The copper era and Morenci leader., 1913-12-05

] the contractors without extra com l pensat1on, the contractors be
 ing present and agreeing to same Also that two mine tunnels be tim
 bered and walled to straighten out
 alignment. .'
 Respectfully submitted,
 Signed: H. O. TUNIS,
 County Surveyor
 This recommendation was acted
 upon favorably by the Board, but
 nave never seen at any time a copy or this recommendation drawn up and signed by both Board and con- tractors, unless a signed agreement has been made very recently I feel certain that none exists This re- presents quite a large change in the work upon the Metcalf road and it is the poorest sort of business to al low such changes to be made with out an agreement signed by both the Board and contractors.
 You will notice that one of the changes was the cutting out of a wall 135 feet long at station 30 It is contended by the Board of Super vlsors that every change has result ed in benefit to the road. The roadbed at station 30 is composed en- tirely of disintegrated granite and it
 
 1 the road bed is barely 12 feet in width at present. It is very essential that this part of the road be protected or 1t will keep cutting away till a wagon cannot get over it. The recommend ation states that this wall be cut out in order to straighten out the align ment of the road. In truth, if this wall were put in, the road could not be made straighter along here. Inc finished the Metcalf road will be bet ter than the original plans called for, and contrary to your statement will containmore walls than originally called for.
 I am unable to understand how these men have arrived at either of these conclusions. The original plan for this road was to put in IS foot corrugated iron pipes, in fact the specifications say that all culvert pipes shall be IS feet long. There is not an IS foot culvert pipe on the road, all being 16 feet long, These 16 foot pipes are being put in place and walled up, though the contrac- tors and county surveyors attention has been called to the wrong At least 30 of these pipes were in place before I discovered the discrepancy. Because of the shortness of these pipes the catch basins called for have been constructed in many instances, out in the road bed. Can this be called an improvement over the orig inal when the IS foot pipe would have thrown the catch basins back off | the road?
 If you refer back to the agreement i quoted verbatum above, pertaining to 1 cutting out certain walls you will ob- serve that walls mentioned here are | cut out and three new ones put in. ] To these I can add the one at sta | tion 143 ordered cut out by the sur veyor, and that at station 80. 80 which may never be built. This gives 10 i walls that have been cut out and 1 three small walls built. By what pro- then that there will be more walls if seven of the original number is taken away?
 There are, to my knowledge, three | bad walls upon the Metcalf road and . two of these were built before I took up the work of inspection on | June 1st. These two walls are two of the three built under the agree ment mentioned previously. The l station 131. 50 and was condemned because of the fact that it did not contain enough ''headers,'' that is, stones large enough to have a suffi- cient foot hold in the body of the wall.
 The Board has asserted that you have made the statement that iron pipes have been substituted for con- crete culverts upon the Metcalf road.
 Nhe Board is wrong in contending l. so, because the Metcalf road is not mentioned as having been changed.
 Morenci Road. |
 The only concrete culvert on this road is about 200 feet from the be- ginning and the approach to it is held up by a concrete retaining wall This retaining wall has a guard rail running along it which was not call ed for in the original plans. The surveyor made a verbal agree nent q don't think it was ever act ed upon by the Board to give the contractor $12O for putting this rail along the wall; The actual cost of the material plus the cost of placing it could not have been more than s57. 50, showing that profit of $62 50 pr 109 per cent was made upon this 1eaI When the question of changing rom concrete culverts to corrugated pipes on this road was first brought ID, the objection to concrete culverts vas not because they were on sharp curves but as the county surveyor explained to me, because of the fact hat the draws or canons in which hese culverts were to be built would De filled up with waste earth and 'ock When these changes were made it was agreed that the contract ,r was to substitute one corrugated ron pipe 1 feet in diameter in each If Burro and Soto canons and one pipe 3 feet in diameter in the lower evel of Horse Trail canon, all to be ,O feet in length. This change was 70 advertised in the Copper Era of Oct. 3, 1913.