Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-02-11
Ne " STATE ROAD
FROM SAN JUAN
BASIN ENDORSED
BoroaIiIIo County Commission
crs and Chamber of COM
MERGE Back Project; Favor
Slight Change in Route,

a copy of house bin No. 81, provid
ing. for a state highway from Farm
ingion to Albuquerque, was received
by the secretary of the Chamber O
Commerce Monday morning, and was
actively discussed lY lotal business
mon during the day A delegation
waited upon tia county commission
ers who We're in $ ssion. After the
not'er had been gone over quite thor
0ugnfy the commissioners unanimous
y adopted the following resolution:
BE it Resolved, by the beard of
county commissioners of BernaliliC
county that we hereby endorse and
recommend tho passage of house bill
No. 81. providing for state highway
from Albuquerque to Pennington, pro-
Vded, however that the rCu'c of said
highway he designated in the bin to
f. low the present state highway by
way of Corraies, Sandoval and Cable
Ton: and be it further
Resolved, That inasmuch as BCr-
na.llo county has already appropriate
ed the sum of $4,000 for the paw ne
Of a boulevard to Alameda, and in
asmuch as more of tho proposed con-
s'ructiOn will lie within the limits OF
Bernalilio county, would not be jus
tifiable unless the route of SAID h 'gh-
way he specific a " designated in said
bill as above.
A copy of the resolution was for
warded to Senator George A, Kase-
man an kepres NATIVE X. J..
Barnes, A. A. Sedi'lo and Dan Pa
dilla, together with an explanatory
letter from the Chamber of Com
mcrcc.
at goes without saying" the letter
stated, that Albuquerque is unani-
mously in favor of a road to Farm
irgton. It would seem only fair, how
ever. that if none of the road is to
h2 built in Rernaiillo county, that we
are to put up $3.50 for a paved
concrete approach, that we should
have some h ne to say about the
route"
Ey having tho new read follow The
line Of tn state highway through Coz
rales and Sandoval a spur could be
built to Ecrnalillo, ana both AIhu-
querque. and Rernaliilo would henc~
fit from tho road to Favmington. Such
a spur would dive rt to BernaliIo
practically all Of the freighting traf-
fic, bat would give those who wanted
to come TO Albuquerque an oppor-
tunity to do so.
Section l of the h';l creating the
state highway says !; snail run from
the town of Pennington in the c0un-
~ of san Juan: thence to Haynes
pCstOffice IN The county Of RIO hrri-
ha; thence to the town of Cupa;
in the town of Bcrnalillo. in the coun-
ty of SandoVal; thence to the City of
albuquerque, in the county of Eerna-
lilo; the detailed location and align
ment Of said highway to he deter
mined by the state highway commits
sicN,
The bill also provides that the
Corn'y miasoners in the counties
of San Juan. Rio Arriba, Sandoval
end Berna lilo, shall make special
tax levy of one mill for tho years of
1919. 1890 end 1921, Eut in order TO
provide funds for the immediate con-
struction of the road the state high
way commission is Authorized TO issue
and soil certificates
The state h ghway commission is
authorized TO use for construction
and improvement necessary funds
frCm the state road fund to an aegre-
gate amount equal to the proceeds of
thc'evies provided for in the act.