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Show on LIGHTS FOR WAGONS. i Without delay our county comoils-; jsioners should act on the suggestion i of the state road commission tbut a i law be passed requiring horst-di D I vehicles to display a light when trav 'ellng at nigbt on the paved highway In a communication to the coram, a I sioners of Weber county, tho necessity I of taking action is presented, as iol-j iol-j lows : I '"The Increasing number of accidents !to horse-drawn vehicles on crar t?.te hard-surfaced roads would seem to 'call for KCtion on the part of the various va-rious boards of county commissioners I in the several counties or action by b Elate road commission, or both. ' "Youi attention Is r ?pectfully directed di-rected to paragraph B, section O'jTC I chapter 83, of the sessions laws of 1 1021. The portion of the above sec-'tion sec-'tion that outlines tho poer.i of your honorable commioslon reads as fol : lows; ' 'The count;, commissioners are hereby authorized to des.gu&te audi I roads where all horse-drawn vehicles ; all carry at least one lighted lamp Ol lantern, so arranged that said lighted light-ed lump or lantern shall be visible from the front and rear.' "This commission, lu the interest of public safety, earnestly recommend to your honorable commission that you pass an ordinance making suoh , designation, including in the designation designa-tion at this tlmo those portions of our highways which are hard sur-. sur-. faced where the records show the larger part of accidents occur." Any one who has driPn an auto-, auto-, mobile at night over the paved road , between Ogden and Salt Lake Will recognize the necessity of horse-drawn j vehicles carrying a light. The wonder is, that any rig without a light escapes the speeding machine. |