Weekly journal-miner., 1921-09-21
VISITORS ENJOY NEW ROAD TO JEROME UPON ITS FORMAL OPENING
From Fridays DelIy)

Completion in two-thirds of the al lotted time of the Granite Dells sec tion of the Prescott-Jerome highway seems to be purely a matter ot morale. At lease it was so taken by a number of guests of Superintend eht Sheppard Hiscox, at the forma opening of the section at noon yes. terdsy. MT. Hiscox was as good a host as he IS roadbuilder, so any. thing said herein goes double.
 When the engineer iaid out the work a year ago, he estimated % days for the 4,200 foot cut through the granite gorge through which the old Bianconi road flowed toward Granite creek. It was Division Ell gineer Ed Wolfe who figured it this way. When the state road crew was told to go and build the road, it was indicated to the drillers and muckers and teamsters and cooks and powder men and others that maybe MT. Wolfe's estimate ,of time had been a little long, and anything that might be done to show him up as a bum estimator, pessimist and a general nuisance, would be appreciated
 Hiscox closed the so-called Dells road two months ago yesterday. At noon yesterday, the first cars, driven by Bob Byrns and Dr. Yount, traversed the road and an hour later 1t was thrown open to the c. P.
 Six hundred feet of surfacing re- mains to be done, but one wagon can do 150 feet a day, and it will not be long before the job is complete.
 And the Bridge
 Ed Harrington has stripped enough of the Granite creek bridge to prove to interested beholders that 1t is a sassy job of concrete. The structure needs a couple of weeks more to ripen, while the guard rails are be- ing built, and then it will be up stakes and away for the contractors gang. The opening of the bridge will take place about the first of the month and then the state is through, finished, done, completed on the road. 'si's i.;
 The Artistic Viewpoint
 Mrs. Yount and Grace Sparkes, who were among the guests yester- day, did not look at the engineering and construction aspects of the job. They observed a good wide road where before only a narrow one grew and thrived, and then paid lot of attention to the scenery,-,, They, had feared, they admitted, that the rude, rough and uncouth men with the INT would ruin lot of marvel ous rocks and leave the road run ming through a scene of devastation. They were both surprised and de- lighted to find that although a good deal of shooting had been done, there remained quite a quantity of scenery lying around out of doors. Right along the roadside the rocks looked trifle disturbed-they were bound to-but there is high hope that a little rain will erode the INT dust away and nature will take her usual course to cover up and hide the malignant marks of man.
 At one point the road had been lowered. By contrast, the cliffs on the south appeared higher and more Garden of the Goldfish. At another, Granite Mountain peeped through a cleft of the yellow granite knolls and made a fine blue scene which de- lighted the women members of the party and did not exactly displease the men.
 More Artistic Work
 Preserving the scenery was not sufficiently interested" MT. Tally said, "it will make a more thorough investigation. l think it will do the county good. Whether well founded or not, Mir. Douglas statements have started a discussion which should prove of value. With some of his remarks you may not agree. With some of his remarks I do not agree. But no item is too small in any of these matters of taxation but that everyone owes it to himself as a citizen of the county and the state the only artistic work done by the road crew and the visitors. In the first place, the cook had prepared a | dinner that was a work of art-it | consisted of exactly the same fare that is served each day at the husky laborers, foremen, engineers and bosses. It consisted of roast beef, dressing, gravy, corn, beans, pota- toes, coffee, tea, pie, pudding and | cake.
 In the second and it is believed, the more important place, there was the trencher work of Harry Heap and Aaron Powers. Aaron ate two pieces of pumpkin pie This consti- tutes all indisputable world record Never before has he done such a is hardly never.
 MT. Heap was not far ahead of the rest of the guests, although it was for the city bunch to do anything like the finished work of the workmen. They acted at the tab1e like workmeD always do-in 4