Show Engineer Dies At AI 7 75 5 in S. S r L LHoward t Howard C C. Means l 75 i East Salt SnIt Lake civil engineer and civic leader died Monday londay at am a.m. in a Salt Lake hosp hospital tal after a R lingering illness Mr Means l was born April 27 1875 in Bloomington Ill III a son of Joseph C C. and Fannie Graves Gra Means Wh While Ic still sUll in high j 1 school he went to Montana 1 asa as ns asa a R member of oC a survey suney party in connection with th the construction i of oC an irrigation system on the Crow Indian Reservation In 1898 he received his civil j jr r engineering degree from the University University Uni Uni- I of Illinois and returned j to o the Crow Indian Reservation project In 1905 the government moved Mr Jr Ir Means and his party to the Uintah Indian Reservation in Utah He was commissioned as superintendent and special agent of Utah Montana and Wyoming projects in 1906 Mr l Means resigned from the Indian s service e r v i e c e c in 1913 and planned banned and built the power and light ight systems of the Uintah Power Pow- Pow er r and Light Co organized the Uintah Builders Supply Co conducted conducted con- con ducted a garage business was one no of the organizers of the lyton Myton State Bank and conducted a farming business He served as chief chic engineer of oC the he Utah State Road Commission from rom 1920 to 1927 In 1930 he operated the Utah Rock Asphalt Co with some associates He joined the Masons 1 in Montana Montana Mon Ion I tana and was active in the SaltI Salt Lake Consistory He lIe helped to I obtain the Basin Lodge for Mylon lyton and served as the first master A life liCe member of the American Ameri Amen I can Society of oC Engineers he served as president of the Utah section of the organization He was vas the first president of the Vest Western ern Association of State Highway Officials and a past vice president of the Salt Lake Rotary Rotary Ro Ro- tary club He was a former president of the Utah Chapter Sons of the American Revolution Re n In 1916 he married Lillian Arnold Arnold Arnold Ar Ar- nold in Denver The couple resided resided resided re re- re- re sided in Myton lyton until 1918 when they moved to Soldier Summit Survivors include his widow Salt Lake City a son Howard Means Ieans Beverly Bevery Hills lUlls Cal CaI two grandchildren two sisters Mrs Irs Lelia Bach and Miss Erma Means Ieans Bloomington II j b a v l y Howard C. C Means Prominent engineer dies of heart ailment |