Weekly journal-miner., 1921-12-28
FACTS OF THE YARNEL
 SURVEY CHALLENGED
Proposed Route Would Serve But Few Beside Certain Peo- pie Having Special Interests, '" Says Colvocoresses
QUESTIONS COMPETENCE
 OF HIGHWAY ENGINEERS
Humboldt Man Denies Route via Hassayampa Would Be Short CT; Asks if Engineers Willing to Put Names to Report

to Put Names to Report
 Maintaining that the proposed
 Yarnell route to Phoenix will
 benefit only certain people hav-
 ing special interests in seeing it
 built;'' that it is ten miles longer
 than the Black Canyon route; that
 it cannot be constructed at total
 cost of less than $900,000; that
 "every cent available for new con-
 struction under the present bond
 issue must legally be spent upon
 the roads designated;;" and that
 "any federal aid which can be se-
 cured should logically be expend-
 ed in improvement and betterment
 of these roads," G. M. Colvocor-
 esses, receiver for the Consolidated
 Arizona Smelling company of
 Humboldt, in an open letter to R.
 E. Tally as chairman of the Yava-
 pal chamber of commerce roads
 committee, takes issue with the
 published statement of the county
 highway commission that the Var
 nell route is "the best and only
 feasible route" from Prescott to
 Phoenix or California.
 The highway commissions state ment was made in a letter to MT. Tally, read at the annual meeting of the chamber of commerce December F, and published the following morning in the Journal-Miner. MT. Colvocoresses' letter, copy of which he has kindly furnished this paper, is in part as follows:
 "I have read with much interest the report of the Yavapai county highway commission, submitted to you, and dated December 12, 1921.
 "The conclusions of this report seem to be embodied in the following sentence:
 Taking into consideration the cost of construction, future mainten- ance and the benefits to be derived by the most people, the best and only feasible route from Prescott to Phoenix, or California, we determine beyond all question of a doubt, is by way of Yarnell, Hassayampa and Congress Junction.
 PUT FEDERAL AID
 ON YARNELL ROUTE
 Tt IS my understanding that the highway commission further intend to recommend that this Yarnell route should be designated the main north south road in Yavapai county coup led with the section of road now building from Prescott to Ash Fork, and that they desire to apply all fed eral aid which may be available for the construction of north-south road in Yavapai county (estimated at $400,000) to the building of this new section from Prescott to the county line below Congress Junction.
 "As the conclusions of the present highway commission and the plan which they propose to adopt, seem to be radically different from the conclusions and intentions of the for mer highway commission and their engineers and from the opinion of the voters of the county at the last bond election, and the opinion which the chamber of commerce expressed when they voted almost unanimous ly in favor of making the Black Can yon road the main north-south high way, I presume that you, and all citi- zens of this county, will be willing to carefully weigh such evidence and argument as may be furnished in op- position to the conclusions of the highway commission, and to insist that the highway commission should definitely substantiate their state ments of fact before you finally ac- cept and approve their report" WOULD CONTROVERT
 BOARDS STATEMENTS
 Quoting statements of the com