Salt Lake Telegram | 1919-07-16 | Page 2 | State Needs More Road Engineers

STATE tt I M MORE ROAD ENGINEERS I Expert Says Trained Men Are Lacking for Highway Construction Ways and means to hasten project work in Utah were discussed at a meeting this morning of district engineers of the state road commission commission commission commis commis- sion with B. B J. J Finch United States district engineer of the bureau of public roads In charge of the Western Vestern Western West Vest ern district wi with h headquarters In San Francisco The district engineers of Utah present were J. J O. O Burson Salt Lake H. H S. S Kerr MantI J. J H II Tuttle Tuttle Tut- Tut tle Price C. C G. G Woolley Beaver and Jed Woolley Ogden In order to assist in hastening the work the bureau of public roads roans has placed Walter Valter N. N at Ogden Ogden Ogden Og Og- Og- Og den to keep In close touch with the eastern end of Mr l Finch's district Mr Finch inch and Mr went over the technical details of field and office work with the district engineers engineers engi engl- in preparing plans to be submitted submitted submitted sub sub- to the secretary of ot agriculture I for approval before the federal government government gov gov- I will share In the expense of road construction The great need of the road buildIng buildIng building build- build Ing program of the nation and a particularly pressing need in Utah said Mr Finch inch Is engineers Many of the road engineers were called Into the overseas service and they are I gradually coming back relieving the i situation In some parts of the country country coun coun- I try but there then is still need for more I engineers In many parts I I This is particularly the case InI in I Utah with Its large federal aid program pro pro- i gram I believe it will be necessary for the state to bring In road engineers engineers engineers engi engi- from the outside before It can undertake to make the progress Inthis in inthis inthis this work that the program demands