Editorials

ARIZONA HIGHWAYS DECEMBER, 1934. ARIZONA HIGHWAYS

Published in the Interest of Good Roads by the

ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT

CIVILIZATION FOLLOWS THE IMPROVED HIGHWAY

Vol. X

DECEMBER, 1934

No. 12

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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LEADERS IN THE CAUSE OF GOOD ROADS

The American Road Builders' Association will hold its thirty-second annual convention in Washington D. C., January 22 to 25, inclusive, attracting to the nation's capital approximately five thousand of the country's outstanding highway officials, engineers, contractors and manufacturers.

The general theme of the meeting will be continuation of an adequate highway program, appropriation of such federal funds as are necessary for that program, and return to road building purposes in the states of gasoline taxes and motor vehicle fees now being diverted to emergency relief and other accounts, Highway officials declare that the various states are now diverting about $200,000,000 annually from those two sources of income, and that if such a policy is continued road improvements will be jeopardized and ultimately those states will be unable to participate in federal aid for highways.

One of the features of the convention will be an exhibit of the latest developments in equipment and materials, consisting of more than one hundred booths and departments. Two of the general sessions will deal with subjects of vital interest to the highway industry. In addition, there will be meetings of the county officials' division, city officials' division, contractors' division, and engineers' division, and officials' division, for consideration of problems directly applicable to each of those groups.

The coming convention will be of especial importance The coming convention will be of especial importance because the theme will include the foundation of the activities of the future highway program, based on the economics of the highway situation in the country at the present time, and further because highway construction is playing such an important part in the national recovery program.

The American Road Builders' Association has conducted exhaustive studies on road finance, administration, safety, construction and maintenance which have been used by members and other highway officials, contractors, manufacturers and distributors throughout the world. The reports and proceedings also are used as textbooks and references by many colleges and universities. The Association and the American Association of State Highway Officials have taken the leadership among the highway organizations of the nation in the cause of good roads.

OUR COVER PICTURE

The cover picture on this month's Arizona Highways is a photograph by Norman G. Wallace, author of the article starting on Page 3, of the Tuseral Mountains along the Arizona-Sonora border. The picture was taken in the vicinity of Monument 185, which is about seventy miles southeast of Yuma in an air line. The range is of granite and schist of extreme age, being the oldest rock known to geologists. Great dikes and veins run through them, some of quartz and others of a black, hard iron and manganese.

Many tales are told of rich gold strikes which have been made there, and then lost to human knowledge due to the death of the finders or their disappearance into the barren hills, never to come out.

The mountains are so close to the ocean, about fifty (Continued on Page 19)

By Magers