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STATE ROUTE 82-70 Miles-Nogales to Tombstone Junction

STATE ROUTE 84-128 Miles-Tucson to Gila Bend

STATE ROUTE 87-60 Miles-Mesa to Picacho

The Engineer's Log CONSTRUCTION Northern District

R. C. Perkins, Construction Engr.

F. D. Shufflebarger has the grading and draining of F.A. Project 83-A (Sanders-Lupton) 22% complete March 31, C. E. Perkins, Res. Engr.

G. W. Ellis has the oil surfacing of the Superior-Miami Highway 75% complete March 31, M. Kisselburg, Res. Engr.

Canion & Francis have the grading and draining of Sch. 2, F. A. Project 80-A (Ashfork-Kingman) 95% complete March 31, H. D. Alexander, Res. Engr.

The General Construction Co. has the construction of the overhead crossing at Hot Springs Jet. on the Phoenix-Prescott Highway, (F. A. Project 84-D) 70% complete March 31, Albert Frietag, Res. Engr.

Henry Galbraith has the grading, draining and surfacing of Sch. 1 and 2 of F. A. Project 80-A (Ashfork-Kingman) 33% complete March 31, H. Pin-ney, Res. Engr.

CONSTRUCTION Southern District

T. S. O'Connell, Construction Engineer Packard & Tanner have completed the between Gillespie Dam Bridge and Gila Bend.

A. R. and C. O. Bodenhamer have the construction of 24 miles on the PhoenixYuma highway near Ligurta (F. A. P. 26-D) 50% complete March 31, Sid Smyth, Res. Engineer.

Rawls and Wright have completed the grading and draining of approximately 9 miles of the Douglas-Rodeo Highway (F. A. P. 14 Reo Sch 3) W. J. Tavenor, Res. Engr.

Hodgman & McVicar have the grading and draining of the 17 miles section from Coolidge to Picacho (F. A. P. 94-C) 90% complete March 31, Joe DeArozena, Res. Engr.

Kogg & Keime have the gravel surfacing of F. A. Project 93-B, Mesa Superior Highway 76% complete March 31, R. C. Bond, Res. Engr.

Lynch-Canon Engineering Co. started construction of the Tempe Bridge (F. A. 2-B) March 18, A. F. Rath, Res. Engr.

PAVEMENT

George J. Shaffer, Paving Engineer The Southwest Paving Co. has completed the oil surfacing of F. A. P. 15 Reo, and 87-C and have F. A. 87-A 78% complete March 31, Floyd J. Beaghly, Res. Engr.

Skeels & Graham were awarded a contract on March 14 for oil surfacing the 23 miles between Gillespie Dam and Gila Bend, completion date July 13.

N. G. Hill & Co. have started construction on the oil surfacing of approximately 7 miles on the PhoenixYuma Highway beginning at the Mari-copa County line and extending West (F. A. Project No. 55 Reo).

A contract was awarded to Yglesias Brothers on March 26 for the oil surfacing of F. A. Projects 84Projects 84-A and 76-R on the Phoenix-Prescott Highway beginning at the end of the pavement and extending approximately 22 miles north.

SMALL TOWNS TIRED OF THROUGH TRAFFIC

The danger of picking out the main street of a town and arbitrarily making it a through street, as pointed out in recent studies made by the National Safety Council, has recently been emphasized in several Illinois towns.

Petitions have been received by the State Highway Commission, at Springfield, from representatives of small towns and villages asking that state roads, around which many of them have been built, be re-routed so that the constant stream of traffic may be diverted from their centers.

According to the representatives, it was once thought advantageous to bring as much trafic into the main street as possible, for transient trade meant increased business.

The flow of cars, however, has become so great and the speed at which they travel so rapid that few stop at all. The increased volume has reached a stage where it endangers the lives of the inhabitants.

Even large cities are now finding that the most successful system shunts nonstop traffic around the business district to avoid congestion in the down-town centers.