The Engineer's Log

The Engineer's Log DISTRICT NO. 1 B. M. Atwood District Engineer FEDERAL AID PROJECTS UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Federal Aid Project 62-B, Underpass at Drake, on Prescott-Ashfork Highway. Progress good. Percentage of work completed 50 per cent. Henry Galbraith of Jerome, contractor.

SURVEYS

Ashfork-Kingman Highway. Federal Aid Project No. 80 Sec. E. Completed.

PLANS

Federal Aid Project 80, underway comprising sections B. C. & E.

Plans for Federal Aid Project 89-B. Grade separation at Ashfork. Ready for approval of United States Bureau of Public Roads and Santa Fe Railway company.

Federal Aid Project No. 19-B, Prescott-Jerome reopened. Plans completed 80 per cent.

Federal Aid Project 36-A Prescott-Ashfork Highway 60 per cent complete.

DISTRICT NO. 2 George B. Shaffer District Engineer FEDERAL AID PROJECTS UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Federal Aid Project, 72-A, White Spar-Yarnell Section. Additional work and concrete bridges. Progress fair. Percentage complete 30 per cent. Contractor, T. м. Caldwell, Phoenix.

Federal Aid Project 64-B Gillespie Dam Highway Bridge, consisting of four 160 foot spans and five 200 foot spans, underway. Delay caused by high water. Progress good. Contractors, Lee Moor Construction Co.

Federal Aid Project 82-B, Telegraph Pass Section on Yuma-Phoenix Highway. Construction started. Progress good. Contractor, Ken Hodgman of Oakland, Calif.

Federal Aid Project 84-A., Phoenix-Prescott Highway, drainage structures. Construction started April 19th, 1926. R. H. Martin, Tucson, Contractor.

Federal Aid Project 82-A, Yuma-Gila Bend Section of Phoenix-Yuma Highway-way. Bids opened April 26th, 1926. White & Miller of Yuma, low bid. Contract to be awarded and construction started this month.

ARIZONA STATE ROADS UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Chandler-Casa Grande Highway, Pinal County Section. San Tan Bridge complete. Total percentage completed 70 per cent.

EXTRA GANG WORK

Extra Gang Force under E. D. King, Foreman, now working on Wellton-Mohawk Section of Phoenix-Yuma Highway.

SURVEYS

Prescott-Phoenix Highway. Location survey. F. A. Project 84-B, Wickenburg to County Line. Length 3 miles AFE 678.

Prescott-Phoenix Highway. Location survey. F. A. Project No. 84-C, Maricopa County Line to Congress Junction. Length 13 miles. AFE 677 Now under way. R. E. Allison, Locating Engineer.

DISTRICT NO. 3 T. S. O'Connell District Engineer FEDERAL AID PROJECTS UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Federal Aid Project 88-A, GrahamGreenlee County Line to New Mexico State Line, percentage completed 85 per cent. Geo. W. Orr. Contractor, Roy White, Res. Engr.

ARIZONA STATE ROADS UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Apache Trail-Horse Mesa Section, non Federal Aid under construction by State forces. Percentage of work complete 80 per cent. Note: As a measure of safety to the traveling public, the road is closed to traffic on account of construction for certain hours during the day on section from Roosevelt to a point five miles west. Open during the following hours: 9 a. m. to 10 a. m.; 11:30 a. m. to 1 p. m.; 2:30 p. m. to 3 p. m.; 4:30 p. m. to 7:30 a. m.

Globe streets paving, non Federal Aid Project. Extending from County Court House to East City Limits. Contractors, Phoenix Tempe Stone Company. Percentage of work complete 40 per cent. Bridges on Geronimo-Solomonville Highway near Ashurst. Construction started. Work by State Forces. J. M. Webster, Foreman.

SURVEYS

Location Survey on Globe-Safford Highway, Federal Aid Project No. 57. Length of Project 53 miles. Nearing completion. Percy Jones, Jr., Locating Engineer.

