Bisbee daily review., 1911-08-25
GRAND CANYON
 ROADA WONDER
Now Being Constructed, is Re- garded as Finest Scenic Highway in the World
 Today
SCIENCE BROUGHT IN PLAY

loClENCt bRUU6Hl IN PLAY
 A new macadamized highway is being constructed along the Grand | canyon of Arizona, for six and one- ! half miles from what is known as Sun ! set Point to a connection with the ! Fl Tovar hotel. and other points of 1 interest along the rim. says the AL | DuquerQue Evening Herald The roal is being built al a cost of S30. 900. and when completed. will stand as the most wonderful scenic highway IL the world .(
 At present one can travel along the rim of the Canyon going west for bur | two and a half miles with the addi- | tional six miles of new road the drive | will be a little. less than ten miles 1 At the west end of the highway a mag. inifnsiena stone strTs-s,.sh sviIs fis. erected as. a rest house.I large col | lection of cnrios. paintings and pho ! tographs of the Canyon will be avail able
 The Harvey drive system will have complete charge of the transportation 1 of passengers over this road Trips Twill be made by carriages twice day. The first trip will be made by leaving about g o'clock ih the morning and re turning about noon. The second trip l will be made after luncheon and de turn by sunset
 Since 1900. plans as well as some I actual surveying have been going on in connection with the road. How. ever, not until a short time ago was F. W. Marsh, assistant engineer, call ed upon by the engineering depart ment of the Santa Fe to begin the ac. tual work of the laying out and build 1 ing of the road Mir. Marsh. who has had charge of the working out of this road and trail. from the beginning l of it's inception. left Los Angeles with a party of surveyors two months agc to lay out the highway. The contract was let to the L. J. Smith construction compaRy Soon afterward they moved a large outfit to Grand Canyon and work began in earnest. The trail to he built in connection with the road vii
 undoubtedly be called Buena Mari; trail, named from spring which Mir March discovered while surveying t Beginning at Sunset Point, two anf half miles from the Fl TovaF hote 1t follows along the rim of the Can yon almost the entire way. In somt places it is not more than E fee
 from the edge( while in others |
 ranges from E to 300 feet; at ou' bout ais ssssss sS ss it detours back into the woods in or
 der to avoid a deep gorge. This i also an agreeable change to the sight I seer. Some fthe points it will pass through are Moiave Point. Pima Point one of Major P0wells triangulatiOI points placed there by himself wheI
 he made his famous survey to th' Grand Canyon in 1870.
 There are numerous other point' passed>through which at one time pos sessed the names of explorers an' Indians.
 The road is being built along th' most modern and scientific plans II { order to assure the best possible re suits. An actual survey of the roaf was made. and all parts, both stralghl and curved are laiI out with the aic of the transit It Is 12 feet wide, GOV cred with eight inches Of macadau sloping gradually to either side. Th' macadam is of a very high grade ot
 white rock. located near the roac
 Al regular intervals curbstones witt walks leading from them to the points on the rim are to be made, thus al lowing the passengers to alight ans re-enter the carriages at will The DOT lion which has already been completed sDpears a great white streak, in con
 trast to the green forest and ever
 changing colors of the canyon.
 A force of 100 men, including th'
 engineers. the men employed in th'
 stope crushing plant and tse iaborer. % teams and outfits are employed Mfr Marsh says "No expense is beini | anared to insure the completion O
 the road in time to handle ihe im
 mense fail and winter business al tn Fl Tovar. Upon completion it will ai
 rord to the tourists a drive which cai | in no way be equaled in the world io
 scenery and pleasure
 Kessler the famous landscape er
 yinaer and authority on such sun
 iects. pronounces it the most WOf 6erful niece of scenic highway englr
 eering on earth
 The trail, which has also been SUI
 xeved by MT Marsh 10 the Colorad . river will be the most beautiful trai i. m the entire Colorado. It begins a S inc west end Of the road and make us first drop Of a few thousand Tee into the Canyon throueh Hermit basii Branching off, it follows numerou other small creeks and draws to th river. IL has an approximate length c nine miles from the rim to the rive with a view of the Canyon for owe E 5s miles. both up and down. Inaf riffcent hotel win be built down O tle r1afaasr in fha Canyon 5000 fee