ROAD PROJECTS UNDER CONSTRUCTION

ROAD PROJECTS UNDER CONSTRUCTION DISTRICT NO. 1

J. R. Van Horn, District Engineer Tanner Construction Company has contract 76% complete for grading draining, aggregate base course and cutback road mix of approximately 3.1 miles on the Phoenix-Prescott Highway, F. A. 59, 3rd Reo, from Morristown northwesterly. Joe DeArozena, resident engineer.

Tanner Construction Company has contract 5% complete for the grading draining, A. B. C. and road oil (SC-4 road mix) of approximately 2% miles of the Phoenix-Prescott highway, beginning three miles south of the Wickenburg bridge and extending south, F. A. 59, 3rd Reo. Sch. 2. Joe de Arozena, resident engineer.

Tiffany Construction Co., has contract 29% complete for grading, draining, A.B. C. and A. S. T. of approximately 4½ miles of the Ajo-Gila Bend highway, beginning about five miles north of Ajo and extending north, F. A. S. 120-B. H. Pinney, resident engineer.

Warren Southwest, Inc., has been awarded a contract for the grading, draining, aggregate base course and asphaltic surface treatment of 9.25 miles of the Hope-Parker Highway, beginning at the town of Parker and extending southeasterly, F. F. P. 7-A. Don Alexander, resident engineer.

DISTRICT NO. 2

F. N. Grant, District Engineer Oswald Brothers have contract 37% complete for subgrading roadway and refinishing slopes, and placing aggre gate base course and 90-95 road oil, plant mix, and one-half mile of asphaltic surface treatment, beginning at Cameron and extending northerly about 25.6 miles on the Flagstaff-Fredonia highway. F.A. 95-B and F. L. 4-C. J. B. Robinson, resident engineer.

Heuser and Garnet have contract 54% complete for grading, draining, aggregate base course and asphaltic surface treatment. Beginning at Holbrook and extending southerly about 11.75 miles on the Showlow-Holbrook highway. F. A. 131-A. H. B. Wright, resident engineer.

Lee Moor Contracting Company has contract 86% complete for subgrading roadway and refinishing slopes and placing ABC and asphalt surfacing treatment of approximately 20 miles on U. S. Highway 89, beginning near Lee's Ferry and extending south, F. L. P. 4-E. Oscar A. Maupin, resident engineer.

DISTRICT NO. 3

R. C. Perkins, District Engineer N. G. Hill has contract 72% complete for the subgrading and aggregate base course and asphaltic surface treatment of approximately 2014 miles of the GlobeShowlow Highway, F. A. 105 D. to J. A. F. Rath, resident engineer.

Geo. W. Orr and J. G. North have contract 43% complete for subgrading roadway and refinishing slopes, placing aggregate base course and asphaltic surface treatment on approximately 15.5 miles of the Globe-Superior Highway, F. A. 99-H. I. J. 1st Reo, which begins about 50 miles northeast of Globe and extends northeasterly. C. B. Browning, resident engineer.

Lee Moor Contracting Company has contract 37% complete for grading, draining, aggregate base course and cutback road mix of approximately 1.6 miles of the Superior-Miami Highway, F. A. 16, 2nd Reo., beginning about 3.5 miles northeast of Superior and extending northeasterly. R. D. Canfield, resident engineer.

Pearson and Dickerson has contract 13% complete for the grading, draining, A. B. C. and A. S. T. of 3½ miles of the Safford-Bowie Junction highway, begin ning approximately 84 miles south of Safford and extending south 3½ miles, F. A. S. 115-C. A. J. Kerr, resident engineer.

W. E. Hall Construction Co. has contract 8% complete for the grading and draining of 6.75 miles of the Solomonville-Duncan Highway, beginning about 11.5 miles east of Solomonville and extending easterly, F. A. 77-B. A. J. Kerr, resident engineer.

