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Show ROAD OFFICIALS IN WEST PLAN UFJ1FI EDACTIOH Meeting Now Under Way . in Salt Lake May Result f in Highway Organiza-, Organiza-, tion " of Eleren States - ,Th first mar to term an organisation organi-sation among tha eleven Westsra states, which would lead to unified action In road construction and act eooperatlTaly with the United States .bureau ot publlo roads, was made this morning by state highway of- b ftclals from seven Wester etatee. hu met at ThS HOtST TJtaB. . Due to the failure of L IX Blaa-Telt, Blaa-Telt, secretary of the Western As-sorlatloa As-sorlatloa of State Highway Oiri-etala, Oiri-etala, to arrive In time lor the opening open-ing meeting, tha formal program was dispensed with and Informal dlecuselon -took place on several problems facing the officials ot ths several states. . One of tha big problems facing delegatea la tha adoption of a unt-i unt-i form plan for cost accounting for . tha eleven Western states," Oeorse W. Borden, highway engineer of Nevada, atated. He urged that tha ether delegates review tha plana now In operation In their eeverel statea In view ot adopting uniform regulation. Henry H. Blood, stats highway Commissioner, welcomed the visiting visit-ing delegatea to tha city. In brief. he aald. "Utah has 1M mllea of bard paved road and I wauld Ilka to take you over It, hut haven't the time. I would urge that all states epeed up their present building program so that mora government appropriations appropria-tions can be made." - - Tha following delegates were in attendance at ' the conference: George W. Borden, highway engineer engi-neer of Nevada: H. W. tirrgory, director di-rector of highways of Idaho: L K. lAlrd. superintendent of highways ef Wyoming; Fred .Orumrn, office "' engineer of California: F. R. Goodman, Good-man, Artsoaa atata engineer; B. B. . Jones, chief clerk of state snglneer. Arlsona; J. W. Johnson, bureau of publlo roads, Denver: I I Hewss. bureau of puhHc roada. Ban Fran-cleeo; Fran-cleeo; P. O. Wilson, bureau of pub-He pub-He roads, Washington; Dr. E. O. Peterson, chairman of tha Utah State road commission. - Preceding the- meeting Howard !. Means, chief engineer of Utah, was elected as chairman of the meeting and George Borden of Nevada Ne-vada waa elected secretary. |