Road Projects Under Construction in Arizona

Road Projects Under Construction in Arizona DISTRICT NO. 1

G. B. Shaffer, District Engineer N. G. Hill Co. have contract 88% complete for the grading and draining of 9.8 miles on U. S. 66, beginning about 32 miles northwest of Ash Fork Jct. and extending northwesterly, N.R. Η. 80-Η (1935). H. B. Wright, resident engineer.

Pearson and Dickerson have completed contract for the furnishing and placing of a two inch asphaltic retreat surface and select material and miscellaneous grading and draining work in 'he town of Jerome, on State Route 79, N.R.H. 96-A. J. A. Quigley, resident engineer.

State forces have work 75% complete for grading and draining approximately eight miles of the Hope-Parker Highway, N.R.S. 112 (1935), State Route 72. M. Kisselberg, resident engineer.

Pearson and Dickerson have contract 10% complete for grading, draining and placing aggregate base course on approximately five miles of highway, beginning 4 of a mile northeast of Mingus Mountain Summit and extending towards Jerome, N.R.S. 17. R. E. Lawrence, resident engineer.

F. D. Shufflebarger has been awarded a contract on the Wickenberg Bridge, N. R. M. 31 (1935), Phoenix-Prescott Highway. Joe de Arozena, resident engineer.

DISTRICT NO. 2

F. N. Grant, District Engineer Heuser & Garnett have completed contract for the grading, draining and placing of select material on approximately 5 2-3 miles of highway on the St. Johns Zuni highway, State Route 61, N.R.S. 113-A (1935). A. J. Kerr, resident engineer.

E. L. Yeager has contract 98% complete for the paving of 1/3 mile of Porter St. in the town of Holbrook, N.R.M. 178-D (1935) and N.R.M. 83-B (1935). Joe DeArozena, resident engineer.

State Forces are engaged in beautification work near Williams on the Ashfork-Flagstaff Highway, U. S. 66, N. R. S. 115-A. J. M. Hobbs, resident engineer and construction foreman.

DISTRICT NO. 3

R. C. Perkins, District Engineer Geo. W. Orr has contract for grading and draining of approximately 4 miles of roadway on U. S. 60, located about 46 miles northeast of Globe, N.R.H. 99-G, 61% complete. A. F. Rath, resident engineer.

Tanner and Hall have completed contract for the widening of existing concrete pavement with cut-back plant mix. The work extends from 19th Avenue and Buckeye road westerly 13 miles to Agua Fria bridge on U. S. 80, N.R.H. 46-A (1935). Dan J. Lyons, resident engineer.

Lee Moor Contracting Co. has contract 13% complete for the grading and draining of approximately 412 miles of U. S. Highway 60, beginning approximately 561/2 miles northeast of Globe and extending N. E. N.R.H. 99-I (1935) R. D. Canfield, resident engineer.

State forces have grading of approximately 4½ miles on State Route 75, N.R.S. 13-A (1935) 87% complete. W. R. Stevens, resident engineer.

State forces have grading and draining 1½ miles of the Clifton-Springer-ville Highway, State Route 71, N.R.S. 101-C, (1935) 40% complete. W. R. Stevens, resident engineer.

William Peper has completed contract for the widening of a concrete bridge across the Eastern Canal approximately four miles east of Mesa, on U. S. Highway 80, N.R.H. 65 (1935). F. J. Beeghly, resident engineer.

Phoenix-Tempe Stone Co. have contract 26% complete for the widening of roadway and lengthening of drainage structures on U. S. Highway 89, beginning at Six Points and extending six miles northwest of the city of Glendale. N.R.H. 33 (1935). R. J. Holland, resident engineer.

Phoenix-Tempe Stone Co. has contract 72% complete for the construction of approximately .4 of a mile of roadway, grading, draining and oil processing, N.R.H. 97-F (1935), located approximately 21½ miles south of Mesa on State Route 87. F. J. Beeghly, resident engineer.

