Weekly journal-miner., 1910-08-24
CFrom Sundays Daily)

highway between Prescott and Camp Verde is decided, a strong and com bined effort will be made by the residents of Cherry Creek, the Verde Valley and other intervening sections to have the road built through Cherry Creek.
 In support of it essential eonsiG- erations will be advanced, the first being the commercial rating of that section, and second, the unquestioned scenic attractions that the road will have over the old Copper Canyon roadway. The question of route will, it is said, be considered within the next few days, Territorial Engineer Girand arriving in Prescott today from the south, and whose arrival it is believed, will be followed by the beginning of official surveys for the roadway through thet district.
 MT. Grand will personally inspect the two routes, and submit his con- elusions to the Board of Control, the decision of which will be con elusive.
 AS yet there does not appear any sentiment in favor of the Copper | Canyon route, but on the other hand, the many taxpayers and other resi- dents of the Cherry Creek section, are actively and openly supporting their avenue as the most desirable from either a business or sightseeing standpoint. They contend that the soil along Cherry Creek and to Camp Verde is far more desirable for a road bed than through Copper Can yon, obviating at least eight miles of an adobe formation that is difficult to travel over many months in the year. Another potent feature in favor of the Cherry Creek route, is that it is constantly in touch with habitations, not to mention large mining companies in operation, while after Ash. Creek is passed and for a distance of fifteen miles, only one home is passed until Camp Verde is reached, through Copper Canyon. The lHuestion of an abundant water sup ply, in favor of Cherry Creek, is another important and vital matter that will be considered, the Copper Canyon section not having a single water supply, while from Camp Verde to any point in Cherry Creek, many watering places are available. Cop per Canyon has only one desirable feature, that of the distance being shorter by about four miles from Prescott to Camp Verde. This however, will be more than offset in time consumed in travelling to and from by the more desirable road bed through Cherry Creek.
 Another important matter to be taken into consideration in favor ot the Cherry Creek route, is that along its contour an abundance of deeom. posed granite exists, while Copper Canyon is lacking in this for over tourist or the business man.
 Discussing the two routes, J. D. Thompson, general manager of the Federal Mining company of Cherry Creek, is very pronounced in desiring to see his section favored, taking the position that his company and at least eight others, will be bene- fitted largely in their operations. With a road such as is being con strueted south of Prescott, the cost of transportation will be materially reduced in and out of that district, and development encouraged core spondingly. Up to the present time the Federal company has taken into Cherry Creek an immense tonnage, for which has been paid an exorbi- tant price, through the bad road conditions supporting an excessive rate per ton. In this strain, R. H. Burmister, of the Arizona Copper  Gold company, also takes a similar emphatic stand.
 The same may be said of the other operating companies that are eontem- plating the installation of machinery, and the consumption of hundreds of thousands of pounds of supplies, not to mention the output of their mines.
 One of the best informed men in that section of the topography of the country the road will traverse, is Le Pfau, of the Verde River Copper company. MT. Pfau is reasonable and outspoken for the selection of that route, and gives the more i'm portant information that the old Cherry Creek hill can easily be avoided and at nominal expense, if