Arizona republican., 1898-05-27
PENNEY & ROBINSON

lows ranch the present road can be shortened six miles.
 This cutoff would probably cost about $1,000, and IS described as fol- lows: Leaving main road to the Sil- yer King mine at Intersection. a point 21a miles above Hewitt's ranch. run ming up a ridge with a grade not ex- ceeding per cent for 2h miles. thence down into Potts canyon, with one-half mile of 10 per cent grade. thence up Potts canyon for 21s miles with 4 per cent grade (except about 300 feet where the canyon boxes and grade will be about g per cent to in tersection with old wood road to Sil ger King mine at Whitlow's ranch, 11a miles from foot of Summit Hill.
 However, the main object of survey was to find character and cost Of road from foot of Summit Hill to Bloody Tanks, a distance of 1872 miles,
 From where the road leaves wood road three miles from Summit or Kim balls pass it follows a ridge for nearly one-half mile with a grade of about ' per cent, then in side hill, cutting followings contour Of hillside with a 101s per cent grade for one-half miie completing first mile.
 The next mile has only TOO feet of 101a per cent grade, the rest varying from ' per cent to g per cent. and still follows the contour Of the hillside
 The third mile has nearly all a 101s per cent grade, of course allowing for occasional level places of fifty feet or more, and crosses gulch about one-half
 mile from summit, where small filling will be necessary. It runs on the hill side as last mile until it reaches Sum
 init.
 The fourth mile runs along the hill side from Kimbalfs pass to the bot
 tom of Haunted canyon with a 10N
 per cent grade, except for about one
 fourth of mile, which is F per cent.
 This section of four miles has very
 little solid rock as will be seen in esti-
 mate sheet. It also has water in small
 quantities at each end.
 The fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and
 ninth miles follow down Haunted can
 yon in the wash where the canyon
 boxes, on sides and bars where canyon
 widens out, and for three-fourths of a mile through a small park At 634
 miles there is large cold spring, and at the beginning of the eighth mile
 there is some tamarack and juniper timber suitable for many purposes iii mining
 The average fall of the canyon does
 not exceed 5 per cent or per cent and the general direction is a little north of east
 The first half mile of the tenth mile
 runs up steep gulch to the southeast and has a grade of 12 per cent. At this divide we cross the county line
 between Maricopa and Gila counties. The second half mile runs down with grade varying from 10 per cent to F per cent. This mile is the most expensive of any on the road
 The eleventh mile runs across the
 head of one of the branches of Pinto creek with varying grades exceeding 1C per cent maximum. About three quarters from the beginning of this
 mile there is always water.
 The twelfth mile, with nothing ex ceeding 10 per cent maximum in grades, and running through a country full Of mining claims and prospects. runs over Summit and part way down into Pinto creek, the grade going down in- to Pinto creek, however, being 12 per cent
 The thirteenth mile; about one third of this mile is on the side O! a hill with a 12 per cent grade to bot tom of Pinto creek, where are several wells of good water. The remaining tWo-thirds of the mile runs up Pinto creek with grade of per cent The fourteenth and fifteenth miles run up Pinto creek in the wash or or the bars to point where Silver King trail leaves the wash, and within I0t yards of this point there is always water in the canyon to the south. The general direction of Pinto canyon as we follow it is a little south of east and it rises with a grade of , per cent The sixteenth and seventeenth miles with grades not exceeding 10 per cent and F per cent run from Pinto creek over Craig pass where Silver King ] trail crosses and down within one
 half mile of Schultz's ranch, where there is plenty Of water. The last half mile runs down the creek to the ! foot of the hill.
 The nineteenth mile follows approx imately the cowboy trail to Bloody Tanks. It is pretty rough and wind l ing with a maximum grade of 12 pei cent and runs to point one-half mile l this side of Bloody Tanks. This hall
 mile will cost practically nothing and 1 from Bloody Tanks to Globe there is 2 good road already built.
 The quantities in estimate sheet at tached are figured on a basis of five feet in solid ground, making ten-fooi
 roadway in all side hill cuttings. Material is priced as follows: Earth $20 per yard; loose rock, B 1-3 cents per yard; solid rock, 67 2-3 cents per yard.
 For making all side hill cuttings six