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Show PEOPLE OF RICH COUNTY ARE I ENTHUSIASTIC OVER BUILDING OF ROAB DIRECT TO OGDEN That the people of Rich county are determined to have the state road built through HuntSVille and Beaver canyon i g evidenl from the report made by attorney Joseph Chei, who has .lust returned from Randolph where he has been attending the district court on important water lillpation Senator Chez states that the senti-I senti-I men! of the people of Rich couniv is unanimous for the road, and that an active committee composed of the leading citizens rf ihat county are at work on the project. In a eonversa-lion eonversa-lion with county Surveyor Mclvinnon Senator Che, was informed that a tplcndld road had been surveyed, al gradual grade which can be built and maintained at a very moderate expense. The Weber county committee, headed head-ed by Representative D D McKay of Huntsville, at ranged to have the State engineer accompany them and meet with the committee from Rich county next Saturday, at a point on the dividing line of the two counties, and near what is known as Monte ( nio. and the proposed line of road will he pone over carefully by the committee and the engineer, and finally fi-nally determined upon. "If the people of Weber county show the same determination to have the road constructed, as the people of 'Rich county, there, is no question but what it will be accomplished, and ready tor travel this fall," said .Mr. Chez. "No project that is before Ogden Og-den opens up such wonderful possi billties, in as much as the new road is about, twenty six miles shorter to i.vanston, and will be about twenty-five twenty-five miles nearer to Bear Lake, with better grades, and many dangerous places eliminated, and eentually tour ists on the Lincoln highway will come from Evanston through Rich county to Huntsville and on through the canyon can-yon to Opden, thereby saving many miles, with more beautiful scenery than the present road by way of Echo and will also make the business of Rich county tributary to Opden, instead in-stead ot Evanston and points in Idaho." Ida-ho." It will be remembered that the state road commission at a meeting in Salt Lake City about a month ago, were about lo adppt an unfavorable report on the construction of the road and to abandon the project and would no doubt have done so, except for the prompt and energetic efforts on the part of the people from Weber and Rich counties. At the last session of the legislature, and only after untiring untir-ing efforts on the part of the representatives represen-tatives from Rich and Weber counties, was the contemplated road included in the state road act, and an appropriation appropria-tion of twelve thousand dollars made, and it would be a pity if indifference on the part of the people of Weber county should let it be abandoned because be-cause of opposition from Salt Lake City. I I immigrants from certain portions of Asia and adjacent islands. Senator Dillingham said the bill would not open the door to increased j Asiatic Immigration owing to the small number of nationals of those countries I now in the United States. I oo |