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Show uo REPORTS ON ROADS IN SOUTHERN IDAHO E. E Kidder, senior highway engineer engi-neer of tho bureau of public roads, returned la-st night from a trip of Inspection In-spection through sOuthem Idaho, where ho waa gathering information relative to part of the highway system that K receiving 7 per cent federal aid. He suld that tho roads from the T'tah line to Pocatello and rnq to Twin Palls and Bliss were In good con dition. East from Blls through Shoshone, Sho-shone, Arco and Idaho Kails the trip I was argel through unimproved desert ; roads, he Raid, which were difficult to .travel especially east of Arco. This, he said, was due to the recent storms that were general through that section of the Btate. Kor 70 miles of the last portion of the trip ho said he wa. .forced to use chalna on th- tlre of the automobile. and travel a large portion of that distance in low gear. |