Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-09-20
|Y[[ND|D PIECE
| 0F SCENIC ROAD
/ IS BEING BUILT
cate Engineer and Santa Fe
C County Road Commissioner
Doing Wonders in Construc-
tiOn Near Capital,


santa Fe. Sept. ls.--one Oh me IN
SUI e.s ~ mountain highway Is be-
- huilt between Santa re and TH-
~ asue forming part of the state high
a. 10 Taos The work u being done
va var the direction OF state Engineer
s ,au'es a. French and upon orders OF
a.'sd Roads Commissioners Arthur Sc
en- ssa,au and is merely a part OF an ex-
.'as,ve good roads campaign for
'a.b Mr. seligman has been accumu-
nling funds
rns new roadway reduces the max
-, grade from fourteen 10 eight
csnt and sweeps up the steep in
H.. from the Tesuque valley at a
sa,,ruous width of % IL feet. The
sssvIast loads from the fertile valleys
.ha north can now be brought into
ssn,s Re without difficulty and the
sn,o,nobiles bound for the Espanola
ssllev the Indian villages and the
',,,f dwellings find this new roadway
rerltable speedway.
Permanent Work.
Care has been taken to make this
permanent highway. The drainage
hss been taken care of on each side
n ,he road. while waters from the
s'aehills are carried under IN. road
= galvanized pipes Of ample capa-
7. e,v and protected AT inlet and outlet
~ concrete aprons. The Tesuque
liver and the Arroyo Mascarenas at
santa Fe. both troublesome streams
aurInp rains. will he bridged with
arIdges resting on piles driven twenty
four feet into the sand. Across other
arroyos concrete crossings will he
huut The road Is being surfaced TO
,he depth of eight inches and will be
- nassable during wet weather as
when II is dry. State Engineer James
4 French is having photographs tax
On Of the old and the new roads side
nv side TO demonstrate graphically
what scientific road building can ac-
complsh in New Mexico as against
haphazard construction.
selIgman. who had been criticised
for not spending good roads funds as
fast as they were received, is now
moving that il Is much better for
taxpayers and those who use the roads
10 make permanent improvements and
ID accumulate funds until they are
sufficiently large to permit the work to
be Systematically, scientifically and
efficiently done. q road camp is
maintained in a tented village ana
Carl Teter an, expert road builder, Is
in charge.
several Gangs at Work.
Two other gangs are at work on
this royal highway to Taos. one OF
them has already cleared out the
roadway between Nambe and 20
loaoue so that 1t is in better condition
Than il ever has been in the $40 years
that il has been travelled. The other
gang is at work near san lldefonso
SOFAS TO make the road to the cliff
dwellings, a speedway that will ena-
BILE tourists TO reach the cliff dwell
ings in two hours from Santa Fe.
As the tourists win also pass the
Indian villages of Tesuque and llde-
fonso ON this road, as well as the fer
tile fields and orchards OF Tesuque'
Cuyumungue and many notable land-
marks in addition to enhancing views
Of mountains, cliffs and canyons, II
will become the most Travelled hien-
way in the southwest. Even now, II
Is the most travelled road in Santa re
county. not only by tourists but also
by farmers who haul their produce 10
market or bring in supplies from tne
city, for the road is the key TO tne
Espanola and Taos valleys with 6V'-
900 and more inhabitants.
Other Highways.
Mr. Seligman also has a squad OF
forty men at work on the 90 uel
Vaca road. An appropriation OF S2oe
az well as the use of men working ou'
their road tax enables MarCelinO A
Garcia, who is in direct charge of the
work, to build a fine scenic highway
that is at the same time useful TO
large native rural population. Anotn'
er road gang is doing similar work II
the southern part of the county, Sc
that every section is receiving bene
fits from the policy of accumulaiihs
$4,000 in the good roads fund and ex
pending il under the scientific super
vision of the state engineer.
OF this sum, $500 is to be use'
to repair the bridge over the Galisteo
Of which one pier recently gave way
making ii impossible. gang 0
ten men is cleaning the rocks out
the Scenic highway up Santa re can
yon and building new bridges, so ina
Commissioner Seligman was able yes
terday to make the trip up the graz
beyond Monument Rock from the CIT
In forty-five minutes, making IN
downhill ride Of ten miles in apou
half the time in his automobile. IN
scenic highway is unsurpassed 10
grandeur and scenic beauty IN IN
southwest and is to be complete
some day all the way to the Peco
or q a 4.