The record-union., 1896-01-16
BUREAU OF HIGHWAYS ITINERARY
Commissioners Irvine and Maude
Leave for Los Angeles.
Commissioner Manson VIII Finish Up
the Northern Counties and Go
to Inyo and Mono.

The State Bureau of Highways has
arranged two schedules for trips by
the members, one to cover the counties
south of Los Angeles. Those north of
Tehachipi to MADEIRA are the only
ones not at present covered. For this
trip Commissioner Irvine left yester-
day for Ventura and Commissioner
Maude will leave to-day and will join
him in Los Angeles, whittier Mr.. r.
vine will bring the wagon belonging to
the bureau, which is at present at Ven
tpra.
Commissioner Manson will leave here
by rail on Sunday morning for Ukiah,
and will hold a meeting there. He will
then go by stage through Lake, Hum
boldt and Del Norte Counties, and by
way of Grants Pass to Yreka, Siskiyou
County
AS soon as that trip is accomplished,
he will return through Sacramento by
rail and visit Mono and Inyo Counties.
The dates of the itinerary of Messrs.
Maude and Irvine are as follows
On the 18th they will meet in Los
Angeles and on the 10Th drive to Santa
Ana and hold a meeting there on the
Goth. On the Dist they start for San
Diego, reaching there on the oath and
holding a meeting on the 25th. Next
day they start for Riverside, reaching
there on the Both and holding meet
ing on the 31st. On February 1st they
hold a meeting at San Bernardino and
the next day start for Los Angeles
reaching there on the Sd and remaining
there to rest until the 9th, when they
hold meeting there.
On the 18th they leave for Bakersfield
and will reach there and hold a meet
ing on the 18th. They will then drive
to Delano on the 18th, to Tulare on the
18th and hold a meeting at Visalia on
the 10Th. On the 18th they will drive
from Tulare to Hanford, holding a
meeting there on the 18th. On the
18th they start for Fresno and hold a
meeting there on the Dist and rest
next day. On the 23d they drive to
MADEIRA and hold a meeting there on
the 24th. They will have meeting at
Merced on the 26th, one at Modesto on
the 9th, one at Stockton on the 2Sth
and will return from there to Sacra
mento.
The Commissioners have written to
Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald re-
qpesting him during his trip East to
inspect the workings of convict labor
in the various prisons, to ascertain
what the various States are doing in
relation to the employment of convict
labor in road building, rock crushing
and similar work.
The commission has received and con-
sidered communication from A. L.
Bancroft on mapping the road systems
OF the State and also touching on the
subject of setting convicts at work
constructing mile posts.
1t is also in receipt of a communica
tion from the Capital City Wheelmen
asking it to meet them for the discus
sion of road matters, and has re-
turned answer that it would be glad
to do so after the return of the members
from their trips.
The bureau has addressed a circular
letter to all the Governors of the States,
requesting information concerning
their road laws and the work being
prosecuted on roads in their respective
States.
1t has requested the At1orney-Gen
eral to give his opinion as to the form
in which requests for crushed rock
should be made and also as to what
parties can be allowed to get the rock