Arizona republican., 1909-10-17
ROAD EXPERT SENT HERE BY GOVERNMENT
ROAD DISTRICT NO. TO RAISE
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Fay Mcclure, Engineer in the Public Roads Office, Will Build Sam
 pie Road at Glendale.

The era of good roads in this part of the territory will begin with the construction within a few days of a model road under the direction of the government from Glendale station to | the sugar factory. Fay Mcclure, as- sistant engineer in the office of pub ! lie roads, a branch of the agricultural department, arrived in Phoenix Fri day to superintend the construction of the road.
 Mir. McClure's official address is Washington, D. C., but he has been working on the same lines in Okla homa just before coming here. He travels from one place to another at the instigation of the government of ficials. He was sent to the Salt River valley chiefly through the representa- tions of w. J. Murphy.
 The road from Glendale station to the factory will be built at once. for the purpose of showing the people of that district what a good road is like. It is particularly needed at this time, as there is a good roads bond election November in Road District No. g.. If this election carries. s20O.OOO will be available for the construction of roads within the district.
 Road District No. 3 was created by an election September 4. All of the votes cast were unanimous for the ere ation of road district. The district is bounded on the west by the Agua F'ria, north by the Arizona canal, east by a line running north and south a quarter of mile west of Center street, and on the south by the Grand canal. If the bond election carries. as in all probability it will, as all of the resi- dents seem to be in favor of it, then every road in the district will be put in first-class shape. Some of them will be graveled and others of the more important ones will be macadamized. The road between Center street and Glendale will receive particular atten- tion, as it is one of the heavily tray eled thoroughfares.
 Before work on any of this road making begins there will be the ob ject lesson of the road between Glen dale and the factory. This road will be built of macadam. It will be just about one mile long. The cost of this road will be defrayed by the road dis trict, but the work will be under the supervision of MT. Mcclure, who has built many miles of good road.
 The trustees of Road District No. 3 are Ralph Murphy. J. B. Roach. Glen dale, and w. A. Hood, Peoria con- ference of the trustees and Mir Mo Clure was held yesterday in the of- fees of the Phoenix Trust company.
 -l,s. as soon as the gangs can be hired and the men put to work and the ma terial obtained. MT. Mcclure thinks that he will remain in Phoenix about a month.
 In regard to the project, MT. Mcclure said yesterday:
 The department of agriculture rec ognizes the needs of the great south west for good roads In a new com munity, where the building of a good road is more or less of an experiment, the public roads office sends out en- gineers to lay a sample road. which shall serve as a model for future road building. I am here for that purpose.
 The government, of course, does not and cannot defray the cost of these roads; but it will see that they are properly superintendent; that the prop CT materials are used, and that the kind of road for the climate and topo- graphical conditions is put in. 1 shall do all I can to see that the road from the Glendale station to the sugar fac tory is a model of it's kind, and hope that it will serve as such for future road builders in this part of the ter ritory."