Imperial Valley press., 1912-12-10
Los AneElEs uUnhskS PLAN
TO HARPOOM THE IMPERIAL VALLEY

AT last the mask Is beginning to dis
appear from the highway plans of Los
Angeles, and it is apparens that that
city has no intention of leading thg
national Highway through the heart OF
Imperial valley with view to promoi
ing friendly feeling ana commercial re-
iationship between the valley and that
city, but on The mammoth wash route
where traffic will be diverted from the
valley. There have been many honey
ed words on the part of Los Angeles
but now that the plans are becoimns :
known it is apparent just how hollow
and meaningless they have been.
And at the same time it is apparent
tnat while Los Angeles is preparing to
harpoon Imperial valley, San Diego is
going ahead as ever to cement more
closely the two communities INTO one.
Los Angeles has for months been
attempting to raise a fund for buildin 9
is highway, and the utter indifference
Of the people of that city to the in
terror has been again manifest in the
failure - raise a funu of any conSe
quence, but san D.ego raised its money
even before the fact was made pubi.;
mat it intended to do so, and for weeks
lis men and teams have been busy in
actual road building
Imperial county has met San Die >
in a responsive manner, and has raised
q fund by special tax with which 20
meet the san Diego road Work en-
.,rns will be begun at once, leading
from Dixieland to Coyote Wells.
his work will be under the direct
supervision Of r. Ii. Clara, supervise"
Of the Second district, who stated tha:
1t will be pushed as rapiuy as posi-
ule. Mr.. Clark viii go to Los Angeles
at once to buy the necessary equi )
lnent with which to DO this work, and
which will include an oil tamper, as
fCur miles of the new road will be run
through heavy sann and will be an OH
tamped road
This will be the first piece of road
TO be laid in this manner in the val
ley, anu C.. n. Perry, county surveyor.
IS Of the opinion thai it will prove sat
lsIactory. Mr. Perry said this morn
ing that while this method of road
building was entirely Few 10 the valley,
and therefore must be regarded as
more or less Of aa experiment, oil
tamped roaus have prove very sue d.
cessful in various localities near Los
Angeles. and he could see no reason
why they should not stand up as wall
here.
In constructing this kind Of road
The surface is broken up to a depth Of
about eight inches. the tamper is then
put on. Oil is forced down 10 the bot
tom Of the oosened soil and the lamp
ing begins about eight or nine incne.
below the line where the finished SUI
face will lie. This process is repea.e /
ever and over. the oil peing continual
~ forced below the surface and tn,
hampers making everything solid be-
low until finally the surface is reached
and the tamper cannot be forced into
the ground. A solid roadbed eight or
nine inches in thickness is thus bmlt
Up.
The four miles of road which will
he built in this manner will probably
cost about s25OO mile, but if it stands
up under the hard traffic which ~ll
90 over it, the county can well afforI
10 pay that price for it, The remaining
eight or nine miles can be built at an
Expense Of about $500 mile.
San Diego outfits are now working
on the link between Mountain Springs
and Coyote Wells, and are making Z
fine road through the mountains
against great odds II is estimated tn.