Tombstone epitaph., 1919-05-25
GOV. cAMPsElL INSPECTING
 ROAD WORK IN cocHIse

been spending the last few days in the county on an inspection of our county highways and especially the | road being built by the state road de- partmeut. Last night at the Arlington hotel, he pronounced the Douglas to B.sbee sec tion of the state highway now being built by Engineer J. (. Ryan. for the Cochise County Highway Commission one Of the best if not the bes, pieces of work being done cr having already been built in the state. He arrived here Saturday for a con ference with A H. Gardner. secretary of the Cochise County Highway Com mission. and that evening they in spected the state highway from Tomb stone to the junction of the Benson Fairbank road. and then the new road that the state is building toward Fair bank. This section especially pleas ed the Governor. its location giving ii a freedom of water ways and it's ex- cellent surfacing material. Yesterday morning the Governor and Mir Gardner were joined by Divi sion Engineer Ita Frazier and as the Governor had never seen the Charles ton bridge the r,rty drove to Fort Huachuca over the Charleston-Buena route. This road from the San Pedro river gave the Governor an insight cf what our laterais leading into the State Highway are ike.
 At the Fort the party were the guests of Col. and Mrs. White. Col. White being the commander of the Fort and just recently returned from France where he say service on the St Mehiei salient The party was shown over the grounds and up the Canyon and then listened 70 an ex- cellent Band Concert and after meet ing all the army officers and their wives at the residence of Col White. Mrs. White served delightful lunch Col. White and Governor Campbell are old acquain;ances. 4 salute to the Gov in, ~ Ia t= t-t.
 After luncheon the party drove over the road to Huachuca Siding where from the high mesas they observed the territory from Elg.a 70 the Siding and at this point Engineer Frazier in formed the Governor that Santa Cruz county had appropriated (and had the money ready a, h2nd) s55,co000 and the Feder1! aid would match it mak- ing s11c,0J000 to build from Sonoita tn E,gin, and thence to the Cochise county line and that they were going to start work al the Cochise line and work towards Patagonia and tha, this would only leave six miles for Cochise county to build and give quick con nection to P5.agon'a and all the Son oita and Elgin country and a direct line into Mexico.
 This was a pleasant announcement to the Governor and the Cochise couu- ty representative.
 The party then drove ever the E0r- derlandState Highway to Fairbank where they stopped to pay their re- spects to Mayor \. L. Heney. after which they continued on to the june ton of the Fai-bank-Benson roads and made q olcse inspection of the Tombstone-Benson project now being constructed by the Cochise County was especially pleased with the Cur tis Fiat hill having a. one time stalled on the old hill. Alter giving the line the orce over very carefully the Gov ernor said to Mir Gardner: "The se- cret of the success in building such a magnificent SC: Of roads, MT. Gardner, lies in the fact that you have an ex- ceilen. set of engineers, evidently Mir Ryan's assistants know what they wan. and ge: exactly what they want This indeed has been delightful trip and have seen the best road building and the most of any county at the presen: time in Arizona" The Governor left at midnight for Phoenix on the Gold en State Limited