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Show nil OFFICIALS OF FOREST SERVICE MEET HERE If the present plans of tho forestry engineers and road officials, now in conference at the forestry building, develop de-velop along the lines under consideration, considera-tion, 170.000 will be expendpd by the government in the construction of 134 miles of road in Utah during the present pres-ent year. According to the present plans of tho conference, the money will bo disbursed dis-bursed and the roads constructed as follows: Ephriam to Orangeville, 12 miles, $(70,000; Logan to Garden City, 10 miles, $55,000; and Heber to Fruit-land, Fruit-land, 52 miles, $55,000. Approximately eight miles of road between Ephriam and Orangeville, have been constructed construct-ed and about seven miles between He-! He-! ber and Fruitland. There has been no wcrk upon the road between Logan and Garden City. Tho conference began Monday and probably will bo in session for the remainder re-mainder of tho week. It is acting on tho recent apportionment of tho appropriation ap-propriation made by congress for tho construction of highways, in co-operation with state and county governments. govern-ments. It is being attended by the local lo-cal forestry officials and others. Among those present are T. W. Nor-cross, Nor-cross, road supervisor, Ogden; A. E. Loder, assistant chief engineer, Washington; Wash-ington; E. J. Finch, engineer of tho second district, San Francisco; and lj. A. Whittaker, district engineer, third district, Denver. Because of crowded conditions at the forestry building. C. G. Morrison, engineer for this district, has leasedj office rooms in the Colonel Hudson' building. Mr. Morrison arrived here from San Francisco about four weeks ago to succeed C. H. Kendall, who had charge of road department here who was transferred to Washington. .Tne headquarters of the district over which Mr, Morrison presides, has been in Ogden Og-den for months. The reports that the office -was recently transferred here from San Francisco probably was due to a confusion in Connection with the fact that a road meeting was in progress here. nn |