Road Projects Under Construction

.. ROAD PROJECTS.. Under Construction DISTRICT NO. 1

Packard Contracting Co. has 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 634 miles of the Ashfork Flagstaff highway, beginning about two miles east of Williams and extending toward Flagstaff. The work is to be completed by November 12, 1942. SNFA Project 89-D (7) (1942) AFE 6648. H. B. Wright resident engineer.

A.F.E. 8966-U. S. Highway 89-Prescott to Wilhoit 4.7 miles Grade, drain and bituminous surface. C. S. Benson, resident engineer.

DISTRICT NO. 2

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 November 17, 1942. SNFA Project 16 (4) (1942) A. F. E. 7031. C. B. Browning, resident engineer.

N. G. Hill and Co. has a contract for grading and draining the roadway on the Mesa-Florence Junction highway, including the widening of the existing roadbed and structures and new construction of roadway and structures on the line changes at the western end and at Apache Junction. The furnishing of coarse and fine aggregate base course and a special road mixed bituminous surface full width of roadway and an emulsified asphalt seal coat. The work is divided into two projects. The western portion within Maricopa County is approximately six miles in length and begins about 8 miles east of Mesa and extends to the Maricopa-Pinal county line; the eastern portion begins at the Pinal county line and extends easterly to Apache Junction thence south-easterly a total distance of about 41½ miles. The work is to be completed by February 15, 1943. SNFA Project 93-A (2) (1942) AFE 8052 and 93-B (3) (1942) AFE 8056. Jas. A. Parker, resident engineer.

Martin Construction Co. has a contract for the widening of the existing concrete pavement with a road mixed bituminous surface. The project is located on the Luke Field-Glendale highway and begins at the west city limits of Glendale and extends westerly for a distance of about 4.6 miles. The work consists of sub-grading along side old pavement; furnishing and placing coarse and fine aggregate base course and mineral aggregate; the mixing and placing of a road mixed bituminous surface, using SC-4 road oil and a type B seal coat. The work is to be completed by November 15, 1942. A. W. FAS project No. 21-A (1) (1942) AFE 613. Jas. A. Parker, resident engineer.

L. M. White Construction Co. has a contract for grading and draining the roadway; the removal of old cake and mixing and relaying it on the detour; furnishing and placing imported borrow, select material and fine aggregate base course; the widening of small structures and 3 structures over 20 feet clear span with timber deck culverts and new construction of 4 small structures and 5 structures over 20 feet clear span timber deck culverts, Furnishing and placing a cement treated base; an intermediate and final course of plant mix using SC-6 road oil and an emulsified asphalt seal coat on approximately 7.6 miles of the Phoenix-Prescott highway and beginning about 27 miles northwest of Phoenix and extending northwesterly. The project is to be completed by May 31, 1943. SNFA project 84-A (4) (1942), AFE 8934. Jas. A Parker, resident engineer.

W. E. Orr has a contract for grading and draining the roadway; furnishing and placing fine aggregate base course and the construction of twelve long concrete arch culverts. The project is located on the Duncan-Clifton highway, beginning about 1 mile southeast of Clifton and extending southeasterly for a distance of approximately 2 miles and is to be completed by June 15, 1943. A. I. FA project 138-C (1) (1941-42) AFE 7510. R. J. Holland, resident engineer.

The Maricopa County Highway department has a contract on a force account basis for the construction of 234 miles of the West ChandlerHigley highway beginning at the eastern city limits of Chandler and extending easterly. The work consists of regrading roadway on both sides of the existing concrete pavement; furnishing and placing coarse and fine aggregate base course and mineral aggregate; processing road mix using SC-4 road oil and furnishing and applying a type B seal coat. The widening of small structures and the widening of a structure over the eastern canal. The work is to be completed by October 31, 1942. A. W. FAS project 25-A (3) (1942) AFE 616. Jas. A. Parker, resident engineer.

A.F.E. 7044 Cuttler to Coolidge Dam-10.0 miles Highway No. 70 Grade, drain and bituminous surface. C. B. Browning, resident engineer.

