Arizona republican., 1920-08-06
MUST MATCH FEDERAL AID FUND FOR PAVING
 IF GLENDALE HIGHWAY

LII ULEIEUHLL IlIUlIEHnI GLENDALE, Aug. 5-While glad to learn that the secretary of agriculture has approved the application for fed eraI aid for Grand avenue, an nounced by the state highway depart ! ment taxpayers and others Of the l Glendale district are more interested 5 in trying to discover where the 1unus are coming from to match this federal aid so that actual construction work on the road between Glendale ana Phoenix may be undertaken.
 Under the law, federal aid funds must be matched, dollar for dollar. with equal funds, the whole to be spent upon the road designated as federal aid project While the state engineer has secured approval of his application for federal aid funds for Grand avenue, estimated at S120,O0O,
 until an additional $120,000 can be se- cured with which to match this ted-
 eral money, there is little chance or the road being built.
 | State Engineer MaddoclS. it is an nounced, has put crew of surveyors
 at work on the Glendale Phoenix road
 to survey and estimate the cost of con-
 struction, and after this is completed. within the next few days, Will turn ! this data in to the government and enter into a contract with the depart ment of agriculture for the construc- ton of the road at such time as funds can be found with which to match this : federal aid.
 of Grand a<enue, from Phoenix to
 Marinette could have been paved as a , single unit was worked out some , months ago, when it was planned to have the Maricopa County Highway
 commission build the road from Glen arf n a
 the county's $4,000.000 bond issue good
 roads program and the state engineer 1 build the stretch from Glendale to
 Phoenix with federal aid of an amount
 equal to whatever was spent by the
 county commissioners upon the Glen
 dale -Marinette end. The Glendale Dis
 trict Commercial club, Phoenix Cham
 ber of Commerce, and two conferences . of representatives from all parts Of the county met with the county high way commissioners several times ana asked them to cooperate with the
 state and federal governments for the
 paving of Grand. avenue under this plan but met with repeated refusals. with the result that there is little like lihood of the Glendale Phoenix end be- ing paved for some time to come, un- less funds from some other source
 can be found with which to match the federal aid approved for this project. The board of supervisors were also appealed to for funds, but stated that they had already appropriated all of the 75 per cent fund to other uses and [ other parts of the county, except a possible balance of $4S,000, and as it is estimated that the paving of the
 seven miles of road from Glendale to
 Phoenix would cost in the neighbor-
 hood of $240,000, the $4S,00 remaining
 in the 75 per cent fund, II available
 in it's entirety, would build but small
 part of this important highway
 The states road funds, it was am l nounced months ago, are exhausted, so
 that until some future appropriations
 are made, there is little likelihood of
 the federal aid funds approved for
 Grand avenue becoming available for actual construction.
 Estimate Big Crop
 1 According to estimates made by the
 Glendale District Commercial club, this
 seasons production of long staple cot ton in this district will total more than 10000 bales, which compares with ! 6,SS0 bales in 1919 and 2,421 bales in
 1918. Should the market price reach . s1 per pound. as predicted by some, the value of the 1920 crop of cotton in . the Glendale district would be above $5,000, 900, representing a gain in value , of the cotton crop in two years of
 more than 300 per cent.
 The condition of the crop, at this , date. is estimated at 90 per cent of } normal in this vicinity. where many ' growers who have visited other parts of the valley say the cotton is look
 ing better than any seen in the val !, ley. The late spring, however, coupled , with cold weather and, in some in
 stances, too much irrigation, will prob
 ably work to cut down the high aver age of last years per acre yield, which
 went almost three -fourths of a bale to the acre, but even so the Glendale dis f trict cotton growers will secure good , yields.
 Aphis, which appeared in some cot
 ton fields during the cantaloupe sea son. has about disappeared, seemingly , having done no harm to the cotton f plants. Several of the volunteer cot
 ton fields show good stands with the
 cotton advanced some two or three
 weeks ahead of the regularly planted
 stands. and it is expected that by the
 middle of the month some of the earli-
 CT volunteer cotton will be ready for , picking. The other fields, however. are
 not expected to be ready for picking ' before the first to middle of Septem p Der.
 2 Glendale Briefs
 D. O. Edwards has purchased the
 house and lots on Grand avenue for
 merly occupied by Porter Hendricks
 The latter with his family has removed , to Peoria, where MT. Hendricks will be in charge of a gin erected there to f l take care of the Peoria district cotton s 1 the coming season.
 V Green McAbee. manager of the Stan I dard Lumber company, accom- panied f by his wife has gone to San Francisco r 1 and Merced, Cal, where he will visit
 with his son. Roy McAbee and fam
 fly. for the remainder of the summer
 T. F. Jones. formerly connected with y the Cole Dry Goods company, has pur- - chased the meat market formerly con - ducted by Horton & Christian in the n Progressio store.
 - Harry More. jovial owner of the City
 Meat market, has joined the ranks ot
 the summer widowers, Mrs. More and
 son Harry. Jr., having gone to Flag Is staff. where they will remain the bal n ance of the heated term visiting with n relatives.
 d Among the recent arrivals in the 2. Glendale district from Texas are MT 1t and Mrs. W. B. Carlson of South
 Plains, Texas, MT. and Mrs. J. R. Estes