Bisbee daily review., 1920-01-18
ROAD WORK IN
 COCHISE HALTS
Bad Weathed Forces Stop in Operations on County
 Highways

] (By A. H. Gardner, ex-secretary Co., chise County Highway Commiss on.) }
 Road work in Cochise county has been practically at standStill for the past week as betweei the snows and rains the construction crews have found it impossible to work and the same can be said of the repair crews i Dragging has almost been out of the question owing to the softness of the 1 surface material on most of the dirt roads.
 | Travelling on the surface built roads where adobe abounds is practically | impossibye, but on the standard built roads travelling goes right on the on- ! ly difficulty being with the surfacing in some places that is slippery" and which to bring up to standard will re- quire the required mixture placed on such spots. All roads or parts of roads with decomposed granite sur facing is in fine shape No cars have had to be hauled out of mud holes on the Cochise to Pearce, Dragoon to Cochise, Tombstone to Benson, Tomb stone to Fairbank or Tombstone to Forest ranch through Bisbee aad Lowell or Forest Station to Douglas or from Douglas cast for q short ! space, because of the fact that none of these roads have any adobe flats or mud holes.
 Work has been stopped for tue er- i tire week on the lake road between Wilcox and Cochise. Work on the bridge on this road has not been i started but it is now rumored that the bridge will be built when they find the best place to locate it-which will be somewhere either end of the approaches now building or maybe | in between and it is said that it is going to be swing bridge so that steamboat traffic will not be inter- rupted.
 The meeting of the Bankhead High way Association to be held in Birm- ingham shortly is of great import ance to this part of the country and it is pleasing to note that the Hon. Fred Sutter will attend this meeting which is of the Executive Committee and at which meeting a successor of the late President Plowman will oc- eur besides the report of the path finding committee on the route west from Fl Paso will come up most like ly for final approval-this report is now sealed and definitely no one knows in a public manner it's con- tents.
 The sending of MT. Sutter means that southeastern Arizona will have a friend at court" when the big thing occurs. One of the most active road associations in America is the Old Spanish Trails Association with headquarters in San Antonio. This organization is not a paper" road organization but a real live wire body and 1t is getting results. In its wise judgement it selected the Borderland Route as it's coast connection from Fl Paso west and this route with one or two optional routings is provided for all the way from Fl Paso' to the coast by bond issues, regular tax road funds and federal aid. A special article on this route is in preparation for the press.
 County Engineer Sid Smith states thaat while he has been held up by
  as the elements adjust themselves he will have every drag available on the various roads and will eliminate the mud holes on the more travelled roads as soon as possible.
 The work east of Douglas is rapidly drawing to close providing the fed eral aid can now be secured. That is unless the Commission can now secure federal aid which was inter fered with by the Quo Warrante pro- ceedings. the Commission will have to call halt on their work at that point pretty soon otherwise it can go on some ways yet
 The Highway Fund had the sum of $S1,54515 to it's credit last night with the county treasurer.