Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-17
ENGINE RS MAKE
REPORT ON COST
Of CUBA HIGHWAY
St9,450 Is Estimated Cost of
Road Between the Alameda
Bridge and Hog Back C, of
C, to Discuss Matter Tonight

c. II. Long. district engineer of
the U. S. forest service; A. r. Heb
enstreit, CITY manager, A. e. st. Nor
ris engineer and Edmund Ross, coun-
~ engineer, composing the commit
tee appointed to inspect the pro-
posed cutoff from the Alameda
bridge to the hog back ON the road
to Cuba, yesterday reported to the
Chamber of Commerce showing the
approximate cost of doing the work.
An eight-mile stretch of road is to
be built, if the project goes through,
and the expense, roughly estimated,
will be $19,450. This is the amount
that Albuquerque and Bernalillo
county will be called upon to eXpend.
The report fellows:
Engineers Report
Pursuant to your request we have
made a cursory examination and
rough estimate of the cost of improv-
ing an eight mile section of the AL
buquerque-Jem road, The section
gone over extends from the Alameda
bridge to the hog back We find
that two classes of construction will
| fit the character of the country ira
versed Namely approximately
and the remaining five miles over a
! clay subsoil,
I "Therefore, approximately three
miles of the road should be improved
/ as a graz ell road having a wearing
surface of about feet in width and
/ G inches depth Of gravel. The re-
naming five miles can be improved
\ as sand-clay road which will give
. t.r.f, ,4T,,-t 60. hnt IA
years If properly maintained.
"a rough estimate of the cost Is as
! follows
IS miles. gravel surface
road, 900 GU. yards, per
mile. at $3.50 per Gu. yd IS 9,450.0(
IS miles sand-clay road,
at $4,000 per mile,..,... 100000
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The Chamber of Commerce statef
yesterday that the construction o
this cut-cff, eight miles in length
will give Albuquerque an eXcellen
highway clear through to Cuba, O
even beyond, when the entire pro
iect is completed. which will serve t.
bring trade here from one of thu
richest parts of New Mexico. Their
is no part of the country that is de
velouing as rapidly or can go as ia
as the Cuha-Jeme2-R Rio Puerco coun
1 try, AMI If the cutoff connecting th
country with Albuouerque is not con
! structed. the greater part of tina
trade will he diverted northward t,
| Colorado commercial centers.
To Discuss Meter Tonight.
The question of ,how far Alhu
10.
with Rernaiillo county win be consid
cred AT a meeting of the directors o
| the Chamber of Commerce at
| O'Clock tonight. 1t is expected. how
ever, that before final decision i
made a mass meeting of the citizen
| Of Albuquerque will be held under tn
auspices Of the Chamber of Com
| merce.
Chamber of Commerce officials ar
of the opinion that it is out of tn
question to depend upon the count
| to finance the entire cost of the cut
! off road fer the reason that less thai
one third nf 1t lies within Bernalill'
county Sandoval county will hav
all they can handle to do a good jol
on the remaining sixty odd miles o
road from the end of the cut-of
trorthward. ACCORDINGLY it is up T.
| Albuquerque to see that the cut-of
is built,
/ The proposed Alameda boulevar,
will form the link connecting thi
| cutoff road with Albuquerque. ant
will enable heavy trucks to run
straight from here to Cuba and sup
My the. whole of northwestern New
Mexico, making the Duke City tn
distributing point for a vast area o
! country