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and look around. Magnificent vistas from the highway; pine forests; rustic camps; well-developed summer colonies; splendid hotels. Run northwest a couple of hours. Guest ranches where you get real cow-ranch atmosphere with bungalow accommodations. Run east over to Jerome over a picturesque mountain boulevard and see huge mines. Go on to Camp Verde; here is Montezuma Castle, perhaps the best preserved of all cliff dwellings, and Montezuma Well. And more attractive guest ranches and resorts, and the healthful Springs.

Run on to Flagstaff by way of Oak Creek, as colorful and wildly beautiful a canyon as one may find. Stop a night at one of several pretty lodges; taste mountain fruit that is unsurpassed. Or if you'd rather, go back to Prescott and take the Ash Fork highway. To the west, Mohave County has many attractions; to the east, you reach the Grand Canyon or Flagstaff by way of the pleasant town of Williams. See the lumber mills at Flagstaff; visit the great Lowell observatory where a new planet has been discovered; climb majestic San Francisco Peaks; hike through the forest and hear the breezes play in pines and rustle aspens.Go south again. Mormon Lake, Lake Mary, Stoneman Lake, have delightful summer colonies. Fish, swim, boat all you please, and when you are tired of that, tramp into the hilly forests and see how your appetite improves. Perhaps you'll choose to keep going south. There, with other lodges and guest ranches, with trout streams and typically West-ern color, lies the picturesque Mogollon Rim and Tonto Basin country Zane Grey has made famous. Pine and Payson, the Tonto Natural Bridge, will delight you. The Verde Valley is again in easy reach by the fine Fossil Creek highway; to the south is Roosevelt Dam, by which one may go east into the Sierra Anchas, west to Phoenix or south to Globe.

North to the Grand Canyon. Sooth your soul in its calm immensity; gaze spell-bound at its ever-changing color; forget your petty troubles in its grandeur. Take a never-to-be-forgotten horse-back ride down to the Colorado. Drive east over the thrilling Nava-Hopi road to the Painted Desert and quaint Hopi villages. Farther north, across Navajo land, is the Grand Canyon highway bridge near historic Lee's Ferry; cross it and climb into the great Kaibab Forest with its immense herd of deer, its giant pines and open glades, and the new Union Pacific Grand Canyon Lodge on the North Rim. Or if you would, go east instead, into that vast colorful plateau of far northeastern Arizona, with its Painted Deserts, brilliant mesas, awesome chasms, Navajo tribesmen, stretching into fantastic Monument Valley, the Rainbow Natural Bridge and prehistoric ruins.

Go south again. Mormon Lake, Lake Mary, Stoneman Lake, have delightful summer colonies. Fish, swim, boat all you please, and when you are tired of that, tramp into the hilly forests and see how your appetite improves. Perhaps you'll choose to keep going south. There, with other lodges and guest ranches, with trout streams and typically Western color, lies the picturesque Mogollon Rim and Tonto Basin country Zane Grey has made famous. Pine and Payson, the Tonto Natural Bridge, will delight you. The Verde Valley is again in easy reach by the fine Fossil Creek highway; to the south is Roosevelt Dam, by which one may go east into the Sierra Anchas, west to Phoenix or south to Globe.

But you haven't seen the White Mountains yet; so you return to Flagstaff and head east again. Winslow, Holbrook, the Petrified Forests that are a neverfailing source of wonder, St. Johns, then Springerville. There hundreds of square miles of virgin wilderness open before you. The White Mountains, indeed would suffice for many summers. Innumerable camping places in the forest; many pleasant lodges; three hundred miles of fine trout fishing; deer and turkey hunting in the fall; the great lumber camp at McNary. For the White Mountains are in the heart of the most extensive pine forest on this continent and it is in Arizona! Southward is the famous Coronado Trail through the majestic Blue Range to Clifton and points south; from McNary, if you must, you may start home by way of White River, Rice and Globe.Take the Coronado Trail, and if you desire you can follow it down to the Mexican border, closely following the very route Don Francisco himself blazed northward 390 years ago. The lofty Blue Range with its vast game preserve; Clifton and Morenci with their mines; the pretty Gila Valley and Safford. If you go west you come to the great new Coolidge Dam en route to Globe. Or cut south from Safford, into Cochise County. There you have more excellent summer country; timbered mountains in the Chiricahuas, Dragoons and Huachucas; tumbling brooks, guest ranches, real cow-ranches. Rhyolite Park or the "Wonderland of Rocks" in the Chiricahua National Monument; Bisbee and its great mines; Douglas and its smelters, with Agua Prieta just across the line in Mexico; world-famous Tombstone and its stirring history.

