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Show (.OOlWIS WKKKLY SAVS ITS TIMK TO WAKh IF Mu(.h time and attention was given o Eood roads legislation in the as . s,.,sioa of the legislature and after i;s adjournment the claim was made ;lKU t!,is state administration was m,w prepared to do more for the p,rluan,t improvement of the roads than all pievious administration .uuibined. Why no,? Hadn t tho reorganized the road commas. substituting elective state officials for engineers' And did thev not repeal the law providing for a party. Ke- peal the annual appropriation to the I everal counties of $108,000 and 1 provide in its stead for a road bond issue of $2,000,000? They were dealing with figures on pa per some five months back, but so far the poor devils out in the sagebrush sage-brush haven't been able to realue liu- cents on the dollar on the promises prom-ises that were written into the 191. statutes. The co cc.uttrv cont.n-t-,.t are still usiiu' the sheep trails for highways and nccn.-ding to cer-u cer-u in members of th. state road commission, com-mission, they "ought to thank the 1 nrd lor tnai. We understand ih.r a group of representative business men are leaving leav-ing the city to visit the Uintah Basin in the interest of a proposed railroad. Perhaps they will be able- to put it over this time and if they do it will be a blessing. But unless they are dead sure of their ground, they uad better be careful what they promise the natives over there. The Inhabitants Inhabi-tants on the reservation have been fooled so often by railroad promoters that they have grown a bit chary. Of course, nothing would please them more than to see a real honest-to-goodness railroad laid down before their eyes in the basin, but they would be very well satisfied for some time to come if they could just have decent highways. And so we venture the assertion that if, instead of promising prom-ising the natives a railroad, the Salt Lake delegation could honestly assure as-sure them that the state road commission com-mission -is awake to the situation and will build a permanent roadway from he railroad into the reservation, heir words would fail on more wiling wili-ng ears and a rousing welcome vould be assured. It is said that they are to carry a -nessage of cheer and kindly interest 'rom the governor to the citizens of the basin. The probabilities are that he return message will be more to he point. Goodwin's Weekly. |