R. C. Tanner and W. E. Hall have contract 1% complete for the construction of a concrete underpass and incidental work on the Phoenix-Yuma Highway, located on S. 17th Avenue in the city of Phoenix, N.R.H. 30-D. Dan J. Lyons, resident engineer.

Ken Hodgman has been awarded a contract for the grading, draining and furnishing and placing of aggregate base course on the Safford-Bowie Jct. Highway, extending from Safford 6 1-5 miles south, N. R. S. 115-A (1935). A. W. Newhall, resident engineer.

DISTRICT NO. 4

W. R. Hutchins, District Engineer Phoenix-Tempe Stone Co. have contract 74% complete for the construction of a railroad underpass, with grading, draining, concrete pavement and cut-back road mix, located within the town of Casa Grande and extending westerly one mile, N.R.S. 100-C (1935), State Route 84. Geo. Lang, resident engineer.

Heafey Moore and Jack Casson have contract 82% complete for the grading, draining and placing of aggregate base curse and oil processing by the road mix method of approximately 7½ miles of highway, beginning at the highway junction about one mile west of Douglas and extending northerly on State Route 81, N.R.S. 114-В (1935). D. A. Flickinger, resident engineer.

The Pleasant-Hasler Construction Co. have contract 25% complete for the grading, draining, placing of aggregate base course and oil processing by the plant-mix method of approximately 1234 miles of the Ft. Hauchuca-Bisbee Highway, N.R.S. 108-A. A. J. Gilbert, resident engineer.

The Borderland Construction Co. have contract 45% complete for the construction of approximately 5.6 miles of the Ajo-Tucson Highway, beginning approximately 5 miles west of Tucson and extending westerly, N.R.S. 110-A (1935). J. R. Van Horn, resident engineer.

State forces have work of grading and draining 1½ miles on the NogalesPatagonia Highway, State Route 82, N.R.S. 109-A, 83% complete. R. C. Bond, resident engineer.

White and Miller have contract 67% complete for the grading, draining, placing of aggregate base course and oil processing by the road mix method of approximately six miles on the Tucson-Florence Highway, U. S. 80, beginning about ten miles north of Tucson and extending north, N.R.S. 111-A (1935). J. R. Van Horn, resident engineer.

Pleasant-Hasler Construction Co. has contract 50% complete for the grading, draining and placing of aggregate base course on approximately 34 miles, beginning at the N. E. corner of the Ft. Huachuca Military Reservation and extending north, N.R.S. 103-A (1935). A. J. Gilbert, resident engineer.

ARIZONA HIGHWAYS

R. E. Martin has completed contract for the grading and draining of approximately 1 1-3 miles of roadway on State Route 81, located about 35 miles south of Safford on Douglas-Safford highway near junction of Bowie road, N.R.S. 114 (1935). Oscar Maupin, resident engineer.

R. E. Martin has contract 2% complete for grading, draining and the furnishing and placing of road mix on approximately three miles on the Tucson-Florence Highway, extending from Florence-Coolidge Highway Junction at Florence easterly, N.R.S. 111-B. H. Pinney, resident engineer.

THE STRIP IS THE LAST FRONTIER (Continued from Page 21) Canyon and the Colorad River on the south; its boundaries encompassing the Kaibab Forest and its famous herd of deer, the Pipe Springs monument and the Grand Canyon National Monument, much nearly unexplored territory and wild life of practically every description to be found in the Southwest, undoubtedly will, within the period of the next few years, become one of the West's foremost natural playgrounds. Efforts have been made by Utah on numerous occasions to trade with Arizona for the land lying north of the Colorado, on 'he ground that, topographically, it really belongs in the northern division, and that its people are directly connected by birth and religion with the people of Utah. In exchange has been offered that part of Utah that lies south of the San Juan River, thus creating a boundary between the states that lies entirely alang water courses. The suggestion has never met with favorable reception in the Arizona legislature.

