Weekly journal-miner., 1919-09-24

beauty of the cragS and peaks, the varied coloring and fantastic shapes of the rocks along the way, and of
 the trees and flowers now at their best.
 But more people will be interested in the fine roadway under foot and in the long scar of white which marks
 the climb of the new work toward the summit.
 The construction camp which is far up the canycn is the only state high way camp in Yavapai and is a good place to find, especially at dinner time when good smells sift down the road to the incoming visitor. This camp is at the beginning of the stiff est climb toward the summit and is as far up as visiting machines are likely to go for the present. From camp to summit the grade is praC- tically six per cent and the width of the road bed is from twenty feet to wider. It is all rock work, whole cliffs have been blown away and piled along the canyon side to hold up the roadbed. One cliff was torn off by a single blast of two tons of powder; great masses of it lie below the road and here one looks down a sheer drop that is like the Grand Canyon. Splintered and broken trees stand far
 below their size helping to make clear how high the retaining wall of the roadbed has been built up at this point
 Only experienced engineers and powder men can fully appreciate the work along this grade for every foot of it has been blasted out of forma- ton too scanned and loose to shoot well and too hard for pick and shovel. l remembered my young girl days at the old Lynx Creek Hydraulic mine where we often had to shoot the gravel in spots so scanned that big charge of powder would just blow out a pot hole and do little good. The seamy character of the cliffs in the canyon has made this bit of road much slower and harder to build; but it is all but built now and the powder gang working ahead of the picks and mules and blows and scrap CTS, is now in sight of the summit and only a few hundred yards from it.
 The Construction camp will soon be moved over the summit and work will be rushed down into Jerome If the winter is late in coming on the mountain road will be finished in good season and the camp back in Lonesome Valley to complete the longer but easier portion of the road.
 Aside from the one big grade over the Black Hills this highway will reach from Prescott to Jerome with light grades which will certainly at tract commercial travel We at the ranch look to it to cut out for us the dreaded Lynx Creek grades and it is likely to be the highway for most of he travel from east and south of Prescott, as well as from Jerome and . eastward.
 Not the smallest pleasure in the . rip to the camp is the meeting with he delightful official family" Gen :ral Foreman Fay, Timepeeker Frank Nhisman, and the genial commissary general. "Bo" J. Whiteside, we'll ,nown as a member of various Ari- ona legislatures.
 Mr. Whiteside has troubles of his | ,wn, aside from dealing with the hun .red and fifty or more people em- 'loyed at the camp. He is expected i, o understand United States, MeXi- k an, Apache and such things as are sed by his toddling customers from he family camps, small brown kid ies who point sticky fingers at the andy jars and look two bits worth ut of every nickel. ,
 The little commissary looked trim , nd orderly but in Mir. Whiteside's ours of rest the trade tats who have wed in the canyon since Old Man l ieager's ghost was a boy, take 2 s and in liixing things up and when d l uStomer came i'll the other day for a ried peaches he got bag ol pea t uts, and the one who ordered prunes { rev pink-eyed beans. The gum { rops and jelly-drops had gotten into { he place sacred to dried apples and ' trange and totally unmarketable 1T 'ares had been left in place of chunks { f Horseshoe" and Copenhagen a huff. d
 This isn't Mr Whiteside's first ex- !t erience with rats, however, for at he Clifton road camp kangaroo rats s lied the shoes belonging to one of " ,l ~cr,ra,,ore ,r,+i, ~or,oo,,rJ r, k