Road Projects Under Construction

DISTRICT NO. 1 Joe DeArozena, District Engineer Wallace and Wallace, Contractors, have a contract for the furnishing and placing coarse and fine aggregate base course and the mixing and placing of a special bituminous treated surface using SC-2 road oil on approximately six miles of the recently constructed realignment at Parks and extending easterly to the present highway near Belmont. The work is to be completed by June 15, 1942. SNFA Project No. 89-G (2) (1942) A. F. E. 6647. Н. В. Wright, resident engineer.

Packard Contracting Co. has been awarded a contract for grading and draining the roadway; furnishing and placing coarse and fine aggregate base course; salvaging, mixing and relaying the oil cake; the widening of four concrete structures over 20 feet clear span, and other work incidental to the reconstruction of 63% miles of the Ashfork-Flagstaff highway, beginning about two miles east of Williams and extending toward Flagstaff While the date for completion has been set for May 3, 1942, actual construction will not start until spring. SNFA Project 89-D (7) (1942) A. F. Ε. 6648. H. B. Wright, resident engineer.

Packard Contracting Co. has been awarded a contract for grading and draining the roadway over an alignment which follows the existing road closely for the entire distance; furnishing and placing imported borrow; select material; aggregate base course and mixing and placing special bituminous surface treatment using SC-2 road oil on approximately 4 miles of the Flagstaff-Fort Valley highway, beginning about 3 miles north of Flagstaff and extending northwesterly. Construction will start when weather permits in the spring. The work is to be completed by July 15, 1942, F. A. S. Project No. 24-A (1) (1942) A. F. E. 607. H. B. Wright, resident engineer.

State Forces are improving by widening and backsloping U.S. Highway 89, Prescott-Wilhoit. WPA participating. A.F.E. 8934. C. C. Benson, resident engineer.

DISTRICT NO. 2 R. C. Perkins, District Engineer W. E. Orr Contractor has a contract for the grading and draining the roadway; furnishing and placing coarse and fine aggregate base course and mineral aggregate; processing road mix using SC-4 road oil and applying a type B seal coat. The construction of one structure over 20 clear span, six long concrete boxes and other work incidental to the construction of 3 miles of the Superior-Miami highway on a relocated line beginning 1 mile west of Miami. The contract also includes the placing of a road mix and type B seal coat on 1 mile of road beginning at the east end of the construction project and extending to Miami. The work is to be completed by October 31, 1942. SNFA Project 16 (4) (1942) A. F. E. 7031. C. B. Browning, resident engineer.

H. L. Royden has a contract for the construction of Rattlesnake Canyon Bridge located approximately 61% miles southeast of Clifton on the Duncan-Clifton highway. The structure is a four span concrete deck on steel girder supported by concrete piers and abutments. The work to be completed by April 1, 1942. Non-F. A. Project 138 (1941). R. J. Holland, resident engineer.

AS OF APRIL, 1942 Wallace and Wallace, Contractors, have been awarded a contract for grading and draining the roadway; the furnishing and placing of select mineral aggregate base course and mineral aggregate. The furnishing mixing and laying a road mixed bituminous surface using SC-4 road oil and other work incidental to the construction of 5.8 miles of the Holbrook-Winslow highway beginning 12.3 miles west of Holbrook and extending westerly. The work to be completed by June 15, 1942. Work shut down for winter. Non-F. A. Project 40 (1942) A. F. E. 6658. F. A. Berg, resident engineer.

Martin Construction Co. has a contract for the reconstruction of the Morristown Overpass; grading and draining the approaches; furnishing and placing imported borrow; select material aggregate base course; and a plant mixed bituminous surface using SC-6 road oil and type B seal coat. The project begins about 42 miles northwest of Phoenix and extends toward Morristown a distance of .6 of a mile on the Phoenix-Prescott highway. The work is to be completed by May 5, 1942. S.N.F.A. Project No. 84-D (2) (1941-42) A. F. E. 8917. J. A. Parker, resident engineer.

Martin Construction Co. has a contract for grading and draining the roadway, furnishing and placing select material, aggregate base course, a plant mixed bituminous surface, using SC-6 road oil and a type B seal coat on 1.5 miles of the Phoenix-Prescott highway. The work is divided into two Federal Aid Projects, one on each end of the Morristown Overpass reconstruction project above. S.N.F.A. 76 (4) 8917. The work is to be completed by May 5, 1942. J. A. Parker, resident engineer.

