Editorials

ARIZONA HIGHWAYS

OCTOBER, 1934.

Published in the Interest of Good Roads by the ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT CIVILIZATION FOLLOWS THE IMPROVED HIGHWAY VOL. X.

OCTOBER

No. 10

ARIZONA STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION

SHELTON G. DOWELL, Chairman, Douglas RAY N. VYNE, Vice-Chairman, Prescott JACOB BARTH. Commissioner, St. Johns MONTE MANSFIELD, Commissioner, Tucson C. E. ADDAMS, Commissioner, Phoenix C. C. JARRETT. Secretary, Mesa

GENERAL OFFICE

SID SMYTH, Deputy State Engineer E. M. WHITWORTH, Vehicle Superintendent R. A. HOFFMAN, Bridge Engineer E. V. MILLER, Engineer of Plans J. W. POWERS, Engineer of Materials W. L. CARPENTER, Superintendent of Equipment SWAN A. ERICKSON, Engineer Certification Board T. S. O'CONNELL, State Highway Engineer J. S. MILLS, Engineer of Estimates H. C. HATCHER, Statistical Engineer W. M. MURRAY, Superintendent of Stores M. L. WHEELER, Chief Accountant C. R. McDOWELL, Patrol Superintendent A. C. SIEBOTH, Right-of-Way Agent W. S. FRERICHS. Purchasing Agent

FIELD ENGINEERS

GEORGE B. SHAFFER, District Engineer District No. 1 F. N. GRANT District Engineer District No. 2 R. C. PERKINS, District Engineer District No. 3 W. R. HUTCHINS, District Engineer District No. 4

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ARIZONA HIGHWAYS

Phoenix, Arizona made it possible for the continuation of the oil processing program. And Arizona state highway engineers are doing a good job. Motorists who pass this way are going to find a steadily improved system of highways, and those roads are going to bring millions of dollars annually into the state.

OUR COVER PICTURE

The front cover picture on this month's Arizona Highways is a photograph of Boundary Cone, on U. S. Highway 66, six miles west of Oatman. This granite intrusion is in a direct line with the California-Nevada northwest and southwest boundary and was used as a foresight by the engineers who made the boundary survey, although it is several miles away and on the Arizona side of the Colorado River. It is also within two miles of the trail blazed by Lieutenant Beale and his camel expedition which in 1857 made the reconnaissance for an east and west road across Arizona which followed very closely the route of the present U. S. Highway 66. The story of that expedition is related in this issue of Arizona Highways by Norman G. Wallace, who took the photograph which appears on the cover and who during the summer just past re-traced, by automobile and afoot, the route taken by Beale and his camels across Northern Arizona.

Many cars are disabled on the highways as a result of clogged fuel lines. Inconvenience and delay can be avoided by having the fuel system checked regularly. Little time is required and the cost is small.

HIGHWAY HEADACHES

A record in ROAD BUILDING Highway departments in most states are political footballs. They are kicked around hither and yon every two or four years for one purpose or another by candidates all the way from constable up the line. It is a singular and a satisfactory fact that during the primary and general election campaigns in Arizona this year not one candidate of any political party has had anything but words of praise to say about the Arizona state highway system. Such a situation must be merited. There are no more beautiful or finer highways anywhere in the United States than those roads which traverse the state of Arizona. There is, for instance, U. S. Highway 89, the north and south artery, the pavement of which, from Flagstaff to the Mexican border at Nogales, has been completed within the last few months. And then there is Highway 80, in oil all the way from the New Mexico boundary to the California line. U. S. 180, all oil surfaced, joins U. S. Highway 60 west of Phoenix. U. S. 66, with exception of three or four gaps, is in oil from Lupton to Topock. Within the next year or two the whole system probably will be paved with oil surface. Recalling that it is only six or seven years since the oiling of Arizona highways began, rapid progress has been made. The Hayden-Cartwright measure passed by the last Congress, which restored federal aid to the states, has