The border vidette., 1917-03-31
ENGINEER LARlMORe BUSY.
Work on County Roads Being Pushed
 Rapidly as Possible.

County Engineer Larimore has
 finished work oD the Washing
 ton Duquesne road to connect
 with the new bridge, ana this week has commenced work on the Patagonia road, says the PatagOnian. Two crews are to
 be employed, one at Bloxton, to
 work towards the place where
 the new road had been complet-
 ed this side, of the river, the
 other from Sonoita to work to.
 wards Patagonia. When the
 crew at BlOxton has connected
 the work from that place to the
 new road, it will turn towards
 Patagonia. The. engineer says
 he expects to have a good road
 all the way from Rain Valley
 through Patagonia to Nogales n
 as soon a time as good work will
 permit. It. now looks as though
 the prediction made by Mir. Lar
 imore several weeks. ago, that
 this road would be completed by
 the last of July will be fulfilled.
 Road work in this county has
 now reached the point where i5
 will necessarily be slower and
 more expensive than any here
 tofore built. In the neigh borhood of Bloxton and on towards Pata gOnia is a rough, mountainous country, and from Sonoita this
 way, especially in the vicinity of Mir. AShburn'S ranch, is another hard piece of road that will re- quire conSiderab ble work There is a possibility that the route may be changed at Flux canyon, below Patagonia, so as to go over the hills and keep away from the river. Hope is also express ed that the road below Sonoita may be so changed as to avoid going under the railroad tracks, which at present is one of the | most dangerous roads in the | State. Nothing definite is known about these proposed changes, however, further than that the Supervisors and the county en- gineer have them under consid- | eration.
 Bids for building the road Hellgate canyon to con- nect the Gro Blanco country with Nogales. will be received, but it is not believed the road can be built for S20,OOO, the specified in the call for bids. This sum may be expend- ed in repairing the old road, in case contractors are unwilling to attempt to build the short cut for that figure. There is an other little matter of about $2O,- poo which may come out of the bond issue of $15O,O0O, and which seldom enters into road calculations. It is the seve- ral thousand dollars over esti- mated cost of the new bridge and the interest and cost of sale of | the bonds.
 The Supervisors want it un- derstood they have no intention, and never had any intention, of ab abandoning the old road through the great HarShaw mining coun try. A notice having reference to proposed new road to con- nect with the San Rafael valley road, was errOneously posted in JIl0 WIOI1S pIdC0, CuuS CduSIuS many to believe the old Har- shaw Mowry road was to be 3 abandoned.
 The matter of bridges has not been decided upon, but it will probably be necessary to built a few in this part of the county. Bridges, however small, cost lot of money. It may be for this reason talk of their construction $ avoided. But if the full benefit 0f the new roads is to be enjoyed the rainy season as we'll as in fair weather, bridges or culvertS will have to be built n several places. The crossing ust out of Patagonia, on the road, where the late Walter Furtune lost his life, is he most conspicuous need of a bridge in this part of the coun- ". It is feared that unless this crossing is bridged, the county nay sometime lose another II S-o-1,ie@r l