A.F.E. 8711-Mesa to Chandler-7.0 milesHighway No. 87-Concrete pavement. J. A. Parker, resident engineer.

DISTRICT NO. 3

A.F.E. 8063-Highway 80Florence to Brody Wash, 19.0 miles Grade, drain, bituminous surfacing. Dan J. Lyons, resident engineer.

A.F.E. 8068-Highway 80-Douglas to New Mexico line (Douglas-Rodeo)-Grade, drain, bituminous surfacing, 48.2 miles. A. J. Gilbert, resident engineer.

A.F.E. 8233-County line to Ft. Huachuca Junction Highway No. 82 grade, drain and bituminous surface 6.0 miles. S. R. Dysart, resident engineer.

State Forces are grading, draining, surfacing, and fencing State Route 82, Nogales-PatagoniaSonoita highway-31.6 miles. WPA participating. AFE 8223. S. R. Dysart, resident engineer.

FEDERAL WORKS AGENCY PUBLIC ROADS ADMINISTRATION

New Post Office Building Phoenix, Arizona October 1, 1942 G. L. McLane, Senior Highway Engineer. W. R. F. Wallace, Highway Engineer. W. P. Wesch, Highway Bridge Engineer, Bridge Engineer. R. M. Phillips, Associate Highway Enigneer, 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 15.7 miles toward the summit. Claude Hillman, construction superintendent.

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 85% complete. Construction work was suspended on September 23, 1942, due to the fact that asphaltic road oil can not be obtained under the present priority rating. Efforts are being made to obtain a higher rating. R. M. Rutledge is resident engineer.

Route 17, Showlow-Pinetop.

Project consists of placing a bituminous preservative treatment with Class A seal, Type 3, on 12.950 miles of roadway between a point about 114 miles south of the Indian Reservation Boundary and Showlow. Preparation of the base for the application of the bituminous preservative treatment has been started but asphaltic road oil can not be obtained under the present priority rating. Efforts are being made to obtain a higher rating. C. H. Clark is resident engineer.

LETTER FROM MASIACA:

More than pleased we all who have the honor to see ARIZONA HIGHWAYS for Septiembre 1942 are.

My English is very poor, if it were not for this reason I would gladly make a long letter praising this your very wonderful work. No doubt this number of Highways helps a lot to bring a more close cooperation of both nations against that son of a gun devil of Hitler and his dirty gang. This number sure is nice work of you.

Received one copy first, then three more, and I am thinking of sending a copy of these extra numbers to a very select number of Mexican friends of mine who read English, so that they also enjoy this picturesque album of our country.

I take this opportunity to let you know, that at present we are receiving military instruction three days a week, also I am president of the Anti-Nazi-Fascist group, here in Masiaca, also I am enclosing herewith two letters from the American Consul at Guaymas, to whom I have applied offering my services to America. I have always been a friend of your country and will be all my life. Please return these letters.

Adios, amigo, y muy agradecido, por sus finas atenciones, y sepa, que estamos con ustedes para defender nuestra libertad.

Jesús G. Rodríguez, Masiaca, Sonora, México.

We think your English is very grand, Mr. Rodríguez, and we hope to hear from you often.

Of such stuff are patriots made. Because of such men liberty and justice shall not ever perish from the earth.

I wish to congratulate you and your organization on the September edition of "ARIZONA HIGHWAYS."

I think this is one of the finest short delineations of México that I have ever seen. There is no doubt that the people who photographed the various scenes have done a remarkable job in conveying to the reader the interesting and historical places of the many states of México, which you have so well described in your short articles.

I have been receiving this magazine from you for the last two years, and it has furnished me with many excellent photographs and information of Arizona which has been very valuable to us here at the studio.

I trust that you will continue to issue this magazine in the future, giving as much useful information and splendid pictures to the automobile traveling public as you have in the past.

