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Show BROWNING NAMED AS ROAD ENGINEER Myton's Free Press "Out of Harmony" With Two of Duchesne's Commissioners Price the Only Way. SALT LAKE CITY, May 9. Ira R. Browninjr of Castle Dale was elected atate road engineer to succeed E. R. Morgan, and also secretary of the state road commission, at a meeting of the commission com-mission at Salt Lake City last Monday. The matter of appointing new state road agents in the various counties was postponed. It will be the policy of the new commission to work in harmony with the county commissioners in the naming of ngents. Most of the time at Monday's meeting was taken up with the discussion of the two proposed routes of the state road to be built for the relief of the produce congestion of Uintah Rasin. H. C. Means nnd George S. Sloan, both of Myton, appeared in the interest inter-est of the Price to Myton route. They were assigned to make representations rep-resentations to the commission in favor of the Price to Myton road nt mass meetings recently held in Myton nnd Roosevelt. Means and Sloan asserted that the parcel post mail which is delivered In the Uintah Basin over the rival route, Helper to Duchesne, Du-chesne, is now two months behind time, nnd that 90 per cent of the freight nnd general traffic entering the basin cornea by way of Price and Myton. No amount of money spent on the Helper route would change this atate of affairs, they alleged, or could make the Helper road good for more than three months of the yenr. If the farmers of Uintah Bnain arc to get their goods to market tho Price to Myton route will have to be adopted by the commission, it was nouoelofl Harden Bennton, secretary of state; Dan B. Shields, attorney general; Joseph Riric, state auditor, and the state engineer will go to Price on Monday to enter on the Inquiry desired. They will be Joined nt Price by Warden George A. Storrs, who will take ten Inmates of the state prison to Price River Canyon, nt Horse Canyon Can-yon tonight. By tomorrow Warden Storrs will have fifty men nt work on the Price Canyon road. The new commission organized yesterday with Bcnnion as vice chairman. Irn R. Browning will remain in the road engineer's office for some time. The county commissioners of Duchesne nie at loggerheads over the proposed state road into the Uintah Basin. Two of them, Thomns Rhodes and George Llndsey, favor the Helper Hel-per to Duchesne route. W. G. Gentry, chairman of the board, has Issued a minority report favoring the Price to Myton rond. The minority report was presented to the commission by Means and Sloan yesterday. |
