Arizona sentinel Yuma southwest., 1915-11-25

efn California, Judge J.aM lThacker, chairman of the
 good roads advisory commits
 sion, has returned to Yuma,
 and this morning submitted
 the following report to the
 supervisors and advisory com mission:
 Yuma, Ariz., Nov. P, 1915.
 To the Supervisors Eland Advisory
 % mission, Yuma, Arizona. G z fGentlemen: sS tEs S < t k Sc much has been printed and saic len boths sides et talepfessnt county
 highway problems and so many un-
 truthful statements have been made
 about the class of pavement decided Pupoh that I think it my duty at this Ftfme to make public the results of an Einv estigatit6$n3 I have recently made in tLos Angeles and Orange counties, Cal. tffornia. 7-i3 y sI1' a' 9iHHz 9''j l3
 Before going into details I will sum Pupo the results of my trip by saying that I carefully inspected 250 miles
 of state, county and city highways in | the two counties named. This includ-
 ed 'Warrenfte, concrete, oiled 'macad-
 an, Topeka, Aioso and a few. miles of dirt road and I can honestly say that
 the Warrenite was so far superior to i the others as to be almost beyond
 comparison Tn the two counties l found many miles of Warrenite rang ling in age from three to eight years
 and I did not find a single inch that
 showed any signs of wear nor did ! Hind a place where a five cent piece had been spent for maintenance or irepairs. On the other hand founo 1 that an almost continuous mainte-
 nance is required on the oil surface concrete and the oiled macadanh Of these two last named found the oil ed 1naca dam to be in far better state
 Of repair than the concrete. The only piece of road I found that was in poorer shape of repair than the con crete state highway was short stretch of dirt road between Fuller
 ton and Pomona.
 Certain specific charges have been r. telegraphed into Yuma from California engineers, that think should also be discussed. One, telegram to Mir Car dthers which was printed in the Yuma papers said that concrete would bridge over fills and ~Warrehite5 would not Tn Orange county I rode over several fills both large, and small, where con crete roads only six months old had
 been built and in every instance where tie fill had settled few inches the concrete had shattered. In fact not
 far from Fullerton found a place
 where the concrete had cracked and
 shattered on a fill and the road had
 been strengthened and reinforced by ten or fifteen yards of Warrenite. On
 the other hand I found a number of places where JWarrenfte was laid on fills that had settled slightly and in i every case the Wafrenite surface had i Followed the earth, with the result that there were no: cracks and the1 road was in perfect condition except for slight depression. o@ 993h H1 4
 Another telegram to MT. Caruthers was from Mir Joyner, engineer of Los ! Angeles county, in which MT Joyner stated that he knew of a Warrenite road, three miles long in Los Angeles county, laid on soil similar to that in Yuma valley and that the road was in bad condition after three years of me- 7dium traffic I made every effort to see Mr.s Joyner, but after. he learned 1 over the telephone the object of my visit he seemed to avoid me How ever wien he was asked over the tel
 ephone to give the location of the three miles of bad Warrenite men, toned in his telegram to MT. Caru- thers, he replied that it was near Long Beach and was a part of the | main Los rAngeles-Long Beach high way which is subjected to exceed ingly heavy automobile and truck traffic. When questioned over the phone regarding this stretch of road
 Mr. Joyner. replied that it was three [ fifths of a mile long instead of three miles. He also admitted that the pavement was Aloso, not Warrenite, Aloso, have learned, is a surface as nearly like Warrenite as can be laid without infringing on the Warren brothers patents, The stretch of Lorg : Beach highway in, question was laiti