The copper era and Morenci leader., 1917-03-16

Information was received in Cliff ton this week from the office of the District Forester, at Albuquerque, stating that N. O. Powell, Highway En gineer for the Forestry Department assigned to this work from the office o1 Public Roads at Washington, would arrive in Clifton the latter part of this month and begin the work of survey ing the Clifton-Springerville Forest Highway on April 1.
 The surveying corps will consist of approximately twenty-five men and supplies have been contracted for and delivery ordered to be made at Met calf not later than April 1. Judging from the number that will be in the engineering corps the survey will probably be divided into sections and the work completed in the shortest space of time possible.
 The MogoIIon Road.
 Indications accumulated this week that the Clifton-Mogollon cutoff road connecting Clifton with the Mogollon mining district in New Mexico will soon be assured. AS previously stat ed in these columns the final decision to build this road has depended up- on the favorable action of the Socorro Mines & Milling Company. The con sulting engineer of this company is MT. Rowland Cox who has just con cluded a visit to Mogollon where he investigated the feasibility and ad- vantages of the new proposed road. After concluding his investigation at Mogollon, in conjunction with MT Wheelock, General Manager of the company, a, conference between MT. Cox and MT. Norman Carmichael, General Manager of the Arizona and New Mexico Railway, was arranged at Fl Paso Mr. Carmichael left Friday morning for Fl Paso to keep the ap- pointment and on Friday evening the following telegram was received:
 Night Letter.
 Fl Paso, Tex, Mar. 16, 1917. w. B. Kelly,
 Pres. Greenlee Co.Chamber Commerce
 Clifton, Arizona.
 Have had a very satisfactory inter- view with MT. Rowland Cox, Consult ing Engineer of The Socorro Mines & Milling Co.,, regarding the proposed highway between Greenlee county and the Mogollon district. He promises to give the proposition his earnest support and anticipates a favorable decision by his Board of Directors within two weeks.
 
 NORMAN CARMICHAEL
 State Highway.
 Clifton was visited this week by Hon. Lamar Cobb, State Engineer, on a trip of inspection over the state highway now under construction be- tween Clifton and Solomonville. The new state highway has been complet- ed to the Gila river, just above Gil lard Hot Springs, and is passable for automobiles this distance, although the bridges over the A. & N. M. and Morenci Southern Railways, are not yet in place The honor prison camp was this week moved across the river and the guard camp brought from Graham county and a consolida- tion of the two camps effected with about one hundred men. A gap of ten miles remains to be constructed or the south side of the river and it is expected this will be completed by August l. Funds for the construction of the bridge across the Gila ha . been provided for by recent legisla- tive enactment. The bridge will be of steel construction and will have a single span of 312 feet, and five hun dred feet long from end to end. The bridge is estimated to cost approxi- mately sixty thousand dollars. The distance from Solomonville to Clifton, over the new state highway will be thirty-siX miles.