Imperial Valley press., 1912-01-18
STATE HIGHWAYS QUARTERS
ARE TO Be OPENED SOON

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 1S-Within a
few days the California highway COM
mission will open headquarters in the
Union Oil building, and the state high
way work in this end of the state will
be directed from there. W. l.. Clark
will be division engineer here.
! Numerous surveying parties will be
put in the field as soon as men and
instruments can be brought together,
and various proposed routes will be
surveyed to determine the most prac-
tical. The exact route for the whole
system cannot be announced until
these surveys are completed.
Active construction work on the
state highway system, however, will
be started in various parts of the
state the coming spring. or early sum-
mer.
The state has been divided into
seven divisions by the state highway
commission, with headquarters and a
division engineer in each, and the
surveying and construction work will
be directed actively from these divi-
sion headquarters. These divisions
are as follows:
Seven Divisions Defined
First division, the north coast dis
trict-Del Monte, Humboldt, Mendo-
cino and Lake counties, with head
quarters at Willis. F. G. Lowner, di-
vision engineer.
Second division, the northern inte-
rior region-Siskiyou Modoc, Lassen,
Trinity, Shasta and Tehama counties,
of nII A
Bedford, division engineer.
Third division, Sacramento valley,
lower San Joaquin valley and north
central mountain region-Plumas,
Butte. Glenn. Colusa, Sutter, Yuba,
Sierra, Nevada, Placer, Yolo, Solano,
Sacramento El Dorado, Amador, AL
pine, ,CalaVeras, San Joaquin, Stanis-
Iaus and Tuolumne counties, with
headquarters at Sacramento, where
the state headquarters also are To-
Gated w. c. Howe, division engineer.
Fourth division, the bay district
Napa. SonOma, Marin, Contra Costa,
Alameda. San MateO, San Francisco,
Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties,
| with headquarters at San Francisco.
A. e. Loder, division engineer.
Fifth division, central coast dis
trict-San Benito, Monterey, San Luis
, Obispo and Santa Barbara counties,
with headquarters at San Luis Obispo.
w. S. Caruthers. division engineer.
Sixth division, San Joaquin and Ow-
ems River valleys-Merced, Mariposa,
Mono, MADEIRA, Fresno, Kings, Tulare,
Kern and Inyo counties, with head
quarters at Fresno. J. B. Woodscn,
division engineer.
Seventh district, Southern Califor-
nia-Los Angeles, Ventura San Ber-
nardino. Orange, Riverside, San Diego
and Imperial counties, with headqulr-
terS in Los Angeles. w. l.. Clark, di-
vision engineer.
The state commission practically
has completed its preliminary inspec-
tiOn of the entire state, with the eX-
ceptiOn of few mountain counties
that will have to be left until sum-
mer.
The various counties are practically
unanimous in their offers to provide
the needed rights of way and bridges
where necessary for the state system,
and this simplities the task of the
state commission to considerable
extent
Problem Simpler Here
This is of greater importance in
the northern part of the state than in
the southern, for down here compar-
atively little new right of way will
be necessary. and many bridges al.
ready are built
1t is yet impossible, of course, fo2
the commission to estimate how long
the building of the system will re-
quire. for which the state has voted
100000 in bonds, but it is hoped
to have enough completed by 1915 to
allow tourists to enter the state and
go to the San Francisco exposition by
automobile
The Los Angeles division headquar-
ters will occupy suite of four Offices
on the ninth floor of the Union Oil
building. In addition to Mr. Clark,
n. D. Darlington, one of three COM
missioners, will put in most of his
time in these Offices when not absent
in other parts of the state on highway