Show 10 SPEND MilLION i r i r ON ST AYS A IE HIGHWAYS Utah's Roa Road Building Plan Contemplates the tile Expenditure Expenditure of Vast Sum CON CONVICTS TO ro TOGO GO SOUTH r t Washington County to Be Scene of oft t Winter Road Opera- Opera I Hons 1 The Tho hO Immediate inauguration of or an au era of nt f road building and antI highway Jm Im- j ro In the state of oC Utah In- In nh ina nn ron expenditure of ot nearly 1 within the next nc thirteen months Is planned to follow Collow the deposit Mondy Mon Mon- dy to the credit of oC the tho state slate road fund of oC the realized from the theal ialo Salo al ot of the state road bonds to the Pingree rational National bank of Ogden I To lo lose e no time In getting this gi- gi i- i scheme of or Improvement under underway way ay W. W D D. Beers eer engineer f for r the state Otate aj commission Caleb Cale Tanner Tanner Tan Tan- ner state en engineer and Arthur Arthur Prat Pratt warden arden of the state penitentiary y left yesterday for Cor Washington ton count county to Select ct a place to start tart work on the elect system of highways planned for Cor the Dixie district of the state Hute kilt fit Is proposed to 1 place convicts con at work on the roads in this district at once and nd to keep them operating Inthis Inthis in inthis this section during the thc Inter n so that v with the thc opening of oC spring a splendid start may ulaY have hac been heen made on the general gen gen- en- en eul eral plan of road building building- and Improvement Improve Improve- ment contemplated The state slate officials are expected to return from Crom Washington count county late in the week Seventy five or a hundred hun- hun dred red prisoners from the penitentiary t I will be taken to the southern I part art of or the state It and a roa road camp will be established es- es at nt once Weather Suspended Work ork The prisoners have hao been at work in ithe thc northern counties until tho the winter inter weather eather made it impracticable for further further fur- fur ther outdoor work to be he attempted In Inthis n this section of the state slate but now note that funds are available for Cor the other districts districts dis this and counties an and weather conditions conditions conditions condi condi- In Washington lon county count are arc favorable favorable favor or able for outdoor work the great rat improvement improvement im Im- provement ement scheme will I be e prosecuted there until conditions permit of the tho resumption re resumption re- re of work In other sections B Under the ruling of oC the attorney general given ghen to lo the stale state auditor and anti the secretary of ot state orall orally yesterday yesterday the accrued Interest of oC on the bond Issue which was a part of ot th proceeds of the sale cannot be he applied to the road fund I but ut must go to the general fund from Crom which the interest rest reston on the bonds must be paid I But the realized from the sale of the bonds Is to be divided equally equal eQual- ly between twenty six counties of the state Salt Lake Lale county alone not being hen he- he I lag ing n entitled to an any benefit from th time the fund Thus Titus each count county except this one lne now Is entitled to to lO use on on road work and anti tho tiro mone money Is available available avail aIl able for tor the respective counties as soon as the thc they make requisition for it and have ha fulfilled the requirements of the I law that the they raise certain funds themselves them them- selves to entitle them to the benefit i of f the bond fund All Counties lI Practically every cery county count In the state that Is a beneficiary under the bond b Issue uc already alread has provided pro its share of funds fo for road work by direct road asor as- as ment or by the special road road tax of ot 5 mills authorized b by the last Legislature Legis Legis- lature The road bull building ln nr and Improving fever seems to have o ha taken hold of oC every ev cv- W- W er cry ery county count and even the tho least able In the distant sections of oC th the state stale where her the total assessment amounts to only onh a Ii few thousand each ach year ear hive have from 2000 to to be ben a ed to the hc fund un from front the stale and u used ld In building and Improving thoroughfares ir In those districts Several of the counties not nOl only have hac provided funds Cund h by the usual roa road tax i but have ha voted to bond tho tha count county to secure more fun funds g. g all of which will willbe willbe willbe I be a added ded to cue HP funds conning coming from the I state stat and will be spent before January Januar i 1913 1313 on rood road improvement As a result of oC this action some of ot the counties including including- Cache Box BoxElder Elder lader and Davis ls will have from fron t to to spend on roads r Perfecting t the hr As a result of tho the c. c effective and far- far reaching nature 1 of time the hood good roads rot movement mo In Utah Ulan time thA th n next few years I undoubtedly will see sec ee this this' state provided provid ed cd with one of the tho I best est and most efficient ef- ef ef efficient systems stems of highways a that may bo be ho boasted sted of oC b by any state of oC the intermountain intermountain in In- west I The plan of the time road commission of ot Utah and Its en engineers is to ultimately connect the state stale system of or Utah with the system In Colorado The file primary work to I be c done will I bethe bo be bothe e ethe the construction of good and serviceable serviceable service service- able abl roads I between eten et en the principal towns to Later these road systems stems will b be extended extended extended ex ex- tended to tn take in the rural districts lI A financial bugaboo was started in O Ogden den yesterday morning mornin when some attorney thou thought hl he discovered that the state had exceeded its ils authority to I borrow orrow mone money by issuing bonds in eXcess ex excess excess eX- eX cess of He lie found an old territorial territorial territorial ter ter- law lap the borrowing of oC more than thun this amount but ho he failed to discover r an amendment to the constitution constitution con con- of or the stale state Icing giving It power to bond and 1 borrow to the extent of li fl liper per cent nf of nfl the Ule total assessed ed valuation alua tion of the state slate The attorney Informed the thc bank of his discovery and some excitement was wai caused The telephone wires were busy bus between the bank and anti th the state tata officials official but tho the flurry nUrr was quickly over O when the provision pro in the constitution constitution was seas pointed out |