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Show ROAD CONSTRUCTION CON-STRUCTION The people of Bingham are mucii encouraged over the prospects of paved streets in Bingham Canyon, The road to the city limits was completed com-pleted last week and surveyors are busy laying out grades and establishing establish-ing lines within the city. It is hoped by those who favor paving that ways and means will be found to extend paving far up Into the Canyon. This seems to be assured. The County has appyopriated $20,000 for this purpose and arrangements are being made by the city to finance the rest. rfoJ assessment or special tax will be levied on local property as it Is felt that by careful economic methods enough revenue will be available out of the general funds of the city to take care of the cost tf improvement. Considerable discussion has been carried jn a,s to the most suitable material to be used in the construction construc-tion of a hard surface road hew. Tarva or Blacktop, Gravetbound, Af-phalt Af-phalt or Concrete, all have been discussed dis-cussed from the standpoint of est, safety, service, utility find convenience. conveni-ence. At the luncheon last week th- Kiwanls club went on record as ff-vorlng ff-vorlng cement concrete and a committee com-mittee was appointed to confer W.:h the City fn regard foi the matter. The Committee was received by the M 'y-or 'y-or and Council on Thursday evening and received their assurance that every ev-ery phase of the road construction problem would be given due consideration. consider-ation. Let everyone btfost for Bingham roads and while we may temporarily bo inconvenienced during its construction, con-struction, It Is worth many times the inconvenience it will cost. In modernizing modern-izing and Improving our city in a permanent per-manent way. |