Arizona is jealous of its "last frontier", and, moreover, it prefers to keep i's Grand Canyon as a purely Arizona institution.

PRESCOTT, PEARL OF THE PINES (Continued from Page 5) A visit to the museum is not complete until an inspection is made of the curator's quarters, which include in one not very large room the most compact and beautiful apartment that anyone could vision. The furniture is entirely hand chiseled and stained. Among the features are the latest electric stove and frigidaire. A disappearing bed rolls into the wall and disappears under a most unique bit of masonry, the Plumed Serpent altar, which occupies such an interesting place in the adjoining room.

After the visitors have circled the museum room, inspected the curator's quarters and possibly taken a glance at the laboratory, they have yet another treat in store. As they near the d'or they face a painting which carries in its portrayal of the Minon or Farewell Katchina all the lure, the romance, beauty and dignity of this important nine-day Hopi ceremonial.

TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS IN ARIZONA (Continued from Page 15) problem. This is an engineering problem and the accident-prone corners can be segregated and the defects remedied without a great deal of expense, in most cases. Maybe a tree cut down or a hedge trimmed, or a stop-sign or flashing signal may do the trick.

This report by the F. E. R. A. also shows that running "stop" signs is the rule rather than the exception in Phoenix, which puts it right up to the enforcement agency. I believe every police officer, whether on the traffic squad or not, should be required to cite cases and make arrests for traffic violations. Campaigns against violators are good only while they last. I believe that eternal vigilance of all the available officers would do the trick.

IS POP HAVING FUN AT SAN DIEGO! And young Billie, who has already been crashed into a dozen times, sagely remarks, "Let them use Super-Shell in these cars, Dad, cause this is sure stop-and-go-driving!"

SO THIS IS SPAIN! And is Mother exposing yards and yards of film. But Dad isn't worried; by using extra-mileage Super-Shell on this trip, he saved enough money to pay for all the movies Mother will shoot today.

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(Continued from Page 11) jumped into the air at the reports and tore off down the hills. As it jumped something fell from it, and the prospectors who followed after, found a man's head, dry and withered, but with flesh and hair still on it. No one saw the uncanny beast for some weeks after that, but finally it appeared to the northward. One of the cowboys belonging to the AnchorJ. O. T. outfit rode up about dusk to an abandoned branding corral. There was something in the corral, and as he came up a great red camel burst out of the corral. Through force of habit the cowboys riata was out and he lassoed the beast. In about two minutes he wished that he hadn't. The camel charged him and his horse, which, while it knew all about steers, was unversed in the ways of camels. When the horse tried to rear up and pirouette so the charging beast would pass by, as anyhe was caught by the camel on the throat, and camel and man and horse went down together. The camel did not stay to fight, but went off as hard as he could pelt, dragging sixty feet of good rawhide riata after him. When the cowboy got to camp he explained a good deal of the mystery of the Red Ghost. The pack on its back was nearly gone, he said, but there was no question it had once been a man.

That was the last of the Red Ghost in a supernatural capacity. He was probably seen many times, but the pack being gone from his back there was nothing to distinguish him from other camels, and gradually the Red Ghost from being a terror degenerated into a story and then into a tradition.

A couple of months ago, however, Mizoo Hastings, who has a ranch a little above the gold camp on the San Francisco, woke up one morning and saw through the window of his cabin a big red camel banqueting in his turnip patch. Mizoo took a dead rest over the window sill and blazed away. He got the camel. When he went out to examine the beast he found him covered with a perfect net work of knotted rawhide strips. They had been on him so long that some of the strands had cut their way into the flesh. The camel was all scarred up and had evidently had a very hard time. Now everybody down in that country is wondering whether the man was tied on there Mazeppa fashion for deviltry or revenge, whether it was some lunatic's hideous scheme of suicide, or merely an ugly piece of humor of somebody who had a camel and a corpse for which he had no use.

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