Show IMPROVED ROADS BRING CHANGES thirty years ago there was not a mile of hard sur faced road brinck concrete asphalt or any of the other familiar road surfaces of today anywhere in the united states outside of the limits of a city or incorporated municipality tod today a y of our miles of public hi highway are hard surfaced this year of 1930 has been the bi biggest est road building year in our history BY the end of the year we shau shall have spent close to for new highway work who pays it and why the taxpayers pay for the roads and we pay for them because we want faster and smoother tra traveling about half of the money comes from the federal and state treasuries the other half from county and town taxes and there is no im other expenditure of tax funds which we bergrude less unless it be taxes we pay for our school system the result of our good roads from the basin to salt lake has been a revolution in so many lines of bu business Biness and industry that it would be difficult to enumerate all of them but nowhere has this new era of good roads had such good bood g effect as uron upon the farmers and business men of the uintah basin because of the lack of railroad facilities here in the basin we see concrete proof of the business benefits from highways not idle theories but authentic and attested facts the modern motor road has given to the business man as an individual a wonderful freedom of movement an ease and flexibility in scope of his activity which lie he never enjoyed in other eras it has relaxed relaxed all kinds of once ridged commercial bonds it has helped to make business fluent and swift to reach its goals and more complex than anything our fathers knew |