Bisbee daily review., 1916-01-30
CONNECTS WILL STAY
 FUR SIX WEEKS UPON ROADS IN THIS COUNTRY
Through Efficient Cooperation of Supervisors, Chamber of
 Commerce and County En- gineer, More Work is Had.

Through the united efforts of the board of supervisors, Messrs Johnson, Rock and Sparks, the Warren District Commercial Club, County Engineer Ryan, the Tombstone Chamber of Commerce and numerous individuals, the state engineers office and Gov ernor Hunt have consented to allow the force of convicts at work in Tombstone Canyon to continue work at least six weeks longer before they are transferred to Maricopa county.
 The present work to the top of the Divide will not take longer than ten days to complete and only part of the men will be used at that so that tomorrow will see a part of the men at work on the other side of the Divide between the canyon and the Extension. The surveyors were at work yesterday morning setting the grade stakes so that the work 'could be started The steam shovel gang will complete the surfacing of the present road and will have. that com pleted within a few days so that the road will be completed from Bisbee to the top of the Divide between the canyon and the Bisbee Extension
 During the past week part of the new road that was open to the pub lie was closed on account of it not De
 ing thoroughly packed and the traf
 tic was cutting deep ruts in it. It has been dragged and put in shape and will be thrown open to the>pub- lie again within a few days. The last bridge across the creek is about completed, the guard rails being put in yesterday and it will require but day or so to fill in the approaches so that it can be used.
 The board of supervisors has been busy since the storm in having the road gangs out at work and dragging and putting in shape the roads that weer dams sed by the storm
 Supervisor Vance Johnson has been busy seeing that the work was proper ly attended to in the Warren District and with the assistance of County SuperintenC ent Ryan has kept the roads leading into Bisbee and the bal ance of the Warren District in good shape. The road to Hereford has been gone over with a heavy drag and is now in excellent shape The danger curve at the railroad crossing just this side of Hereford was called to his attention attention and with County Engineer Ryan will see that part of the danger is removed ty the raising of the outside edge Of ths road some eight or ten inches and the placing of a danger sign this side of the curve at a sufficient distance so that a machine will have time to slow down before hitting the curve. MT. Johnson is not overlooking any of the interests of the Warren DistriSt in matters that pertain to them anl is always or the lookout to secur everything possible for its interests.
 Supervisor John Rock has beel busy in the western end of the couI-- ty and has had the gangs out at wor on the road from Tombstone to Giec- son and Courtland and west of th. County Seat toward the Pima coun, 7 line. The northern end of the count the road gang there has been at wor-7 dragging the roads and before the chi of next week most of the roads Of the county will have been gone over b. one of the road gangs. The dragging of the Central Highway from Dougla has started and is being worked or from several different points and will soon be in good shape again. This work is being looked after by Assist ant County Engineer Kimer and he will stay with the job until it is cor 1 pleted.
 4 gang will be put at work between | Pearce and Courtland and Cochise to ! put that road in shape as it has been ! damaged much more than any other | road in the county.
 The state highway between Bisbec |. and Douglas. which was cut up some ]. is being put in good shape and sev- eral gangs are out with scrapers. The q state department, through Engineer Ryan, has just received three new lrags which are an improvement over the old ones in that they have three sets of blades instead of two.
 The board has authorized County Assessor Hughes to collect the road taxes in February from the various in the county so that there vii lbe sufficient fu1-s in the road funds to keep going the many i'm provements they have planned.
 The present board has completed more substantial work in the county . than any other board in the matter of building good roads. This is prov en by the fact that but very little . damage was done by the heavy rain | and snow storm. 4 number of the ! roads were put in soft condition on account Of their not being sufficiently 1. packed to withstand the heavy fall Of