Jaunt over a rolling, winding, beautiful road to Patagonia; see more fine guest ranches; visit Nogales on the charming Mexican border. North again to ancient Tumacacori Mission, near venerable Tubac; north again to beautiful San Xavier, the best specimen of mission architecture in this country, and thence to Tucson. Before you go home, drive through pretty Oracle up into the mighty Catalina Mountains, to Mount Lem-mon with its heavy timber and attractive summer colony and resorts. If you choose, another scenic mountain road will take you north into Globe. There other summer resorts will attract you, northward in the Sierra Anchas, or in the Pinal or Graham Mountains. Or if you would go to Phoenix, you have a choice of two famous scenic routes: back by Miami and Superior, or over to Roosevelt Dam and on the Apache Trail highway with its four Alp-like lakes that furnish water and electric power to America's most successful reclamation project.

That is only hitting the high spots if you would really like to "See Arizona." People who have a capacity for beauty and a capacity for enjoyment should take at least five summers to do it justice; that is why "See Arizona First" has become "See Arizona Again." For only a few of Arizona's resort areas have been mentioned; only a few of its scenic wonders have been touched upon. Once you start, you will not be satisfied until you have seen them all.

Quite aside from scenic and climatic attractions that equal those that can be found in any other state, there is an economic attraction to "Seeing Arizona" also. Arizonans spend some $6,000,000 a year on vacation trips outside the state, despite the constantly growing number that now prefer to "See Arizona" instead. Keeping this huge sum of vacation money within the state would have a decided effect on business of all kinds and moreover, would contribute mightily to summer resort development to attract more and more outside vacationists, swelling Arizona's tourist travel. So is it any wonder that the Arizona Industrial Congress and Chambers of Commerce throughout the state join each year in a "See Arizona" campaign to "tell the world" of Summer Arizona? It's great sport, this "Seeing Arizona." And for Arizonans, easily the most economical, the most simple, the most enjoyable way in which to spend a vacation. For all you have to do is get a road map, ask any chamber of commerce or automobile association office for further information on any particular section that may appeal to you, fill your car with gas and oil, and fare forth as Coronado did. Nature will take care of the rest, no matter where you go. And presently you too will say, "You've seen nothing till you have seen Arizona, because there's nothing like it."

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ARIZONA HIGHWAYS

APRIL, 1930 Under the direction of the Government of the United States.

Dealing with all phases of touring beyond American shores.

150 Lin. Ft. Pile Jetty.

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3. That the fees as provided for dams be amended to increase the fees now provided for small dam projects.

"Simplicity surrounding arrangements for shipping automobiles abroad, customs regulations at international borders and facilities for planning the trip prior to departure, may be listed as some of the outstanding factors controlling the flow of travel overseas," says the A. A. A. "At the same time, foreign powers, realizing the economic benefits of this tide of travel, have rendered all possible cooperation in removing unnecessary restrictions."

Proposals will be received only from capable and responsible contractors, who must submit with their request for standard bidding form of the Arizona Highway Department, attested state-ment on forms to be supplied by the Arizona Highway Department, of their financial resources and construction ex-periences. Bids will be made only upon the bidding forms as supplied by the Department, and which forms will only be supplied to contractors whose state-ments show sufficient experience and financial resources to properly construct the work contemplated.

4. That provisions be added to make available funds to meet emergency expenditures that may become necessary to be made by the State upon the failure of such emergencies being met by the projects involved, such funds to be in addition to any appropriations for the carrying out of the routine provisions of the Act.

The A. A. A. Foreign Travel Division pointed out that the first step in arranging for a trip abroad is the securing of passports, which is now comparative-ly easy for resident Americans through clerks of federal courts in all parts of the country. Improved services are available in connection with other re-quirements for the motorist desiring to take his car abroad. Some of these are: All bids shall be accompanied by an unendorsed, certified or cashier's check only, of not less than five (5%) per cent of the gross amount of the bid payable to the State Treasurer of Arizona.