Geo. W. Orr has been awarded a contract for grading and draining the roadway, furnishing and placing coarse and fine aggregate base course; and a special bituminous surface treatment; the construction of five concrete boxes; two multiple span 10'x8' concrete structures and one 4-span special concrete slab bridge 110' long and other work incidental to the construction on a new alignment of 334 miles of the Duncan-Clifton highway beginning about 3 miles southeast of Clifton and extending toward Duncan. The work is to be completed by May 4, 1942. F. A. Project 138-B (1) (1942) A. F. E. 7510. R. J. Holland, resident engineer.

H. L. Royden has a contract for grading and draining the roadway; furnishing and placing imported borrow; select material, aggregate base course and a road mixed bituminous surface using SC-2 road oil and a type D seal coat; the construction of one multiple span 10'x7' concrete box, the construction of the abutments, piers and deck; driving steel H column piles and steel piles for a 150-foot steel pile concrete deck bridge; the steel for which is state furnished and other items incidental to the relocation of 2.1 miles of the Showlow-Holbrook highway. The contract also includes the furnishing and placing of a road mixed bituminous surface, and type D seal coat on .7 of a mile adjoining the above construction. The project begins at Snowflake and extends northerly 2.8 miles toward Holbrook. The work is to be completed by May 20, 1942. Non-F. A. project 131-K (1941) and 136-K (1942) A.F.E. 7716. F. A. Berg, resident engineer.

D. A. Flickinger Contractor has a contract for grading and draining the roadway; the construction of two small and one large concrete arch structure on 2.9 miles of the Globe-Young highway beginning 17 miles northwest of Globe on the Apache Trail and extending northerly toward Young. The construction is on a new alignment. The work is to be completed by by July 31, 1942. Federal Aid Secondary Project No. 17-A (1) (1941) A. F. E. 608. C. B. Browning, resident engineer.

State Forces are changing alignment and constructing curve west of Buckeye on U. S. 80. WPA participating. A. F. E. 8010. J. A. Parker, resident engineer.

State Forces are seal coating on U. S. Highway 60-70 east and west of Globe; WPA forces participating. A. F. E. 2205. C. B. Browning, resident engineer.

State Forces are widening with PCC pavement U. S. 80, east of the town of Mesa. WPA participating. A. F. E. 8053. Jas. A. Parker, resident engineer.

DISTRICT NO. 3

J. R. Van Horn, District Engineer Lee Moor Contracting Company has a contract for grading and draining the roadway; furnishing and placing imported borrow, select material; coarse and fine aggregate base course; the construction of 10 small concrete structures and four multiple span 10x7 to 10' concrete structures over 20 foot clear span and other items incidental to the construction of 9.6 miles of the Benson-Steins Pass highway beginning 17 miles northeast of Benson and extending northeasterly 91% miles toward Willcox. The work is to be completed by April 30, 1942. SNFA project 137-C (11) (1942) A. F. E. 8622. A. J. Gilbert, resident engineer.

White & Miller, Contractors, have a contract for grading and draining the roadway; furnishing ing and placing of select material; aggregate base course; a plant mixed bituminous surface using SC-6 road oil and a type "B" seal coat on 6 miles of the Benson-Vail highway beginning at the Pima county line and extending easterly to the Whetstone Overpass. Included is the widening of 13 small concrete structures over 20 feet and one new concrete structure over 20 feet and other work incidental to the reconstruction of the road. The work is to be completed by April 15, 1942. SNFA project 18-A-B-E-F (6) (1942) and SNFA 18 C and D (4) (1942) A. F. E. 8846. P. F. Glendenning, resident engineer.

Wallace and Wallace Contractors, have a contract for grading and draining the roadway, furnishing and placing imported borrow, select material, coarse and fine aggregate base course and mineral aggregate, processing road mix using SC-2 road oil and a flush coat of SC-2 road oil. The construction of two single span timber bridges and one multiple span timber bridge, the construction of 17 concrete arch culverts and other work incidental to the construction of 4.9 miles of new highway adjacent to the northeast boundary of the Fort Huachuca Military Reservation, beginning at Fry and connecting with the existing highway emerging from the reservation at the northeast corner. The work is to be complete by August 31, 1942. Defense Access Project No. DA-WC1 (1) (1942) A.F.Ε. 9201. Sam Dysart, resident engineer.

