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character of the construction will depend a great deal on the section ,o the country traveled by the read and gravel, sand and clay and plain earth roads will be used-He advocatse the dividing of tfc« road into units, each under the supervision of a competent overseer to care for them and detoto his time to the work. In the case, of earth rocds they could be kept in first class shape by the use of the toad drag. D. Ward King. the advocate and originator of the road drag, is \o be In Mr. Can-son’s town. Wejser, two days next week, going there from Sait Lake, Ogden and other Utah points, where he has been spending the week giving illustrations of the work done by the toad drag system. Mr. Cannon also advocates the building of alWculvcrts with concrete as wooden construction Is just as expensive as the present •road system and results In no permanent good- A concrete culvert is more expensive to build in the first Instance, but is there for a hundred Wt)krs and (fee fiiaft expenfo Is the only expense and that construction is far cheaper and always betUy.Mr. Cannon says ithat people who have not given intelligent study to th'?1 question object to the two hundred thousand dollar bond issue to be devoted \to highway construction purposes, but yet spent a million two hundred thousand dollars each year In taxes for road work which results in no permanent good. The matte/will have to be reduced to a business basis before any permanent good can result and people will have to begin to look at the buainess side of the question, which is the economical side of 1*The road tax can bo cut half in Iwo, he staged, and bettor roads result under a businesslike system of management and letting the present system, which results in no permanent good, go thct way ‘of other things which have been tried and fouud wanting.In addition to tho highway from Idaho Falls to Yellowstone, Mr. Cannon states that it is the plan to build north and west from Idaho Falls along the Birch Creek read to Salmon City, from there to Gibbonsvllle and oo into Butte, and to branch from the Birch Creek road to the Arco or Mac-kay country into Boise through Hailey. from Bliss into Boise and from Wqlser north to Lewiston, making eleven hundred miles in all of state highway connecting all parts of the state This can be done with tho funds available and with the aid of the county through which tho road paasoB.The people of tho entire countryare waking up to a rolization that•poor toad8 are an expensive thing to build and maintain, while on the other hand good roadB mean the best kind of a permanent investment which pays big dividends, and no part cf the country is coming to this realization faster than Idaho.
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The Blackfoot Optimist
Blackfoot, Idaho, US
Thu, Apr 23, 1914
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