practically every other prominent prom-inent road leading 'opt of the metropolis, metrop-olis, why not the road to Bingham Canyon? Lights along the Bingham Canyon Highway would not only beautify the road, but would also act as a safeguard safe-guard against those wonderful one-handed one-handed drivers. There are many accidents ac-cidents on the Bingham highway each year; and the toll of life would be greatly reduced with a well lighted road. With lights on the highway it is doubtful whether those accidents near the Kapelle hill would have occurred. oc-curred. LET'S HAVE SOME LIGHTS ON THE BINGHAM CANYON HIGHWAY. |