The copper era and Morenci leader., 1917-02-16

Apache National Forest. The Board did not let the matter rest there. | When Forester Reddington called for applications under the cooperative
 plan Supervisor Dutton and County Engineer Redd appeared before the
 Forestry Department at AlbuquerquS | last October and urged the favorable consideration of the Clifton-Springer
 vile highway. Shortly after their re- 1 turn reconnaissance survey of the proposed route was made by Chief
 Engineer Powell and later his visit was followed by District Forester Req.
 dington, who after carefully investi-
 gating the proposition from every
 angle, recommended it to the Depart
 ment at Washington, and the Clifton Springerville Highway, through the 1 Apache National Forest, was the first project to be approved under the Fed eral Aid Law.
 It is difficult to fully estimate the benefits this district will derive from the building of the north and south road. Besides opening up a virgin 1 territory of many hundreds of square
 miles rich in natural resources await
 ing development the Clifton-Springer
 vile highway will be the connecting
 north and south link between two
 trans-continental auto highways, viz: The Southern National Highway and
 the Old Trails Ocean-to-Ocean High
 way and will be an inviting and enter taining side trip for tourists east and west where hunting and trout fishing, in season, can be enjoyed to the hearts
 content. That the highway will be frst-class in every respect is guaran-
 teed by the fact that the best road : engineers in the country will have
 charge of it's construction and it will
 be under federal supervision through lout.
 MogoIlon Falling in Line
 That good things as we'll as
 troubles never come singly is evidenc- ed by the following letter received last week by Secretary Bradfeld, of the Greenlee Chamber of Commerce from S. J Kidder, General Manage, of the Mogollon Mines Company at l Mogollon, New Mexico, regarding the construction of the Clifton-Mogollon
 road This is another important high way project for which the Chamber of
 Commerce and the Board of Supervis-
 CTS have been negotiating with the mine managers at Mogollon. In re-
 ply to an enquiry as to how the Mo-
 gollon 0rcEositi0n was progressing,
 NIr. Kidder writes:
 w. S. Bradfeld. Secretary, Chamber Commerce, Clifton, Arizona.
 Dear Sir
 , I am glad to see from your letter , of the 25th ult., that you are still interested in the opening up of the Clifton-Mogollon road, as well as the
 construction of your new road to , Springerville. I have forwarded a 1 copy of your letter to MT. Harry 1 Wheelock, manager of the Socorro Mining and Milling Co.,, and have asked him for an early reply, stating the attitude of his company regarding , the project.
 The directors of our company have
 already taken action in the matter | and have authorized sufficient money
 to go ahead with the project in case r we can get the Socorro Mining and : Milling Company to appropriate a l like amount.
 sI will be glad to advise you at once l on hearing from the Socorro Mining and Milling Company. Should any, I thing new come up in Clifton in re- gard to the road I would be very f glad to hear from you regarding it. , The writer remembers with pleas ) ure his trip to Clifton last spring and WOulQ llh6 to see lhe TOdu lTOlu Slil- , ton to Mogollon opened up so that , such trips might be more frequent. With very kind regards to your ; self and associates, I am, S. J. KTDDER,
 General Manager, Mogollon Mines l Company.
 [ GreenIee Should Be Represented The Southern National Highway which starts on the Atlantic seaboard in Virginia and has it's terminus at San Diego, traversing Arizona east and west via Duncan, Clifton-Morenci, f Gila Valley, Globe, Roosevelt Dam, Phoenix, and Yuma, will hold a con- , ivention in the city of Memphis, Ten nessee, the latter part of May. With the early. completion of the Clifton Solomonville highway, the Southern , National Highway will be open for traffic east and west through the , state and the Memphis convention will afford splendid opportunity for publicity for this section of Arizona. The Chamber of Commerce will take lup the matter of sending one or more