Bisbee daily review., 1912-01-09
South is Left Out

 ain. near Prescott.
 South is Left Out
 The transconunental highway will not traverse the southern part of the territory, as at present planned though Fl Paso will be a dot on it. The road strikes the Arizona New Mexico line. in Cocorro county, and thence goes west, touching at Cliff ton, SolCmOnvile, Globe the Roose- welt dam, Phoenix and Yuma. Forty miles of this road in Arizona. the east and west highway. have been constructed by the territory, and sixty by the federal government, fnak- ing loo in all
 As 10 how this road will ba f. nanced, Mir Grand says this will be decided at Washington, January 16 when the state legisl1~'ve commit teemen from all states. attached to she national highway association, will meet and suggest d plan for fnacing the construction of the road The plan favored by Mir Grand is for the federal government to give aid to the different states.
 In this connection, it is of interest that Mir. Girand lavors bonding the territorial highway instead Of rais- ing money for it's construction by direct taxation, as hls been done in Arizona, owing 10 the unpopularity of the direct taxation plan.
 MT. Grand was asked what plans the territorial engineering depart meut had for the further construc- ton Of the CoChisa county section of the north and south highway T have no plans for further highway work, he replied We have so little time left before Inc state ad- ministration takes hold that we deem it best ito leave the projection of new work to them"
 Tells of Work Done
 Asked for a resume of the work done so far on the territorial high way, Mir Girand made the following 
 The north and south highway from the <-}rand Canyon to Douglas is 559 miles long, and though it is far from completed, the road is now passable its entire length except for a short distance in the Bradshaw mountains, which, if work is contin- ued as at present should be fin ished by the first of June, unless, of course, there happens to be too much snow on the ground up around Flagstaff The east and west road from Clifton to Yuma is 432 miles long, and is all negotiable by an au- though much of it has yet had no work done, and it is not an ideal thorOughfare. This. with the single exception of crossing the Gila river at San Carlos, which is now precarious, and depends on the stage l of the river A bridge will have to be built there before the road is l a finished and satisfactory project | The total length of both roads is | J91 miles. almost an even thousand .
 On the north and south road . the work has been finished on 104 ! miles of the 5j9 miles, 415 miles is | of passable natural roads or roads . that have been previously built, | while the section in tt. Bradshaw mountains that is atin impossible . Is about fourteen miles long, twelve ] miles of it on Silver mountain being . heavy work, and the entire forty | mile section being north from the | base of Silver mountain. Work is i. now going on there rapidly, and . should be finished by June l by the | next administration It will be ready . for the coming summer travel. The . 104 miles of constructed road on . this highway include the following . sections. From Douglas to Bisbee. . twenty-two miles; from Tucson east, l fifteen mNSF; from Tucson toward | Florence twenty miles; through the | Salt River valley ustween Tempe . ana Glendale, twelve miles; south . from Prescott twenty miles; between i Prescott and Flagstaff fifteen miles . total, one houndTed and four miles. I Not all the rest will have to be l tuilt, for much of it is already a 1 well improved road, although much | or it will need some work to make | it what it should be.
 On the east and west highway. be- ! ginning at Yuma, one hundred and . sixty of the one hundred and eighty