5. That an appropriation of $50,-000.00 be made as provided by the Act, $25,000.00 each year for two successive years. This is to be used for the purposes provided in the Act and as a revolving fund to carry on such provisions for which fees are collected until, and to be reimbursed upon, receipt of such fees.

1. Steamboat lines have arranged special facilities for handling cars uncrated.

The right is reserved, as the interest of the State Highway Commission may require, to reject any and all bids, to waive any informalities in bids received, and to accept or reject any items of any bid unless such bid is qualified by specific limitations.

They are virtually excess baggage, transported at a flat rate, based on weight or cubic foot displacement.

6. That the necessity for an appropriation to carry out the provisions of the Act is an emergency, and every effort should be made to provide the necessary funds in order that the Act may become and remain operative.

2. The A. A. A. takes complete charge of arranging for passport vises as well as for delivery of foreign travel docu-ments and car licenses by port represent-atives upon arrival of the motorist in Europe.

Copies of the specifications may be seen at the office of the State Engineer, Phoenix, Arizona, or may be obtained from the State Engineer upon the payment of Ten ($10.00) Dollars, which will be returned to the Contrac-tor should the specifications be return-ed within ten (10) days after the open-ing of bids.

Recommendations

It is respectfully recommended that:

1. The law be amended to exclude projects that are financed and under the direction of the United States Govern-ment.

3. After these arrangements have been made, the car owner is free to tour at will, and with a minimum of trouble from customs officers at border lines.

The bidder will be required to comply with the provisions of the Specifica-tions and Contract in bidding and the 2. The last sentence in the first paragraph of Section 4, Chapter 102, Ses-sion Laws of Arizona, be amended, in order to secure adequate funds for the proper investigation and supervision of small new dams, and minor repairs and alterations to existing dams.

award and execution of the Contract.

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS W. W. LANE, State Engineer. Phoenix, Arizona, April 8th, 1930.

3. In the event of an emergency requiring immediate work to be done upon a structure as provided by the Act, and there are not adequate funds available from receipts provided for in the Act, that the Governor may issue his proclamation for the necessary amount, to be reimbursed from a lien upon the property.

Sealed bids for the construction of the TUCSON-NOGALES HIGHWAY, F. A. PROJECT 86-B, Schedule 1, will be received until 2:00 P. M., April 28th, 1930, and then publicly opened and read at the office of the Arizona State Highway Commission, Phoenix, Arizona. No bids will be received after the time specified.

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4. An appropriation be made in the total amount of $50,000.00, $25,000.00 each year for two successive years.

122½ N. 1st Ave. Phoenix, Ariz All bids must be marked upon the outside of the envelope "State Highway Contract, Tucson-Nogales Highway, F. A. P. 86-B, Schedule 1," and MUST CLEARLY SHOW THE NAME OF THE BIDDER ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE ENVELOPE.

The American tourists will spend approximately $300,000,000 in Europe during 1930, in addition to expenditures in other parts of the world, according to the ForThe work, which is located at Contentital, Arizona, consists of the construction of a reinforced concrete bridge 122 feet in length, and is to be com-pleted on or before August 31st, 1930. APPROXIMATE QUANTITIES 600 C. Y. Excavation (Unclass) 530 C. Y. Concrete. 51,000 Lbs. Reinforcing Steel.

eign Travel Division of the American Automobile Association.

Specialists on Reinforcing Steel, Mesh. Guard Fence, Fence Stays The statement by the A. A. A. international travel agency was issued simul-

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Condition of Roads On Arizona State Highway System U. S. ROUTE, 80-518 Miles-Yuma to Rodeo

U. S. ROUTE 66-396 Miles-Topock to Lupton

U. S. ROUTE 180-183 Miles-Florence Junction to State Line.

U. S. ROUTE 89-660 Miles-Nogales to Fredonia

U S. ROUTE 70-109 Miles-Holbrook to State Line

STATE ROUTE 79-91 Miles-Prescott to Flagstaff

STATE ROUTE 88-83 Miles-Apache Junction to Globe

STATE ROUTE 81-128 Miles-Douglas to Safford

STATE ROUTE 74-121 Miles-Wickenburg to Ehrenberg

STATE ROUTE 73-104 Miles-Cutter to McNary

STATE ROUTE 187-13 Miles Sacaton Dam to Casa Grande

STATE ROUTE 71-157 Miles-Clifton Junction to Springerville

STATE ROUTE 83-28 Miles-Vail to Sonoita