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Show WEBER COUNTY WILL VOTE IN FAVOR OF ANNEXATION Chairman Moroni Skeen of the county board of commissioners says he is very much in favor of the proposed pro-posed annexation or a strip of Davis county to Weber, If for no other reason rea-son than to give Weber countv con trol of the highway leading from Rlverdale to Weber canyon, which Is on the Lincoln highway from ocean to ocean. The improvement of that piece of road, the commissioner commis-sioner says, would be one of Weber county's greatest assets in the good roads line. It Is Mr Skeen's opinion that when a vote is taken, Weber county will be decidedly in favor of the annexation, an-nexation, but it is questionable with him whether Davis county will ap prove of the plan. Those in Davis county immediately Interested, no doubt will vote heavily in favor of it. but residents of other parts of the county may be opposed to losing that little strip of country which now yields county revenues. Speaking of road building Mr Skeen is very optimistic, and he says that such headway has been made in this direction that Weber county is in the lead of all other counties in the state. There are now 35 miles of macadam road? in the county and, at the present rate of building, from ten to twelve miles will be added each year, not only on the main thoroughfares known as state and county roads, but over all the outlying out-lying farm districts. At present a force of men and teams is at work macadamizing the Plain City road, which will be completed com-pleted soon, when work on the Kanesvlile road will be taken up. After the completion of the Kanesvlile Kanes-vlile road, the North Ogden cutoff will be macadamized with a view to completing the entire job in April There are two gangs of road builders in the county and they will be corn-blued corn-blued on the cutoff With this piece Q of road made. Commissioner Skeen says the county will have the best piece of cross-country road in the state. The only discouraging piece of road from Rlverdale to Hot Springs is along Washington avenue from the south city limits to Twenty-eighth street. To keep the macadam in repair, the commission will next spring en gage men with macadam carts, to which will be attached small water tanks, to patrol the roads and fill up broken places when they first ap pear. By this means it is expected that the roads will be kept in the very best of condition for all time at the least possible expense. |