Show GUESSING AT COST OF ROADS need of standard system of accounting for highways difficulty of iowa commission there are so many conflicting statements regarding the cost of road work that the desirability of a sive method of highway accounting is evident in order that taxpayers may not be misled concerning the total e expense of such work ac according cordin to american highway the iowa state highway coan commission assion has had considerable difficulty in finding out what the counties in that state have been spending because of this fallu failure r e to have a complete system of accounts one rich county reported collecting tor for road work but after investigation vesti gation the commission found had been collected an investigation of the accounts of another wealthy county reporting collected revealed a total collection of 19 COO the discrepancies were not due to an intention to hide the amount ot of the funds but merely to lack of good accounting |