Arizona republican., 1903-09-02
WAGON ROAD TO DAn
Board of Trade in Conference With
 Arthur P. Davis.

The directors of the board of trade held a meeting last night at which the important feature was conference with Arthur P. Davis of the geological survey respecting the construction Of freight road from here to the dam site. Not only were the directors largely in | attendance. but the room was crowded
 to it's fullest capacity by members and 1 others, as every meeting place is these i days when consideration of anything | in connection with the Tonto dam IS | expected.
 Aside from this subject the only
 thing done by the board was the ap- i pointment of MT. Davis as one of it's
 representatives to the Irrigation con- | gress to be held in Ogden. The other will be named later.
 Respecting the road project MT.
 Davis told to those assembled much ! that is related in another column and
 many things specifically connected with the road question, He said that l Phoenix would be his headquarters and 1 he will be here most of the time pro- | viding good road in constructed be- | tween here and the dam. Otherwise | himself and many of it's consulting | engineers will have to do more of their [ work at the basin. The construction ot l the dam will necessitate the moving Of
 a vast amount of freight and much of 1 it before actual dam construction be-
 gins. This freight must either come in
 via the Gla Valley railroad and a
 wagon road to be constructed from | Globe or a road will have to be built l from this erd. If the road built for
 the construction of the telephone line
 can by further improvement be utilized i for a freight road, or by still further l improvements be fitted for the con
 struction of a trolley road, then the
 matter of freight would be settled Tor | wagons could not compete with cleo ! tricity. He said that no surveys had 1 yet been made for a freight road and i any statements he could now make
 would be rough estimates and subject ] to modification. The Fish Creek road
 can be made into good freight road 1 with small outlay except about eleven miles of it. part of which will be eX- | pensive. He says he has no doubt the
 government would construct the road
 at it's own expense with the exception | of this eleven miles, providing this ] county will build that part of it but
 roughly speaking, he thinks that part Oi 1 S1o0.O00. Ii the county should not de- l sire to do this it will be necessary to 1 try and find some less expensive route.
 At any rate surveys will be necessary i to determine the relative merits of
 the various proposel routes.
 1 MT. Davis expects to go to Prescott
 on Friday to consult with the s. F. F. i X F. officials relative to freight rates 1 which he can use as a basis of esti- mates for the expense of getting | freight in from this end. Similar es- | inmates have been, or will be secured
 from the Southern Pacific and Gila 1 Valley line for use in freight esti-
 mates from that direction. These se- i cured. he will be in a position to com pare wagon road estimates from both l directions. When he returns from
 Prescott he expects before leaving for , Denver, to make a horseback trip over | the proposed roads from Mesa City to | the dam site with men already familiar l with the country. Mir. Davis has been
 over the country once. but not at a
 time when road building was the thing
 uppermost in his mind.