State Forces are grading, draining, surfacing and fencing State Route 82, Nogales, Patagonia-Sonoita highway. WPA participating. A. F. E. 8223. S. R. Dysart, resident engineer.

State highway engineering forces are planning and supervising the construction of 2.25 miles of State Route 82; west from junction of State Route 82 and 92. Work accomplishment by WPA. A. F. E. 9202. S. R. Dysart, resident engineer.

State Forces are grading, draining and surfacing 13.5 miles of U. S. Highway 80, Florence-Junction highway, Oracle Junction north. WPA participating. A. F. E. 8064. D. J. Lyons, resident engineer.

FEDERAL WORKS AGENCY PUBLIC ROADS ADMINISTRATION

New Post Office Building Phoenix, Arizona March 10, 1942 G. L. McLane, Senior Highway Engineer.

W. R. F. Wallace, Highway Engineer.

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

W. J. Ward, Highway Engineer, Locating En-gineer.

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

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

PUBLIC ROADS ADMINISTRATION PROJECTS IN ARIZONA PROJECTS UNDER CONSTRUCTION—

Route 33, Catalina Mountain Highway, Coronado National Forest Project consists of grading and draining of a highway with prison labor 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. Grading has been partially completed from the foot of the mountain to a point 14.5 miles toward the summit. Claude Hillman, Construction Superintendent.

Route 3, Flagstaff-Clints Well Packard Contracting Company, Phoenix, Arizona, has contract in the amount of $125,-809.95, for construction of Arizona Forest Highway Project 3-H, approximately 16 miles south of Flagstaff. Work consists of grading and construction of drainage structures. Length of project 8.3 miles. Work was about 98% complete when shut down for the winter on December 10, 1941. F. A. Bonnell is Resident Engineer.

Boulder Dam National Recreational Area Tanner Construction Company, Phoenix, Arizona, has contract in the amount of $349,387 for grading, installation of drainage structures. and placing bituminous treated surfacing on 15.26 miles of roadway within the Boulder Dam National Recreational Area adjacent to Pierce Ferry. Work was about 73% complete when shut down for the winter on January 13, 1942. H. H. Woodman is Resident Engineer.

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument Fisher Contracting Company, Phoenix, Ari-zona, has contract in the amount of $310,401.28 for grading, installing drainage structures, plac-ing base course, bituminous treatment, and in-cidental work on Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument Route 1, Pima County, Arizona. Length of the project is 22.7 miles, extending from the Mexico-United States Border to the north boundary of the monument. Construc tion work was started on March 2, 1942. R. M. Rutledge is Resident Engineer.

-Yours Sincerely and Sincerely to You TOWNS, MOUNTAINS, CANYONS:

We have been receiving your magazine since October, 1940 and think it is a mighty fine advertisement for your great state.

We have never visited the state of Arizona until October, 1941, but our son, to whom ARIZONA HIGHWAYS has been sent for the past year was out there from May, 1937 to May, 1939. I have a brother in Prescott, Arizona, Frank B. Wiley, whom I had not seen since 1921. We spent a week at the home of my brother and his fine family whom we had never seen and our only regret was that we did not have more time to take in the wonderful beauties of your great staté.

We saw the Painted Desert, Petrified Forest, Grand Canyon and a lot of other sights, but I think the memory that will remain with us the longest will be that of our first view of Oak Creek Canyon and of that most unique city, Jerome. It was so wonderful that we had my brother take us through them again so that we would have more time to take in all their beauties. I saw the town of Humboldt, which was described in your September magazine. Since my wife, daughter and I came home, I have been rereading our copies of ARIZONA HIGHWAYS and enjoying them so much more.

I read the letter of Phil Kennedy in the January, 1942 issue concerning Queho and reread the story in the September issue. The reason I mention this is that we heard this story dramatized in the Death Valley Program Friday, January 30.

In closing, I want to commend the highway dept. of Arizona on their fine roads. To us who live in a flat country, it seems more wonderful that such fine highways could be built through and around the mountains as you have in Arizona.

