Imperial Valley press., 1909-10-16
First Section of Road on Mexi- can Side of Line Is Now
 In Progress,
Almost Four Hundred Thousand Gu bic Yards of Earth to be Handled and Thousand- Foot Bridge to be Built Across Tia Juana River Track Laying Progresses.

on the Mexican section of the San Diego & Arizona railroad were enter ed into last week by the company and Robert Sherer x Sons, the contractors who have been doing the grading work on the section of the road between San Diego and the international boundary line.
 The contract is for all of the grad ing work which is to be done on the first 9 IA miles of road in Mexican territory. Work on this section of the road is to be started immediately and under the provisions of the contract this section is to be completed within ninety days.
 A gratifying feature of the an nouncement of the signing of the con- tract is the news that plans for the next section of the Mexican line are being prepared as rapidly as possible and that it is expected that the con- tract for this portion of the work will be let in the immediate future. The contract just awarded is for the only section of the route in Mexico that has thus far been approved by the MeXi- can government. Several months ago maps for several sections of the Mexi- can route were submitted to the gov ernment officials in Mexico City. These maps were approved at that time, but since then a number of changes in the route have been made and this has necessitated the drawing of new maps. It is expected that the map of the next section will soon be approved and as rapidly as possible all details will be completed so that~contracts can be let
 That the contract awarded last week is an important one is evil denced by the fact that 1t calls for the handling of slightly more than 350,OOO cubic yards of dirt. This is an average of almost 10000 cubic yards to the mile. The entire section is to be CA per cent grade. There are number of long cuts and fills to be made in addition to the construc- tion of several bridges.
 The contract calls not only for ti.e grading of the section, but also the of such masonry abutt- ments for the bridges as are needed. Altogether there will be more than 1900 feet of bridging on this section. Incidentally it will be In this sec- tion that the longest bridge on the road will be built. This bridge Is to be constructed over the Tia Juana riv- CT and will be more than 1000 feet in length It is to be what Is known in railroad circles as creosoted bal last-deck structure and will have ma- sorry abuttments. All of the other bridges on this section, as well as on the entire line, will be of creosoted timber with ballast deck
 As rapidly as possible the work of laying rails between San Diego and Tia Juana is in progress. Rails have now been laid as far as the brewery. A temporary halt has been called be- cause of the fact that the bridge near the brewery has not yet been com- pleted The balance of the material needed is now on the way and is ex- pected to arrive soon With the arrival of this material the bridge will be hurried to completion and then the laying of rails will be re- sumed. It is the intention of the rail- road company to hurry the laying of rails as soon as the work is again started Rails will be laid to Tia Juana and by that time 1t is expect ed the grading of the first section in Mexico will be completed so that
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