The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-06-17
GOVERNOR SAYS THE
SANJUANC COUNTRY
IS MARVEL Of
FERTILITY
Executive and State Engineer
Make Trip Through North
west Section in Record.
Breaking Time.
PEOPLE TO
BUILD GOOD ROADS
Automobile Communication 70
Be of Value to County and
State in Helping Develop
ment of Rich Region.

Governor w G.. Mcdonald was In
Albuquerque fOT half AN hour this
morning. returning home from u fly
ing trip 60 san Juan county. taken
with state Engineer James a.
French Mr.. French Is ON his way to
Albuquerque from Gallup with e. g.
Manning OF the Mckinley county
road board. inspecting the route of
the Los Lunas-Gallup road which
the state highway commission is
building.
Governor Mcdonald and the state
engineer made "a record breaking trip
into the san Juan country. The
round trip by the railroads is six
dana of constant travel Lcaving
Santa Fe saturday night. the gov
ornor went To Gallup who're an au-
tomObile was whiting, and sunday
morning the drive was made to
Pennington over the i00-miic stretch
~ plains country Tho Eovcrno Wis
tied Pennington. Aztec. Fruitiand
and other sections ~ ne "a Juan
valley aud says ne has had his eyes
opened. IL was his first Visit To the
county.
The richness OF this San Juan
country cannot De oycrcstimatcd,
said the governor his morning. Il
had cen skeptical concerning some
of The reports Of It's land and water
resources. but I have been con-
WINGED. The land is splendid and
there Is plenty OF u. The water sup
ply is abundant for the irrigation OF
literally hundreds OF thousands of
acres. and when funds have been
Found Tor financing the expensive
construction necessary FOR diversion
and storage and some Of the water
right tangles have been Strengthened
out his san Juan county cuuntr, BE-
going To- be- one ot the most fertile
in the world.
The people Vp there are eager TO
get into commercial touch with the
res 81 the state. They realize the
Importance of this 10 their develop
ment. and lacking immediate pros
poet for a railroad they have deter
mined 20 build roads Their most
feasible plan 10 10 build down To-
Gallup IN the santa Re and this
probably viii be done. We cannot
Interrupt tho settled plans Of the
highway commission for finishing the
trunk ines OF the tate. Go aid much
In this work. ! wish we had money
enough To go in there and build
them the roads they need and which
viii mean 80 much 20 their develop
mcu' and 10 that OF the state But
We must complete the work we have
in hand before we undertake any
other big projects, and this work in
san Juan county Involves one
struight-away stretch of "a hundred
miles through undcyclopcd aud 10 "a
extent u"nproductiye country.
II think tho san Juan county
people are going t. build that road
without waiting for any considerable
help from the state They under-
satnd the conditions under which tho
highway commission b. working and
ready 10 help themselves. Ia this
work they viii have very inn
port-nt cooperation from Indian
Agent shelton Of the navajo agency
al S%hiprock Mr.. shelton has asked
the gc "rumcnt "a give material aid
10 the work and has shown it's inn
pcrtance. With his help and the en-
thusiastic co-qpcrntion Of the people
! look for "a nrst-class automobile
road from Gallup 10 tho san Juan
within the year. In the
meantime they are building their
roads within the county. putting iu
bridges and generally getting In FIRST
class shape Tor the large develop
ment certain Ia come 20 a region of
such marvellous resources"