Weekly journal-miner., 1921-11-02

arise from their seats and be counted as visitors who had come in to show their desire that the Black Canyon route be designated.
 Future requirements of state highway between Prescott and Phoe- nix were pointed out by Joseph Me tCarthy, county engineer, in talk in which he presented the position of the highway commission on the road question. Engineer Mccarthy said:
 q am extremely glad to find that the people of this community have such an active interest in the build ing of roads and if the same healthy interest continues, 1t will exert a stimulating effect on road matters and I assure you that we are going to do our utmost to deserve your Icommendation.
 "We are badly in need of a good north and south highway and also an east and west one for through travel, but what is more important, we need roads that will make accessible many of our ranches and mines that now seem so far away.
 "The highway commission is not making snap judgments on any par ticular road but is going over the several routes in detail to determine the relative advantages or disad- vantages of each, and they would like to get an expression of opinion from you on the roads you are interested in.
 We seldom stop to think that Yavapai county is larger than either Connecticut, Rhode Island or Dela- ware and practically as large as Mas sachusetts, so the road building pro gram is mo puny undertaking and needs to be carefully planned, if we are to realize the full benefits to be derived therefrom.
 Tt is impossible to build boule- wards with the money on hand but we must build good, serviceable roads that are passable at all seasons of the year.
 "We cannot let sectional prejudices warp our judgment but must CO., operate one and all for the best in terests of the county as a whole.
 "We must plan for the future as well as the present as this country is about to experience a substantial growth within the next few years. Not only the boom that IS coming ill the mining industries when some of the prospects get down few hun dred feet deeper, but the slow, steady growth that will mean so much when we get the CHEAP POWER from the Boulder Canyon electric project.
 "When the copper will not only be smelted but refined at Clarkdale, Clemenceau and Humboldt, when wire mills and copper manufacturing plants of all description will be built at some center such IS Prescott. When the water winch now underlies many of our valleys will be made available by the same cheap power and where now is nothing but desert grass you will see fields of alfalfa, rubber plants and farming of all kinds All things ought to be taken into consideration if the people who will have to pay off the bonded in debtedness during the next 20 years are to receive the consideration that is their due.
 What is needful also, is co-opera- ton with the neighboring counties in their road building operations. It is the height of folly for us to build a road out to the county line, ending in the middle of the desert, unless the adjoining county builds out to meet us.
 We should send a bunch of boosters to that county and unless I'm very much mistaken, we will generally find that they will meet us half way.
 Our engineers are working on surveys OH the Camp Verde, Black Canyon and Iron Springs roads. Grading the Sedona road is about and the state is working on the eight-mile stretch west of Scligman.
 'We will call for bids on the roads 1 just as fast as the surveying is com pleted and mapped, and our chief regret is that winter is at hand in stead of spring as we are just as anxious to build the. roads as you are to have them built"
 Delegates attended the meeting from the following places:
 Glendale - Harry Bonsell, Robert Reynolds; Peoria - Oscar Jennings, Captain Latimer, C. A. Robinson; A l