Pueblo chieftain., 1921-07-10

/ so much the better. but II not, then
don't give up, don't delay Your prob
others; it can be worked out in per-
fectly feasible manner. Depend on the
citizenship of this city and valley get
ting together and working in unity
without any personal axes to grind.
The last flood is not necessarily the
biggest that ever happens; there al
ways is a possibility of a greater. The
working out of the plans and getting
ready is much bigger job than do
ing the work. The speaker told of
the legislation created in Ohio for
flood preventative measures, and of
the plans carried forth to make re-
currence of the Dayton disaster i'm
possible in the future.
President w. Frank Green. of the
commissioners association, was too III
at his Rocky Ford home to attend the
meeting so the assembly was called
to order by County Clerk Oran Walker
OF Otero county. secretary of the Or
sanitation. j. +. Downey, of Ordway,
w. l.. Rees. of Pueblo. permanent
chairfE-ln of the session. At the con-
clusion OF Engineer MorGan's address
Mr.. Rees took the chair and called for
state Engineer of the Highway De
partment Blauvelt who jegan his ad-
dress by saying that while roads is
generally a dry subject. he had found
II very wet one during his inspection
of the Arkansas valley flood district.
Mr.. Blauvelt went into detail in de-
scribing the working plans of the new
state highway department, and laid
great stress on the policy of mainten
ance as OF more Importance in a gen
eral way than construction; and rec
commended that more counties follow
the lead of Pueblo and several others
in the selection of a county road sup
erintendent. He stated that in the
departments s equipment yards in Den
Yer there is great quantity of trucks
and other road machinery that can be
loaned to counties that need them.
r II. (Bob) Higgins. state highway
superintendent of maintenance was
called for by the chair. He made one
Of his characteristic straight from the
shoulder speeches, and gave an outline
of the plans the maintenance depart
state. We have s.1ss miles of state
roads to look after" said the speaker. |
and when Major BlauYelt appointed |
me he said 1t was to position.
Right away after the Pueblo flood. |
he said TO me: Bob. you haven't got |
Higgins stated that he was going to |
have the cooperation of the boards of |
county commissioners thruout the !
state. and he was going to have har-
monious work II he had to fight for 1t. |
g. l.. l.. Cam OF the state highway |
advisory board. II. 4. Edmonds, chair |
man OF that board: Commissioner |
clay from Durango. another member |
of the board. delivered interesting ad-
dresses ON the road sub ject. + A |
ance Of tho fourth district told the |
county commissioners of his ten coun- |
ties how he wanted them to work with |
him and that he would see them all
even II he had to hunt for them.
7. ]. Ehrhsrt. formerly chief high |
way commissioner, made one Of his |
splendid talks for the good of the |
states roads. Then Chairman Rees
had tho secretary call the roll OF
counties for talks by commissioners
who had anything to suggest: this re-
suited in much valuable information
being brought out relative to condi-
tions and plans for the good OF the
entire valley Warden Tom lyman of
the state p"nitentiary. wandered into
the meeting just in time to he called
on for a talk. and he said that n his
institution could he of any service to
any county In the flood region. all tho
commissioners had TO do was to call
on his~ for capacity assistance He
was given vote OF thanks for tho
help he. thru tho institution. had al
ready supplied since tho flood
These counties were represented at
the meeting az follows
Baca-Gcorge ". Illcy. commits
sioncr.
Bent-Lcvi Dumbaul. Dan Carl. com
mIssioners; Allen NJ. LambriEht. coun
ty attorney.
Chanee-J. II. Hahcnccht and +. A.
Bromley. commissioners
Crowley. y. powney. w. r Tar
box. J. II Cowdcn. commissioner.
Custer-william Kettle. commission
or.
Fremont-Frank S;luemeyer. j. V.
NcCandlcss. Charles \. Somerviiic.
commissioners; Augustus Peara. at
torney: Jonathan Seaman. clerk
Huerfano-ChsrleH 'E Murphy, Tom
MARTINEZ. Gus Gromer. commissioners
Frank Tafoya. clerk.
kiowa-Iohn Eahel. commissioner.
Las Animas-L. r Easlcy. a. G.
Prosscr. Joseph Ray. commissioners:
!. r. Romero. clerk.
otero-GeorEc Barr. James E
Stubbs. commissioners J. W. Allen,
attorney: oran Walker. clerk
Prowcrs-H. +. Decker and Ray
McGrath. commissioners
Pucblo-W. l.. Rocs. ]. r Harbour.
q. G. Smith, commissioners: ]. Ar
thur Phelps. attorney; William Barber.
clerk.
Others from outside Pueblo. beside
those before mentioned. were: @. A.
DahlEren, contractor from La Junta