Road Projects Under Construction

Erect 131-K (1941) and 136-K (1942) A.F.Ε. 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 GlobeYoung 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 July 31, 1942. Federal Aid Seconondary 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 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-AB-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 April 1, 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 Engineer. 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 Projects 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 14.7 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, Arizona, has contract in the amount of $310,401.28 for grading, installing drainage structures, placing base course, bituminous treatment, and incidental 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. Construction work is about 10% complete. R. M. Rutledge is resident engineer.

Paintings by Geo. Frederick

(Continued from Page Twenty-nine) Paint tell what he feels for his desert subjects. His paint expresses more than admiration, but something akin to reverence.

He feels deeply the importance of trying to paint well, and he also envisions the importance of America in the art achievements of the years to come.

"Having studied and painted for years in Europe as well as here," he says, "I have the advantage of perspective. America will usher in the most vital and enduring art of the ages and mainly because all races and nationalities are a unit on this great hemisphere, and the new civilization that will spring from this united humanity will become the greatest of all.

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick live in the very heart of the desert. As Mr. Frederick describes their life: "Mrs. Frederick takes care of me, while I take care of my brushes and inspirations. We both have our hands full."

Mr. Frederick was born in Lee County, Iowa, in 1889, but when he was a child of three his parents took him to Europe. He returned to America in 1911, eventually landed in the desert and here he'll stay. Mrs. Frederick, who wrote western fiction as Allan Yantis, is just as in love with the desert as her husband is.

Neighbors are few and far between out in the desert where the Fredericks live, but don't think for a minute there is any loneliness about their desert dwelling or their desert life.

They are busy and happy and perfectly at home in their desert. Friends visit with them occasionally, they have their work, and every day has something new and interesting for them. Could life hold anything for anyone nicer than that?... R. C.... In the February, 1942 issue of your beautiful magazine, Mr. Earl Jackson seems to scout the idea that rattlesnakes swallow their young.

Yours Sincerely and Sincerely to You CONTINUING THE DISCUSSION ON RATTLESNAKES:

The following story will refute the doubt.

About the year 1888 I was trying to prevent some 410 head of cattle from eating up 80 acres of oats, 125 of corn and 450 of wheat on a ranch 9 miles north of Oxford, Neb. Seven months of the year was free range but during the five summer months cattle were supposed to be herded or fenced. The ranch on which I worked had three hundred head of half breed Pole Angus and 110 head of longhorns the latter had been driven up from Mexico on account of drouth. I was supposed to keep the cattle inside of 640 acres which was fenced.

Through this section of land ran two creeks which were largely dry during the middle of the summer and in between the creeks was a fine table-land full of prairie dog holes, also inhabited by rattlesnakes and owls.

After dinner one hot day I was returning to the herd up one of the creek bottoms when the pony shied and I saw a large hole, in which was a rattlesnake asleep, surrounded by seven little ones. I turned the pony loose and stood in front of this hole admiring its beautiful construction and trying to count the little ones. This hole was about a foot above the grassy floor of the creek bottom and was apparently built by a coyote. It was 15 inches in diameter and the entrance shaped like a cone and apparently symmetrical. The floor was flat and round and larger than the entrance and the whole thing as smooth as if made by an artist. After taking all this in and being unable to count the little ones, I poked the mother with my Winchester. She was already coiled with the rattles on the inside and the sleeping head pointing out basking in the noon day sun. She immediately rattled and swallowed one young one and then rattled and challenged me and repeated until she swallowed the seven.

Then she was ready for business and her eyes flashed all colors of the rainbow like a great beautiful diamond. Then I shot her and the young ones ran out of the hole where I shot her and I had to stamp them to prevent them escaping. Furthermore they were very fast and I had difficulty in getting all of them.

C. L. Fairbank, M. D., San Diego, California.

I question the first paragraph of the snake story in the February issue. A rattlesnake doesn't open its mouth and bite. It strikes and the striking action automatically opens the mouth and causes the fangs to project for the occasion. I once heard a wise guy in a Pullman tell a group about how a rattlesnake chewed his boot toe. It's not so.

Hurlstone Fairchild, Tucson, Arizona.

STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER:

I've just received my first copy of Arizona Highways and I wish to say that due to the scarcity of furloughs in our outfit I don't have enough time to go home, but little does that matter when I have a magazine to bring home to me down here in Texas. Only men in the service away from the country they love know what it means to get a bit of news from home at mail call. Therefore the ARIZONA HIGHWAYS is far more valuable to me than one can realize. Also I think that all of the sons of the baby state would enjoy your magazine if they were sent one. At your price I don't see how the folks at home can overlook sending a subscription to a brother, friend, husband, son or sweetheart in the army, navy or marines. I think its a big morale booster. I should know as I'm a native Arizonan, twelve hundred miles from home and haven't seen it in 19 months.

P. F. C. John M. Watkins, Special Weapons, 124th U. S. Cavalry, Ft. Brown, Texas.

Most of the men in this outfit are from Pennsylvania. The remainder, with the exception of myself, are also from the East. So when the malarky starts about the respective home states I don't have a chance.

They prattle about the beauties of their respective states and drown out the lone Arizona voice. Perhaps, if I could leave a copy of ARIZONA HIGHWAYS around the barracks, they might really see what God's country looks like. Having seen the pictures, they might listen to me when I feel like an Arizona C. of C. member, and I feel that way quite often.

So, just in the interest of preserving peace, and putting the dudes in their place, will you kindly place my name on your mailing list. That would at least help solve the problem.

Pvt. Robert M. Stuart, Co. C. 2nd Bn. Camp Wheeler, Georgia.

SNOW BOWL:

You certainly did a magnificent job in advertising our snow bowl in your February issue. The photographs were excellent and the story very interesting.

I note that you had a letter from Jack Frye, President of TWA. I do not know whether you know it or not but Mr. Frye has recently acquired a home in Arizona just below Sedona. Undoubtedly ARIZONA HIGHWAYS was one of the things which brought him out. If you have a TWA calendar in the Highway Department you will note that he has a picture of Big Park, which is just seven miles below Sedona, on the calendar.

Senator James E. Babbitt. Flagstaff, Arizona.

ADDRESS IN ENGLAND:

Now that our son, Sergeant Pilot H. W. Brayshaw is safely back in England again completing his training, my wife and I would like to extend to your good self our great appreciation of the wonderful reception you gave to him and his fellow cadets during their stay in your district.

Our best thanks we would also like to express, through the medium of your journal, to all the residents of Phoenix who made the boys so heartily welcome and adopted them as their own, a feeling which we shall be only too pleased to reciprocate should any of your Phoenix boys ever find themselves anywhere near our address. Some slight indication of what the boys themselves think about their period of training with you is best summed up, I think, in our son's expression that he "is just looking forward to returning to Phoenix at the earliest opportunity."

H. Alban Brayshaw, Trent Avenue, Ealing,