Force Account in Road Building

By GEORGE B. SHAFFER ARIZONA state forces have just completed construction of a 7½ mile project under the rules laid down for all national highway project. (The project is composed of a section of U. S. Route No. 66, near Hackberry. Percy Jones, Sr., resident engineer, represented the engineering department for the state and the state forces operated under the direction of J. Van Dickson, general foreman. All rules and regulations of the NRA were strictly adhered to and it was not until a great loss on the production of mineral aggregate was suffered, and much greater losses threatened, that it was decided to show reasons why teams could not be used economically in getting suitable aggregate to the crushing plant.

A survey of the situation shows that the raw aggregate was taken from many scattered deposits at an average distance of 1,340 feet from the plant. The character of the raw material is fully described in the resident engineer's report.

The accompanying recapitulation of the construction items shows very clearly that the losses are confined almost entirely to items Nos. 8 and 13, both of which were products of the mineral aggregate pit.

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