Show for the building of good state roads secretary ot of state david mathon Matts has recently compiled a table showing the amount of money available boin from the counties and the state through bonding bond lne tor for the building of permanent state roads under the now assessed valuation plan which went into effect this year one effect of the cash value assessment plan has been through the increase of valuations to more t than I 1 lan double the maximum of bonded indebtedness debt edness provided by the constitution for the state stale and the various counties with the state on a cash value basis state bonds may be issued issue d to a maximum ma of under the 1916 valuation and the maximum all m indebtedness which may bs be incurred cur red by the various counties reaches in the aggregate the total bonded indebtedness ne s s of the state 1 is bonded indebtedness of tile the counties so tar far as could be learned from reports received at mr matisons Matt Mat sons office totals thus the counties may issue bonds aggregating almost and the state can still bond itself for approximately making a total which may be raised through bond issues issue of approximately in an interview lat last week mr 10 mattson att said eaid to a herald republican reporter great mileage possible it if the state and the various 0 n ea working together on a c cooperative 01 dative plan of highway construction issue tile the bonds they are now empowered to authorize hundreds of miles tall es af pf of hard surface roads could be built said mr mattson the subject is or one that merits the he closest consideration it to is now in our power to open up the vast undeveloped areas of tile the state with adequate transportation facilities take the uintah basin for instance with the bonded indebtedness the state and the various counties together may now incur a hard gu surface road could be built into that pa part rt of the state and the transportation problem for that section would be solved there would be no need for the construction of a railroad with a permanent hard surface road to travel on automobiles and motor trucks carrying passengers and freight could make the trip to the basin on regular schedule Milli millions of acres of land that now lie idle lie in that part of the state would immediately be brought under cultivation and the increased valuation of property which would result would soon repay the state and counties interested for their bonds another advantage Is that the transportation companies would be formed with utah capital the money paid to them would stay star in the state gasoline transportation is hero here and it has come to stay in some parts of this state gasoline vehicles carrying freight and passengers are in regular service and earning a I 1 profit for their owners even in competition with railway lines the of utah has today the finest kind of an opportunity to take advantage of this new means of trans to open up its isolated valleys big S within rencil with the state and counties working together we could now issue about worth of bonds figuring the cost at a mile that sum would build 1500 1500 miles of hard surface road which would open to to motor traffic every isolated section of the state slate the resulting increase in assessed valuations would immediately a t ay increase our assessed valuations 0 on pr property benefited by those roads to on such ch an extent that our bonding capacity would be more ahn doubled and paying the interest on the bonds would not even be a burden county not IS tile the table compiled by mr mattson shows summit county to have no bonded indebtedness under the present assessed valuation it is entitled to be bonded tor for this amount or even half of it would help materially in building permanent state rods roda in this county in a leter to the record recard this week eek mr mattsen says the state road commission is very much in favor of permanent road construction and according to the provisions of the act recently pissed passed by congress which provides for federal aid for rural past roads the state can receive such aid only tor for permanent road construction and upon expending fifty per cent of the amount appropriated by the government A cheaply constructed earth road Is entirely inadequate to meet the demands of travel since the use of motor metor vehicles has become so common and it Is therefore little less than a waste of money to construct anything except a hard surface road and this can only ha be done by expending a largo large amount of money which must be obtained through th the e bonding of the state and its several counties what might also be ald ii in i favor of bonding for permanent state roads is the tact fact that it permanent roads are properly ticked noted they will last for fifty years and their cost will be distributed through the entire life of the road realizing that since the motor vehicle has come in direct co petition with the railroads in I 1 adling freight and passengers it ia i as important jm to develop the roads q it is to extend the railroads and knowing full veil nell that the people must run it be awakened to the need of permanent perman nt roads and that such awakening awake nine can come only through the colum colun ls s of the local papers in the state I 1 am asking for their operation cooperation co |