Editorial

ARIZONA HIGHWAYS

Mott dedicates this descriptive bit of poetry, “To Arizona”:

ARIZONA HIGHWAYS

Published in the Interest of Good Roads by the ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT

JOHN C. MCPHEE, Editor

CIVILIZATION FOLLOWS THE IMPROVED HIGHWAY Dedicated to the Western Association of State Highway Officials.

From soft dawn to flamboyant sunset, From twilight to day's awakening, You are Life, and Life is beautiful.

If I am weary, your cool forests give me haven. If I am sad, your hills comfort me.

If I am joyful, your deserts bid me romp with nature.

If I am bowed down, your cerulean skies lift me up to higher things.

If love calls, your velvet nights spread romance 'round me.

Nor shall I find you lacking when my eyes are heavy with the last long sleep.

Your cool depths shall be my couch, and I shall lie content.

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Vol. XII APRIL, 1936 No. 4

B. B. MOEUR, Governor of Arizona ARIZONA STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION SHELTON G. DOWELL, Chairman, Douglas J. W. ANGLE. Vice-Chairman. Tucson C. E. ADDAMS. Commissioner. Phoenix A. I. WINSETT. Assistant Attorney General, Special Counsel E. C. SEALE, Commissioner, Prescott JACOB BARTH. Commissioner, St. Johns C. C. JARRETT. Secretary. Mesa GENERAL OFFICE T. S. O'CONNELL, State Highway Engineer SID SMYTH, Deputy State Engineer D. B. HUTCHINS. 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 of Certification 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. F. FRERICKS, 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

PERCY JONES Chief Locating Engineer

OUR COVER PICTURE

Boulder Dam, one of the world's greatest engineering achievements, as seen from the Nevada side of the Colorado river. The snake-like highway leads to Kingman, Arizona. Forty-six miles of U. S. 466 are complete and under contract for oil-ing. Photo through courtesy of R. Robert Russell. Las Vegas, Nevada, and George Shaffer, District Engineer, Arizona Highway Department.

WELCOME TO ARIZONA

Governor B. B. Moeur and officials of the Arizona Highway Department welcome to Arizona the delegates to the convention of the Western Association of State Highway officials.

You of the Western states come to us with jaded scenic appetites, but with pardonable pride we give you Arizona and convincing proof that you are in the scenic heart of North America.

It is the hope of the Arizona Highway Depart-ment that you will see all of Arizona during your brief visit here.

If you grow weary of the perfume of citrus blossoms or the desert's riot of Spring color, we will motor you over smooth highways to Arizona's Grand Canyon, the Indian country, the Petrified Forest, the Painted Desert, thrill-filled Apache Trail, the Wonderland of Rocks or the exotic atmosphere of our neighbor-Old Mexico.

To you who build highways, Dorothy Challis

HIGHWAY HEADACHES