Weekly journal-miner., 1921-11-02
ROADS MEET FAVORS BLACK CANYON ROUTE
(From Fridays Dailv)

Black Canyon road as a through north and south route for the state
 highway from Phoenix to Prescott, following an almost unanimous vote of that organization at its meeting last night recommending that the Black Canyon route be adopted
 After a poll of chamber of commerce members in the packed chamber of commerce rooms, a vote of Yavapai county taxpayers was taken, result ing in similar overwhelming senti- ment in favor of the Black Canyon route.
 Oratory, bashful mere howdy-do's, arguments, pleas, fun, facts and maps were freely used to impress the meet ing with the merits of the two rival roads.
 Maricopa county even sent an ac- complished orator to the city in the person of Col. F. H. Latimer of Glendale. It was in MT. Latimer's address that the eloquence reached its greatest height, the imagination flung wide for the reception of vistas of the future. Even the glorious prospects of the 'watered and electri- fled acres and mines that will amaze in this state once the Grand Canyon Is a source of these assets, was DOT trayed as an argument during the course of the evening,
 The meeting quickly resolved itself into symposium over the two routes. The first shot was fired in the form of a resolution from the Wickenburg chamber of commerce, urging construction and designation | of a route touching Hot Springs Junction, Wickenburg, Stanton, Var nell Hill, Kirkland, Skull Valley and Iron Springs. This route, according to Rich Volll,. speaker for the Wick enburg delegation, would be 109 miles long and would bring Wicken- burg within 54 miles of this city in stead of as at present, 80 miles. The entire route would be shortened 29 miles.
 President Yount had Secretary Grace Sparkes read letter from G. NJ. Colvocoresses of Humboldt, up- holding the Black Canyon road. He argued thatI this was the all-weather read, free from. high elevations, shorter, already partly built, suitably located with respect to every require ment of the game of roadmaking.
 Dr. J. B. Van Horn of Mayer, arose to represent the 300 persons who met the night before at his city to go on record in behalf of the Canon route. He dealt with all those requirements of roads earlier listed ill short talk by Chairman R. E. Tally of the chamber of commerce roads committee.
 Then followed Mir Latimer. He came as d representative of those communities lying between Wicken- burg and Glendale. They were pre- pared, he said, to have the route des- ;gnated as state highway; two fed eral aid bridges had already been built on it; pump projects already have created a tentative population of eight to ten thousand west of the Agua Fria. In closing, he described Cave Creek, which he said was soon to be damned by engineers as it has already been damned by the Salt River valley for its ravages. That damming, the direct result of that damning, will throw the entire force of the current across the proposed | route of the Black Canyon road, and he knew and everybody knew that once settled in its bad habit of tear ing the country apart, it could never be otherwise controlled. Bridging it will be impossible; it will forever be a bar to construction of satis- factory road south from Canon.
 MT. Latimer's declaration that he knew a man who was spending $100, GOO to get oil just west of the Agua Fria, provoked Dr. Van Horn to re- tort that if they could get $10O,O0O to tap known pots of gold i'll HIS country, all those soon-to-be resi- dents of Maricopa county would flock to the Black Canyon country. TALLY DECLINES TO
 MAKE A REPORT
 It is not time, in view of lack of data and the fact that surveys are not completed, to report on choice, according to Chairman Tally of the roads committee He did, however, disclose the functions of the road committee and invite comment and for and ill behalf of the highway commission, all of whom had been introduced.
 Citing some distance statistics, MT.