Bisbee daily review., 1911-05-28
Territorial Engineer J, B. G. rand Comes Here to Make New Survey
 of Highway
ROUTE THROUGH HERE
 Is FEASIBLE, HE SAYS
Letting of Contract the Other Day Will Not Prevent Change in Road
 Plans

You can say for me that Bisbee and Cochlse county will get value received for the money they have paid into the territorial highway , fund.-" said Territorial Engineer J. , B. Girand, who was in Bisbee yes ' terday looking over the road leading ont of Bisbee to Tombstone. Mir. Girand came here at the re quest of the territorial board of con trol 10 invesuea ate the feasibility of running the highway tsrough Bis bee to Tombstone. A force of sur yeyors have been put to work on the road. beginning at the city limits of Bisbee. The surveying crew has progressed about five miles and so far. Mir. Girand stated, no difficult gi-ades have been found. some Of them being over s per cent
 The report of the surveying crew under Mir Grand will be ready in about 15 days and will be sent to the toard Of control
 No Delay in Work.
 Asked when the work on the roads in COchise county would be started. Mir. Girand stated that work would not stop at all and that just as soon as the route is selected the contract will be let.
 IL was re orted in Phoenix news ~i2rers th0r after .he work being done in Pima county had been cour pleted no further work would be done in this section. This Mir. Grand den Ice emphaticaliy and says that Gov ernor Sloan stated Tt the meeting he'd in Phoenix a week ago yester- day that work in this section, in Co chise county. would be pushed and su advised the teTritogial engineer to state 10 the people Of this section.
 At the present time and on invesli gation so far made, the engineer be- heyes that the route between Bisbee and Tombstone will prove feasible. though no route will be selected un- til the report as the routes is made 10 the territorial board of control, fifteen days hence.
 Mr. Grand stated that the route of the highway after leaving Tombstone was uncertain at this time and would not be located until the surveyors had lnvestigated the lay Of the various possible routes.
 Win Not Interfere.
 The letting Of the contract for the road work in Pima county. as report, ca in the Review several days ago. will not make it impossible 10 change the route between Tucson and the Cochise county line As a matter of lact. Mr. Grand states that the work contracted for does not run to Bar bacoma- The road out Of Tucson run ning east is already a fine one for f1teen miles. 8 mile section of the road, extending further east, rill now be repaired.
 This will not make 1t impossible. l however, 10 run the road northeast erly so as to make a feasible route i through the towns of Cochise county, i said Mir. Grand.
 Mir. Girand believes that the whole l controversy regarding the route Of | the highway has been the result nf l q misundeT standing. The Hereford I routet as the route advocated by I Douglas has been named, running as | it does through Hereford. was merely 4 a preliminary survey and did not | mean that the route had been finally l selected. The engineer stated that i four dilfrent routes were surveyed I and considered in the vir;zity of | Globe before the highway route was l decided upon.
 No Cause For Trouble.
 There is no disposition on the i part Of the board to make Cochise | county accept an arbitrary route for | the highway" said the engineer. -I l know that they are disposed to con sider any suggestions as to the high | way route that the county or towns | on the county make. And certainly I have no axe to grind in the matter. |
 However. I must look at the mat | ter from an engineering standpoint, as not every route would be feasible | 1t has come to me that it has been | said that l have it in for Bisbee. l This is absolutely untrue, for I have i always felt kindly toward this city and county. You may say for me l that for the money you have paid out l for a highway, you will get full value | in return"
 If the route from Bisbee to Tomb i stone. connecting with the first sec ton of the highway from Douglas 10 ! LOWel. is approved by the territorial 1 engineer and the territorial board of control. it assures that both Bisbee ! and Tombstone will be on the high l way Whether the surveyors will report favorably on the further exten- ! sicn Of the road by Benson, or will TO Co tho Fyma county line by way of FaiThank, remains to be decided.
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