Arizona republican., 1920-01-14
MASTER BUILDER
 0F GOOD ROADS VISITS PHOENIX
Samuel Hill Has Studied Highway Building In Every Civilized Country and Trained Many En- gineers

The master builder of good roads in America, the man who has trained more highway engineers than any other man, is in the city. He is Samuel Hill, president of the Pacific Highway association, which has built more roads and more roads of the highest type than any other organization. MT. Hill has made a study of road building in every civilized country. He received a part of his education in France, and his debt to that country was repaid by the circumstance that during the war 40 of the men wEo had learned road building under him went to France in various engineering capacities
 Tn recognition of the services Mir Hill has performed for good roads, he was made honorary life president of the Washington Good Roads associa- tion, vice president of the Colum bia River Highway association. He had a long association with James J. Hill. the creator of the northwest and he married daughter of the latter. He has travelled all over the world, has lived in France and Italy where he studied the most famous highways and more than duplicated them in the road building in the state of Washington
 Favors Highest Type
 MT. Hill favorS only the highest type of roads. and that is the kind with which the state of Washington is traversed. His idea regarding good roads may be learned from the cir .cumstances that he states that there are only four really high grade roads in the state of California. MT Hill is an advocate of cement contrete' with a deeper base than the government spe- cifications
 He is not an admirer of the federal governments system of road building or of it's highway engineers. There is. said he, only one really high class road builder in the service of the federal highway department, Henry l.. BowIdy and, said MT. Hill, he, is a good one because I trained him myself" He re- gards 1t as something ridiculous that the government should assign Mr. Bowldy to the business of distributing road making machinery, rather than making use of him as an expert Tn road making.
 MT. Hill was very much interested in the controversy which has arisen locally over the good roads question and he endorsed fully the attitude taken by The Republican in urging the possible type, since in tke end they must be cheapest. He especially en- dorses the suggestion that the county avail itself of the advice of the best engineers and advises that a request be made for the services of Mr. Bowldy.
 In Many Big Concerns
 Mir. Hill is a Harvard man and is at present one of the overseers of Har- ward. After his graduation and admis- sion to the bar he became associate general counsel for the St. Paul and Northern Pacific and the MinneapoIis & St. Paul railway. and was later president of various trust companies and public utilities companies He is also director of the Great Northern railway company and the Northern Steamship company. A more recent service of Mir. Hill was with John F. Stevens, whom this government sent to Russia to facilitate operations on the Siberian railway during the war Mir Hill. in addition to his multffari- ous activities and his interest in road building is honorary consul general for and Washington. MT. Hill is a resident marble palaces in various parts of the country, and everywhere he is inter ested in good roads, which he believes will more greatly promote the devel- oDment of the country than any other agency.
 Replying to the inquiry as to what could be done when the road making had decided upon an in ferior type of road, Mir Hill said he could not conceive that such a decision could be reached by men who had a genuine interest in road building That. he admitted. was an obstacle to good roads that would be hard to Surmount