Weekly journal-miner., 1920-08-25
WALKER MAY BE GIVEN A ROAD
 SHORTLY
(From Saturdays daily)

a 'numpDacked coWtrall, according tC
 an announcement by Clerk K. E. Don.
 ovan of the board of supervisors yes tterday. The county engineer is go-
 ling to move a road camp into the Walker country jusr as soon as it | finishes up some repairs on the road Ito Simmons,
 This will be within the next week
 or ten days barring delays to the Simmons job.
 Residents of the Walker district had become most anxious about the repair of the 9-mile road giving ac-
 cess to that favored mining area. Not one, but three or more mine enter .prises are being held up, it is said. .by the poor road One outfit pro
 poses to sink nearly $S0,OOO this fall in new work if it can get a road. Two
 other outfits have sorted ore on their Jumps and others want to bring in concentrating machinery, mine tim bcrS and other heavy stoff, but cannot do so at this time because the old road IS in such poor repair.
 J. F. Carmichael, mining man of that district is specially anxious 10 get the road fixed. He says:
 We appeal to the board of su- pervisors of Yavapai county, to the State highway commission, to the 'Yavapai chamber of commerce and to the business men of Prescott in re- gard to the condition of our public trail;' it can not be called a road for it may well be sad that there is no road to Walker
 As residents of that section, we ask to the county supervisors to take notice that the road" to Walker is out of commission, with deep wheel ruts which cause car axles to drag in many places. In a 1 short time 1t will be impossible for but pack animals to get over it. Unless it is soon repaired, the 1. mail service to Walker will be forced | to discontinue delivery
 T understand that one cf the com [ .illSSlOhClS Ids IldQC ltlN SlsllNi'i'-rtl tl | that Walker deserves no road im- Drovement because in the band cleo ion its vote was cast against the is- ;uancc of road bond But two votes were cast in the precinct, and those were by voters who use q saddle horse and have no use for roads. There were a number of us who | would have voted for the bonds il 1 xe had had a vote, but are non tax payers on real property Some have | paid taxes for several years, but are classified as non residents. But the main question IS that raod to Walk | er is needed and needed badly. !
 "We appeal to the Yavapai charm per Of commerce because of the com ncrcial benefit that a good road to he Walker section would be to the | ,ntire county. Recent development | proves that this district has valuable l mineral ore in large deposits of pay ng grade. There are many thousands ! ,f tons of ore located carrying good . values, but the existing ,oad conditions make it impossible to 1 ,ring in machinery 10 reduce the ore O concentrates even so it could be akcn to shipping point. Mining development of the Walker district
 mean men, houses, homes and commercial benefit to the county at argc.
 An appeal to the business men ol Prescott is made because, should 70 ulend your influence to make It possible for Walker to have suit .blc outlet for commercial develop ncnt cxcry one of you would Dcnc- it from the shine boy on thc streets Q his fellow business men, the de- ,artmcnt stores and the banks All upplics from cigarette 10 stamp mill must come through Prescott md Prescotts business men. As long < ,, we have only an old trail started " an intoxicated prospcctor, the Prescott business men in order 10 benefit by the furthcr development ,f the Walker district, will have to ret behind an effort to better the conditions between ,rcscott and Walker. To my per onal knowledge in the past five months. four examiners of mining , ,ropertv here have stated that the property suited, but that they could ccommcnd the investment by the in- crcsts which each represented be- .ausc of the inadequate transportation fforded by the almost worthless road" to Prescott.
 "Ovcr S75,OOO will be expended in inc Walker camp in the next SIX months. most of which will find its . yav to the business man of Prescott. There is reason to believe that com- ,anics operating in this district may , ,pcn way 10 the Humboldt road. | Ne do not want 10 be 10 all the cX- ,cnsc of material and money and hen make a gift Of a road to the ountv. not by d long shot There $ road construction being done by . oad camps now that is of far less importance 10 the county and to Prescott than an improvement of the Npiker road. We will keep on hol- crinc until VIC get a ROAD.
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