Arizona republican., 1920-08-12

traversed the road into the upper Gila valley by the bridges across the San Carlos and the Gila, both of which had been put out Of commission by chang ing courses of the streams.
 The bridge across the San Carlos, steel structure had been built by the government. One of the approaches had been washed away so that the bridge for a long time was useless. The bridge across the Gila, also built by the government, had been washed away In part and the current deserted what was left of it. But the floods of the past season have put the river back under what is left of the bridge.
 This structure is to be restored, ana an approach built at Q cost of S44, 900, one half of which will be paid from federal aid funds and the rest from a fund of $65000 appropriated by the last legislature There will be enough left of that fund together with the ID per cent fund of Graham county for the construction of a road to Geronimo. The contract for the reconstruction or the bridge has already been awarded by the state highway department
 That, however, will not be designed as a permanent highway, for when the San Carlos dam is completed not only the road but the two bridges will be submerged. However, soon as the con- struction of that dam may be under taken, 1t will be a long time until sup mergence would occur.
 Entertained at Stafford
 The governor visited Stafford for the first time since his election and was entertained at a banquet at which there were sixty guests. The governor ad- dressed his hosts on the subject of rec lamation and answered questions con corning the proposed sources of irrigas- ing water at Alma and Red Rock in New Mexico, which the state and the reclamation service are jointly inves- tigating-
 From Stafford the governor went to Camp Grant by the old post road, the along which Major Wham, an army paynaster, was heldsup with his escort and robbed, an event that led a long train of other events, among them, the abandonment of Fort Lowell near Tue son because of the lack of sympathy of the people of that town with the prose- cution of the alleged robbers and the production of Owen WiSter'S stories, one of his best, A Pilgrim on the Gila,'' the publication of the story in serial form by Harper's Magazine, lay ing foundation for g. libel suit by Hon. M A Smith against Harper's, MT. Smith having resented his portrayal in the story as Luke JenkS.
 At the industrial school the governor found many improvements, among which was the tendency of the man agement toward the installation of the cottage plan. But he found mighty dry industrial school. It is a season of greatest drouth in the history of the school There is no water for the irri gation of the garden and the orchard, from which $9,000, was realized last year. Unless rain comes soon it will be necessary to sink wells to obtain water for domestic use.
 The source of water for the school is in the Graham mountains, whence the water is brought through a, five-inch pipe from a catch basin four miles dis tant. That is connected by a four inch pipe with another basin three miles in the mountains. Now only a thin stream of water is trickling through.
 The governor returned to Globe last Sunday for the meeting of the Amer fcan Legion, which he addressed on Tuesday night
 The return trip to Phoenix was made by the way of the Apache Trail, which the governor found in better condition than it was last spring. It is not yet a boulevard. but it was not so nearly impossible that the trip from Globe to Phoenix could not be made in a little more than six hours with an hour out for dinner at Fish Creek.