Arizona republican., 1920-05-14

road program was made NesleTNaS 1 afternoon at 1:35 o'clock. The amount of the bond is S1 GOO 900 and was fur nished by the United States Fidelity and Guaranty company of Baltimore The bond was approved and filed and l the work of the construction company is now ready 10 begin. In fact the work already has begun, John B. Twohy, vice president or the company, and James F. Horan, who conducted the negotiations with the highway commission and who returned the day before with the signed contract, already has arranged for the assembling of the huge plant that will be required for the contract The contract, on the part of the com was signed by E. Hackett chairman, and 4. r. Jones, the secre- tary.
 Army of Men Required
 This is sald to be the second largest bond eyer filed in this country for the carrying out of a contract and the largest ever executed this side of the Mississippi river, as the contract itself was the largest road building contract ever awarded in the United states as a result Of a single bid.
 The carrying out of it will involve the employment Of an army of men and sucn an array of equipment as never before was assembled in Arizona. Material for it will be gathered from all parts of the country, the east as well as the west, for the construction company is engaged in contracts from the Pacific to the Atlantic.
 The highway commission yesterday submitted to the board of supervisors the following resume of it's work so far:
 May 12, 1920. Board of Supervisors of NTaricopa
 County,
 Phoenix, Arizona.
 Gentlemen:
 Early in the month of March. 1919, the highway commission was appointed by your honorable body to submit map of highways for improvement in Mari copa county. We based our estimated cost upon the state of California cost of construction at that time. As all will concede, there has been consider able advance in road material and con- struction during the past year. The incentive for road construction throughout the country was largely based upon the necessity of creating labor for the unemployed. as the best authorities in the country assumed that when war industries closed down there would be q vast population thrown out of employment, and in order to afford the opportunity for obtaining a liveli- AOQu LOT NIle SunDOSE4 UlAtlil PiO5 GNls which was an assured fact, based upon conditions as they were then, the question of constructing highways was the foremost argument with governing bodies, business organizations and the press, throughout the country. II seems the reverse conditions have existed, inasmuch as labor became more scarce than during the war de- spite the closing down of war indus tries as we'll as a sharp advance in all materials for construction work, re- sulting in a proportionate advance in price by construction companies After receiving bids, on the 22d oi April. 1920. for the construction of the authorized program of highways in Maricopa county, we find that the bid of Twohy Brothers for completed road ways, including culverts. will construct roadways in mileage, of cement con- crete, in the following widths and ! thicknesses:
 To Build 2s3 Miles Of Road
 INCHES THICK 16-foot roadways . 6S miles 9-foot roadways 100 miles
 Total .............--...... 1es miles
 OR
 INCHES THICK I 16-foot roadways ....-....... s2 miles ] 9-foot roadways 100 miles
 Total ......-.......-.-... 1s2 miles l FOUR INCHES THICK
 i6-foot roadways ......-..-. .10i miles
 9-foot roadways ...... loo mile. Total 201 miles
 The exact mileage of the road pro- gram as laid out by the highway com mission, when surveys are complete amounts to 2S3 miles
 If roadways should be constructed s inches thick the funds available would leave 115 miles of the program ! unimproved. IT constructed 5 inche. thick would leave 101 miles unim proved. If constructed inches thick would leave S2 miles unimproved.
 To complete the program of road. as laid out, of cement concrete, i6 fee wide and 6 inches thick. for the re maining 115 miles. would require S3, 253,4 ,44S.90; for the 101 miles 16 fee wide, but inches thick. would requir, $2.557. .93S.12; for the S2 miles, 16 fee wide, but 1 inches thick, would requir' $1,825, ,92434; these figures are elimi hating federal aid from our program and allowing S266.000 for overhead t complete the 2S3 miles of roadway; th' S266.000 would cover all inspectiou, en gineering, commission and office eX pense
 Estimate Is Conservative
 You will please note that the esti mate of the commission on 223 miles which would eliminate the 55 miles O state highways on our program. wa ample under conditions on which tn estimate was made for the construc 1ion of 223 miles of roadway. inasmucl as the construction in California d that lime was confined to roadway i inches thick
 To assume our program of 22G mile would be built , inches thick. we woUl' have a deficit for the construction O fl miles; on d 4-inch thickness W would have a deficit for the construc tion of 22 miles
 Including federal aid for $500 00 which the commission had used i their estimate Of completiu@ the esti mate of PTS miles at the price bid fo concrete roads. would construct 10 miles of 16-foot roadway inche thick: 100 miles of 9-foot roadway inches thick. leaving a deficit of miles out of the 27S.
 On the construction then in use b. the state of California we would com pIete with the S4,500,0O0: loo miles O 9-foot roadways inches thick, F miles of 16-foot roadwavs inche thick. which would leave 55 miles o the roadWays Unimproved.