R. C. Moore, Location Manager, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., Beverly Hills, Calif.

I think that in your Salute to México of the September issue you have surpassed anything that you have done before in your magazine, and that means the ultimate in magazine portrayal, as every issue reveals and brings home, to even us who are old timers in Arizona, unsuspected beauties of the state. I have lived in Arizona all my life, but it took your little magazine to make me aware that ours is a land so unique, so startlingly different. And now with the September issue comes the realization of how close is the tie between México and our own southwest, in ancient culture, in awe inspiring grandeur, in unusual beauty. You are doing much to strengthen the bonds of sympathy, interest and mutual understanding between the two nations.

Mrs. A. C. Nordhus, Hereford, Arizona.

I am writing you to express my appreciation of the September, 1942, issue of your magazine dedicated to México. All of your issues are fine, but this one is really a knock out and then some. I ought to know for I lived and carried on mining operations in México for 25 years; and I still have a very high regard for that country and its people. I covered the northern half of México-the States Sonora, Sinalca, Chihuahua, Durango and Zacatecas, especially in the back countries of those states. Hence, I recognize many of the scenes depicted in the illustrations of the issue in question.

Elgin B. Holt, Field Engineer, Department of Mineral Resources.

YOURS SINCERELY

By the merest chance a copy of ARIZONA HIGHWAYS was brought to my attention while I was in Monterrey recently attending the inauguration ceremonies of the American Airlines, Inc., service to México.

Permit me to extend to you and your associates my heartiest congratulations for you published one of the finest magazines ever dedicated to México, as far back as I can remember.

The pictures and accompanying text and dedication are excellent and likewise deserving of the highest praise. Both text and pictures portray México in a wholly truthful and delightful manner.

I would be pleased to receive two dozen copies of that issue for distribution among high officials of my government and others who I know would be greatly interested in obtaining copies.

Alejandro Buelna, Jr., Jefe del Departamento de Turismo México, D. F.

Please, allow me to express to you my admiration and greatful appreciation for the splendid gesture that Arizona has made towards México, in your ARIZONA HIGHWAYS magazine of this month, entitled-Salute To México.

The material as a whole in this magazine, and the beautiful pictures are, in my opinion, the most outstanding literature of this kind ever put out in this country by any state public institution in behalf of their neighbors.

F. N. Puente, National Railways of México, San Francisco, Calif.

Various copies of your September edition have been just received and I was, indeed, delighted to see this magnificent Review entirely devoted to México. Everything in it is just marvelous and I very well appreciate the Invaluable means of propaganda that this edition represents to México and to tourism in general. Congratulations for having issued this fine work.

Antonio Perez O., Resident Manager, Hotel Reforma, México, D. F.

I am sure you are to be congratulated on the very pleasing format of this September issue as well as on the happy choice of pictures and text. Undoubtedly you have been successful in your purpose of expressing some of the esteem and admiration we feel for México and the Mexican people.

Sumner Welles, Under Secretary, Department of State, Washington, D. C.

It seems to me you have done a remarkably fine job in your September issue on the beauties of México. It is so good I am passing it on to a friend of mine in the Méxican Embassy.

H. A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States, Washington D. C.

As a Mexican first, and as representative of the National Railways of México, I wish to extend to you my heartiest congratulations for that wonderful and artistic work as well as for the splendid friendly gesture shown through your edition "Salute to México."

Work of this nature is really what brings closer together the peoples of our respective countries, since as members of the same Continental American family we should be known better to each other and much more so now that we have a "job to do together."

G. Servin, Commercial Agent, National Railways of México, Los Angeles, Calif.

Allow me to congratulate you most heartily upon the wonderful issue of ARIZONA HIGHWAYS dedicated to México. Everything appearing therein is not only beautiful and artistic but seems to have a heart that wins yours upon seeing the beautiful pictures and the sublime thoughts written in between the pictures. I sincerely hope this will be the effect on all the fortunate Americans that read your magazine.

I sincerely believe that you have made a remarkable contribution to the great work our respective Presidents are carrying on to save our sacred traditions, our liberty and our freedom, just as our forefathers would expect us to do, from the threats of oppression of the most brutal nature the world has ever seen.

I, as one of the Mexicans that the issue is dedicated to-feel very grateful to you and stand ready to reciprocate your fraternal gesture in every way I can.

Ignacio Soto, Hermosillo, Sonora, México.