Show IS 18 THI THIS S TRUE OR FALSE awta this country needed railroads to link together bits Its distant shores und land grants were made to lions that pioneered those lines and today they are our financially best systems other assistance was granted to me make ice tills this continent in ili this nation homogenous or ono one great com while railroads such as the D n G gi were built without subsidies it its tru true that large areas were left L I 1 because in the mountain area today we have only six lines linea from the gulf drainage to tile the pacific between theao six railroads lie he large larg blocks that have never enjoyed con can not because they tiff did not have the wealth but be cause in many man cases the lily lay of the land was them san junn juan county Is nearly miles to in its nearest railroad or common point or farther as the average dla tanco tance going north and farther to the i southern line in recent years the auto road lias has banished some of the isolation I 1 I 1 these roads are like public utilities 1 we ave are taxed to thild them all prop pt p t ty anys and the truck and car pay j well their thies dues across such deserts as west utah I 1 still nevada excellent highways are I 1 I 1 made and again the federal government yours and mine helps we al all I 1 help I 1 but there has been so BO force i paral paralleling eling railroads that the north I 1 south roads have been left until the last however that phase of it is now breaking up utah has two wo good hondr for these highways both Tl running Inning south from idaho idabo 0 arizona which are just links in highways for far more important than a state could alone make them running south easterly highway no 50 passes over the green river desert a dreary stretch from price to j the colorado line population alone could not have demanded the road it serves a r becomes part of a national system systems and lest we forget it helps to unlock san juan and this Is considerable because here Is an integral part of another island empire even tho its all tangled un in four states As our and according to plain justice this bit big territory terl teri tory Is en titled tit to justice topography almost shuts out east west roads passing thur san juan duties of citizenship loyalty demand wo we make the to salt lake city miles from duty and necessity force to ask our state and aur federal i overn men to get together and let have harp a over which we ve rally may profitably market our produce and it will also serve as just another link ink in th tho 3 larger grouping that rna hotter botter homes and a finer americanism |