Bisbee daily review., 1914-04-10
ROAD BUILDING HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED
 AT COST REDUCTION
SAVING PER MAN ON DOUGLAS BIsBEE LINK OF HIGHWAY
 IS 27 CENTS PER DAY

Thus far the cost of repairing and remaklng the Douglas Blsbee link or the sta.e highway has been fi5,54S.03 of which s6,s0S.sS was expended dur ing the month of March. A copy Of the monthly statement to the State Engineers office has just been re- ceived and shows interesting figures relative to the cost of the work.
 Since the establishing of the camp the cost of maintainance of prisoners and teams has shown steady reduc. ton. In March 'the cost per prisoner per day was reduced 21 cents from $1.37 to s1.16 and per prisoner on out side work from s1.92 to s1.65 or 27 cents per day per man. At the same time the cost per team per day was reduced from s1.99 to sl.sO. Gen erally greater degree of efficiency and at a reduced cos, is shown. If the state now paid the cost of guards as 1t did in the earlier days when the Tempe bridge work was underway this cost per prisoner would be still further reduced bW the wages of guards are now charged againss the county's proportion of the state road fund instead of paid by the prison ac. count as was done in the bridge con. struction.
 Surfacing work has been the main item of expenditure during the moneh of February and totals s4S59.69. The gravel top dressing cost s4499 and the slag purchased at 75 cents per cubic yard cost si,S24.O0 and 1850 lineal feet, 25025 square yards of surface has been laid
 The total cost of repairing the road at Calumet has been S1297.S2 and the expense of establishing the camp or iginally was s1O2s.s9 The work from Forest east is charged with s63i2.to of which only s706.56 was incurred dur ing the month of March. The recaoi tulation for cost of surfacing ui.h gravel and slag adds s4S79.69 to the total and the item of bridges and cul Nerts, such work being completed prior to March 1st adds si462.5S and these are the largest Rems of expense When it is considered that this ex pense Is all for repair and rebuildins one who studies the figures becomes convinced that the building of req roads is costly in Arizona just as | Is in New York where '.he laying o maeadam payements Is costing from Sl2.0O0 to sli,000 per mile and iron Sl,OOO to s2,000 in addition for the up keep of such paved roads and wher, the governor has recently advocate, the employment of convicts 'o manu lecture vitrihed brick as a suosltut, Tor the present methods employed.
 Within few days the March repo- on the Bisbee-Tombstone link may b, expected when an interesting rscapi tulatlon of Nthe expenditures of stat funds for highways in this county ca, be obtained. This year Cochise Is oh taining not only the 75 per cent O the amount the county contribute, Dus ls iuTtner receiving share iron the general state road fund created |, the remaining 25 per cent from all O the counties of the state and as
 result is obtaining more extensiv highway building than any other set ton of the state. Such work is praC ucaliy all directly tributary to nispe and 1t was made possible through tn
 enor;s of the Warren District Con
 mercial Club. which headed off th
 efforts to turn the highway from. 1,
 stead of through Bisbee and ty c, operation with the state authorize
 brought a harmony that was absolut. | " indispensable for the success of th
 project.