The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-06-22
ALFRED SAYS he is nor
RESPONSIBLE FOR THE
ROAD WORK AT ECHO

w. r. Alfred of Denver, formerly
member of the board of county COM
missioners here. but for the last two
years employed as state highway in
spector. arrived in town Wednesday
afternoon on short bushes visit, and
incidentally. to attend the commence
ment exercises at Mount ST. Scholas-
teas academy, Of which institution
his daughter, Miss Leona, is a stu
dent. Accompanied by the latter Mr.
Alfred left for home at noon today.
In speaking this morning OF the
Parkdale-C Cotopaxi road. which he mad
so large a share in building. both as
county commissioner and-highway in
spector, Mr.. Alfred said the imputa-
tion that he was responsible fer the
construction of the road below the
erade line established by the engi-
neer in the vicinity of Echo. was erro-
neous and misleading. II always in
sisted" continued Mr.. Alfred, that
ance with the engineers survey and
urged the superintendent of construc-
ton to "hue to tire line" at whatever
cost. II was my belief that the road
should be made a permanent one and
I realized that the only way to do
that was to build it high enough above
the river to prevent any possible over
flow from food waters. Another rea-
son that suggested itself for doing
the lob thoroughfy was the conviction
that when once oPened for travel IL
would be extremely difficult. IL not
impossible. to get any further appro-
priation or help from the state high
way commission Tor tne Undertaking.
'nder these circumstances we all fav-
orei a safe. fTst-class road and all
who have travelled over it will agree
that we got II. Echo WIS the point
where the two construction gangs,
working from the east and west.
came together and the desire to open
up the road TO travel for the dedica-
tion date resulted in a hurry-up eff
fort in which for a short distance the
engineer's grade stakes. were, for
some reason unknown to the super
vising authorities, ignored. That is
the only point on the entire stretch
of tTenty-three miles where there Is
the slightest danger of inundation
from the river and tire trouble there
can be remedied without great ex-
pense. in fact. the county commission
ers have a number of men at work
there now and they will get things
hxed all right" in the course of
few days.
The Parkdale-cotcpaxi road is the
crownlng achievement OF highway
building in Colorado and is destined
to become more popular with motor
lists than any other in the southern
part OF tie state on account OF its
scenic attractions and the direct rot te
of travel II opens up to the western
slope The building of this road was
irst prorounded when l was a mem
Der OF the board OF county commits
sioners about six years ago and 1 was
associated In a more or less intimate
official capacity with the undertaking
from its ineipiency to its completion.
chas. R. MeLain was an enthusiastic
supporter of the project from the be-
ginning and through his endeavors the
state highway authorities was enlist
ed in the proposition. There is no
piece OF road in Colorado that am
as much Interested in as am in the
Parkdaie- CotopaSi link Of the Rain
bow Route highway and none in which
the public will get better value in
service for the money invested"