Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-10-30
COUNTY STANDS
HIGH IN HIGHWAY
WORK FRENCH
State Engineer Says That tx
cepting Dona Ana, Where
100000 Was Spent, Ber-
naIiIlo Is Foremost,

State Engineer james Il, French
arrived here last night en route TO
Los Lunas TO confer with Eugene
kempenich, chairman OF. the Valen-
oia county commissioners in regard
&C. road work for the winter From
there he viii go 10 Rio Pucrco 10
meet Assistant Engineer Ralph Far
well who rs in charge Of the Mckin-
lcy-NaIencia county project
Mr.. French commented fayorahly
on the work accomplished Bog The
Bernalillo county road board In the
last year. saying that the class of
highways required here could not be
built for little money Like nearly
an counties In the river valley ma
terial has TO be- hauled some dia.
lance from the place where work is
under way.
isicta Road important.
"rhs of necessity. said Mr..
French. makes road building rather
oxpensive--more expensive Than ~
the eastern and western parts ~ the
state This class ol work costs from
S1,S00 to $500 "A mile in Dona Ana
county. Another item that Increases
the cost in Bcrnailllo county is the
crossings for irrigation bitches, nu'
merous in farming communities.
IN road construction Bcrnaillo
ranks next to Dona Ana whore more
than 500. 0O0 has been spent in the
last year. Mr. French said, answering
a question as 10 how the work in this
county compares with that in others.
Splendid and extensive work has been
done in this county with the small
fund available, he said
Speaking Of progress on the Albu-
auerque- Islcta route, Mr.. French said
that the work was being pushed
ahead satisfactoriy to his office. This
stretch he said is a highly import
ant link m the Albuquerquc-Gallup
road and alao an important connee-
ton to the Canine Real This work
Is permanent
10 Jcmcl by Christmas.
This stretch viii have to bear the
heaviest traffic Of any road IN the
state, in the engineers opinion. MS
estimate Of the cost is $4,000, The
state is doing the work IN return Tor
several mule teams traded by the
county road board.
Road progress in this county, ae-
cording to the engineer Is most no.
tlceablc on the North Fourth street
road. This was hardly passable for
automobile traffic u year ago.
He also summarized the work on
the Atbuquerque-J emez Springs high
way. the improvement of which was
strongly agitatcd by Albuquerque and
Jemoz Springs and for which this
city and Jemcz Springs contributed
money. The state is taking hand IN
this work, Mr. French having agreed
with the county road board that the
state would begin construction on the
sandy stretch, i've miles long, beyond
Corrales. provided the county put the
road in passablc shane from Ala
media, across the Alameda bridge, IN
the direction OF Corrales. to the SAN
doval county line. This work is beins
pushed and. according to Mr. French,
bv Christmas. Jemez SPRINGS will be
an easy automobile trip from this
city
Surprised at Work in Canyon.
Two weeks ago MIR, French visited
the proposed sites for two bridges
in Tiieras canyon, to be built by the
county road board. to determine the
size and type Of the structures need
ed lie had read in newspapers 81
the work done on this road, hut he
said he was greatly surprised when
ne made made the trip at the great
amount of work that had been done
by the county and forest service
lie referred to the crawling OF the
road from the }arelas bridge to South
Second street and on south second
Ia the city limits as nice piece of
work.
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