Murat Wiley, Frankfort, Indiana.

OUR FRIENDS, THE ROTARIANS:

A year ago last January, through the courtesy of the Phoenix Rotary Club, I received a year's subscription to ARIZONA HIGHWAYS. To say that I have enjoyed this publication in the intervening months is an understatement. It is one of the choicest journals that comes to my desk for the reason its content is always informative and entertaining, and its format and typography nothing short of art of a high order. I enjoy especially the articles which come from your own pen.

I wish to continue to receive your magazine. Hence I am enclosing a dollar, which, I understand, is the annual subscription price. Elmore Petersen, District Governor, District No. 113, Rotary International, Boulder, Colorado.

OF THE ANCIENT DAYS:

Every time your grand magazine enters our house it seems as if part of the Arizona sunshine comes along with it. Your pictures and stories cannot be excelled by any magazine in the United States. I would like to commend particularly your articles on archaeology. They are priceless to someone as interested in the subject as I am. As I sit reading the stories of the searches for the remains of mankind I feel like hopping a train and coming out there and joining in.

You once wrote in your magazine "Everyone comes sooner or later to Arizona." I am hoping some day to make the long trek from here to the Valley of the Sun and I hope it will be "sooner."

We here in the east who have read ARIZONA HIGHWAYS wish to you out there in the Land of Magnificence the greatest of success with your publication.

Jean Mansfield, Tappan, New York.

archaeology in the Southwest, hopes to wrap up a bit of Arizona sunshine between its covers each month for distant readers.

SALOME IN A HEAVY MIST:

Your magazine has been most instructive as well as interesting. I might add that the February issue was very interesting to me as it was my experience about a year and a half ago to drive into Salome about 9:30 in the evening. There was a heavy mist so that I had to use my windshield wiper. After stopping in front of the restaurant, I addressed the man in charge asking about his cabins and remarking that it looked like it would rain and thus make it comfortable for me to cross the desert in the morning, and he remarked, "I don't know what in hell it is raining for, it hasn't rained here for 49 years and we don't raise a damn thing anyhow." After looking around the place and seeing the pictures of the frog with the canteen on its back and all of the other bulletins which surround the place, I then could gather the import from his remark. It did not rain, but there was a heavy mist. However, it was cloudy through the desert and I enjoyed the drive to California immensely. Your article, therefore, meant more to me than it would to most readers.

R. A. Hurst, Konopak, Hurst and Dalton, Toledo, Ohio.

WHAT A SMALL WORLD THIS IS:

Thank you for the lovely portfolio together with ARIZONA HIGHWAYS magazine, which has been an unending source of pleasure to us, as well as being a source of advertising our perfectly grand state of Arizona to these Canadian people, who think there are only two states in the entire United States: namely, New York and Texas. No. don't laugh, but that is the gospel truth, and we have found them vitally interested in the splendid articles in the magazine as well as the pictures. One man, who is very much interested in amateur photography discussed quite at length all the kinds of films, etc. that were used in taking the pictures. Another liked the interesting variety of types used in the printing, still another said that it was the best thing in the way of a really good literary attempt that he had seen in a magazine of its type. You will never know how proudly we have displayed all of them to our friends, both in our home and while Carl was in the hospital. One incident that I think will interest you came about through the article on Mesquite trees of Texas, Arizona, etc. Anyway, to show you how small the world really is, the author of that article mentioned the husband of a lady that I had met in Toronto, who is probably the best friend that I have made while I have been in Canada. The incident tells how her husband, Roy Miller, went to southern Texas for his health one winter and spent the time on a big ranch near San Antonio. (Incidentally that is where he met his wife, who is my friend.) While on this ranch he made his coffee over a camp fire made of mesquite wood, and came to the belief that coffee made that way was far superior to that made any other way, so upon returning to Toronto had an entire car load shipped to him here in Canada. Well, when I read the article in the Highway Magazine I immediately marked the passage and sent the magazine to my friend, who was thrilled to death. Whereupon she immediately subscribed for the magazine herself. Now, you didn't know what a little ball you set to rolling, did you? But isn't it fun?

Mrs. Ruth Hickerson, Hull, Quebec, Canada.