DISTRICT NO. 4

William R. Hutchins, District Engineer State forces have work 81% complete on grading and draining 7 miles of roadway on Nogales-Patagonia Highway. A. F. E. 8214. R. C. Bond, resident engineer.

State Forces have the grading, draining and asphalt surface treating of approximately 5 miles of the Tucson-Florence Highway, A. F. E. 8086 89% complete. Dan J. Lyons, resident engineer.

Daley Corporation has contract 95% complete for grading, draining, placing aggregate base course and asphaltic surface treatment on approximately six miles of the Benson-Steins Pass Highway, F. A. 130-A, beginning at Wilcox and extending northeasterly. George Lang, resident engineer.

Pearson and Dickerson has contract 10% complete for the grading, draining, A. B. C. and road oil plant mix, of approximately 13% miles of the TucsonNogales Highway, beginning about 83% miles south of Tucson and extending south, F. A. 86-A, 3rd Reo. Dan Lyons, resident engineer.

Fisher Contracting Co. has contract 36% complete for grading, draining and oil processing (cutback road mix) of approximately 15 miles of the Tucson-Ajo Highway, beginning at Ajo and extending south, F. A. S. 110-D. H. Pinney, resident engineer.

Martin Construction Co. has contract 30% complete for the grading, draining, aggregate base course and oil processing (S. C. 2, road oil, road mix) of 5.5 miles of the Douglas-Safford Highway, beginning about 26 miles north of Douglas and extending northerly, F. A. S. 114-E. F. A. Berg, resident engineer.

Packard Contracting Company has contract 1% complete for the grading draining aggregate base course and oil process (S. C. 2, road oil mix) of 6.1 miles of the Benson-Steins Pass Highway, beginning at the Arizona-New Mexico state line and extending westerly, F. A. 130-B. Geo. Lang, resident engineer.

Tanner Construction Company has contract 10% complete for the grading, draining, aggregate base course and oil processing (S. C. 2, road oil mix) of3.6 miles of the Ajo-Tucson Highway, beginning at the Papago Indian Reservation boundary and extending easterly, F. A. S. 110-E. J. M. Hobbs, resident engineer.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE BUREAU OF PUBLIC ROADS

G. L. McLane, Senior Highway Engineer.

W. R. F. Wallace, Highway Engineer, Supervising Engineer.

R. Thirion, Associate Highway Engineer, Highway Planning Engineer.

J. H. Brannan, Associate Highway Engineer, Supervising Engineer.

W. P. Wesch, Highway Bridge Engineer, Bridge Engineer.

W. J. Ward, Associate Highway Engineer, Locating Engineer.

E. F. Strickler, Associate Highway Engineer, Supervising Engineer.

R. M. Rutledge, Assistant Highway Engineer, Office Engineer.

BUREAU OF PUBLIC ROAD PROJECTS IN ARIZONA PROJECTS UNDER CONSTRUCTION.

Route 7, Oak Creek National Forest Highway. Lewis Brothers, Contractors, Phoenix, Arizona, have the contract for construction of a steel arch bridge over Wilson Canyon, about 27 miles southwest of Flagstaff, Arizona on the Oak Creek Highway. The bridge will consist of a main span of 240 feet and approach spans totaling 100 feet. Work was start-ed March 24, 1938 and is about 23% com-plete. A. W. Schimberg, resident engineer.

Route 33 Catalina Mountain Highway, Coronado National Forest. Project consists of grading and draining of a highway on the south side of the Catalina Mountains, between a point approximately 17 miles northeast of Tucson, Arizona and Soldier Camp Ranger Station near the summit. The project has been completed to Vail's Corral, a future recreational area, and a distance of 8 miles towards the summit. H. H. Woodman, resident engineer.

Federal Lands Highway Project 5. Taner Construction Company, Phoenix, Arizona, has the contract for grading, draining and placing of a bituminous surface treatment on a 5-mile portion of the Tucson-Ajo Highway, within the Pa-pago Indian Reservation. Work was started April 2, 1938 and is about 52% com-plete. F. A. Bonnell, resident engineer.

