Bisbee daily review., 1920-08-05
COUNTY BOARD PLANS ID MEND
 DOUGLAS ROAD
Settling Process Cracks Pavement; All Flaws to
 Be Removed

sible be done to safeguard the future Of the Bisbee- Douglas paved highway in any manner possible. This was | the statement of l. c. E. Adams, ! chairman of the board, yesterday to a representative of the Review, fol- lowing the monthly meeting of the | boaId at Tombstone, at which time road matters were discussed at | length
 "The Review urged, in an editorial some days ago, that immediate steps | be taken to protect the pavement from going to pieces" said Mir Ad- ans. "The board desires to be dis | tinctly understood as having abso- ! lutely no animus in any way of it's dealings with the Cochise county highway commission, the state engi- neer's office or with any taxpayers in the county. We are as much inter ested in the perpetuation of the paw ! ed highway as any other taxpayers in the county The only matter to be | solved is that of how and when. "The link between Lowell and For est Ranch will receive the attention of the county engineer, Syd Smith, as soon as he is through with some work he is now engaged with on the Naco and Hereford roads. He will | then throw some teams on the job 1 rip out those blocks of concrete that are bad, fill them in with gravel and will continue this process until the settling process of the ground is com plete. This will be done to protect the surrounding pavement and to in- sure permanent under-pinnlng when new concrete is poured there for, the permanent highway.
 Between Forest Station and Doug las the problem is more acute and greater in every way. With the com | irg Of the rains and the driving of i heavily laden army trucks from the | Paul quarry to the army camp at Douglas, many cracks developed The [ Board of Supervisors accompanied by several representatives of the 1 Douglas Chamber of Commerce and 1 Mines, called on the commanding of ficer of the camp, Col. Gray. He agreed to issue an order that the trucks should be driven at speed not to exceed eight miles per hour. After this conference, the board de- termined that such an order would do little good. Col. Gray was again called upon and agreed to ask the headquarters of the department, at San Antonio, to- authorize him to have the rock, necessary at Douglas, shipped by train from Forest Station rather than by truck, thus eliminat- ing heavy truck traffic until such q time as the settling of the road wa> complete and there was no further danger of damage to the road. While
 the army trucks nave been kept off the road since that time. it is not
 known whether the order was receiv-
 ed from San Antonio or not.
 "The matter of the repair of this
 part of the road is being seriously
 considered by the Board and will be
 thoroughly looked into. Immediately
 a solution, that is practicable, has
 been suggested, steps will be taken
 to protect it.
 Work is to be pushed on the two
 vacation roads for the county. One
 of these will be built to the top of
 the Chiracahua mountains and the
 other into the Huachucas. Both of
 these roads are badly needed and
 their construction will fill a long felt
 want. The need of a border highway
 between Cochise county centers of
 population and Nogales was never
 more apparent than it is today. Such road could be constructed from a
 point near Ash Canyon, in the Hua
 chucas, through MonteZuma Canyon
 and thence into Santa Cruz county
 where it would connect with road
 from the county seat, NOgales. Such a road would be deserving of federal aid, as it would be a distinctly mili
 tary road. It would bring Bisbet
 from forty to sixty miles closer tC Nogales
 "I am still endeavoring to secure the approval of he Board of Super
 visors to my proposition that the en
 plOyeS or the TOdu department p'
 paid $5 per day. The men who are
 thus employed need the added mon
 ey It is not a political move on m! part It is merely giving them wha ! they should have.
 Within the next few weeks, tho county engineer will place force O.
 men at work removing the corners e on the road between Bisbee anC ; Tombstone. We do not know exact { ly how many will be removed, but al 3 the dangerous curves will be elimi = mated or brOadened to such an exten e that the present conditions will b,
 greatly improved"
 ]. VILLA MAKES BOAST