Weekly journal-miner., 1918-04-24
READY FOR PRESCOTT
 JEROME ROAD
(From Saturdays Daily)


 who returned yesterday afternoon from trip to Phoenix. reported that he had succeeded in getting the mem bers of the Commission of State ln- stitutions. with whom he is in close touch, to formulate a plan whereby the construction of the new Prescott Jerome short line highway can be started within very short time, and rushed to completion without fear that funds will not be forthcoming or that the big enterprise can be blocked by handful of disgruntled taxpayers.
 The joy message which the judge brought up out of the land of the Phoenicians was sufficient to set at rest all controversy which in the past has had tendency to check the be- ginning of operations, and came in the form of a certified copy of the reso- lutions adopted on Thursday by the commission.
 It seems that the commission has discovered that there is available from the ''75 per cent" fund the sum of S77,000 from the levy of 1917, and that on July l, 1918, less than three months off, an additional sum of S74.- COG will be ready to be spent on the road, this amount coming from the 1918 levy. The total of these sums will be sufficiently large 10 bring the total fund to Sl50,000, or just Sl0,- O0C less than the estimated cost Of the whole job. Construction work will begin very soon, 1t IS stated.
 The complete text of the resolutions adopted by the commission is as fol- lows:
 Whereas, the proposal of the pco- pie of Yavapai County, through their various representatives, to apply all available county funds, with the ex ccption oi small allowance for necessary maintenance, to the con struction of direct highway con meeting Prescott. the county seat. with Jerome, the county'S mining center. is recognized as meritorious;
 Where's, it has been shown by figures submitted by the Chief Clerk of the State Engineers Department that approximately T7,0O0 of the $ per cent Fund is immediately avail able for highway construction in Nav-. apai County, and an additional appro- priation of approximately N4OOO will become available on July 1, 1918, under appropriations already made, making total of Sl50,000, ill round numbers, which can be increased by the application of not less than S20,- 600 annually from the 25 per cent Fund to carry on such road construc- tion as may be initiated in Navapal County;
 Be il resolved, therefore, that the Commission of State Institutions fav- ors the expenditure of road funds available for Eavapai County on the construction of the proposed direct highway between Prescott and Jcr- omc, by such route as may present the least formidable engineering problems, and giving the desired di- rect connection between the two cit ics above mentioned, which route will be surveyed and laid out by the State Engineer
 Tt is further resolved by this Com- mission that the fullest cooperation be extended the State Engineer in car rying out the plan above outlined, and in the event that the funds above re- fcrrcd to shall not prove adequate to complete the proposed direct high way, the Commission of State lnsti- tutions will consider an application from the Board of Supervisors of Yavapai County for loan from the General Fund. as may be deemed practicable. pursuant to the Statutes provided, for application to the con struction of bridges forming part of the saiG direct highway"
 The foregoing resolution was adopted with the understanding that its contents were in accord with the recommendations of the people Of Yavapai County, heretofore made, and 1t was intended to convey the rcadi- ness of the Commission of State ln- stitutionS to cooperate with the citi- zens of the said County in carrying on thc proposed highway construction in such manner as may best serve the prblic's interests.
 It was ordered that a copy of the Minute entry embracing the forc-go- ing resolution be delivered to Judge Sweeney, for presentation to the pcO pie of Navapai County.
 This is to certify that the foregoing text is an accurate copy of a Minute e,try made by the Commission of State Institutions on this 18th day of April, \. D. l9lS
 THOS. MALONE,