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Show BUILDING Of A . fVSGDEL HIGHWAY First Three Miles of Interstate Road Is to be Constructed Eetween Ogden and Riverdale During the Good Roads Convention in This City in September. It was decided bv tho good roads people yesterday afternoon that the first mile of the three -state capital city highway shall be built from the Riverdale bridge toward Ogden. The state will appropriate $2,000 and Weber county will contribute $3,000. It will be known as a state highway. The tirst construction will be done at the time of the Inlermountnin Good Roads' convention, which will lie held at Ogden during the' holding of the Four-state fair, and it will be an innovation inno-vation tu road building. At the inception of the Intermoun-taln Intermoun-taln Good Roads' association, organized organ-ized in Salt Lake last year, it was de cided that a great capital highway, made of macadam, should be built between be-tween Salt Lake City and Cheyenne. Wyoming, and between the Wyoming capital and Boise. Idaho, and that there should also ho such a road leading lead-ing from Boise Citv to Salt Uake. mmmrwmmmmmewnvammimmmamimmeBimrKwB! The first convention of the association associa-tion was called to meet at Ogden, and It was decided that the first mile of tills "capital city highway" shmild be built, the good work to be kept up until the plans of the association should be carried out. The building of this road will attract at-tract national attention, and will likely like-ly do more toward encouraging the buildfng of better roads throughout the lntermountain country than any oilier event in the history of the good roads' movement. It is anticipated that there will be more mayors of cities, governors of states and representatives and senators sena-tors of the country In attendance at the convention than have ever gathered gath-ered In the history of the western country. All the western states and cities will more than likely be represented repre-sented and many will come from the east. |