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CONTRIBUTING REPORTS

Committee on Sub-Base:

Robert Morton, Highway Engineer, San Diego County, Chairman.

Lawrence Moye, County Surveyor, Tulare County.

J. B. Lippincott, Consulting Engineer.

Committee on Slab:

Charles Petit, County Engineer, Ventura County, Chairman.

Charles Derleth, Jr., Dean of Civil Engineering Department, University of California, Berkeley.

Owen O'Neill, County Engineer, Santa Barbara County.

Committee on Maintenance:

George Jones, Chairman; Road Commissioner, L. A. Co.

E. E. East, Road Engineer.

S. H. Finley, Supervisor, Orange County.

Committee on Laws:

D. R. Faries, Attorney for the Automobile Club of Southern California, Chairman.
Watt Moreland, Truck Manufacturer.

C. II. Richards, Engineer.

General Review of Detailed Reports of Automobile Club of Southern California, and California State Automobile Association:

H. J. Brunnier, Consulting Structural Engineer, San Francisco.

Charles Derleth, Jr., Dean Civil Engineering Department, University of California. Walter C. Howe, Consulting Highway Engineer, San Francisco.

J. B. Lippincott, Consulting Engineer, Los Angeles.

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You are requested to make an inspection of the present condition of that portion of the California State Highways south of the Monterey and Fresno County lines including the Owens Valley. It is also desirable that you compile all relative historical data that is available concerning the building of these roads.

You are instructed in addition to take a traffic census on these roads, particularly ascertaining the weight and speed of trucks.

As the Automobile Club of Southern California has been so active in the past in endorsing and aiding a progressive good road construction program in California, the directors of the Club feel it their duty and desire not only to post themselves as to the permanence and maintenance cost of this work but they wish also to spread this information before the 46,000 members of the Club.

Your study should be distinctly scientific, impartial and constructive in its character. It should make definite recommendations, where your findings indicate the propriety thereof, as to improvements in construction methods, standards, and upkeep, suggesting modifications, if any are required, of the traffic laws of the State.

You should keep in mind the enormous development of interurban and rural traffic that has occurred during the past years on our California roads, being mindful that this is a new economic feature that should be encouraged and provided for within the reasonable financial ability of our taxpayers.

You will employ such expert assistants and office force and perform such work as from time to time your judgment may indicate is necessary.

In concluding, this subject should be approached by you and your assistants with an open mind, with a view of the presentation of a fair and impartial helpful report. It should be presented at the earliest possible date. We desire to co-operate with the representatives of the California State Automobile Association who are making a similar study of the roads of the northern part of the State.

Yours very truly,

(Signed) H. W. KELLER, Chairman of Roads and Highways Committee.

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