Arizona republican., 1920-12-28
JAMES NM. MARTIN KNOWN LOCALLY AS WELL AS IN EAST

Local contractors were given pract- ically all the work for the Heard build ing, since it was the policy of MT. Heard and his associates to keep the expenditures paid out on the new structure within the state. just as far as it was possible.
 The general contractor of the build ing was James William Martin. we'll known in the east and locally as a constructing engineer of more than or-' dinary experience and ability. The Heard building, MT Martins latest and most modern achievement, is numbered among many important projects that have been carried out under his expert supervision in this locality.
 Mir. Martin came direct to the Salt River valley, after having completed the construction of the Imperial valley irrigation company's headworks, as constructing engineer. This headgate project was the largest of its kind at that time in the United States, and was situated about eight miles south Of Yuma in old Mexico, near the location of the first break in the Colorado river from the Salton Sea-
 Construction of Granite Reef dam in it's entirety was the first achievement of MT. Martin in the Salt River valley. This he performed as constructing en- l gineer for the United States reelama- tion service 13 years ago. He also built the Crosscut power station on the Tempe road east of Phoenix, for the Water Users, together with the two seven-fo foot reinforced concrete pen stocks which bring the water from the forebay above to the powerhouse below. l a difference in elevation of 11S feet The pumping plant and pressure line of the Highline canal system south of Phoenix, was another of Mir. Martins projects in the Salt River valley. The Cave Creek cutoff on the Arizona canal was still another. Probably one of the greatest of the construction per formances of MT. Martin locally, was the completion of 20 miles of the ce- pumping plants on the ranches of the Southwest Cotton company at Good year and Litchfield.
 Considered among the finest of their I kind in the southwest, the eight bunga- lows of the San Marcos Hotel of Chandler were built by MT. Martin. He also built the Toggery store at Mesa as we'll as numerous other small Ter projects in the valley for the county and state.
 At the present time, MT. Martin ts I restaurant building, new being erected by Rooy Goodrich at corner Of Central avenue and Adams street. on the site of the former Heard building. He has
 just completed work on the new Red
 Cross store at Fourth street and Jef- ferson.
 MT. Martin was graduated from the engineering college of the University 1i
 Maine, and has been a member of the
 American Society of Civil Engineers
 for several years During the war he
 was on construction work for the war
 department in connection with the for
 tifications at Portland Harbor, Maine
 As constructing engineer, MT. Martin
 was identified with the construction ot
 the Boston subway. Also a number oi
 important water works installations sewerage systems and building projects in the New England states. He also
 had charge as resident engineer for the
 s400. 900 combined storm drainage and sewer system for Pueblo. also other general contract work in Denver, Col orado
 Mir Martin has been very favorablz . known in the Salt River valley for 2 number of years. both as a construct ing engineer and a general contractor