Weekly journal-miner., 1919-09-10
(BY SHARLoT M. HALL)

of the question which has beeH com pletely neglected but which ;s as i'm portant to the travelling public. and especially to people living iii the country, as highway construction it. self This is the keeping up oi con- meeting roads between the highways and along local centers of travel. There are many such roads i'll Eav- apai county that are used hy a large public but on which no repairs are made by public money and which, when they become impossible, are left to be repaired by some rancher who lives near, regardless of the fact that a hundred automobiles may pass over the road in a week, while ke may not use them once a month with his farm wagon.
 Yavapai has probably a dozen such roads-public in the sense that they are necessary routes of commu- nication between considerable areas of country and used by a large num- Der of people not resident in the i'm mediate locality-but private in the sense that one or two ranchers do all the work that is ever done on them.
 One such road runs up Lonesome valley, connecting Jerome Junction with Humboldt and Dewey, used by many mining camps and by a state highway construction camp. A hun dred automobiles a week pass over 1t, at a very reasonable estimate. It was built by a few ranchers who graded down a crossing on thirty foot wash, which the floods of the sum mer have torn into canyon locally famous as the "Glory Hole" Into this Slough of Despond all sorts Ot autos have dived recklessly all sum mer long and the most familiar sound at Orchard Ranch has been the pounding on back door or front by some bemired auto owner begging for a team and men to pull him out before another flood came down and swept his car into the Agua Fria.
 When a state engineer was caught there and his brand new car turned sideways and full of sand was only rescued by all the men /and horses on the ranch working in a running river of water, we had hopes that we might get some help in grading a passable crossing We watched with increased hopefulness the trucks loaded and bound for various mining camps and power plant camps that stuck there, sometimes for a day or two, and unloaded their cargo in the bottom to be swept by later floods but not one of them threw Ill so much as a handful of sand-evidently it was cheaper to hire ranch teams to snake waterlogged cars to land than to carry a shovel and help keep ur the road.
 We repaired the road-sure we did-just as the ranchers on all the other connecting roads have to do but when we vote for road bonds 1t will be with the hope that our road engineers will some day see the nec- essity of helping in the upAeep ot roads that are constantly used by the general public, even though they are not highways built by pul'iic r1orCy.
 Yavapai needs a good system oi such connecting roads lot more than she does scenic highways lead ing to nowhere.
 Our Next Big Holiday
 Just few weeks more and every body will be thinking of the North ern Arizona Fair, but right now is the time when we country people must begin our part of the thinking for all crops are ripening with eX- ceptional rapidity and the thirgs we wish to exhibit must be selected and the more perishable ones put in cold storage a once. If there is some thing which will spoil before MT Bianconi makes his round collecting exhibits wrap it carefully in several thicknesses of paper, box well, and mail or express to the Northern Ari- zona Fair Association, Prescott.
 It is certain that never since the first furrow was turned within hei borders has Yavapai county had such fine crops from which to select a prize winning exhibit Let us all dc our best and the result will be a matter of pride for everybody Don't think you have nothing worth show. ing. or that some one else will bring all that is needed, or that the judges won't pay any attention to just a few things-it is many things together that make the big expositions so in- tcresting and we can make this the greatest fair that northern Arizona has seen. Fair time should be the big getting together of town and country people; it is both a holiday and a school-everybody's short course in agriculture. Let us make it an illustrated course in everything grown within the borders of Iava- pai and the northern counties.
 And Poultry, Too
 Tie poultry exhibit at the fair has