Weekly journal-miner., 1911-01-04
PROGRESS MADE ON
 TERRITORIAL ROADS
Interesting Extract From Annual Report Of Governor Sloan To
 Secretary Of The Interior

the construction of a system of
 territorial highways was begun and
 prosecuted with vigor. The money
 raised by the levy of the territorial
 road tax for the year 1909 did not
 become available until the end of the
 calender year, and, hence little but
 preliminary work was possible until
 the beginning of the present calendar
 year. During the year approximately
 700 miles of road were surveyed un- der the direction of the territorial engineer. These surveys followed in
 general the course of the two terri
 torial highways which were designat-
 ed by the board of control last year.
 One of these, beginning at the town
 of Douglas, runs in a northwesterly
 direction through Bisbee, Tucson,
 Florence, Mesa, Tempe, and Phoenix, and from thence north over the Brad shaw Mountains into Prescott, and thence runs east, crossing the Verde river near Camp Verde into the Mog- ollon mountains, and thence runs north through Flagstaff to the Grand Canyon. The other highway, begin ming at Yuma, runs approximately east through Phoenix, Tempe, Mesa, Globe, and along the Gila river to Clifton and Morenei, with a branch of the latter road running south from point in Graham County through the Sulphur Springs Valley to Doug las.
 It has been the policy of the board of control to begin actual road work at points where the greatest immed- fate benefits may be secured. A con tract was let for the construction of about g miles or road between Roose- welt and Globe. About 20 miles of this road was completed at the end of the calendar year. The cost of this will be approximately 5000 per mile
 A contract was also let for the building of Is miles of road begin ningning at Prescott and running south along the west slope of Mount Union. Being in a mountain region, the cost of this road therefore is high, being approximately $3,OO0 per mile.
 Both of these roads furnish object lessons of what may be done in the matter of road making and illustrate the value of scientific road building under the authority of the territory and the great benefit which is to be derived from the completion of the scheme of roads proposed to be con strueted.
 The territory is constructing a i bridge across the Gila river near Florence, the site of the territorial prison. This bridge is of the type known as the girder type of T-beam of re-enforced concrete. | It will be 700 feet long, having | main beams or girders of 13 spans of 50 feet each, resting on concrete piers which, in turn, are founded on 8O-foot piles.
 Actual work was begun on the bridge about the 1st of April. It has sufficiently to indicate that 1 t will be completed by the 1st of November of the present year. The bridge will afford passage from the Arizona and Eastern Railway across he Gila river to the prison. The necessity for the construction of the bridge for this purpose was so great hat the board of control considered t necessary to push its construction n advance of the beginning of actual -oad building on that part of the iorth-bound highway of which it will ,e a part.
 Plans and specifications have been made for the building of a bridge leross the Verde river in Yavapai County on the proposed north-south highway leading from Prescott to the irsnd Canyon. This bridge will have length of approximately 300 feet md will be built on lines similar to he Florence bridge.
 Under the law the board of control lirected the territorial auditor to levy territorial road tax for the year 91O in accordance with the following ist
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