National Park and Monument Project. J. A. Casson, Phoenix, Arizona, has the contract for placing a bituminous treated resurfacing course on 15 miles of highway on the south rim of the Grand Canyon National Park and adjacent to the Grand Canyon Village. Work was started April 18, 1938 and is about 28% com-plete. Fisher Contracting Company, Phoenix, Arizona, has the contract for plac-ing a bituminous treatment on 5 miles of highway along the Rim of the Painted Desert within Petrified Forest NationalMonument. Work started May 18, 1938. V. G. Watson, resident engineer.

PROJECTS SUSPENDED FOR WINTER

Route 28, Fredonia-Houserock Valley, Kaibab National Forest Highway. The Arizona Sand and Rock Company, Phoenix has a contract for placing a bituminous surface treatment on 13 miles of the Fredonia-Houserock Valley Highway beginning at Jacob Lake within the Kaibab National Forest and extending south to the forest boundary. Work was suspended for the winter on October 25, 1937 and will shortly be resumed. Work is about 64% complete. C. R. Brashears, resident engineer.

National Park Projects. Skousen Brothers, Albuquerque, New Mexico, have the contract for grading and placing of a light application of oil on 32 miles of the North Approach Road to Grand Canyon National Park. Project extends from Jacob Lake, Arizona south to the Grand Canyon National Park boundary. Work was suspended for the winter on November 24, 1937 and will shortly be resumed. Project is about 88% complete. C. R. Brashears, resident engineer.

"He Showed the Way"

told him there were nearer fifteen thousand, and, as usual, he was right.

Albuquerque Republican, Feb. 16, 1864. "Col. Kit Carson arrived from Fort Camby yesterday week. He tells us that the Navajo war is finished; that all the Indians are coming in, consenting to be reserved."

What Kit Carson did not tell the newspapers, his fellow officers have told us. Kit called leading Navajo men together and explained that the game was played out. There would be no more treaties made. "No more treaties!" That was no way to play! "No more treaties," said Kit. "Just war until every Navajo man is lying dead-unless you men go out where your people are hidden and within ten days bring them into this camp. For ten days I will wait for your return. If you and your warriors are not here then, all the women and children we are holding will be sent to live with the Apaches at Fort Sumner and I will go into the hills and begin killing one by one the Navajos.

At the end of ten days Navajos came in so thick and fast it must have been necessary for somebody to say: "No shoving!"

Nor did Kit tell about the Indian mother he found dead beside an icy trail with a five-year-old girl crouched beside her. He took the little waif and wrapped her in a buffalo robe and carried her back to his beloved wife, Joesfa, at Taos. Josefa accepted her without question, just as she accepted every action of Kit's, and the child grew up along with her own numerous children. Four years later, when the Navajos went back to their ruined country to rebuild their lives, Kit sent the little girl along with her own people. She married a man by the name of Keams, and died only a few years ago. Just before her death she came into a trading post where I was visiting. In exchange for food she offered a poorly woven saddle blanket. Her conversation was entirely in Spanish, the tongue she learned in the Kit Carson household.

The last savage Indians subdued, Kit looked forward to a peaceful old age by the side of the beautiful Josefa, the one deep abiding love of his life. But within a year she was dead, and with her died the desire to regain his own health. For Kit Carson was a very sick man. Internal injuries received when a horse fell with him had caused a serious heart trouble and broken blood vessels. Two years after his wife's death Kit tired of being an invalid and ordered a hearty meal of buffalo steak prepared for him.

He ate the rich, rare wild meat and filled his clay pipe, also forbidden by the doctor. Then outside to where his horse was waiting. As he tried to leap into the saddle Death met him.

"I'm going, Comrades. It's the end. Adios!"

At Taos, with the snow-capped mountains keeping eternal vigil over their graves, Kit Carson and Josefa sleep at the end of the trail.

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