Weekly journal-miner., 1911-10-11
DELEGATES HONOR
 NORRIS FRASER
Former Reflected President and Latter Chosen Secretary of the Arizona
 Good.Roads Association
(FEem Wednesdays Daily.)

Tom Norris was reelected by ac- claim, president of the Arizona Gooc Roads association this morning. Del NJ. Potter of Greenlee county, said he took pr3s in naming a man from the north who had so signally fui- filled his duties with an unselfishness which has been the wonder of every member of the association. Major Donkersley for Yuma county said he felt it was up to a man from the extreme west to second the nomina- tion, which it gave him extreme plea sure to do.
 Geo. Purdy. Bullard was elected viee-president; Malcolm Fraser, sec retary, and R. B. Burmister. treas urer.
 The executive committee composed of the above elected officers will have to work like nailers if they ex- pect to accomplish the plans outlined at yesterdays meet 'ng. Following are few of the major items among these
 Each aspiraut for county office in every part of Arizona is to be asked to sign a pledge that he will favor all good roads propositions first, last and all the time. His signed pledge of faith will probably insure him a solid vote by members of the assOci- ation, other things being equal. The president and secretary are to re- quest an equally binding pledge at once from all candidates for congres. and the United States senate.
 Governor Sloan will be requested tomorrow to call convention of twenty-eght delegates from Arizona to organize, with the help of Gov ernors Johnson of California and Mills of New Mexico a southwest transcontinental highway association to meet and join in making plans for the securement of federal aid in the construction of transcontinental highway through the three states named, into Los Angeles, there to join the north and south road to the Canadian boundary.
 The board of directors for the en- suing year is as follows: Gustave Becker, Apache; T. R. Riordan, Co- conino; Dr. \. C. Bledsoe. Cochise; H. o. Tunis, Gleenlee; E. NJ. White, Gila; LeRoy c. Shaw, Graham; D. B. Heard. MaricOpa; \. F.. Plumer. Pima; G. \. Broadway, Pinal; Frank J. Duffy. Santa Cruz; H. D. Aitken. Yavapai; II. H. Donkerseley. Yuma: E. F. Thompson. Mohave.
 Del M Potter of Clifton made a stirring speech stating the imperative need of immediate action to secure federal aid in the construction and maintenance of highways through h. dian reservations, forest reserves and sections designated as national monu- ments. To this end, the executive committee was instructed to name a representative from each county who shall confer with the forest super visors or Indian agents and obtain F. F. Thompson, Mohave, and James Scott, Navajo.
 With this preliminary work done and the pledges made by elected candidates to Washington it is be- lieved the government will see to it that these great areas in its owner ship are immediately made accessible by means of adequate appropriations. Ii was the sense of the association that if the United States govern ment fails to shoulder its burdens in connection with transeOntinental and state highways leading through its domain. a demand be made on Wash ington by the confederated assOcia- tion that such public domain revert to the people forever.
 The president and secretary were requested to petition the first gov ernor of the state of Arizona to call a conference of the boards of super visors of each county, the county sur veyors and the road superintendents to arrive at a uniform method of maintenance for roads passing through their respective counties. It was resolved:
 That in carrying out this plan the board of control be, and they are hereby, petitioned and requested to arrange for the territorial engineer to visit as far as is possible, either in person or by his duly authorized assistants. the several counties of the territory in the arrangement and organization of uniform method of road building and road construction; and that a system be at once adopted and as speedily as possible worked out and put into force whereby the several county seats of the counties may be connected with the county seats of adjoining counties and with the territorial highways as convent ently as is practicable; and that the board of supervisors of each county be, and they are hereby requested to +aka all convenient and practicable