EXTRA GANG WORK

Extra Gang forces under C. H. Lewis placing drainage structures on Globe-Roosevelt Highway.

DISTRICT NO. 4 E. M. Whitworth District Engineer ARIZONA STATE ROADS UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Vail-Sonoita Highway under construction by State forces. Work practically complete.

Douglas-Safford Highway Sec. 3. Construction completed by State forces. Construction on Sec. 2 now under way.

PLANS

Federal Aid Project No. 79-C, Bisbee-Tombstone Highway. Shoulder widening. To U. S. Bureau of Public Roads for preliminary inspection.

DISTRICT NO. 5 W. R. Hutchins District Engineer FEDERAL AID PROJECTS UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Federal Aid Project No. 78-A, Holbrook-St. Johns Highway. Length of Project 8.8254 miles. Percentage of work completed 85 per cent. Contractors, Udall, Tanner, Turley and Hamblin of St. Johns.

Federal Aid Project No. 40 REO, Holbrook-Winslow Highway. Bids opened April 19th, and contract awarded to G. W. McMillan of El Paso. Work to be started immediately.

Forest Project on State Highway System, Flagstaff-Angel Highway. Type of construction is bitulithic macadam, Penetration system. Progress Fair. Contractors, Mero & Downer.

MAY, 1926 ARIZONA HIGHWAYS

Having been traveling west all the way from Springerville, we now turn south on the last leg of our trip back to Phoe nix. Ashfork, though out of the big trees is situated in a rolling country covered with small cedar, and offers you an class of accommodations you desire from hoteels to company.

Our next step is Prescott, 52 miles from Ashfork, one of the largest towns of Arizona, situated amongst the pine trees with an elevation of 5280 feet, the mile high city as it is sometimes called.

Iron Springs, just a few miles south of Prescott has been a summer resort long before the automobile came into general use, with its cottages and good water, located as it is in the pine forest, an ideal location to spend a vacation, close enough to Prescott to be in town. Fort Whipple, one of the largest Government Hospitals in the west is located at Prescott, adding materially to the financial as well as social life of Prescott.

A side trip of some 33 miles from Prescott to Jerome, Clarkdale, Cottonwood and Clemenceau, one of the larg-est and richest mining districts in the state is well worth your time. Thirty miles from Jerome is Montezuma Castle and Well, another monument to a lost race. They seem to have a habit of getting lost here in Arizona, but I imagine if we had a yowling, painted, befeathered bunch of Apache Indians after us, we would get lost too.

est and richest mining districts in the state is well worth your time. Thirty miles from Jerome is Montezuma Castle and Well, another monument to a lost race. They seem to have a habit of getting lost here in Arizona, but I imagine if we had a yowling, painted, befeathered bunch of Apache Indians after us, we would get lost too.

We travel after leaving Prescott on our way towards Phoenix for 44 miles over one of Arizona's wonder roads, named the Hassayampa Trail, but now known by the unromantic name of U. S. Route No. 280 to Congress Junction, which is the center of a district of smail mines and here we find ourselves on the desert again, once more amongst the cactus and mesquite for you have not seen any cactus nor mesquite since you left Springerville.

Sixteen miles farther on our way to Phoenix is Wickenburg, a thriving little town kept up by small mining, cattle, and sheep. Wickenburg is also the juntction point both for the railroad and highways for what is called the Parker cut off in going to California.

Ten miles further towards Phoenix is Hot Springs Junction, the station on the railroad for passengers going to Castle Hot Springs. A side trip here of 24 miles to Castle Hot Springs is well worth time to take, for the Hot Springs are truly a wonderland as well as a health resort situated as they are in the small hills adjacent to the desert.

A forty-two mile drive over the desert and you are home in Phoenix again and I hope you have enjoyed the trip. Cracking the old chestnut, you can now after your vacation rest up before going back to work.

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