The border vidette., 1915-08-14
ENGINEER MAKES REPORT
Board of Supervisors Approved Road
 Bond Proposition.

At the meeting of the Board of Supervisors held on August 3rd, the honorable body accept ed the preliminary report of all county roads surveyed by En- gineer H. Gordon Glore, as set out in the following report, and, | if the bond issue is carried and bonds sold, will expend the $15O,OOO on the roads as suggest ed in the report:
 MT. GlOre says:
 In order to ascertain which are the most important roads, it is necessary to consider. First, The amount of traffic and it's class. Second, The number or residents benefited. Third, The importance of districts geogra- phically benefited, with the re- suit, I believe, that two good roads should be built complete. One from the Pima Santa Cruz county line south through the Amado, Tubac, Palo Parade and CalaEasas districts to the end of the State Highway, about five miles north of Nogales; and from the Nogales Townsite northeasterly to Santa Cruz River, Patagonia, SOnoita, FL gin, to the county line.
 "These two roads are the main thoroughfares through Santa Cruz county, and are therefore the most important.
 "These roads have many l.s out to important settlements and districts, and should be worked upon in proportion to their re- Spective amount of traffic and population. In many instances these roads need permanent inn provement in local sections.
 Santa Cruz county is forum ate in having very good natural roads, which can be kept in re- pair very cheaply after the road bed is once formed and the prop CT water drains once made.
 A road suitable for our needs and conditions, is a sixty-foot right of way, twenty-fou foot road way, twelve feet of which is graded, crowned and finished, the remainder drains or gutters. This is usually termed single road. Nearly fifty per cent of the estimated cost of the roads is for the purpose of keeping drain water from off the road surface.
 Ut is not necessary that bridges or culvertS be built over each arroyo crossing. If such was the case, it would take near ly three miles of bridges and culverts for the roads contem- plated.
 However, it is more econom- ical in some instances, where deep arroyos are encountered, to build culverts, rather than to grade down to their bed level. I have in my estimate allowed for the grading to the level, build a retaining wall on the lower side of the road, where necessary, to prevent future cut ing, and paving all the arroyo crossings.
 II also suggest to you, and consider it more economical, that the county should build the major portion of the roads by day labor, with equipment pur- chased for that purpose. The equipment necessary for econo- mical work would consist of a. heavy tractor and roller, grad CTS, blows, scrapers, wagons, etc. If purchased, these would be of material use to the county in the future for the mainten- ance, repair, and the construc- tion of roads,"
 The following is the sum total of items for the contemplated work on the various roads: Santa Cruz River road ..... $50. 400 co Nogales Patagonia Elgin
 road. %, 0OU OO Repair Patagonia Parker
 Canyon road ad...... IS. $50 co Repair Harshaw Duquesne
 road Q, IoO. OO Repair Lochiel- -Nogeles road 4,250.O0 RepaIr Sonoita. north ...... 2, 10000 Repair Elgin, South Camille
 San Rafael road ......... 6. 800 % Repair Gro Blanco Santa
 Cruz River ropd ......... OOo.OO Machinery, tools, etc. .. G. $50. %
 Total $50, coo co
 MT. Glore says this amount he considers ample to obtain the object desired. It will pay for the permanent construction of