Arizona republican., 1919-06-20
TALK BOULEVARD FROM THIS CITY
 TO WEST COAST
Imperial and Yuma Dele gates Discuss Project with County Men Would Mean Fine Road All the Way Through to Coast Cities F

brighter since the VisIt III this city yesterday of delegation rom California and from Yuma and Yuma county who discussed the matter with local and state officials and threshed out many problems connected with the project.
 It was probably the largest gathering of road building officials, or rather or who are soon to build roads. that have ever gotten together III | met yesterday at the chamber of commerce to consider the matter or a through road to the Pacific coast via l Yuma and the Imperial valley.
 The Imperial valley of California was | by three delegates; Yuma | and Yuma county by the entire mem 1 bership of the board of supervisors, the l county highway commission and a large | delegation from the commercial club.
 In the forenoon they conferred with | Governor Campbell and Thomas Mad dox, state engineer, and in the after noon held a meeting of the chamber of commerce with the Maricopa county highway commission and members of the board of directors of the Phoe- nix chamber of commerce.
 A Boulevard to Coast
 The object of the whole expedition is to get a good road between Phoenix and Yuma, which with the roads built and to be built in California. will give practically a boulevard from here to both Los Angeles and San Diego.
 The California side Of the case was very ably presented by Ray Adams. member of the board of supervisors of Imperial county, and by Casey Abbott, the mayor of Calexico.
 "The Imperial county highway com mission is working in the utmost har- mony with the California state highway commission" said MT. Abbott. "We have discussed the matter at great length with the state officials, and they have assured us that the roads leading into the valley will receive the earliest attention.
 ''The pavement on the Los Angeles route through Banning is already with in about 16 miles of Brawley and is i to be completed as rapidly as possible.
 "On the San Diego route-and it is only nine miles further to Los Angeles via San Diego-there is a good road from Fl Centro to the mountains, dis tance of 31 miles. Sixteen miles more are under construction near Jacumba, l 31 miles have been graded west of ] Pine valley and 90 miles paved into ] San Diego. There is only about 50 miles more to pave to San Diego, and the state highway commission has promised to do the work.
 California's Share
 July 1, Imperial county will vote $1,500,000 in good road bonds to build 1S0 miles of roads in the valley. These
 will include a belt line clear around the valley, 8 north and south trunk line down the length of the valley, and
 cross roads through the towns of Fl Centro, Imperial, Brawley and Gala patria
 ''rhe surveys will be made as soon as
 possible, and construction begun in the
 fall. We will, in California, bring our
 good roads down to the bridge at Yuma
 and now it is Up to Arizona to do the
 rest"
 The Yuma delegation consisted of
 Judge J. H. Westover, president of the
 commercial club and publisher of the
 Yuma Sun; Senator Mulford Windsor:
 A. B. Ming, county assessor; R. I
 Vim, county recorder; and Ray
 Farmer, all of the commercial Tub
 The board of supervisors were all pres.
 ent, in the persons of F. E. Elliott, J
 P. Corey and J. c. Power. The re-
 mainder of the Yuma delegation wa.
 made up of W. c. Lacey, the county
 engineer, and the county highway com.
 mission, consisting of A. H. Kent, Roy Lawler R. c. Sparks, G. A. Marsh ant F. D. Lindendecker.
 Yuma Planning Her End Judge Westover presented the eas. of Yuma and Yma county in a brie and effective manner "The highwa, commission of Yuma county" he said lis laying out and planning the roa d we need the worst, and as soon a, possible bond election will be called and We will vote bonds for probabl, a million dollars. With this money IS tentatively planned to spend $500, O00 in roads for the Yuma valley: $200. 000 for roads in Yuma county rort] of the Gila; s50,000 for. a bridge acros the Gila at point five miles south O Dome; and s150,00O for the road iron Yuma toward Phoenix.
 The purpose of this visit is to SC s cure federal aid for this road towar I Phoenix, and the Gila bridge, and t E help devise some way to get the none to build the bad stretch from tl,e Mari E copa county line to the Antslope bridg. \ With our end of it built, the Maricop S county road built to Buckeye CT Dc yond, and this bad spot of 50 mile X taken care of, you will have practicaIl a boulevard all the way to the cos Pacific coast.
 We want the state to build thi E section of road, and we want Maricop county to do all she can to strefs: Ter Eart as far down as possible an help us persuade the state highway de partment to build the bad stretch Yuma county that we cannot built
 as we can not bond ourselves fc E enough to build it."
 < Everybody for 1t
 Senator Mulford Windsor rose z this point and said:
 We want the state to build th road with money we believe availabI \ With money derived from Senate Bl ' 94, which I introduced with the unde, standing that part of it was to be use for this purpose, with some of u
 federal aid money, and with some E the p per cent tax money, whic \ should be spent where it will be | the greatest use.
 Tt is the only possible route to u E coast that can be completed for mar E years; it will help in the developrael E of 300,000 acres of fine land.'
 Yes responded Judge Westover, al E