Bisbee daily review., 1910-12-27
GOVERNOR SLOAN MAKES REPORT

tion is made available to the public through bulletins issued from time to time for distribution to the farm CTS throughou. the territory. Mem- bers of the station from time to time deliver lectures at farmers in- stitutes on the various subjects em- braced within their work.
 Prof R. H. Forbes, the director Iof the experimental station within the territory. estimates that the po- tential water supply for purposes of irr gation, including the ordinary flow of the streams, storage, and sub terranean waters available by means of pumping. at approximately 4.393.- 900 acre feet annually, sufficient to permit of the intensive farming of over 100000 acres of land. This estimate does not include small pump water supplies supplementing dry farming at higher elevations. The disbursements for the fiscal year ending june 90. 1910, for all purposes from the federal and territor al ap- propriations amounted to s35, ,529.17. TeerritoriaI Highways.
 During the year the actual work Of the construction of a system of ter | r1torial h ghways was begun and prosecuted with y.gor. The money raised by the levy of the territo- rial road tax for the year 1909 did not become available until the end of the calendar year, and, hence, lit tie but preliminary work was possi. ble until the beginning of the pres ent eale ndar year. During the year approx mately TOO miles of road were surveyed under the direction of sEe | territorial engineer. These surveys followed in general the course of the two territorial highways which were designated by the beard of control last year. One of these. beginning at the town of Douglas. runs in a north erly direction through Bisbee, Tucson Florence, Mesa. Tempe and Phoenix and from thence north over the Brad shaw mounta ns into Prescott, and l thence runs east. crossing the VerGe river near Camp Verde into the Mo goilolon mountains, and thence north through Flagstaff to the Grand Can yen. The otber highway, beginninc at Yuma, runs approximately eas; through Phoenix, Tempe, Mes1 Globe and along the Gila river t, Clifton and Morenci, with a branc. of the latter road running sortl from point in Graham couu:, !, through the Sulphur Springs valle,
 to Douglas.
 ! It has been the policy of the boa~s
 of control to begin actual road worl at points where the greatest immedi
 ate benefits may be secured. A con
 tract was let for the construction O
 about 32 miles of road betwec;
 Roocevelt and Globe. About 20 mile.
 of this road was completed at tn
 end of the calendar year. The cos
 of this will be approximately $200
 per mile.
 A contract was also let for tn,
 building of B miles of road beginnin,
 at Prescott and running south alon,
 the west slope of Mount Union. Be
 ng in mountain region the cost O this road therefore is necessaril,
 high, being approximately 5000 pel mile
 Both of these roads furnish object lessons of what may be done in the matter of road making and illus trate the value of scientific roa.l building under the authority of the I territory and the great benefit which $ to be derived from the completion Of the scheme of roads proposed to be constructed
 | The territory is constructing a bridge across the Gila river near Florence, the site of the territorial prison. This fridge is of the type known as the girder type of T-beam construction of re-enforced concrete It will be TOO feet long, having a main beam or grders of 14 spans of ] 90 feet each, resting on concrete piers which, in turn, are founded on 30-foot piles.
 Actual work was begun on the bridge about the first of April. Ii has progressed sufficiently to indi- ! cate that 1t will be completed by the lst of November of the preesnt year. This bridge will afford passage from the Arizona & Eastern railway across the G la river to the prison The necessity for the construction of the bridge for this purpose was so great that the board of control considered 1t necessary to push it's construction in advance of the beginning of actual road building on that part of the north-south bound highway. of which | it will be a part.
 Plans and specificat 'ons have been made for the building of a bridge across the Verde river in Yavapai county on the proposed north-south highway leading from Prescott to the Grand Canyon. This bridge will have length of approximately 300 feet and will ie built on lines similar to the Florence br dse.
 Under the law the board of control directed the territorial auditor to levy territorial tax for the year 1910 in accordance with the following list: Apacne 90 05 Cochise -...------,...--=--------..- 25 Coconino -25 lCila -----.-.---.-.---.-.-----------.---- .25 Graham .------------.--.------.-----.---.- 25 Yavapai ....--..--..........-....----...-.. .25 Maricopa --..------.-.-.---.----....-- .25 Mohave -.-..------..--------..---- .05 Navoio ar